RAISE Tech

Not your typical AI company.Not even close.

Twenty years of front-line work in the systems that were never built to support vulnerable communities. Now building the technology they have always deserved.

The products are for people navigating impossible systems.The services are for organizations ready to do better.

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Two decades of recognized work

Pioneer in Children’s Wellbeing Award  ·  Ashoka Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  ·  Co-Author, Domestic Violence Chapter, TX Child Protection Law Bench Book  ·  59-Organization Ecosystem Dashboard  ·  Certified Expert Witness, Gender-Based Violence

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Three ways to begin.

Grant Support

Bring your grant.

Funders are scoring applications against fixed criteria. Bring your own draft and leave with a stronger one.

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Risk Review

Know your AI exposure.

A 90 minute briefing for your leadership team. Where AI touches your data, and what to put in place before you rely on it.

$1,500

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Free Resource

Make the case to your funder.

Thinking about a dashboard but not sure how to fund it? Three funder conversation scenarios, common objections and how to respond, and a five question worksheet.

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The Hard Truth
88%

of organizations now use AI in at least one business function.
Only 8% have an enforceable governance framework.

The tools arrived. The people using them are on their own. And so are the people depending on them to get it right.

McKinsey, The State of AI in 2025
Economist Impact and Kyocera, 2026

This is the gap RAISE Tech was built for.

Eight ways to work with RAISE Tech.

Two products in development. Six services available now.

Career Discovery

Finally Seen

Finds the skills you built through the hardest parts of your life and translates them into language employers actually recognize.

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Employment Navigation

Landed

Diagnoses exactly why you are not getting hired and builds a strategy specific to your barriers.

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AI Consulting

AI Consulting for Sensitive Work

One-on-one guidance for people who handle what matters most, built around your actual work, not a fixed curriculum.

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Risk Review

AI Exposure Review

AI is already in your systems. This review shows you where your clients’ information is going and what to put in place before it matters.

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Data

Dashboards

Intelligence dashboards that map a sector, an organization, or a geography. For leaders who need the big picture at a glance.

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Custom Builds

Custom AI Tools

A working AI tool built around your specific work, designed by someone who understands safety for vulnerable people and what it actually requires.

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Grant Support

The Grant Lab

Bring your grant. Leave with a stronger one, led by someone who has sat on both sides of the funding decisions.

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Training

When Fear Leaves the Room

A full-day intervention that builds the psychological safety required for AI to actually take hold in your organization.

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For Organizations

You are already navigating AI whether you chose to or not.

A tool your staff downloaded. A feature that switched on inside a platform you already pay for. A grant application strengthened by something no one approved.

The organizations that get this right build the infrastructure first. The populations you serve deserve that. And frankly, so do you.

RAISE Tech was built specifically for organizations in domestic violence, child welfare, healthcare, legal services, workforce development, and criminal justice. Any mission-driven sector where the wrong AI decision has real human consequences.

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Shellie Ryan, Founder and CEO of RAISE Tech
About the Founder

I am Shellie Ryan.

Twenty years in the room. Courtrooms, shelters, family drug courts, legislative taskforces. I did not come to this work from technology. I came to technology because the work demanded it and the tools did not exist.

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When Fear Leaves the Room

Split your organization in two. Leadership in one room. Frontline staff in another. Each group works with AI in a space designed for one thing: full permission to be as curious as your brain wants to be. No evaluation. No wrong answers.

Then they come back together. Frontline staff presents what they developed to leadership. That moment does more for real AI adoption than any training you can buy.

Full-Day Intervention

The human foundation for AI adoption.

Founding rates available for the first three organizations, one per sector.

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