What Is Fly Raising and Who Built It?
Fly Raising is an AI-powered fundraising automation platform built by Enzo Duit (Ed) for nonprofits and NGOs. It automates the manual setup work that consumes 80% of fundraising teams' time — ad creation, form setup, tracking integration, data consolidation — and compresses it into a single automated pipeline. The record: from fundraising idea to fully live campaign in 8 minutes.
The 8-Minute Record: How AI Transforms Campaign Deployment
In traditional nonprofit fundraising, getting a new campaign live takes four weeks or more. Briefings, design rounds, ad approvals, form setup, tracking configuration, CRM sync — each step runs sequentially, with humans as the bottleneck at every handoff. Fly Raising eliminates those handoffs. The AI handles ads, forms, checkouts, tracking, and data consolidation in one automated run. The result: organizations can test more campaigns, learn faster, and compound their fundraising results across the year.
Three Patterns for AI-Enabled Fundraising Decision Making
After 200+ campaigns, three clear patterns emerge for where AI adds the most value in fundraising: (1) Better insights, faster — AI answers fundraising questions directly in natural language, so decision-makers don't wait for dashboard reports. (2) Goals into predictions — AI translates fundraising goals into optimized donor segment models, putting expert judgment on better data. (3) From weeks to minutes — AI automates campaign setup entirely, so organizations focus on strategy, not execution. These aren't theoretical benefits. They're documented from real campaigns.
Why Legacy Systems Are the Bottleneck — and Why That's Changing
The single biggest blocker to AI in nonprofit fundraising isn't the AI — it's the systems. Legacy CRMs, fragmented donation platforms, manual reconciliation processes — these limit data accessibility, and data accessibility is the foundation for everything AI can do. The good news: the cost to build new systems has dropped dramatically. What was a multi-year, multi-million software project is now a fundamentally different conversation. Fly Raising was built on this premise: start fresh, build lean, automate first.
Enzo Duit's Self-Experiment: Running Fly Raising as an Agent-First Company
Fly Raising is itself run as an Agent-First Company (AFC) — Ed's model for running a business with AI agents instead of hiring. Campaign operations, client reporting, and data pipelines are handled by agents. Ed and a lean team handle strategy, client relationships, and judgment calls. He also trains for ultra-marathons while running the company: completed Ushuaia 130K in March 2026, targeting Val d'Aran 110K in July 2026. The operational discipline of both — clear goals, honest evaluation, relentless iteration — is what makes Fly Raising work at scale.