SmartTHING
AI for not-for-profit organisations using Raiser's Edge NXT

SmartAI

Put AI to work on your Raiser's Edge NXT data. SmartAI maps your import files for you, works alongside your integrations, and puts your data and your other applications inside Claude and other AI chats. Every deployment starts with a consultancy engagement, configured to your Raiser's Edge NXT environment.

  • ISO 27001 & 9001 certified
  • Over 20 years with Blackbaud products
  • Trusted by 100s of organisations worldwide

What AI does here

Three ways AI helps

No new system and no data science team. AI arrives inside the tools you already use, and nothing changes in Raiser's Edge NXT unless you asked for it.

Import
Map your files automatically

Bring a spreadsheet or file and AI suggests how each column maps to Raiser's Edge NXT, ready for you to check and approve. Part of SmartIMPORT, our self-service import tool.

Chat
Work with your data in your AI chat

Ask questions, pull query results and run tools you have designed across Raiser's Edge NXT and your other applications, from Claude or another AI chat.

Assist
Tidy data as it moves

Inside a managed integration, AI tidies, classifies and enriches records as they move between systems. Part of SmartSYNC, our managed integration service.

Import · SmartIMPORT

Your file, mapped before you sit down

AI reads your column headings and sample rows and suggests the Raiser's Edge NXT field and format for each one. You check, adjust and approve, then SmartIMPORT handles matching, duplicates and a preview before anything lands. Nothing is imported until you approve it. You build and own your import routines, and your configurations stay yours.

1
AI suggests the mapping

Every column matched to a Raiser's Edge NXT field, with dates, currencies and names recognised

2
You check and adjust

Change anything you disagree with before it goes any further

3
You approve, then it runs

Matching, duplicate detection and a preview before anything lands, as always

Chat

Your data inside your favourite AI chat

Connect Claude or another AI chat to SmartTHING and work with Raiser's Edge NXT and your other applications from the conversation: ask a question, pull a query's results, or run a tool you have designed that does several things at once and can write back to Raiser's Edge NXT. Works with Claude, Chat for Blackbaud AI, ChatGPT and any standards-based AI chat, with OAuth PKCE and other authentication methods supported.

A chat example

Query results in your chat

Ask for all donations from last month, or run any Raiser's Edge NXT query, and work with the results in the conversation.

Several actions, one command

Design a tool once and reuse it. "Find this person's details in Raiser's Edge NXT, pass this information to Mailchimp and tag them for the Onboarding journey" becomes a single command, and it can write back to Raiser's Edge NXT too.

80+ ready-made connections

Any application you connect through SmartTHING can be made available to your AI chat.

Your SmartSYNC account

Ask about your integrations, recent runs and what happened to a record.

All access through SmartSYNC

Your AI chat talks to SmartSYNC, our integration platform, and SmartSYNC talks to your applications, with our built-in security in place from your ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified partner.

Optional: hosted in your own Azure environment

Run the SmartSYNC service inside your own Azure infrastructure so your data never leaves your IT environment.

Connect your applications

Over 60 applications your AI chat can reach

Already connected

Nothing new to integrate

Every application you have connected through SmartTHING is available to your AI chat, using the credentials already in place. There is no separate integration project to run and nothing new for your team to host.

How it works

Applications become tools

Each connected application is offered to your chat as a set of tools it can call. Ask a question in your own words and the chat picks the right tool, reads what it needs and brings the answer back.

applications your AI chat can use as tools
See every application available to AI chat
Assist · SmartSYNC

An AI assistant inside your integrations

Instruct

Give it an instruction in plain English

For example, categorise this note as complaint, thank you or enquiry, or read a free-text field and return two structured values.

Apply

It runs on every record

The assistant applies your instruction to each record as it moves between Raiser's Edge NXT and your other applications, inside a managed integration we configure and monitor with you.

Land

The result lands in Raiser's Edge NXT

Every AI result is written to the fields you specify and logged like the rest of the integration.

Good to know
SmartSYNC is our managed integration service: we connect Raiser's Edge NXT to your other applications and keep the data moving. The AI assistant is an optional addition to those integrations, set up with you as part of your consultancy engagement.
Trust and safety

AI you can put in front of your trustees

Control

You stay in control

You approve imports and you design what chat tools are allowed to do. Nothing changes in Raiser's Edge NXT unless you asked for it.

Logged

Everything is logged

Every question asked, tool run and AI result is recorded, under the same ISO 27001 controls as the rest of the platform.

Hosted

Regional hosting

UK, US, Canada and Australia, so your data stays in region. An optional own-server option runs SmartSYNC inside your own Azure environment.

Your AI chat, your agreement
When you connect your own AI chat, what it sees is governed by your agreement with that provider, and it reaches the chat only through SmartSYNC.

Find out more

Book a demo or contact our team to talk through how AI could work with your Raiser's Edge NXT data. Not ready for a demo? Ask us for a 15 minute call with one of our Raiser's Edge NXT specialists.

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