Autopilot first
Welcomes, paperwork reminders, open shifts, thank-yous and digests run on their own from day one. Your team supervises instead of pushing buttons.
About
About Nehemiah
Nehemiah is volunteer management software made by Bytesize Data Solutions, a small software company in Charleston, South Carolina. It’s named for Nehemiah 3, a roster of everyone assigned a section of the wall.
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Who makes Nehemiah?
Bytesize Data Solutions, a small software company in Charleston, South Carolina, founded by Justin Smith. Nehemiah is our volunteer management software, and it’s in early access.
- Company
- Bytesize Data Solutions
- Product
- Nehemiah, volunteer management software
- Founder
- Justin Smith
- Stage
- Early access
What is Nehemiah for?
Doing the follow-up a volunteer program never has time for, so the people who say yes make it to a first shift and keep coming back.
Most volunteer programs run on one stretched coordinator, a spreadsheet and a lot of goodwill. New volunteers sign up and wait to hear back. Paperwork sits half finished. A license lapses because nobody had time to check. The same few people cover every open shift.
None of that is anyone’s fault. It’s follow-up, and follow-up is endless. Nehemiah does it: the welcome, the paperwork asks, the reminders, the open-shift invitations and the thank-yous, so the people running the program can spend their time with people.
Why is it called Nehemiah?
Because the book of Nehemiah is, in part, a volunteer roster. Chapter 3 lists the families, trades and leaders who each took a section of Jerusalem’s broken wall, and chapter 4 is how they kept building when it got hard.
Nehemiah didn’t hire a crew. Priests took the Sheep Gate. The men of Jericho built next to them. Goldsmiths, perfumers and merchants took their stretches, a district ruler worked alongside his daughters, and families repaired the part of the wall in front of their own houses. The roster even notes who didn’t show up (Nehemiah 3:5).
Then came opposition, tired crews and gaps in the line. Nehemiah answered with a plan: half the people built while half stood guard, every section had its people, and a trumpet called everyone to whichever gap needed them. The wall was finished in 52 days (Nehemiah 6:15).
That is still the job of a volunteer coordinator: know who is on which section, notice the gaps early, and call the right people to fill them. Nehemiah keeps the roster and does the follow-up, so you can lead the people.
Every hand on the wall.
What do we believe about AI and people?
AI should do the follow-up, and people should make the calls. Nehemiah runs the routine work on its own and waits for a person on anything that matters.
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Talk, don’t configure
Describe your program, typed or spoken, and Nehemiah sets it up. Every settings screen still works by hand.
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Easy for everyone
Plain words, big buttons and one main action per screen. Volunteers never need an app or a password.
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People decide what matters
Ask Nehemiah never sends a message, deletes anything or changes more than 25 people without a click, and whatever it switches on is logged. Role approvals and sensitive replies stay with a person.
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One login, many organizations
A coordinator who helps a clinic and a church uses one login, and so does a volunteer who serves both.
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Say what’s true
We mark what’s live, what’s rolling out and what’s coming, and we don’t claim certifications we don’t have.
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How can I reach us?
Email support@bytesizeds.com, or tell us about your program on the contact page and we’ll show you Nehemiah with your own roles.
Bytesize Data Solutions
174 Meeting St Ste 300
Charleston, SC 29401
Tell us about your volunteer program.
We’ll show you Nehemiah running with your own roles, schedule and paperwork.