Walk with every applicantinto the light.
Daylight gives advocacy teams one place to run every applicant’s journey — timelines, packets, documents, and the knowledge to do it well — so volunteers spend their time on people, not paperwork.
Applicants
4 peopleEveryone your team is working with
Built for the way advocacy teams actually work
Small teams, big stakes, and a process that isn’t linear. Daylight is shaped around that reality.
Off spreadsheets and shared drives
Applicant records live in scattered tabs, folders and inboxes today. Daylight puts every applicant — their documents, contacts and progress — in one place the whole team can trust.
Nothing falls through
Deadlines are calculated from the interview date and move when the hearing does. The work an applicant needs is laid out as a timeline, not held in one person's head.
Volunteers who can jump in
The playbook is built into the work — searchable guidance at the point of use — so a new advocate can pick up an applicant's work and know what good looks like from day one.
Everything in one place
From intake to the board — the tools that used to be a dozen documents.
Applicant pipeline & timeline
Every applicant's journey to the board in one view, with the steps and sub-tasks each applicant needs and deadlines that track the interview date.
Packet builder
Assemble a mail-ready parole board packet — cover page, table of contents, dividers and exhibits — as one finished PDF.
Documents
One secure home for records, releases and letters, filed to the applicant and reachable only by the people assigned to them.
Knowledge Base
The whole playbook — procedures, templates and a glossary — searchable and surfaced right where the work happens.
Reentry directory
Verified organizations and services, plus every DOCCS facility and its mailing address, kept current by the team.
Roles & access
Coordinators see every applicant; advocates see only the people they're assigned. Sensitive material stays with the applicant.
The playbook, built into the work
Every procedure, template and definition in one place — and surfaced right where the work happens. New advocates ramp fast because the guidance sits beside the task, not in a binder.
- Searchable across every procedure, template and form.
- Glossary terms explained inline, right where they appear.
- Sources and “verified on” dates you can trust.
Writing the advocacy letter
Open by naming the merit time the applicant has earned, then set out the release plan in concrete terms.
For the people doing the work
Daylight is for volunteer-run parole advocacy organizations — the coordinators who oversee every applicant and the advocates who walk beside one person on the way to the board.
It was built from the real work of preparing people for parole.
You own your data — Daylight just holds it
Daylight stores your organization’s records on its servers and keeps everything running and backed up. But holding your data isn’t the same as looking at it: your records stay isolated to your team, an applicant’s information is visible only to the people working with them, and Daylight’s own staff don’t access it.
Read our Terms & data commitmentReady to see Daylight for your team?
We’ll walk you through it and talk about what your organization needs.