We can see storms coming. Pledge once on PayPal, and LEVee moves your gift to vetted local responders up to 72 hours before landfall, not weeks after.
Built on
Say it in plain words, like “$10 per hurricane, max $60 a year.” Save your PayPal account once and you are set.
When a forecast crosses a published threshold, the first tranche can reach responders up to 72 hours before landfall.
The rest moves only after responders show what they delivered. Every dollar stays on the record.
Forecasters see a hurricane coming before it lands. Most giving still starts after the news. Here is the same storm, funded two ways.
While families wait, they sell assets, cut meals or take on debt. By the time money lands, the damage is done.
Responders move people, stock food and secure assets before landfall. The rest follows once they show proof.
Sentinel reads GDACS alerts and GloFAS river ensembles every hour and scores how sure it is. But a score never moves money on its own. Only the region's published playbook can, and only when all three rules pass.
Steps one and two run all the time. Steps three to eight run once per storm, and tranche 2 moves only after landfall is confirmed.
The Concierge reads your intent in plain words. PayPal Vault saves your consent.
Sentinel reads GDACS and GloFAS every hour and scores its confidence.
Fixed rules check the alert level, the lead time and a confidence of 70 or more.
A notice before each charge with a single tap skip, always inside your yearly cap.
Orders captures vaulted pledges. Payouts sends tranche 1 to partners in one batch.
Evacuation transport, food and securing assets, all before the storm hits.
The Verifier checks lists, photos and receipts. Tranche 2 needs a pass.
The Narrator sends your receipt and story. Corporate matches get invoiced.
AI does the judgment work rules cannot: do three noisy forecasts really agree, how should money split between two storms, is that photo recycled? A deterministic Policy Engine is the only thing allowed to move money, and every decision lands in a public audit log with its inputs and reasoning.
Turns plain words into a pledge
Amount per hurricane, yearly cap, and whether you give early or only once landfall is confirmed.
Guardrail. Schema checked. You confirm the card before PayPal Vault opens.
Try it: Describe a pledge in your own wordsReads the storm
Whether GDACS, GloFAS and the news agree, how wide the forecast spread is, the lead time, and who is exposed.
Guardrail. Cannot move money. Its 0 to 100 score is one input to the rules.
Try it: Ask it about a storm on the map todaySplits the pool
How to share money across partners when two storms overlap, with a reason for every split.
Guardrail. Sums and caps are rechecked. Large splits need one click of ops approval.
Try it: Run the PayPal demo with live AIChecks the proof
Counts match amounts, dates fall before landfall, photos are not reused or edited, and locations fit.
Guardrail. Tranche 2 for a partner unlocks only on a pass.
Try it: Send it proof as a responderTalks to donors
What each donor hears and when: a notice before each charge, a receipt, and an impact story in their language.
Guardrail. Read only. Pulls real transactions through the PayPal Agent Toolkit.
Try it: Ask it where your money wentNot AI. The only part that moves money.
The US Gulf Coast has a published Early Action Playbook, fixed before any storm forms. Tranche 1 fires only when every rule passes. Tranche 2 needs confirmed landfall plus a Verifier pass.
Surprise charges sank earlier experiments in automatic giving. LEVee is built the other way round: you always hear from us first, and every charge lands on a receipt.
Ask “where did my $10 go?” and get the real PayPal transaction, plus the story of what it paid for.
Responders upload distribution lists, photos and receipts. The Verifier catches a reused photo before another cent moves.
You already run early action plans and beneficiary lists. What you lack is flexible money in time. LEVee can send it up to 72 hours before landfall, and your console shows allocations, proof uploads and payout status in one place.
Aid usually arrives after families have already sold assets, cut meals or taken on debt. Research from Bangladesh suggests earlier cash helps: households paid before the 2020 flood peak lost fewer assets and showed earlier signs of recovery. Yet money triggered by forecasts mostly lives inside institutions, and in 2025 seven countries absorbed 66% of it. LEVee opens it to anyone with PayPal.
Sources: Pople, Hill, Dercon and Brunckhorst, The Importance of Being Early? (Bangladesh, not Helene or the US); ALNAP, Global Humanitarian Assistance 2026.
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend, near Perry, late on 26 September 2024. Replay mode steps through the LEVee flow on that past storm to show when money would have moved, using sandbox money and sample partners. LEVee did not operate during Hurricane Helene.
84.2h
before landfall
GDACS posts its first advisory. In the replay, Sentinel scores each one.
54.2h
before landfall
Every rule has to pass before donors get notices. Sentinel confidence: 70.
53.2h
before landfall
Pledges are captured after the skip window, then one Payouts batch reaches two sample partners.
0h
26 Sep 2024
Helene comes ashore near Perry, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane, about 11:10 pm EDT.
After
landfall
The Verifier flags a reused sample photo. Tranche 2 goes only to the verified partner.
Landfall and track: National Hurricane Center. Advisories: GDACS event HELENE-24.
0
PayPal capabilities
Vault, Orders, Payouts, Webhooks, Invoicing
0
AI agents
Concierge, Sentinel, Allocator, Verifier, Narrator
0
Rulebook moves money
A deterministic Policy Engine with published playbooks
0
Crypto needed
Works for anyone with PayPal, in about 200 markets
The things judges, donors and responders ask us first.
Try saying
“$10 per hurricane on the US Gulf Coast, max $60 a year, only if forecasts are confident.”
The Concierge turns that into a pledge card you confirm before anything is saved.
Try the ConciergeYes, on purpose. The trigger is fixed so donors can trust it. AI does the judgment around it: whether sources agree, how to split money between storms, and whether proof is real.
A levee holds the water back. Yours holds back the losses, from forecast to receipt.