The Silent Partner
A self-managed website for a Nepal-based nonprofit, built on Payload CMS and Next.js and shipped with AI from the first commit. The staff run it themselves. No developer required for an edit.
The Silent Partner is a faith-based nonprofit serving orphans, the elderly, women, and children across Nepal. They needed a site their own small team could run day to day, not one that called a developer for every change to a date, a story, or a photo.
Every page is a stack of editable blocks. Staff change the hero, the ministries grid, the impact numbers, and the stories themselves, with live preview before anything publishes. Donations run through their existing PayPal account, and contact-form messages land straight in their inbox.
Payload CMS on Next.js, with Postgres for content, Vercel Blob for images, and Resend for transactional email. It deploys on Vercel, so a content change is live in seconds and the whole thing costs a nonprofit almost nothing to run.
We designed, wrote, and refined it with AI from the first commit: the content model, the copy, and the components included. That is how a small nonprofit got an agency-grade, fully self-managed site on a nonprofit budget and timeline.
- Next.js 16
- Payload CMS
- Neon Postgres
- Vercel Blob
- Resend
- PayPal