CHIP exists because fundraising is broken — and the fix is structural, not cosmetic.

We're a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation building the game layer and trust layer for small-dollar giving. The mission: make honest, joyful, recurring generosity the default — and make every dollar followable.

Make honest, joyful, recurring generosity the default.

Most fundraising platforms optimize for extraction: more emails, more urgency, more manipulation. The result is donor burnout, declining trust, and a sector that trains people to distrust every ask.

CHIP optimizes for the opposite: retention through joy, trust through transparency, growth through honesty.

We built a platform where:

  • Every dollar is earmarked toward a specific objective
  • Every dollar is traceable in a public Glass Ledger
  • Every player sets their own caps — and the platform enforces them
  • Every boss has a real name, a real budget, and a real deadline
  • Every badge is earned, never bought
  • Every cause keeps its own identity — CHIP is the trust mark, not the landlord

The mission isn't "increase donations." It's "make giving a thing people want to do again."

We wrote the mission into the charter.

CHIP is incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). This is a legal structure, not a marketing claim. It means our fiduciary duty is to both shareholders AND the stated public benefit — balancing profit with purpose, with the purpose baked into the governing documents.

CHIP's public benefit purpose (charter language):

To strengthen civic participation and public trust by providing a transparent, gamified micro-donation platform that gives small donors agency, visibility, and protection from manipulative fundraising practices; and to operate the company in a manner that prioritizes donor welfare, platform transparency, and the accessibility of civic engagement technology.

What PBC status means in practice:

  • We can't optimize for profit at the expense of the mission. The charter requires both.
  • We publish a biennial public benefit report measuring our impact against the stated purpose.
  • The anti-manipulation Constitution is not a marketing document — it's enforceable against the company's own interests if those interests conflict with the mission.
  • If we ever sell the company, the acquirer must honor the PBC purpose or the board must consider the impact of the sale on the public benefit.

We're also pursuing B-Corp certification as a separate, third-party-verified trust asset.

A chip is a small thing that, stacked, becomes a big thing.

A poker chip. An arcade token. A micro-gift. "Chip in." "Stack up." The name works at every level:

  • The action: Chip in on a cause. Small amounts, recurring.
  • The game: Tokens in the arcade. Boss fights. Badges.
  • The trust: Every chip is followable in the Glass Ledger.
  • The plural: Enough chips, stacked up, fund real things — FOIA requests, ad campaigns, legal reviews, movements.

It's a common word. We like that. It doesn't sound like a startup invented it. It sounds like something people already say when they give a little to something they believe in.

The people building CHIP.

⚠ Team section pending. To be populated with real names, roles, and (optionally) photos. No fabricated bios. If a team member hasn't approved their bio, they are omitted.

[Founder Name] — Founder & CEO

[Bio TBD — real bio only]

[Team members TBD]

The extended team: CHIP is built with Discnxt — a Pittsburgh-based web infrastructure company that builds plain-HTML, no-tracking, customer-owned sites and platforms. Discnxt provides engineering, brand design, and platform operations for CHIP.

The rules we build by.

These aren't posters on a wall. They're design constraints.

  1. 1

    Structural honesty over rhetorical honesty.

    Don't say you're transparent — build a Glass Ledger that makes transparency unavoidable.

  2. 2

    Joy retains. Manipulation burns.

    The game layer exists because giving should feel good, not because we can trick people into giving more.

  3. 3

    The player owns the relationship.

    Their data, their caps, their inbox, their choice. We are infrastructure, not owners.

  4. 4

    If we can't publish it, we shouldn't do it.

    The Glass Ledger applies to us first.

  5. 5

    Plain, accessible, owned.

    The technology that enables giving should not itself be a gatekeeper.

  6. 6

    The mission is the moat.

    Any competitor can copy the game mechanics. They can't copy the institutional commitment to never lie to a player.

Contact

General inquiries: hello@chip.discnxt.com

Creator onboarding: creators@chip.discnxt.com

Press: press@chip.discnxt.com

Trust & Safety reports: report@chip.discnxt.com

CHIP, PBC
[Address TBD]
Pittsburgh, PA