┌─ org: praxis // engineering + organising
Operational technologyfor progressivemovements.
> Praxis is the engineer progressive parties, NGOs and independent media do not have in-house — on a retainer, not a project. Repetitive work automated, access under control, AI adopted without handing a vendor the keys. Built on the tools you already run, and moved towards ones you own whenever you decide that is worth it.
// what_we_do
all_services →Retainer & fractional tech lead
A named engineer who already knows your systems: keeping them running, automating the next repetitive thing, and answering the question before it turns into a procurement round.
€500 – €2,000 / month · Rolling, 3-month minimumopen →
Everything below is either a way into that, or a piece of it bought separately.
- Workstream02
Routine automation
The repetitive work your staff currently does by hand every week, moved into scripts and flows that run on the tools you already pay for.
open → - Workstream03
AI adoption & governance
Getting the useful part of AI into your operations without granting a third-party vendor standing access to everything your organisation has ever written.
open → - Entry point04
Diagnostic & audit
A fixed-price look at your stack, your data flows, your access sprawl and your GDPR exposure, ending in a plan you can act on with or without us.
open → - Standalone05
Build, integrate & migrate
The larger pieces: systems built on top of what you run, integrations between tools that were never meant to meet, and migrations for when you decide to own more of the stack.
open → - Funded06
Grant-funded builds
Open-source tooling built as a funded project, in partnership with your organisation — the work stays public and reusable.
open →
// who_it_is_for
Political parties
the problem
Campaign tooling is US-centric, expensive or privacy-hostile — so the real work happens in shared drives and spreadsheets, by hand, at the worst possible moment.
what Praxis does
Organising and campaign operations on the stack you already run: the repetitive work automated, supporter data pulled back into one place, access under control before the season starts, and Article 9 handling that holds up.
NGOs & civil society
the problem
No in-house engineering, donor money that cannot fund agency rates, and a Workspace that has quietly become the whole operating system with nobody administering it.
what Praxis does
Ongoing technical capacity: forms and approvals automated, data moved between systems on a schedule, funder reporting that assembles itself, and open-source alternatives introduced where owning the tool actually pays for itself.
Progressive & independent media
the problem
Audience data scattered across platforms you do not control, distribution that depends on them, and a publishing workflow held together by one person.
what Praxis does
Audience and data tooling: analytics pipelines that respect readers, newsletter infrastructure, membership and paywall integrations, and the automation that keeps the workflow running when that person is on holiday.
// why_praxis
the_long_version →- 01
Movement-native
Praxis is run by someone who has organised, not only engineered — years inside a youth democratic movement and NGO project work. Briefs do not need translating from organiser into engineer first.
- 02
The relationship is the product
Very few problems in this sector are solved by a project. They are solved by someone who knows your systems still being there in six months, when the funder changes the reporting format and the person who understood the spreadsheet leaves. Praxis is built around a retainer for that reason. The audits and the builds are ways in, not the business model.
- 03
Start from the stack you actually run
Almost every organisation here runs on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and an offer that begins with leaving it is an offer nobody buys. Praxis builds on top of what you have — automation, access control, the pipes between systems. Open-source, EU-hosted tooling you own is a direction of travel, taken when it pays for itself, in stages, at a price agreed beforehand. It is never a precondition for working together.
- 04
AI with a scoped blast radius
Wanting to use AI is reasonable. Granting a vendor standing access to every document your organisation has ever written is not the way to get there. The work is triage — what is genuinely a job for a model, what is a deterministic script somebody mislabelled — then least-privilege access, then a written policy you can hand a funder. Pilots come last, not first.
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Compliance is the offer, not the overhead
Political opinions are special-category data under GDPR Article 9, and the EU rules on transparency and targeting of political advertising are now live. Generic agencies treat this as friction. Here it is the work.
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Built in CEE, for CEE and the EU
Warsaw-based, working across Central and Eastern Europe and with EU-level networks in English. This region is chronically underserved by the Berlin and Brussels vendor cluster.
// selected_work
all_work →// next_step
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
Thirty minutes on what you are trying to do, and a straight answer about whether Praxis is the right fit. Replies within two working days.