Innovation as a Service

Accelerating ideas into action for non-profits and mission-driven organizations

You deserve a partner that seeks to advance your mission as much as you do. Our approach is not show-and-tell, it’s dig-in-and-do. We’ll work alongside you to figure out what’s worth building and then bring it to life, faster than you ever thought possible.

Let’s Build Something

Innovation

You've been playing defense.

The systems are old. The tools don't talk to each other. Getting one message out the door takes three weeks and four people, and the ground keeps shifting underneath you. Now you've got to figure out what to do about AI, and no one agrees.

That's not a failure of will. It's what happens when a mission outgrows its machinery. Our job is to bring you the best technology, strategy and creative intelligence to get things moving again. So you can start playing offense.

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Let's Go On Offense

We'll help you reinvent how you work, re-energize your brand, and make AI work for you.

Turn AI confusion into a clear, practical plan.

Trade the hype and the fear for a map of what you can actually do

Walk into the board meeting with a working thing.

Take the new service from idea to launch in weeks

Your own knowledge, finally searchable.

Become the organizationwith the data everyone needs

Spend more time actually doing the work.

Turn the grant-reportgrind into an afternoon

Never watch your brand dissolve into machine-average slop.

Let every report, campaign, and postcome out on-brand by default

No more bullshit meetings.

Show up to every meeting alreadybriefed on the last one

You don't need another plan. You need it built.

The big consultancies are brilliant at telling you what to do. Then they leave. You still have to do it, now with a smaller budget than you started with.

We work the other way around. We get right into it, alongside your team, and the engagement ends with something real and running in the world. Your teams level up their skills, and you run with what we built together.

Ocupop helps mission-driven organizations innovate for greater impact, sustainability and relevance.

Build it with Ocupop

We're an AI-native "get it done" agency that can help you reimagine how you work, re-energize your brand, and launch new products and services to carry your mission into the future.

We partner with leaders on transformation, innovation and growth strategies; uplevelling staff with AI skills and training; and embedding with organizations to get things moving.

Leading innovation across non-profits, tech & more

Michael Nieling

Founder & CEO

Michael is a mission-driven entrepreneur, investor, and volunteer with 25+ years of experience leading creative teams across tech, sustainability, and social good.

Ben Moskowitz

Head of Innovation

Ben is a technologist and fundraiser who ran innovation programs at Mozilla, the International Rescue Committee and Consumer Reports.

Chelsea Graham

Principal Strategist

Chelsea has developed bold-yet-practical strategies for UN agencies, national governments, entrepreneurs, and more across four continents.

Peter Lubbers

Operations Lead

A veteran tech leader at Google, Oracle, and dozens of other businesses and nonprofit orgs, Peter scales world-class programs that power innovation for millions.

“Big thanks to our partners Ocupop for helping us bring this vision to life. If you're looking for a great digital creative agency, look no further”

Innovation Programs & Partnerships Manager
Consumer Reports

“They are the branding geniuses behind all of our creative vision and brand strategy.”

Ethan West
Founder and CEO, Piko Provisions

“We’re tremendously grateful for the hard work of Ocupop, who took all of that feedback and worked with us to create something we’re incredibly proud of. I think this new look reflects the people who made it – and make tourism possible – in Milwaukee.”

Peggy Williams-Smith
CEO, Visit Milwaukee

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What to expect with Ocupop

Ocupop works alongside you to uncover the areas AI can elevate and optimize your business — training and testing and tooling to deliver custom solutions that fit your needs.

All our services

Think

Creativity demands curiosity. We use ours to understand your needs and deliver what works.

Design

We use structure, form, language, and motion to create solutions that captivate, compel and convert.

Build

Action planning, application creation, whatever it takes to build and maintain an engine for success.

Let's build something.

Tell us what's stuck, and we'll tell you what we'd do about it.