Qomon's Collaborative Development Initiative
Discover our original collaborative development approach, built for our sector and fully aligned with our mission: delivering the best tools - innovative, scalable, and advanced, at the best possible cost.
What Is It and Why?
At Qomon, we only work with political and nonprofit organizations. And because our sector is so unique: the agency of volunteers, the complexity of local chapters, the challenge of reaching thousands of people with limited resources, we know that standard software development models don't really work for us.
Political and nonprofit organizations share something in common: huge needs, incredible complexity, and limited budgets. Most can't independently fund the tools they actually need. And even when they can, custom one-off development creates fragmented products and runaway costs that only grow over time.
That's where the Collaborative Development Initiative comes in.
Instead of building isolated, custom features for a single client, our Collaborative Development Initiative allows organizations across the sector to finance new features together — mutualizing innovation so that advanced tools become accessible without requiring any single organization to carry the full cost, or the long-term burden of maintaining it.
An organization, or a group of organizations, can request and co-build a new feature that isn't yet on the product roadmap, and we share the cost.
How Does It Work?
Idea
You come with your idea, challenge, or even user stories and share them with our team.
Scoping
Our Product & Engineering teams evaluate the request and, if relevant, schedule a conversation. If it aligns with Qomon's mission, product guidelines, and long-term vision, we estimate the time, resources, and scope required.
Pricing & Contribution
The development cost is shared between the organization and Qomon. The client covers part of the cost through their subscription and a reduced development fee. Qomon covers the rest (usually between 30% and 80%), reflecting our commitment to bringing the feature into the core product.
Timeline & Delivery
The feature is delivered to the requesting organization within a defined timeline. After a private period of 3 to 12 months, exclusivity ends and the feature becomes available to all Qomon organizations.
After the private launch, the feature is refined, optimized, and fully integrated into Qomon's core platform, benefiting the entire customer base, with maintenance and improvements handled by Qomon going forward.
What's in It for Organizations?
- Early access to a strategic feature.
- Lower costs compared to fully custom development — and none of the runaway cost risk that comes with it.
- Direct influence on the product roadmap and on how the feature is designed for real use cases.
- No future burden: Qomon handles maintenance and ongoing improvements as part of the product.
Your supporters, volunteers, and donors deserve an organization that's fully focused on them - not just on keeping infrastructure running. Qomon's Collaborative Development Initiative is here to work with your teams to build the tools they deserve.
Alternative, traditional development paths also exist, just speak to our team.
