If your organisation runs on donated professional time, the value you report is probably an estimate — hours multiplied by a notional rate, worked out centrally, once a year, by someone who wasn't there.
Owl Impact builds that number the other way round. The volunteer logs the assignment in about two minutes. Every hour is costed at a rate you agree in advance for the skill given. The total is the sum of real entries, and it breaks down by country, region, programme and month — because your regional leads each need their own figure, not a share of someone else's.
A funder, a trustee or an incoming chief executive asks where the figure comes from. The honest answer is usually a spreadsheet, a blended rate and a best guess, held together by whoever has been there longest. It isn't wrong. It just can't be taken apart and put back together in front of a board.
They get a personal link — no password, no app store, no training manual. It already knows who they are and what they work on. Logging an assignment is a handful of taps. It works offline and submits when they're back in signal, which matters for anyone travelling to a client.
Rates are agreed with you at setup — per role, per category — and applied to every entry from then on. Nothing is invented mid-year. You can show a board or a funder exactly which assignments make up the total, and change the rate card without re-doing the history. Our full method →
Yes — that's the point. Filter by country, region, programme, month or funder. A regional manager sees their own patch; you see the whole. The same underlying entries, sliced whichever way the conversation needs.
We hold the name and email of the people on your team who log, so their reports reach them and their hours carry the right rate. That is all the personal data in the system.
Nothing about the people you support. Beneficiaries and the organisations you help are identified by a code, and you hold the key to who that is, offline. Codes, never names.
We set the professional categories and hourly or daily rates with you at onboarding. Trustees, board advisors and specialist roles can each carry their own rate.
Prep, travel, delivery. Seconds each. The person who did the work records it, so nobody is reconstructing a year from memory in March.
Costed, filtered, branded to you, ready for a board pack, an annual report or a funder. You press print.
Every national body wants something slightly different. These are the parts that are usually in the conversation.
Every tool is a moon, and every moon carries its own figure in its own colour — costed activity, outcomes, distance travelled, donated time. One glance tells you where the month is. Tap a moon and you are inside the detail.
Sample figures for a fictional organisation. Your own numbers appear once your team starts logging.
We scope it with you first, so you pay for the parts that earn their place. What shapes the number:
Tell us what you need to be able to show, and to whom. We'll scope it with you and put a firm number against it — no obligation, and you'll know exactly what each part is for. Many organisations start with one country or region and extend once it's earning its keep.
Not slides. The live product, with sample data, showing exactly what your volunteers would see and what would land on your desk at month end.