A Platform That Will Never Sell Your Data

It’s Time For Something Different.

A community that aligns with your values. A social platform that never sells your data.

A tribe that shares resources, and builds relationships face-to-face and small businesses who actually get the support they deserve.

After two years of building Barter It® (now Aligned™) and putting our life savings into it, we've made an important decision.

We're becoming a not-for-profit organization, so this platform can serve Canadians first.

Before we can make that transition, we need to raise $160,000 to cover the legal and organizational costs.

If enough people believe in this vision, we'll continue building together. If not, we'll pause the project until the resources are available.

It means this mission becomes yours. Not ours. Yours. The people who matter. The ones we built this for. :)

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What Your Support Will Build

Aligned Barter™ - already live
Aligned Biz™ - already live
Aligned Groups™/Social - already live
Aligned Health™ - coming soon
Aligned Jobs™ - coming soon
Aligned Hearts™ - coming soon
Community Connector Team - building in-person connections across the country
No selling user data

A community-powered ecosystem that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

This isn't about saving something that belongs to us.

This is about building something that belongs to all of us.

More About Aligned™

Every Dollar Helps Build

✓ Legal transition to a not-for-profit

✓ Platform development

✓ Servers & infrastructure

✓ Security & protection of member’s privacy

✓ Boots-On-The-Ground community building

✓ Future features: Aligned Hearts, Jobs & Health

Progress

Goal: $_____

Raised: $_____

Supporters: _____

If you've ever looked around and thought, "There has to be a better way"... maybe this is your opportunity to help create that better way.

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We sacrificed. We built this. We need your help to carry it forward.

The Leadership Team

Over 100 years combined experience in barter

John Porter

CO-FOUNDER & CEO
25 years experience in the Barter Payment Space growing BarterPay, a B2B barter system, into the largest exchange in Canada.
Debbi Porter

CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF STORYTELLER
Brand strategy, video production, graphic design, social media content creator. We gotta look good, right?!
Shawn Wise

LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Almost 20 years experience with 10 years building and managing our proprietary software, database administration, and most recently in Android app development.
Royce Lando

FULL-STACK DEVELOPER
Full-stack software developer who takes pride in building, maintaining, and testing the site to ensure a smooth, secure, and reliable experience for all our users.
Joel Sauve

FULL-STACK DEVELOPER
The newest addition to the team. A quick learner, dedicated to developing, and maintaining the Barter It™ platform.
Seema Durrani

DEVOPS SPECIALIST
Helps build and maintain the systems that keep our application reliable, secure, and running smoothly every day.
Kayla Rulys

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Many years experience with graphic design, Kayla has an incredible eye for branding.
Jennifer Hannon

ADMINISTRATION & BOOKKEEPING
Years of experience in bookkeeping, administration, and general support, so we rely on Jen to keep the office humming!
Bilal Shahid

SYSTEMS ANALYST
Systems Analyst and Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 14 years of experience in developing consumer banking, issuer payment processing, and card industry systems.
Andrej Litvinjenko

CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW
Managing director and lead counsel at TAAG Law. Bringing over a decade of senior experience to our mission.