Megan WarrenEducator and Creative

Taking new projectsCustom web tools

Custom tools for the work your team does by hand

I build small, fast web tools that each do one job well: setting donation asks, finding prospects, sorting a class into groups, or matching a photo’s colors to the markers you own. I work from Boston, remotely, and I build each tool myself, from the first message to the finished files.

Message me on LinkedInEmail contact@megan-warren.com

Fixed price, quoted by scope before any work starts. I reply within two business days.

Fundraising tools for a Boston consultancy

I built both the website and the tools for Ask the Turtle, my husband’s fundraising consultancy. The site credits the work in its footer: “Site and Tools by Megan Warren.”

Ask the Turtle’s free tools page: “Useful before you ever hire us,” buttons for three tools, and a pyramid of gifts for a $500K goal.

Custom tools

Three fundraising calculators

A gift range chart, an ask-amount suggester, and a calculator for donor retention and ROI, on Ask the Turtle’s site with no sign-up.

Ask the Turtle Prospect Finder with one sample nonprofit, Harborline Community Fund: a results table, a masked best-guess email, and named decision makers sourced to an IRS Form 990.

Custom tool, private

Prospect Finder

Built for Ask the Turtle. Give it a nonprofit’s name, and it pulls the group’s IRS filings, finds the right contacts, checks each email address, and hands back a spreadsheet. Shown with placeholder records. Want one built around your organization’s data? That is a custom tool project. Want the research done for you? That is Ask the Turtle.

The Ask the Turtle home page: “Where are you trying to go?” beside a photo of bronze turtle statues.

Marketing site

Ask the Turtle

A full website for a Boston consultancy that helps nonprofits raise money.

Prospect Finder holds client data, so it has no public link and this page shows it with placeholder records. It reads each group’s IRS Form 990 filings and works through a chain of data sources to find the right people. Every field notes where it came from, and anyone on a do-not-contact list stays out of the results.

Classroom and creative tools

Grouper sorting a class of placeholder students into six groups, with roles, a five-minute timer, and an Avoid recent partners switch.

Classroom tool

Grouper

Random groups that avoid recent partners, with roles, a timer, and a one-tap projector view.

Wildcard’s spinner: topic chips across the top, a card that reads “Hit Spin to draw a random icebreaker, 190 prompts loaded,” and a Spin button.

Classroom tool

Wildcard

A deck of 190 icebreaker questions from podcast interviews, rewritten so that anyone can answer.

Color Companion’s color wheel: 481 swatched markers arranged by hue, with one blue marker’s details in a side panel.

Color matcher

Color Companion

Upload a photo, and it names the markers from your own set that match each color.

An app, a shop, and a brand system

The Hello Paint home page: “hi! send a photo, get a paint by number kit,” beside a dog photo and the painting made from its kit.

Small business

Hello Paint

My paint-by-number shop: send a photo, get a printable kit matched to the markers and pencils you already own.

The Hello Paint brand kit hub: a sidebar of twelve numbered sections, the hello paint wordmark, and a search box for the kit.

Brand system

A complete brand kit

Hello Paint’s brand book, 140 downloadable assets, social templates, looping animations, and every word of shop copy.

Two phone screens from Rehearsal: the home screen listing what the app does, and the scene runner on a public-domain sample from The Sea-Gull, with the other character’s cue shown and the actor’s line hidden.

App in development

Rehearsal

My acting rehearsal app for phone and iPad. It reads the other parts aloud or plays a friend’s recorded voice, drills lines with a memory trainer, and turns the drill into an audio track for the car.

How a custom tool project runs

  1. Tell me what you need.The job the tool should do, who will use it, and when you need it. A short description is plenty.
  2. Get a fixed price and a date.Quoted by scope, before any work starts.
  3. Research comes first.I learn how your team does the job today, and I look up anything I’m not sure of.
  4. Get the finished tool.You own the files and the source code.
  5. Keep it current.I can show your team how to update it, or handle the upkeep and updates myself whenever you need them.

What job does your team still do by hand?

Message me on LinkedInEmail contact@megan-warren.com

I reply within two business days, with a quote or a question.

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