It starts with a fast, durable website offered to members at cost — pre-rendered, edge-hosted, near-zero hosting bill, so the money you raise goes to the cause, not a web host. The page you're reading is the proof.
Built for small organisations: member pricing, no jargon, and nobody trying to lock you into something you don't need.
Charity-rate processing for online giving, monthly donors, and terminals for your galas and events. Transparent pricing, Interac for Canadian donors, and more of each gift reaching your cause.
Member ratesVendor-neutral help choosing donor software, setting up payments, connecting tools, and using AI responsibly. We tell you what fits your size and budget — not what pays us the biggest commission.
IncludedA clean, fast donation website with giving baked in, not bolted on. Built on a modern stack and offered to members at cost — so a small budget still gets a serious online presence.
At cost for membersAutomated tax receipts, donor acknowledgements, and the routine back-office work that eats your team's time. We're building this with members, so you help shape what it does.
On the roadmapWe started Telos One to expose the people quietly overcharging good organisations. For Launchpad members, that means fair rates and honest advice, every time.
↳ Why Project Launchpad members get treated differently
We hit Google's PageSpeed Insights API live in your browser and show your actual numbers next to a Blast Off reference site. No emailing reports. No sales pretext. If you're already fast, we'll tell you so.
Crossover happens around month 26. Toggle the add-ons to see how it shifts. Numbers are CAD, based on average WordPress maintenance costs in the Toronto / Nairobi markets.
METHODOLOGY · WP BASELINE: $1,500 SETUP + $30/MO HOSTING + $200/YR PLUGINS + 1 HR/MO MAINTENANCE @ $80 + $300/YR EXPECTED INCIDENT COST. BLAST OFF: $5,400 ORBIT BUILD + SELECTED ADD-ONS.
A WordPress site has a database, an admin panel, a PHP runtime, a plugin ecosystem, and a thousand version-mismatched moving parts. We deliver pre-built HTML to a CDN. Most attack surfaces simply don't exist for us to defend.
99.99% UPTIME SLA — CDN-BACKED. NO MAINTENANCE WINDOWS.
| Blast Off (static) |
WordPress | Webflow | Shopify | Custom React app | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load time (mobile 4G) | < 1s | 4–8s | 2–3s | 3–5s | 1–3s |
| Monthly hosting | $0–5 | $15–80 | $23–235 | $39+ | $50–500 |
| Security patches needed | None | Weekly | Hosted | Hosted | Constant |
| Client edits content | Via Git or CMS layer | Yes | Yes | Yes | If built for it |
| SEO indexing | Native HTML | Plugin-dependent | Good | Good | SSR required |
| E-commerce ≥ 50 SKUs | Hand off to Shopify | WooCommerce | Limited | Built for it | Custom |
| Carbon / pageview | ~ 0.04 g | ~ 1.8 g | ~ 0.9 g | ~ 1.4 g | ~ 1.0 g |
| Lock-in | None — it's HTML | Medium | High | Very high | Medium |
NUMBERS REFLECT TYPICAL DEPLOYMENTS. YOUR MILEAGE WILL VARY. WE'LL SHOW YOU THE TEST.
Your project is paired with our Toronto dev team — Canadian hours, Canadian context, and fast turnaround.
Running a business, not a nonprofit? Project Launchpad is for registered charities and community organisations. If you're a company, the same technology — with commercial pricing and options — lives on Blast Off →
Built for SMBs that need a real website now, not a six-month design sprint. Swap copy, logo, photos — done.
A flat monthly retainer that covers content edits, uptime monitoring, security headers, analytics review, and small design tweaks. Most clients use about 40% of their hours. Unused hours roll over one month.
Project Launchpad is deliberately narrow: a fast, durable site to tell your story and take donations. When your mission needs more than that, we'll say so — and point you to the right tool or partner, often at nonprofit rates too. None of this is a reason to walk away; most of it we can still help with.
For a charity store with live inventory, we build the marketing pages and wire commerce to Shopify — each part on the tool built for it.
Volunteer portals, gated resources, beneficiary accounts — that's a web app. Our team can scope it as a separate, grant-funded build.
A live news feed or daily event listings want a CMS-driven build. We'll set up a headless option or recommend a fit.
Salesforce Nonprofit, HubSpot, Donorbox — we'll connect the site to what you use, and be straight about what's in scope.
If the brief is "we should probably have a site," we'll talk through goals first — free — before anyone writes a line of code.
Project Launchpad is for registered nonprofits. If you're a company, the same technology lives on Blast Off.
Tell us where you are today. We look at what you pay now and where money is leaking — with no commitment to switch anything.
A clear picture of what to keep, what to change, and what it saves. If staying put is the right call, we'll say so.
Setup, migration, and the tech work happen on our side. You keep running your organisation while we do the heavy part.
The advice and member pricing come with being a Launchpad member. Services like payment processing and websites are ones you can choose to take up — always at the member rate, never bundled in without you deciding.
No. We start by looking at what you already have. If your current setup is the right fit, we'll tell you. The point is an honest read, not a forced switch.
Especially then. Small organisations are the ones who get quietly overcharged the most, and the ones with the least time to fix it. Member rates and done-for-you setup are built exactly for this.
Nothing. The first conversation and the review are free. You only pay if you decide to take up a service, and you'll know the numbers before you commit.
Book a free, no-pressure conversation with the Telos One team and find out what your Launchpad benefits are worth. We'll confirm eligibility and come back within one business day.