How Mirage works

The building blocks of Mirage and how evidence flows from the field to your donors

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The evidence pipeline

Everything in Mirage follows one flow:

1. You define what to measure. A project declares its metrics (“Wells dug”, “Attendance rate”) and reporting tasks describe what evidence to collect.
2. Reporters capture reality. Field reporters answer your questions and attach photos, video, and audio from the reporter app.
3. AI analyzes the evidence. Mirage transcribes audio (including translation to English), summarizes media, and proposes metric values, each with a confidence score and a trace back to the exact answer or attachment it came from.
4. Stewards verify. Nothing counts until someone on your team approves it. Rejected values are excluded; approved values roll up into your project metrics.
5. Donors see verified impact. Donor reports assemble approved data, consented photos, and an AI-written narrative into a public page.

This is why Mirage describes itself as AI assisted and steward approved: the AI proposes, your team decides.

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Building blocks

Concept	What it is
Organization	Your nonprofit’s home in Mirage. Holds your team, projects, billing, and verification status.
Project	An impact initiative: a well-drilling program, a school, a food distribution effort. Projects own metrics, reporting tasks, and donor reports.
Metric	A number you want to prove: a total, an average, a percentage. Defined per project with flexible aggregation and display formatting.
Reporting task	A work unit for field reporters: instructions, questions, and required evidence types (photo/video/audio), with an optional bounty and response capacity.
Field report	One reporter’s submission against a task: their answers plus attached media.
Contribution	An AI-extracted metric value from a report, with a confidence score. Stewards approve or reject each one; approved contributions feed the project’s aggregated metrics.
Donor report	A generated, public, shareable impact page: narrative, metrics, photo gallery, and call to action.
Revisit	A scheduled follow-up verification: proof that impact was sustained months after the original report.

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Roles

Role	Who it’s for	What they can do
Steward	Nonprofit staff / admins	Create and manage projects, define metrics, create reporting tasks, invite team members and reporters, review and approve contributions, generate donor reports, manage billing and verification.
Reporter	Field workers	See their organizations’ open tasks, capture evidence, submit reports, and track the status of their submissions.

A steward works in the Steward Dashboard (app.mirage.partners); a reporter works in the Reporter App (report.mirage.partners). The same underlying account can hold either role, and a person can belong to multiple organizations.

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Consent and privacy, built in

When reporters capture photos or video, they record whether the people pictured gave face permission and whether the media is internal only. Donor-facing pages respect those flags automatically: media without face permission or marked internal-only never appears on a public donor report. See Sharing donor reports for details.

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What “verified” means

• Every metric contribution links back to its source: the specific question answer or media attachment it was extracted from.
• Media is analyzed by Mirage’s verification engine: audio is transcribed and language-detected, video and photos are summarized by AI.
• A steward reviewed and approved every value that appears in a donor report.
• Organizations can additionally complete organization verification to display a verified badge to donors.