Built by the team behind Gravy, supporting 176 community organisations.
Every team we talk to shares the same problems — important information lost in paper and spreadsheets, systems that are old and clunky, reports that take weeks to pull together.
Ara is how social work should be — with clients at the centre of everything you do. It captures notes in the moment and turns them into the information that matters — metrics that need tracking, plans that need updating, referrals that need sending, tasks that need doing.
It turns hours of admin and frustration into minutes of work.
Ara is built for organisations doing client-centred support work — advocacy, housing support, mentoring, navigation, whānau support, disability support, pregnancy support, and community casework.
If your team spends time in conversations, case notes, follow-ups, support plans, and funder reporting, Ara is designed for you.
This is where the time actually gets saved — and our strongest difference from a form you fill in by hand.
Every profile captures unique information about that person — giving you a more human picture of the person you're supporting.
See exactly where someone is in their plan, and what's actually changing for them.
Nothing falls through the cracks between check-ins.
Ara turns frontline activity into structured information that can support reporting to managers, boards, funders, and government agencies.
Ara is designed for sensitive social work environments where trust matters. Client information isn't treated as a generic software asset — it's controlled carefully and only shared with permission.
People can understand and control how their information is used.
Information sharing happens only with clear permission and a clear purpose.
Organisations get confidence over access, roles, notes, reporting, and implementation.
Ara is built for frontline support work, not generic CRM or sales workflows.
Too many systems treat your own client data like it's held hostage — a paid request, a one-off export, a file only an IT contractor can open. Ara works differently: export is a real, self-service feature, not a philosophical promise.
Trigger an export yourself, whenever you need it — no request forms, no waiting on us.
Getting your own data back doesn't cost extra. It's yours, so it's free.
Exports come out as CSV and Excel — not a raw database dump only a developer can read.
Not a one-off. Export today, next month, or every week — it's always available.
Where your data lives matters. Many case management platforms are US-owned, which means New Zealand client data ends up hosted offshore, under a different country's laws and reach. Ara is hosted in New Zealand — full stop.
Your data sits on servers inside NZ, not routed offshore to a US data centre.
Your data stays subject to New Zealand law, not a foreign government's reach or a foreign court order.
Data sovereignty requirements are increasingly common in NZ government funding agreements — Ara meets that bar by default, not as an add-on.
Ara does not need to replace everything on day one. It can work alongside paper notes, spreadsheets, existing reporting tools, and current workflows while your team builds confidence.
We set Ara up with your actual case types, not a generic demo — so your team sees exactly what they'd be using, before you commit to anything.
Koha is a Māori tradition of voluntary contribution, given in a spirit of reciprocity. Ara asks providers to contribute what feels fair for the value they get — not a fixed subscription or per-seat fee.
Ara is built by that same team behind Gravy. Gravy helps New Zealand charities & clubs find and win grant funding.
Ara isn't a fixed-fee product. There's no subscription or per-seat cost — pricing is koha based, meaning your organisation contributes what feels fair for the value you're getting, in the spirit of koha: a Māori tradition of voluntary, reciprocal contribution.
The person the data is about. Your organisation can see and use what's been shared with you for your work, but nothing about a person leaves your system, or gets shared with another organisation, without their specific consent.
No. We work alongside your team to map your existing records into Ara's structure at your own pace — you don't need a clean slate to get started, and new work can start being captured properly from day one.
We build report formats around your actual funders — that's part of onboarding, not a limitation you work around. Tell us who you report to, and we'll make sure Ara speaks their format.
Book a walkthrough and we'll learn about your organisation and show you how Ara could work for you.
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