About IT Comrade
IT Comrade, Inc. is a software company in Manassas, Virginia, founded in 2006 by Kanwar Nasir. We build and support collections management systems and digital archives for museums, archives and foundations, and the grant, program and finance systems that nonprofits and research institutions run on.
Kanwar Nasir, founder
Kanwar founded IT Comrade in 2006 and leads both the client work and the technology, from the first requirements to the database and system design.
The company is led from Virginia, with an experienced engineering team. The engineers who build a client's system are the same people who support it afterwards.
Who we have worked with
Our current clients include the Blavatnik Archive Foundation, whose collections management system, and the software behind its public websites, we have built and supported since 2012, and NCBA CLUSA, whose business applications we have supported since 2012.
In 2020 the Blavatnik Archive Foundation donated its collections management system to the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv. We set it up and customized it for the Center's archive.
From 2008 to 2014 we worked with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. We built a digital archive for its Cold War International History Project and maintained its system for fellowships, scholarships, events, publications and contacts.
Organizations our team has served since 2006
- Blavatnik Archive Foundation
- NCBA CLUSA
- Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (exchange programs)
- US Agency for International Development
- Academy for Educational Development
Milestones
- 2006Kanwar Nasir founds IT Comrade.
- 2008Work begins with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. We maintain its fellowships, scholarships, events, publications and contacts system until 2012.
- 2010–2011We build a digital archive for the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project, and a survey analysis system and finance reporting for an international research organization.
- 2012Work begins with the Blavatnik Archive Foundation on its collections management system and the software behind its public websites, and with NCBA CLUSA on its business applications. Both are still in use, and we support them.
- 2020The Blavatnik Archive Foundation donates the collections management system we built to the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv. We set it up and customize it for the Center.
- 2023We build the Refuseniks and Activists project for the Blavatnik Archive Foundation, with workflows for partner organizations to upload and exchange records.
- 2026IT Comrade begins helping organizations in the United States adopt Archively, an AI-assisted archive platform.
What you can expect from us
- The same people, before and after launch
- Kanwar leads each engagement, and the engineers who build your system stay with it after launch.
- A plan for the years after launch
- Each year we agree on the next year's work with the client and carry it out alongside maintenance.
- Plain answers
- We explain choices, costs and trade-offs, and we build around how your organization already works.
- People decide
- When we use AI, it drafts and suggests. Your staff review and approve.