Valuation from a photograph
Photograph the item, describe it briefly, and a model trained on condition, brand, retail price and resale data returns a fair market value with an itemized receipt the IRS will accept.
02 · Civic · Logistics
Karnah
Verified giving with dignity and traceability
Karna gave away everything he owned and never asked what he would get back for it. I named this after him because in-kind giving still runs on that instinct and almost none of the infrastructure. Karnah supplies the three things it is missing: a valuation that holds up, a match against what a charity actually requested, and a record of where the item went.
The problem
You gave it away and nobody can tell you what happened next
Clothes, bedding and furniture get dropped at a center and vanish. The receipt comes back blank or vague, and you never find out whether the item was used, sold, thrown out or shipped somewhere else entirely. The whole chain runs on good intentions and almost no information.
- Donors put a number on their own goods, which lets fraud through one side and leaves honest people underclaiming on the other.
- Shelters receive winter coats in July and extra small sizes for adult men, then burn storage space and volunteer hours dealing with it.
- Nothing links the item that left your house to the person who eventually needed it.
- You drive it over yourself without knowing whether it will even be accepted, and plenty of people give up halfway through.
From a thing you no longer need
to a receipt that holds up
- 01
List
Photograph the item. Condition and fair market value are assessed for you.
- 02
Match
It is offered only to charities whose stated need it satisfies.
- 03
Collect
A local partner books the pickup. Nothing gets transported on spec.
- 04
Deliver
Custody is logged at handover, which is where the current chain goes dark.
- 05
Prove
An itemized receipt ready for Form 8283, and a record of the impact.
Verified, matched, traceable, compliant, dignified. Five things a donation should be, and the system we have guarantees none of them.
Five guarantees
Matched against real need
Charities fill in a short needs survey covering categories, sizes, seasonal demand and who they serve. Donations only get routed to organizations that asked for them.
Proof it landed
Anonymized acknowledgements, short stories or photographs showing where the item went, and a running count of what you have given and how much textile waste that kept out of landfill.
An audit trail that holds
Receipts formatted to IRS guidance including Form 8283. Every donation timestamped, itemized and cross checked, ready for filing season or for an audit three years later.
Logistics that do not fall on you
Pickup and delivery through gig couriers, nonprofit driver programs and eco-logistics partners, because friction is what kills most donations before they ever complete.
Everyone in the chain, or it does not work
For donors
- It goes where somebody asked for it
- A valuation that survives an audit
- You find out what it did
- Somebody else handles the driving
For charities
- Only what you actually requested
- Storage stops filling with the wrong sizes
- Needs communicated before the van arrives
- Intake you can plan around
For everyone else
- Usable goods stay out of landfill
- Far less room for inflated deductions
- Donations that finish instead of stalling
- Trust that builds on itself
Receipts that are not blank, warehouses that are not full of things nobody asked for, and giving that feels like it landed somewhere.
- Verified
- Every valuation
- Matched
- Against a stated need
- Traceable
- Donor through to outcome