Associations & Nonprofits

Your member data should work for you. Not the other way around.

Associations sit on some of the richest member data in the world — engagement history, event attendance, certifications, renewals, demographics. Most of it is locked, siloed, or stuck in a perpetual cleaning cycle that never ends. We fix that.

6+
AMS platforms
worked deep inside
15K+
Member records
unified in single engagements
5-yr
End-to-end transformation
delivered for a global association
24/7
AI member support
built on real data foundations
What we hear every day

If any of these sound familiar, we should talk.

Five operating realities we encounter on almost every association engagement. Each has a path through it — we describe ours under each.

Duplicate and dirty member records

Your AMS has the same member listed four times with different emails, outdated company names, and conflicting membership statuses. You’ve been told to clean it before you can use it — and three years later, nothing has changed.

Our fix.Start making decisions from your data now, while we build a sustainable data quality process in parallel.

Siloed systems with no unified member view

Your AMS, LMS, events platform, and email tool each have a piece of the member picture — but none of them talk to each other. Your staff is manually reconciling spreadsheets to answer basic questions about engagement.

Our fix.Connect your systems and build a unified member view your entire organization can access and trust.

Board wants analytics, no one knows how to build them

Leadership is asking for retention dashboards, engagement scores, and revenue forecasts. Your IT team is stretched thin. Your vendors charge extra for reporting. And nobody has time to build what’s actually needed.

Our fix.Build the dashboards, train your staff to maintain them, and leave you independent of us and your vendor for basic reporting.

Vendor lock-in and limited data access

Your AMS vendor controls your data exports, charges for API access, and their reporting module doesn’t answer the questions leadership is actually asking. It’s your data — you should be able to use it.

Our fix.Establish clean data extraction processes, build your own data layer, and reduce your dependence on vendor reporting tools.

Lean IT team, no dedicated data engineer

Your IT team of two is already managing infrastructure, helpdesk, and vendor relationships. There’s no capacity to take on data engineering, analytics, or AI projects — even if the budget existed.

Our fix.We act as your on-demand data team — scoped, focused, and built to leave the organization stronger than we found it.
Why associations choose ARYS

Sector depth from someone who has actually run the systems.

Practitioner, not auditor

The person briefing your board is the same person on the implementation calls. We’ve sat inside association tech operations, not just consulted about them. The questions we ask in management meetings are the questions a CEO or VP of Operations actually needs answered.

AMS-fluent by default

We know the data models, API limits, and quirks of the systems your organization runs on. We don’t bill you to learn your AMS — we already know it, or we know one structurally identical to it.

No vendor kickbacks

Recommendations are based on client fit, not referral fees. Association technology buyers have been burned by consultants steering them toward preferred AMS vendors. We won’t.

AMS platforms

We speak your AMS language.

Direct experience deep inside association technology stacks. We know the data models, the API constraints, and the workarounds — for these platforms and the ones structurally like them.

01

Personify

Personify360 and Personify Community data models, reporting layers, and integration patterns.

02

Nimble AMS

Salesforce-native platform expertise: custom objects, flows, and reporting on the Nimble data model.

03

Community Brands

YourMembership, netFORUM, and MemberSuite — integration and clean data extraction patterns.

04

Salesforce / Fonteva

Full Salesforce platform — Fonteva membership management, custom analytics, Einstein.

05

HubSpot & Mailchimp

Marketing stack integration — connecting your CRM and email platforms to your AMS member data.

06

Custom & legacy

If your AMS isn’t listed, we’ve probably encountered something like it. We know how to work with what you have.

Featured engagement · Association Data Sprint

A focused 6–8 week build, sized for association reality.

A defined-scope engagement designed specifically for associations. You leave with real capability — not a slide deck about what you should do next. Fixed price, fixed timeline, named outcomes.

Wk 1–2

Data landscape audit

Map every data source, assess quality, identify gaps, document current state. Stop guessing.

Wk 3–4

Integration & member view

Connect the systems and build a unified member data layer your team can actually query.

Wk 5–6

Dashboards & analytics

First dashboards live: membership health, engagement, retention, revenue.

Wk 7–8

Handoff & enablement

Train your team, document everything, leave a roadmap for what’s next.

Not sure where to start? Run an assessment first.

The Stack Assessment is the front door to every engagement. A 21-day, fixed-price diagnostic that tells you where the money is going, what’s actually broken, and which engagement type fits your association next.

See the assessment in detail →
21
Days end-to-end
3
Deliverables: summary, findings, prioritized plan
5
Practices the output can route into

Tell us about your association.

No pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are and what’s possible. The first call is short, candid, and free.