Launch an arcade. Keep your cause. Earn trust you can measure.
CHIP gives nonprofits, campaigns, advocacy orgs, and community groups a gamified micro-donation platform with a public Glass Ledger built in. You bring the mission. We bring the game engine, the compliance plumbing, and a growing pool of recurring micro-players.
Your donors are burning out. It's not their fault.
Fundraising today is an arms race of manipulation. Fake countdowns. Fabricated matches. "7th email this week." Donors are tuning out — not because they stopped caring about your cause, but because the tools the sector uses have trained them to distrust every ask.
You can't fix this with better subject lines. You fix it with a better structure.
Retention, trust, and recurring revenue — on rails.
Retention that isn't manufactured
The Streak, Squads, Badge Vault, and Boss Battles turn giving from a transaction into a habit. Peer-reviewed research shows gamification lifts retention 20–40%. CHIP's mechanics are built on that evidence — not on sending more emails.
Trust that is structural, not rhetorical
Every arcade ships with a public Glass Ledger. Every dollar in, every dollar out, line by line. You don't have to "build trust" with copy — the platform builds it with code. Donors who trust you give more and stay longer.
Launch in under 10 minutes
The Creator Launch Wizard handles entity type, compliance profile, payout account, and brand setup. Pick your cabinets. Set your first boss. Your arcade is live.
You keep your cause. CHIP is the trust mark.
Your arcade uses your name, your logo, your colors, your voice. CHIP appears as a "Powered by CHIP — Glass Ledger verified" badge in the footer. You own the relationship with your players. CHIP is infrastructure, not a landlord.
Recurring micro-revenue
Small-dollar recurring giving has ~2x the donor LTV of one-time giving. CHIP's 1-tap recurring chip-in + The Streak is built to convert one-time players into recurring ones — honestly.
Compliance handled at the platform layer
KYC, contribution limits, foreign-national checks, tax-status disclosures, charitable-solicitation compliance. Built in, not bolted on. (Full scope: see Trust & Safety.)
How It Works for Creators
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Create your arcade
Enter your cause name, entity type (501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), PAC, campaign, community group), EIN or FEC ID, and payout account. The Launch Wizard walks you through it. Manual review for eligibility.
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Configure your cabinets
Toggle on the game mechanics you want. Start with The Streak and a Boss Battle. Add more as you grow. Every cabinet is documented with best practices and evidence.
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Set your first boss
A real objective. A real budget. A real deadline. "Fund 200 FOIA requests by June 20." Not "Support our work." Money is a move.
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Publish your Glass Ledger
Your ledger goes live automatically. Every expenditure you categorize appears as a public line item. Your donors can click any dollar. Your trust becomes measurable.
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Players chip in, steer, and stick around
Your donors become players. They chip in, build streaks, form squads, fight bosses. Retention climbs. Revenue compounds. Your cause grows.
A thin, transparent platform fee. No surprises.
CHIP earns a small platform fee on processed volume, plus optional SaaS tiers for advanced features. Every fee is published. No hidden charges.
| Tier | Price | What you get |
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| Starter | $0/mo | Core cabinets (Streak + Boss + Ledger + Badge Vault), CHIP co-branding, standard platform fee |
| Pro | Pricing TBD | All 12 cabinets, data feeds, lower platform fee, custom domain, advanced analytics |
| Movement | Pricing TBD | Multi-arcade, API access, priority support, white-glove compliance review |
Platform fee: A small percentage of processed donation volume (exact % being finalized with payment processor — will be published here before any creator signs up). Payment processing is a separate pass-through, shown transparently.
What we never charge for: Player data (we don't sell it). Hidden fees (there aren't any). Pay-to-win badges (badges are earned, never bought).
Who CHIP Is For
CHIP works for any cause that raises small-dollar funds and wants retention + trust. We're launching with a focus on:
- Pro-democracy / anti-corruption organizations
- Issue advocacy nonprofits and 501(c)(4)s
- Political campaigns and PACs (with compliance gating)
- Community organizers and local grassroots groups
- Creators and streamers who fundraise for causes
Not every entity type is eligible from day one. Candidate and PAC arcades require hardened compliance. See Trust & Safety for eligibility details.
Be one of the first 20 arcades.
We're recruiting 10–20 Founding Creators to launch the first arcades on CHIP. Founding Creators get:
- White-glove onboarding and compliance review
- Prominent placement in the flagship launch
- Founding Creator badge (earned, permanent, not buyable)
- Direct input on roadmap priorities
No discounts. No "exclusive" pricing tiers. Founding Creators pay the same platform fee as everyone else. The value is the partnership, not a fake deal.