On 4 June 2026, over 100 established and aspiring changemakers gathered at The Foundry for Better.sg’s second Pitch & Demo Night of the year. The evening was a vibrant showcase of civic tech innovation, bringing together tech professionals, non-profits, and volunteers eager to collaborate on #techforgood initiatives designed to tackle real-world social challenges in Singapore
The evening featured a landmark special presentation on digitalisation for the charity sector, and updates from two better.sg projects - PantryKeeper and Kinnect (formerly Unmute), with both teams sharing exciting updates. We also welcomed two brand-new project pitches! The first, SeniorSays, is a voice-first digital notetaker designed to help volunteers and care staff focus on meaningful conversations with seniors. The second is ReFurbish, a donation-matching platform that gives good furniture a second life.
Special Presentation: Building an Integrated Charity Ecosystem
The night kicked off with a deep dive into the digital landscape of Singapore's social sector, presented by Mr Lawrence Ang, CEO of The Digital Capital Collective Ltd. (DCC)
The Fragmented State of Charity Tech
Singapore’s vibrant charity sector is governed across various dimensions, including social welfare, health, education, sports, and the arts. This means that individual organizations often have to report to multiple different Sector Administrators and Ministries (such as MSF, MOH, MCCY, MOE, and MHA) separately. This structural division has historically caused inefficiencies and fragmented digital systems, with charities adopting isolated, unsustainable software tools that create market duplication and widen the sector's digital capability gap.
The Vision: To address this, over 30 charity CEOs and leaders formed the Charity Convening Group (CCG). Reconstituted with a fresh mandate, the Digital Capital Collective (DCC) serves as a central pillar that aggregate demand to build a unified, interoperable platform. The goal is a fully integrated charity ecosystem where data layers, identity tools (like SingPass), and secure internal applications seamlessly communicate under one operational framework.
Spotlighting BoardLite: From "Vibe Coding" to Production Security
As governance remains a critical operational pain point for charities, DCC partnered with Better.sg to build BoardLite, a secure, streamlined platform designed specifically for board and committee management.
Vincent Teyssier, CEO of Better.sg, took the stage to share an engineering case study on how BoardLite went from a Product Requirement Document (PRD) to a live production tool within a matter of weeks.
The Functionality: BoardLite handles meeting scheduling, agenda generation, paper circulation, matter tracking, decision logging, and role-based permissions for distinct committee tiers.
The Development Model: The project squad heavily leveraged modern AI tools like Claude Code and Lovable alongside Supabase and Resend to accelerate core engineering—a process affectionately dubbed "vibe coding".
Production-Grade Security: While AI did the heavy lifting on code generation, security was strictly human-led. Partnering with cybersecurity experts at Konfirmity, the volunteer team meticulously developed and human-reviewed 124 Row-Level Security (RLS) policies across 28 database tables to guarantee total tenant isolation and absolute data privacy.
BoardLite officially went live in May 2026 and is entering its pilot phase with 10 selected Singaporean charities this June.
The Demos: Scaling Real Impact
Next, the audience heard from two ongoing Better.sg project squads that have successfully moved from concept to real-world deployment.
1. Pantry Keeper: an inventory management app built for charities handling bulk food distributions.
The Problem: Beneficiary centres like Children Wishing Well handle huge volumes of volatile food donations. Tracking these items on manual spreadsheets consumes 8 to 16 hours of staff time per month, making human error inevitable. Bulk items with short shelf lives frequently sit unnoticed until they expire, wasting precious resources.
The Solution: The Better.sg squad engineered a mobile-friendly dashboard featuring an intuitive "add-to-cart" stock-in/stock-out workflow, automated expiry date alerts, and quick CSV data exports for regulatory auditing.
The Impact: Pantry Keeper has achieved a staggering 96% reduction in inventory management time, turning two half-days of tedious manual data entry into a quick 15-minute task. The platform has already successfully deployed across two Children Wishing Well centres in Bukit Merah and Clementi.
2. Kinnect (formerly Unmute): an innovative learning and translation platform for Singapore Sign Language (SgSL).
The Motivation: There are approximately 500,000 individuals with some degree of hearing loss in Singapore, and SgSL is a foundational pillar of identity for the local Deaf community. However, with only 57 registered interpreters nationwide, scaling everyday communication support is exceptionally difficult.
Core Features: Kinnect converts voice and text into accurate sequences of SgSL signs using data sourced from the official NTU SgSL Sign Bank. It features a comprehensive digital dictionary of over 1,289 localized signs and interactive, gamified lessons to make learning SgSL accessible to the public.
What's Next: The Kinnect team is actively looking for fluent SgSL users to assist with beta testing to further refine their translation models and expand their educational modules.
The Pitches: Fresh #TechforGood Concepts
The final segment of the night introduced two brand-new initiatives looking to assemble core volunteer teams to move from design prototypes into code.
1. SeniorSays: a digital notetaker designed to support Singapore's rapidly ageing population.
The Friction: Senior care volunteers currently rely on physical notebooks or raw memory during home visits, leading to delayed, inconsistent, or lost records. Compiling notes manually at the end of the month slows down administrative follow-ups on critical health or safety issues.
The Vision: SeniorSays captures live audio conversations during home visits, automatically matching observations against non-profit reporting templates. Using AI, it structures the raw dialogue into a smart summary and actionable tasks, allowing volunteers to keep their eyes on the senior rather than a screen.
Join the Squad: SeniorSays is actively scouting for software developers who want to help build their initial backend and turn their design blueprints into reality.
2. ReFurbish: Smart Furniture Matching for Circular Economy Giving
The Gap: Current donation models (like Facebook groups or general listing sites) suffer from slow matching and extensive manual browsing. Social workers often spend days playing middleman to verify item dimensions and secure expensive logistics options for low-income families.
The Vision: An AI-enabled platform where donors upload three photos of an item. Using Gemini AI, the app automatically runs damage and quality validation. If suitable, a smart engine instantly suggests the top three best-fit non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based on upfront dimension constraints and proximity, cutting down coordination time from days to minutes.
Get Involved: Having built a functional prototype using Lovable and Telegram bots, the duo is calling for backend developers, cybersecurity specialists, corporate logistics partners, and non-profits looking to pilot the system.
Step Up and Build the Future
Better.sg's Pitch & Demo Night proved once again that when passionate tech professionals collaborate with mission-driven sector experts, building production-grade, secure, and highly impactful software for the community is entirely possible. Whether you want to contribute technical expertise, support UX/UI design, or participate in user testing, there is a place for you in the ecosystem. Stay tuned for the next community night, and visit the official project pages to lend your skills to the squads shaping Singapore's #techforgoodlandscape.
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