Liverpool-based startup Harker has launched its platform which aims to transform how homelessness charities support vulnerable individuals.

James Barber, a recent University of Liverpool graduate, founded the business with Matt Gaynor and Alfie Jones. They discovered the problem they are now trying to solve whilst consulting for a homelessness charity in the South East of England, where they saw first-hand the challenges bad software was causing them.

They say Harker is the first CRM Case Management system built from the ground up to support homelessness charities, featuring an intuitive data collection system and a powerful reporting engine.

The software aims to empower charities to provide a personalised, data-led approach to solving each person’s homelessness at its root cause, and also help them to effectively demonstrate their social value to funders.