The AI agent for non-profits & the social economy: answer members, lighten the admin
Members’ requests arrive through every channel, and they are often the same questions. Your agent answers them from the sources you have approved, finds the information in your document reference and prepares the handover of whatever needs a person. It does not handle subscriptions, accounts or human resources: those are separate agents you can add. Hosted in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
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The next ordinary general meeting is set for 14 March at the village hall, and the notice is already scheduled.
⛓ Sourced · your constitution + the membership records + the internal calendar
Nothing has been sent: the list and the message are ready for you to read over.
✎ Action · reminder ready to read over — the treasurer approves the send
In a non-profit or a social-economy organisation, a Blue Lemon Agent agent automates the repetitive tasks — replies to members, subscription reminders, volunteer coordination, preparing grant applications — and takes the pressure off teams that are often small. It runs on local inference or is hosted in France: the data of members, donors and beneficiaries is never exposed to a foreign service, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. The time gained is redirected to the social mission. Live within a few weeks, from a monthly subscription, all inclusive. It also follows what is addressed to you online: messages and comments received on your Facebook page, where your members and volunteers write to you, on your Instagram professional account and on your LinkedIn page, for your partners and funders. These are third-party platforms whose interfaces change without notice: the agent prepares, the board approves, and any access fees they charge are passed on at actual cost, with no margin, outside the subscription.
Reference points describing our offer, not results measured at a client. The scale of the gain is confirmed by a pilot on your own scope.
Why AI matters to non-profits — and why they hesitate
Social-economy organisations face a growing administrative load with constrained resources: few paid staff, volunteers available intermittently, and funders ever more demanding on reporting. Time spent on administration is time taken from the mission.
! The issue
The organisation is caught between a growing expectation of service from its members and beneficiaries, and human resources that are limited and often voluntary. Yet most consumer AI tools amount to entrusting membership records, donor data and information about people who are sometimes vulnerable to a third party, often hosted outside Europe and subject to the Cloud Act.
✓ Our answer
AI is only of interest to a social-economy organisation if it is sovereign and confidential by design. Local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France, systematic human oversight, the decision reserved for the team: time given back to volunteers and staff is never paid for in lost confidentiality. The aim is not to take the humanity out of the organisation, but to give time back to the mission.
Confidentiality of members' data: sovereignty & compliance
A non-profit handles personal data that is sometimes sensitive — members, donors, beneficiaries. Here is how the architecture of our agents protects it.
Local inference
The agent can run on a machine belonging to the organisation: no data leaves the network, nothing passes through a cloud.
Hosting in France
Otherwise, a dedicated and isolated resource, hosted in France under French law — your data: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.
Reduced extraterritorial exposure
For members' data, the architecture aims to reduce exposure to the Cloud Act and FISA 702; being located in France or in the European Union does not, on its own, guarantee immunity: the American hyperscalers have no access, even when hosted in Europe.
One isolated resource per organisation
No pooling of records: an environment strictly dedicated to your organisation.
Encryption & controlled access
Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access (RBAC), strong authentication and logging.
AI Act: governed deployment
The agent is strictly in support; nothing is sent and no decision is taken automatically; traceability and human oversight from end to end.
What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.
- The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
- Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
- The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
- The encryption mechanisms in transit and at rest, their components and key management are those documented for the architecture chosen.
- Roles and permissions are configured and accepted for the identities and systems actually connected.
- The events logged, their content, their retention period and who may access them are defined for the deployment chosen.
See the agent at work
4 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.
A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.
· The financial report on the €24,000 grant is due in 11 days. The agreement provides for it at article 6; nothing has been started.
· The insurance certificate for the venue hired on 12/09 is not on file. The hire contract requires it on handover of the keys.
· The treasurer's term ends at the general meeting of 26/09 and no call for candidates has gone out. Your constitution requires thirty days.
· Three volunteers are supervising minors with nothing on file evidencing the checks your internal rules require before any supervisory activity. morning-watch_4-flags.pdf4 flags · document and deadline
⛓ Source · grant agreements, contracts, constitution and internal rules, volunteer records
Article 6 of your agreement makes payment of the balance — €7,200, or 30% — conditional on producing this report on time. It is not an end-of-file formality: it is the last condition of a payment your budget is counting on.
And article 8 provides for repayment of all or part of the grant if the use of funds is not evidenced. Lateness does not trigger that; an absent report does.
I have started the document: spend by heading matched against your accounts, income, people reached, and the indicators the agreement names specifically.
One point stops me, and it had better stop you too: €3,400 has been charged to the funded project while the paperwork attaches it to another activity. I have not moved it — it may be a coding error, it may be an allocation key I do not know about. financial-report_in-progress.pdfThree-quarters complete · 1 gap of €3,400
⛓ Source · agreement, art. 6 and 8 · project accounts
Routing follows your organisation, and takes account of the fact that most recipients are volunteers: the report to the treasurer and the director; the insurance to whoever signed the hire; the call for candidates to the chair, because the period is constitutional; the three volunteers to the youth activities lead. One message per person per week, grouped — somebody who gives two evenings a month will not read four alerts.
With a chase: 72 hours, not 24 — that is the real rhythm of an association, not that of a company. Then a monthly summary to the committee: flagged, dealt with, unanswered.
And I do not stop at the flag: all four files are already built. The grant report is drafted in the form article 6 requires, spending reconciled line by line, the €3,400 set aside pending your allocation key, and the €7,200 balance stays secured if the filing goes out within the eleven days. The request to the broker is written, named, timed to the 12/09 handover of keys. The call for candidates is ready in the form your constitution sets, dated to hold the thirty days before 26/09. And the three volunteer files carry, line by line, the checks your internal rules require.
What is left to you comes down to a signature. A filing, a payment, a document issued commit the association through a named person's hand: that is what makes them enforceable, and that is why that gesture stays yours. You read and sign in ten minutes; the drafting and the chasing, I have already done.
And I read what you have opened to me, role by role, every access logged and withdrawable on a word: nothing leaves your walls, and you can see at any time who saw what.
✎ Proposal · watch and chases to be configured — you set the thresholds
What I found on file alongside the transfer: an agreement signed on 12/05 providing, in exchange, for Verel's logo on all communications for the event, a ten-minute speaking slot, a stand, and ten invitations to the gala dinner.
Those benefits have a value, and it can be costed — your own price list values them at around €3,100, close to two thirds of the payment.
I recite no tax threshold from memory, and I am not going to give you one: these rules have a body of doctrine, it changes, and an association that relies on an approximate figure is precisely the one that gets reassessed.
But here the threshold question does not arise. With benefits at that level, this payment looks like a purchase of visibility — sponsorship — and not a gift. A tax receipt issued on sponsorship exposes the association, not the company. benefits-analysis_Verel.pdf4 benefits · costed line by line
⛓ Source · agreement of 12/05, association price list
Sponsorship is invoiced, with VAT where applicable, and the spend is deductible from the company's profit as advertising. Verel loses nothing — it is a different route, not a closed door. That is the argument to give them, and it is stronger than a legal explanation.
Two documents are ready: the sponsorship invoice, and a one-page note explaining the difference, to go with it.
A third route exists and I flag it without recommending it: split the payment — part as a gift with no benefits, part as sponsorship. It is possible, it means rewriting the agreement, and it is done with your accountant, not with me.
And an observation that goes beyond this file: I have found four other tax receipts issued since January on payments with benefits agreements on file. Two look like this one. I can flag every receipt request relating to a payment tied to a benefits agreement, before the receipt goes out. A flag, not a block: the association issues what it decides to issue — it simply knows it as it does. sponsorship-invoice_Verel.pdfWith a one-page explanatory note tax-receipts_to-review.pdf4 receipts · benefits agreements on file
✎ Action · sponsorship invoice ready · 4 earlier receipts to review
On the claim: yes, and your rules are written down — your resolution of 14/02/2024 sets the rates, the procedure and the paperwork. I have pulled the three useful points, with the form.
On "entitles her to anything": her question is really about waiving the reimbursement in order to claim tax relief as a donor. That mechanism is real, and it assumes the reimbursement is due to her first: you cannot waive what you never claimed.
What I do not write into my answer: the rate, the ceiling, the exact formalities of the waiver. Those rules have a body of doctrine and I do not recite it. I tell her the association will confirm the steps, and I pass the question to the treasurer.
One organisational point: four volunteers have asked the same question since January. None has had a written answer. volunteer-answer_expenses.pdfRates + form · 1 question passed on
⛓ Source · resolution of 14/02/2024 · requests received since January
Your 2024 resolution sets rates that your 2026 reimbursements do not follow. Of eleven reimbursements this year, seven applied a different amount — higher in five cases, lower in two.
A note does not settle that: either the resolution needs updating, or the reimbursements need correcting. That is a committee decision, and publishing a note announcing a rate that practice contradicts would be worse than publishing nothing.
So the note is ready with the rate box left blank, and the comparison in an appendix.
A proposal for what follows, if you approve it: every claim can be matched against the rate in force at the date of the expense, and any gap flagged to the treasurer — not to the volunteer. A volunteer should not discover a rate discrepancy in an automated message: that is the kind of message that loses you a volunteer, not the kind that wins you compliance.
And a quarterly summary to the committee: how many claims, how many in line, how many gaps, in which direction. volunteer-expenses-note_rate-to-set.pdf1 blank box · 7 gaps in appendix
✎ Proposal · matched against the rates — the gap goes to the committee, never to the volunteer
Qualification follows the five reasons your board wrote down: membership and dues, activities and sign-ups, donations and receipts, volunteering, complaints. 29 fall under a reason your documents already answer — I reply, I quote the document and its version, the record stays with you. 14 are escalated, because they commit the association.
An escalation is not a forwarded message, and that is where the time is won. Each one carries four things: the reason chosen and the rule that chose it, the handover file — the member's history, documents already received, what is missing —, the right person under your organisation chart, and a dated task bearing the deadline that applies.
· 6 to the treasurer: refunds and instalment requests on dues. The arithmetic is done, no spending is committed and no instalment is granted: the decision is hers.
· 4 to the activities lead: two sign-ups beyond capacity, two requests for a slot.
· 3 to the chair: a complaint about a refused refund, a partnership offer, a press question.
· 1 is left with no recipient, and I show it rather than assign it at random: a federation asks for the membership list. Nobody is named for that subject in your organisation chart — it is a board decision, not a routing.
What qualification cost me: over the first four weeks, 7 messages out of 172 went to the wrong place, all under the same reason — filed as "activities" when they were complaints. The rule read the subject line and not the body. It now reads both: over the following three weeks, one message out of 129 had to be moved. Every re-routing is shown to you and can be reversed with a word.
✎ Framework · the five reasons written by the board, the organisation chart you supplied
Two versions are in circulation in your documents, and they do not say the same thing on this point:
· Version filed with the authorities (2019), art. 11 — each member may hold two proxies.
· Version circulating internally, art. 11 — each member may hold five. That version is marked "amended at the 2022 general meeting".
I looked for a trace of that amendment. The minutes of the 2022 meeting do record a vote on the constitution, but their appendix is missing and no amending declaration appears in your files.
What separates the two hypotheses, and I have already prepared it: amendment voted and never declared, or internal text changed without a vote? One document settles it: the missing annex to the 2022 minutes. It has three possible homes — the register of resolutions, the meeting secretary's copy, and the notice pack sent to members — and the request is written for all three, four lines each, ready to go out under your signature. If none of them produces it, that settles it too: a vote with no record cannot be proved.
The only version that can be relied on is the one that was filed — that is a fact, not an opinion. constitution_2-versions-compared.pdf9 differences · art. 11 first
⛓ Source · two versions of the constitution, 2022 minutes, filing records
· Article 11 — number of proxies (two or five).
· Article 9 — quorum: one third of members in the filed version, one quarter in the other.
· Article 13 — length of board terms: three years, or two.
The other six concern the objects, the registered address and drafting points with no bearing on a vote.
Why this is urgent: a meeting held under a quorum that is not the one in the operative constitution produces challengeable decisions — including the election of the treasurer whose term ends that day.
What I have prepared, and nothing more: the table of nine differences, the list of documents to gather in order to reconstruct what was voted in 2022, and the amending declaration form, blank.
I file nothing and I do not choose the version. That choice belongs to the committee, and probably to the meeting itself — which is precisely the knot. constitution-fix_documents-to-gather.pdf9 differences · 3 blocking for the meeting
✎ Support · documents gathered — putting it right belongs to the association
The association's document repository currently holds 146 documents: constitution and internal rules, board resolutions, grant agreements, insurance policies, sign-up procedures, minutes of meetings. Each carries its version and its date.
What an answer contains, all four every time: the extract in quotation marks, the exact reference of the document — title, article, page —, the date of the version it comes from, and the name of the person who supplied it. An answer missing any of the four does not go out: it comes back to you awaiting a source.
Out-of-date documents are flagged, not deleted. 19 of the 146 are. 11 superseded resolutions, 5 documents whose validity has lapsed — including the insurance certificate from earlier —, and 3 duplicate constitutions, among them the two versions of article 11. Where the answer can only come from an out-of-date document, I still give it, and I give it dated: "here is what the 2019 version says, nothing has replaced it on this point". An association that waits for its documents to be updated before answering its members stops answering.
What I can do tonight if you say so: file the 11 superseded resolutions behind the ones that replaced them, with the replacement date on each. The 3 duplicate constitutions, no — which one stands is established with the authorities, not inside a repository.
⛓ Sourced · 146 supplied documents, each with version and date
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The uses of AI in a non-profit or a social-economy organisation
Each use corresponds to an agent we deploy. All of them work in support, subject to your approval.
Replies to members
Answer members’ requests from the sources the organisation has approved, citing the source. Anything not covered is flagged, never invented. Approval required before any reply that commits the organisation.
The organisation’s document reference
Search and return information from the reference set the organisation has supplied: quoted extract, document reference, version date, and a flag on documents that are out of date.
Qualifying and escalating a request
Qualify a request against your rules and prepare its handover to the right volunteer or member of staff: reason, handover file, dated task. Commits no spending and grants no entitlement.
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The stages of your AI agent project
Audit & scoping
15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.
Quote or direct sign-up
A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.
Design
We design the agent and its guardrails.
Integration & testing
We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.
Rollout
Going live and training your team.
Operation
Continuous supervision and improvement.
One package, one agent
An agent for answering members and handling administration, installed and operated for you. Suited to the resources of social-economy organisations.
Four guarantees that matter to a non-profit
Your questions, our answers
Can AI really answer in place of our volunteers?
Is our members' and donors' data protected?
Can the agent handle tax receipts and subscription reminders?
Do we have to change our membership software?
Our organisation is small: is this really for us?
How long does it take to deploy an agent?
Does the agent follow our Facebook page and what is said about us online?
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