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About Confluence AI

Everything Between 'Funding Available' and 'Project Complete'

Most tribes know the money is out there. The problem is capacity. We handle what normally requires a full-time grants team.

What We Do

The Full Journey, One Team

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  • Find the right funding - Federal, state, foundation. Matched to your community's actual priorities and readiness.
  • Write and submit applications - Proposals that meet every requirement and tell your story. Submitted on time.
  • Manage contracts and compliance - Deadlines, milestones, quarterly reports, audit prep. Tracked and handled.
  • Support planning and delivery - From feasibility studies to breaking ground. We stay through implementation.
  • Build local capacity - Training for your team to take over more of this work over time.

Our founders have been doing this work for decades. We're building the systems to do it for more communities.

Our Founders

Where Expertise Converges

Ginny Hasselfield

Ginny Hasselfield

Co-Founder & CEO

Career spanning political leadership and institutional fundraising across North America.

Jason Deichert

Jason Deichert

Co-Founder & CTO

Building Confluence AI's technical infrastructure.

Jamie Banks

Jamie Banks

Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor

Architect with projects for First Nations across Western Canada.

Christa Montpetit

Christa Montpetit

Client Success Lead

17 years navigating complex regulatory and permitting processes.

Case Study

EVMojave — EV Opportunities Community Portal

A live, public platform we built for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe under a California Energy Commission grant

EVMojave.com portal homepage — Powering the Future of Fort Mojave

EV Opportunities Portal

Role: Named technology vendor Grant: CEC ARV-24-015 (GFO-23-607) Status: Live at evmojave.com

Confluence AI designed and built the EV Opportunities community portal for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, the public-facing digital deliverable of a California Energy Commission EV readiness grant. We were the named technology vendor on the project, responsible for the full build — from architecture and content systems through to a WCAG 2.1 AA accessible front end the community uses today.

What We Built

  • Community portal at evmojave.com — a single hub for EV readiness and clean energy information
  • News & updates section for ongoing community communication
  • Jobs board surfacing clean energy and EV workforce opportunities
  • Learning management system (LMS) with structured courses — including a multi-lesson EV Charging Pre-Certification curriculum
  • Admin dashboard so the Tribe can manage content, courses, and postings directly
  • WCAG 2.1 AA accessible front end, responsive across devices

Program Context

  • Produced EV readiness planning deliverables under the CEC ARV-24-015 / GFO-23-607 program
  • Built to state energy-agency standards for compliant, grant-funded digital infrastructure

A real, public, working deliverable — visit evmojave.com to see exactly the kind of community platform we deliver.

EVMojave training courses — EV workforce development curriculum Training & Courses EV Charging Pre-Certification course — 7 lessons with interactive curriculum Course Curriculum EVMojave news and community updates News & Updates
What We Build

The Engines Behind the Work

The EVMojave portal is one deliverable. Behind it sits a set of capabilities we bring to every tribal clean energy engagement.

AI-Assisted Grant Discovery & Fit-Scoring

We monitor federal, state, and foundation funding programs and score opportunities against a community's actual priorities and readiness — so effort goes toward grants worth pursuing.

Professional Document Generation

Proposals, briefings, compliance reports, and planning deliverables produced to funder standards — the same document engine used to support real CEC grant work.

GIS & Territory Mapping

Spatial analysis and mapping for site readiness, infrastructure planning, and applications that need to show where projects land on the ground.

Multi-Tenant Portal Platform

The platform behind community portals like EVMojave — news, jobs boards, learning management, and admin dashboards, with each community in control of its own data.

Sample Deliverables

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Clean Energy Capacity Resource Scan
Sample executive readiness briefing cover for a fictional tribal community
Executive Readiness Briefing
Sample one-page funding and capacity snapshot for a fictional tribal community
Funding & Capacity Snapshot

Illustrative sample deliverables generated with Document Forge — fictional data, not client work.

Ginny Hasselfield

Indigenous Community Development

Decades of institutional fundraising and cross-cultural programming

Aboriginal Inmate Initiative

Client: Federal Correctional Services Canada Scope: National Program

Created and implemented an oral training program to reconnect incarcerated Indigenous peoples with their culture and heritage. Used videos, films, and community speakers to deliver culturally grounded programming.

Key Achievements

  • 12 of 14 inmates successfully completed pilot program
  • Program adopted nationally after pilot success
  • Trained trainers across Canadian federal penitentiaries
  • Funded by Correctional Services Canada

National program still referenced as model for Indigenous correctional programming

Additional Track Record

  • $20M raised at Simon Fraser University (Principal Gifts)
  • $28M international trade facilitated via Global Connections
  • 500+ refugees/immigrants employed (84% success rate)
  • $3M raised through 50 Women of Options campaigns
Hasselfield Fundraising
Jamie Banks

First Nations Built Environment

Registered Architect (AIBC), RAIC Member

Illustration of architect reviewing plans with community members outside a solar-powered First Nations community building in British Columbia

Lax Kw'alaams Housing

Client: Lax Kw'alaams Band Location: Prince Rupert, BC

Co-Project Architect at Human Studio in partnership with MGA. Jamie worked to overcome significant site challenges to provide much-needed rental suites for members of Lax Kw'alaams. The project includes 70 rental units within a 6-storey light wood construction building, including temporary suites for pregnancy residencies and cultural gathering space facilitating funerals.

First Nations Experience

  • Alexander First Nation - Infrastructure development (Alberta)
  • Lax Kw'alaams Band - 70-unit housing project (BC)

Additional Experience

  • Key leader at Human Studio, growing the firm from inception to 20 people
  • Portfolio spanning multifamily housing, office, industrial, and masterplans
  • Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards projects
  • Award-winning thesis on attainable housing (University of Waterloo)

Direct experience navigating First Nations development processes, governance structures, and community priorities

Banks Architecture & Permitting
Christa Montpetit

Regulatory Navigation & Client Success

17+ years of permitting, licensing, and government relations

Complex Permitting & Licensing

Focus: Multi-Jurisdictional Regulatory Processes Clients: Hotels, Franchise Chains, Restaurants, Manufacturing

Expert in navigating complex projects with multi-level permitting and licensing requirements. Christa regularly liaises with local, provincial, and federal governments, lawyers, accountants, and business owners to bring clients' projects from application to approval.

Areas of Expertise

  • Multi-jurisdictional permitting and licensing processes
  • Government relations across BC and Canada
  • Client onboarding and ongoing partnership management
  • Regulatory compliance and application support

Background

  • Founded Blue Diamond Hospitality, serving hundreds of clients across the hospitality industry
  • Board director, Hospitality Vancouver Association
  • Merged consultancy into Banks Architecture & Permitting

Bringing the same application-to-approval expertise that served hundreds of hospitality clients to tribal communities navigating federal grant processes

Banks Architecture & Permitting
Jason Deichert

Platform & AI Infrastructure

Building the technology to scale decades of tribal expertise

Confluence AI Platform

Role: Co-Founder & CTO Focus: Full-Stack Development & AI Systems

Architecting the AI-powered platform that transforms how tribal communities discover, win, and manage grants. Combining automation, intelligent document processing, and compliance tracking to multiply the impact of every team member.

Technical Foundation

  • Multi-agency grant monitoring matched to tribal priorities and readiness
  • AI-assisted document generation for applications and compliance reports
  • Deadline tracking and milestone management across multiple funders
  • Data sovereignty-first design with tribal control over all project data

Background

  • Co-founded BuildGravity and built Keystone, its multi-tenant construction and architecture platform — proposals, project management, and invoicing — used in production by real architecture and construction firms
  • Built Document Forge — the AI document-generation engine behind Confluence's proposals, briefings, grant applications, and compliance reports
  • Enterprise healthcare AI at Phreesia — architected integrations for major healthcare organizations, with systems processing millions of patient records under HIPAA and a product handling roughly $50M/year in patient payments; built LLM-powered tools that cut weeks of manual documentation to hours
  • Built data-analysis systems for research at SickKids Hospital, and workflow automation that helped a small team at STEM Camp hit record enrollments across 50+ locations

Making 100+ years of combined Indigenous community expertise accessible to hundreds of tribes through technology

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Your Success Is Our Purpose

Too many tribal communities miss out on funding because they lack the resources to compete with larger organizations. We combine decades of expertise with AI-powered grant discovery and compliance tools to change that equation.

Our Values

What Guides Us

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Community First

Technology serves people, not the other way around.

Sovereignty

Your data stays under tribal control. Our tools support your decisions, not dictate them.

Transparency

Clear communication. Honest assessments. Straightforward pricing.

Long-term Partnership

Measured by communities strengthened, not projects completed.

Let Us Show You What Is Possible

Schedule a consultation to see the funding opportunities waiting for your community. No pressure, no obligation, just a clear picture of your options.

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