You cannot go and look
Distance, cost and security all decide it for you. So the only picture you have of the work is the one somebody sends you.
For funders
Fund the work. See what it bought.
Put your work in front of companies that have already been checked, and follow every stage of it — progress, spending, proof and deadlines — as it is recorded rather than as it is reported.
You are funding work you cannot stand next to
The site is in a place you cannot visit. The company was recommended by someone you half know. And the report telling you the work went well was written by the people doing the work.
You cannot check the company
Registration, licences, tax standing, sanctions lists, real equipment, real staff, work actually finished. Each is a separate enquiry in a country whose systems you do not know.
The report comes from the reported
A narrative report is written by the party being judged by it. Nobody is lying. It is simply the only account anybody has, and it has no second source.
Five things, and each one answers a question you already ask
None of this asks you to trust us more than you trust anyone else. It asks you to read the record instead of the account of it.
A company that has applied The checks In the pool, and able to bid
A checked pool
Every company is checked before it can be offered work
Registration and licences. Tax identity. Screening against sanctions lists, at the start and on a schedule afterwards. The equipment it actually owns, the people it actually employs, and the work it has actually finished.
A company that has not passed cannot be put in front of you. You are choosing from a pool, not from a suggestion.
The request-for-proposal builder
Your own request for proposal
Ask the questions you actually want answered
Build the request yourself, section by section. Add a heading, a paragraph of explanation, or a question — and choose what kind of answer it takes: a number, a date, a choice from a list, a file, or free text where judgement belongs.
Preview it, send it to us for approval, and keep it. The next time you fund something similar you start from the one you already wrote instead of from a blank page.
The funder's view of a grant
Progress · spending · proof
One place to watch it happen
Progress, spending, proof and deadlines, in one view
You see what has been delivered, what has been spent, what proof was attached and what is due next. Photographs carry the time they were taken. A deadline that has passed says so.
These are the records the work runs on, not a summary prepared for you afterwards. You are reading the same page the people doing the work are reading.
A report in the funder's format
Reports that match the record
Every figure traces back to what produced it
Reports come in your format and your language. Each figure can be followed back to the deliverable, the claim and the proof that produced it, because it was drawn from them rather than typed in beside them.
If a number in a report and a number in the system ever disagree, one of them is wrong — and you can see which.
A thread about one subject
Messages that stay on the subject
One thread per subject, addressed to a named person
A question about a deliverable lives with that deliverable. A question about a report lives with that report. Each thread is addressed to a person by name, and attachments stay with the message they came with.
Nothing important is three replies deep in somebody's mailbox, and nobody has to forward a chain to bring a colleague up to date.
We do not move your money
Rahyabe records the state of money. It never holds it, never routes it and never touches a bank. Your transfer goes the way it goes today.
Funder, company, and the payment between them What Rahyabe records The boundary: money never crosses it
Why that is a feature and not an omission
A platform that holds money becomes a financial institution. It needs licences in every country it operates in, it holds client funds, and it can freeze, delay or lose a payment. Every one of those is a new way for your project to stop for reasons that have nothing to do with the work.
By recording rather than moving, the same system behaves identically whether the transfer went by wire, by hawala or by cash at a branch. What we hold is the answer to the questions an auditor asks: what was paid, by whom, when, against which piece of work, and what proof stands behind it.
- We do not hold, route or release funds, and we never see your bank credentials.
- We do not guarantee payment, and we are not an escrow.
- We do not certify anyone to a standard we did not set. Where a licence or a certificate matters, we record the real one and its expiry date.
- We do not write the funder's opinion of a company. We record what was measured.
One next step
Tell us what you are funding
Send us the work, the country and the shape of the money. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right people for it, and what it would look like if we were.