I'm Harry Li.

I started Relational Tech Partners to bring SaaS stewardship to every education nonprofit that doesn't yet practice it.

I spent a decade building technology at scale—first as an engineer at Meta, then as a founding engineer at Summit Public Schools and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

In 2019, I became CTO at Braven, an education nonprofit. The role was supposed to be about product, data, and engineering. But I quickly learned that at a nonprofit, "CTO" means owning whatever technology problems exist—including IT operations that had no dedicated staff.

I needed to hire interns to help manage IT processes, but there was no budget for it. So I started digging through our vendor contracts and technology spending. I found the $20k. It was just sitting there—unused licenses, forgotten discounts, redundant tools. Money we were handing to Google, Asana, and Slack that could have been funding people.

That experience taught me something: this drain isn't just a Braven problem. It's an everywhere problem. No one's job is ongoing SaaS stewardship. Contracts auto-renew. Discounts go unclaimed. Licenses accumulate. And every dollar that leaks to SaaS platforms is a dollar that doesn't reach students.

My firm gives education nonprofits the ongoing SaaS stewardship they rarely have headcount for — so every dollar in your tech budget is the best possible value for your mission.

My clients are education nonprofits with $10M+ budgets who want their technology spend to reflect good stewardship, not quiet drift. Most start with Recover — which is performance-based: you pay nothing unless I deliver, and only after savings hit your account.

From there, many continue into Counsel — using recovered dollars to fund ongoing oversight, so the wins compound rather than quietly erode back over time.