Nestorly
Specialise for charity. Experts share what they know with organisations that need it. Instead of paying the expert, the organisation donates, in full, to a charity the expert has chosen.
What it is
Nestorly is a planned community interest company (CIC): a marketplace that connects people who know their field inside out with firms, investors and organisations looking for that knowledge.
- Experts (mostly 40+, still working, retired or specialists in any field) create a profile and choose one UK charity they care about.
- Firms search by industry, job or keyword, and send a request with their goals and questions.
- The donation goes straight from the firm to the charity's own donation page. 100% reaches the charity. Nestorly never touches the money.
No contracts, no selling yourself: just your expertise, put to work for a cause you care about.
How it works
| Step | What happens |
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| 1 | They ask | A firm requests a call, written advice, a site visit, a talk or mentoring, and pledges a donation to the expert's charity. |
| 2 | You share | The expert accepts or declines. If they accept, they meet and share what they know, on their own terms. |
| 3 | You send it | After the meeting, the expert presses Send to release the pledged donation. |
| 4 | Firm paid | The firm donates directly on the charity's website and uploads its receipt. |
| 5 | Charity received | The charity confirms the donation, and both sides get an official certificate of impact, optional to share on LinkedIn. |
Screenshots
| Homepage | Find an expert |
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| Join as an expert | Expert dashboard: donations & impact |
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| Firm certificate of impact | |
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Try it
The prototype works like the real site: everything you do is saved in your browser and shows up everywhere it should. Nothing leaves your browser, and no emails or payments are real.
Sample sign-ins (use Sign in → type the email → Email me a sign-in link → Open the link, or Continue with Google / LinkedIn and pick an account):
The account decides where you land: experts go to the expert dashboard, firms to the firm dashboard.
The full journey (about ten minutes):
- Join as an expert → Start your profile → Continue through the eight steps (sample answers are filled in) → Publish my profile → You're live! → Go to my dashboard. Then sign out from the account menu.
- Find an expert → Create a firm account → five steps → Simulate verification → Find an expert.
- Search "harbour" → open the new expert → Save → Request a conversation → Prototype only: fill in sample answers → Send request.
- Sign out, sign in as the expert. The bell shows the new request → Accept… → pick a time, tick the declarations → Confirm and accept. Send a message on the request.
- Join video call → Prototype: let them join → Leave → Mark as done → Send to [charity].
- Sign in as the firm → Donations & receipts → Donate to [charity] (a pretend charity page) → Donate → back to Nestorly → Use a sample receipt → Submit receipt. About 5 seconds later the charity confirms and both sides get a certificate of impact.
- Open Emails in the footer to see every email the journey would have sent.
Also worth trying: open questions (firms post them, experts raise a hand), suggesting a different meeting time from either side, Add to calendar (downloads a .ics file), the receipts CSV export, pausing a profile, and See my profile as firms do.
Start again: Reset prototype in the footer clears everything you've created and puts the sample data back.
Pages
| Page | File | Purpose |
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| Homepage | index.html | What Nestorly is, how it works, the donation tracker and certificates |
| Join as an expert | join.html | Who it's for, how firms find you, what you'll need, an example and FAQs |
| Create your profile | create-profile.html | Eight-step expert sign-up, then You're live! with ready-made sharing posts |
| Find an expert | find.html | Search by industry, job or keyword; full profiles and saving for signed-in firms |
| Create a firm account | firm-signup.html | Five steps: details, organisation, agree, verify, done |
| Sign in | signin.html | One sign-in for experts and firms: emailed link, Google or LinkedIn |
| Request a conversation | request.html | Goals, questions, format, three times, the donation and a signed pledge |
| Expert dashboard | expert-dashboard.html | To do, requests, meetings, open questions, donations and impact, profile and settings |
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Design
- Typefaces: DM Serif Display (headings), Source Sans 3 (body), Outfit (buttons and labels)
- Colours: cream
#F5F0E6 · navy #14254F · cobalt #2251FF · burgundy #7A1F2B · sun #F6C344 · donation green #18743A
- Style: bold outlines and hard shadows, wavy colour bands and large, readable text, designed for an audience mostly aged 50+.
Built with
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step, hosted on GitHub Pages. The shared data (sample experts, firms, requests, messages, alerts and emails) lives in store.js, saved in the browser's local storage. Shared header, footer, bell, account menu and donation tracker live in site.js; the dashboards are expert-dashboard.js and firm-dashboard.js; design tokens and components live in styles.css.
Status
This is a working click-through prototype with invented sample data. Everything is saved only in your own browser. The people, firms and charities shown are fictional, and no sign-ins, payments, video calls or emails are real. The full site (accounts, database and email sending) is planned next. The name Nestorly was confirmed on 2 Nov 2026.
