Karma Compass drafts nonprofit board agendas and minutes, collects votes by email and chases action items. Free plan; Pro is $99/month.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Karma Compass is board management software for nonprofits, made by Karma. It drafts board agendas and minutes, assembles the board packet, collects RSVPs and votes over email, and follows up on action items that people agreed to complete between meetings. Its central design choice is that an AI agent writes each draft and a named person on the board approves it before it becomes official.
Directors do not need an account or a password. They RSVP, vote and open the board packet from links in their email, while the chair and executive director use the full workspace. Karma Compass is aimed at nonprofit boards of any kind, including the boards of organizations that Karma's funding programs support.
Setup starts from documents a board already has. Karma Compass reads the director list from the organization's website, and the user adds missing email addresses and confirms the roster. Bylaws are uploaded once, and the product answers questions about quorum, terms or voting with the exact page cited. Last minutes are turned into a record of the meeting, with each action item given an owner.
Three agents handle the paperwork around each meeting. The Agenda Agent drafts before the meeting, the Minutes Agent drafts after it from notes, a transcript or a recording, and the Follow-through Agent reminds owners between meetings. Mission Control, the first page after sign-in, lists approvals, overdue items, minutes ready for review and unfinished setup steps in one place, soonest first.
The Agenda Agent builds the next draft from the last meeting held, gathers open action items into one agenda item, places decisions before reports and gives each item a time when the meeting has a length. The chair, executive director, secretary or board assistant approves it before it is sent with the board packet. Minutes record attendance, quorum, each motion and the vote result.
Motions are set up with voting rules from the bylaws, and the chair opens the vote before anyone can cast a ballot. Voting links are signed for one director and stop working after use. An ask-your-records feature answers questions from uploaded bylaws, policies, packets and past minutes, quotes the passage, and says so when the documents do not cover the question.
Karma Compass is board management software for nonprofits, made by Karma. It drafts agendas and minutes, assembles the board packet, collects RSVPs and votes by email, and follows up on action items. A person on the board approves each draft before it becomes official.
There is a Free plan at $0, a Pro plan at $99 per month, and a quoted Enterprise plan. Yearly billing on Pro is described as 2 months free. Directors are not charged as seats on any plan.
Yes. Every new organization starts on Karma Compass Pro, free for two weeks, with no card needed. If the organization has not upgraded by the end, it moves to the Free plan, and nothing is deleted or charged.
No. Directors RSVP, vote and open the board packet from links in their email, without an account or password. Each link is signed for one director, and a voting link stops working once it has been used.
It drafts them. On Pro, the Minutes Agent drafts minutes from notes, a transcript or a recording, and the secretary edits and adopts them. They stay a draft until then. The Free plan drafts minutes from the meeting record, meaning attendance, quorum and agenda.
Pro and Enterprise include Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom and Slack integration. Users can also connect Claude, ChatGPT or Codex to the board's record. Enterprise adds custom CRM and donor database integration.
The organization moves to the Free plan. Meetings, minutes, decisions, votes and documents stay, along with 5 meetings a year, voting, quorum tracking, RSVPs and email participation. The assistant, agenda drafts, notes-based minutes, playbooks and reminders pause until the organization upgrades again.
It is built for nonprofit boards, including chairs, executive directors, secretaries, treasurers, directors and the staff who support them. It suits boards whose directors should take part from email without learning a new tool.