Today we harden the product with Our Big Kitchen in live operations — then widen the invite.
"Great technology should serve those who care for our most vulnerable — we have the skills to make that happen." — The founding volunteers
Shaina Slavin saw her parents' community kitchen juggling donations, volunteers, and meals with tools that were never meant for that pace. She built a focused prototype for their workflows — enough to prove the idea, not yet enough to carry every organisation alone.
Volunteer engineers joined to shape something durable: a modular layer that sits on Salesforce and NetSuite instead of replacing them. The work looks like disciplined reviews, shared ownership, and build time most NGOs could not fund as a traditional vendor engagement.
Harish Palagummi widened the lens from a single site to a product other NGOs could adopt: same enterprise platforms underneath, clearer screens for coordinators and volunteers on top. The build stays modular — so each organisation keeps its stack while Civium handles the day-to-day interface work.
Still volunteer-led, still anchored to Our Big Kitchen as the operating pilot, and still targeting February 2026. The roadmap is simple: ship what survives real shifts, document what breaks, repeat.
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