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Website Requirements Builder

Select what your new site actually needs — content, fundraising, forms, integrations, accessibility, SEO, CMS, infrastructure, and training — and download a structured requirements document you can hand to a vendor, your board, or your own team.

Ready to scope this with a real team?

We'll turn this list into a scoped, priced plan.

A requirements list is the input to discovery, not a replacement for it. We'll help you pressure-test priorities against budget and timeline.

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Why this matters

The best RFPs start from a requirements list, not a mood board.

Most nonprofit website projects don't fail because of design taste — they fail because a requirement nobody wrote down surfaces in week ten of a twelve-week build.

Illustration of a website wireframe on a monitor surrounded by puzzle pieces, representing structured requirements

Requirements live in people's heads, not documents

Every organization knows it needs "a searchable directory" or "Salesforce integration" — but that knowledge is usually scattered across three staff members' inboxes, not written down anywhere a vendor can read.

Vague requirements produce vague proposals

A vendor who doesn't know you need conditional-logic forms or multilingual content management will quote a simpler project than the one you actually need — and the gap surfaces mid-build.

A requirements list isn't a design document

This tool tells a vendor what the site must do, not what it should look like. That's deliberate — requirements and design are different conversations.

Where this fits

Four tools, one procurement path.

1.Requirements Builder — decide what the site needs to do.
2.Cost Calculator — turn that scope into a budget range.
3.Budget Planner — if you already have a number, allocate it.
4.RFP Generator — package requirements, budget, and timeline into a procurement-ready RFP.