Meet CouponDonation- the world’s first 100% trackable giving infrastructure, co-founded by Harshit Agrawal and Paul Savluc. It doesn’t ask you to trust charity. It makes trust structurally impossible to bypass.
Every year, the world donates over $1.5 trillion to charity. And every year, a staggering portion of that money vanishes into a system with no receipts, no accountability, and no way for the donor to know what their generosity actually bought. A blanket for a child. A meal for a family. Or a fraudulent expense report for an executive’s fifth “conference retreat.” You will never know. The current system was not designed to tell you.
That is not an accident. It is a design flaw. And two people spent six years obsessing over how to fix it.
Six Years. One Conclusion.
Harshit Agrawal is a cybersecurity architect by training. Paul Savluc is a multi-company engineering executive. Together, they make an unusual pair to be disrupting the philanthropic sector. But it was precisely their outsider perspective – built over six years of research, frustration, and structural analysis – that led them to a conclusion that now seems obvious in hindsight: the charity industry does not have a generosity problem. It has an infrastructure problem.
Donors give willingly. Organizations collect efficiently. But the moment money enters the system, it becomes invisible. The “black box” of charity is not a metaphor. It is the lived experience of every person who has ever clicked “Donate” and wondered, weeks later, whether it actually helped anyone.
“We kept asking: what would we build if we approached philanthropy like a zero-trust security system? What if we assumed, by default, that nothing could be trusted — and built the infrastructure to prove impact anyway?” – Harshit Agrawal, Founder & CEO
That question became CouponDonation (www.coupondonation.com). And the answer they built is unlike anything the philanthropic sector has ever seen.
Not Coupons. Smart Vouchers. There’s a Critical Difference.
CouponDonation does not move cash. It converts donated money into API-locked Smart Vouchers – programmable digital instruments that function precisely like an EBT card, butengineered specifically for charitable giving. Each voucher is locked to a curated set of SKUs: specific essential goods like rice, medicine, school supplies, or hygiene products. The beneficiary cannot spend the voucher on anything outside the approved list. The retailer cannot redeem it outside the verified gateway. Every transaction is logged in real time.
The four-step loop is airtight: Funds Pledged → Smart Voucher Minted → Redeemed at Point-of-Sale via Approved Retail API → Itemized Digital Receipt Delivered to the Donor. Within seconds of a beneficiary buying groceries with a CouponDonation voucher at Walmart or DoorDash, the donor who funded that basket receives a digital receipt – line by line, item by item – showing exactly what was purchased. No intermediary. No ambiguity. No black box.
“We built a programmable EBT card for charity. Your donated money becomes a voucher locked to life’s essentials, redeemable only at verified retail APIs. When it’s spent, you get a receipt. That’s it. That’s the whole revolution.” – Paul Savluc, Co-Founder & CTO/COO
The GoFundMe Era Proved the Demand. It Couldn’t Solve the Problem.
Crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe proved something important: the world wants to give. Billions have been raised for strangers, disaster victims, and community causes – proof that generosity at scale is not only possible but deeply human. But the crowdfunding model, for all its reach, was never designed to verify impact. Money is collected, transferred, and then… trusted. The platform’s job ends at the transaction. What happens next is entirely opaque.
CouponDonation is not a crowdfunding platform with better branding. It is a fundamentally different architecture. Where crowdfunding transfers money and hopes for the best, CouponDonation converts money into programmable value and verifies every step mechanically. It is the difference between sending cash in an envelope and installing a GPS tracker on every dollar.
The People Who Need This Most Are Already Saying So
The world’s most prominent philanthropists and accountability advocates have been sounding the alarm for years. Elon Musk – one of the most vocal critics of institutional charity opacity – has publicly demanded open-source accounting from major nonprofits, calling out the sector’s structural inability to prove how donor money is used. He is not alone. The frustration among high-net-worth donors, corporate ESG officers, and policy makers is well-documented and growing.
Richard La Bella, Director of Cybersecurity and Compliance at Alliance Ground International, is one of the enterprise information security leaders who has reviewed CouponDonation’s zero-trust architecture and validated its structural approach. Jason Storch, CEO of Stackular, brings strategic depth as an early advisor. These are not ceremonial endorsements. They are professionals who understand what a genuine accountability infrastructure looks like – and recognize that CouponDonation has built one.
The Only System Built to Save Lives at Scale
This is not a feature improvement. It is not a better donation form or a slicker impact dashboard. CouponDonation is, as its co-founders state plainly, currently the only giving infrastructure in the world that makes donation fraud structurally impossible – not policy-dependent, not honor-system-reliant, but mechanically, cryptographically, verifiably impossible.
The revenue model sustains this without taxing generosity. The platform is free for causes. Donors optionally cover a 2% fee and may leave a tip. Retail partners contribute an affiliate interchange for the guaranteed, restriction-locked revenue routed through their gateways. Corporations access premium ESG compliance dashboards through an enterprise SaaS tier. Every stakeholder wins. The only loser is fraud.
The company is currently raising a pre-seed round of ₹1.5 Crores at a ₹15 Crores post-money valuation, with eighteen months of runway targeted at retail API integration, zero-trust infrastructure hardening, and an aggressive go-to-market push across three channels: grassroots donors, high-net-worth philanthropists, and corporate CSR programs seeking verifiable ESG impact data.
Why This Matters Right Now
Trust in charitable institutions is at a generational low. High-profile scandals, exposed misallocations, and the viral exposure of fraudulent crowdfunding campaigns have made donors cautious in a way the sector has never seen before. The answer the industry has offered – better storytelling, prettier annual reports, emotional video campaigns – has not worked. Because the problem was never a lack of good stories. It was a lack of proof.
Harshit Agrawal and Paul Savluc spent six years arriving at a conclusion that is simultaneously simple and radical: the only way to save philanthropy is to make trust structurally unnecessary. Not to ask people to believe in the system. To build a system that proves itself. Every transaction. Every voucher. Every receipt. Every life changed – with a paper trail attached.
CouponDonation is live. The future of verified giving starts at www.coupondonation.com
