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A Strategy That Survives the Year

AI-assisted annual strategy for nonprofit leaders. See the ecosystem you sit in, find out which relationship to build first, and keep the plan alive with quarterly check-ins.

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Sample organization

Your whole world on one page

This is the real map for a sample nonprofit, drawn by the same engine every pilot organization uses. Circles are organizations, grouped into the four relationships that matter. Bigger circles and shorter lines to the center mean a stronger tie or a higher priority. In the product, this map is interactive — here it is one frame from it.

Who funds you Who sends or receives your people Who does similar work Who sets your rules East Tennessee Foun… United Way of Great… Ballad Health East Tennessee Stat… Highlands Consultin… Tennessee Nonprofit… Washington County E… Acme Nonprofit Collaborative
formal agreement informal no relationship yet Bigger circles = higher priority. Closer to center = stronger tie.

What to do about it

The same map, crossed with this organization’s funding weak points, ranked into concrete moves.

Find and cultivate a second major funder

High value

Your biggest funding source is 44% of your budget. You have 2.5 months of reserve. No powerful funder on your map fits that role yet.

Talk with Tennessee Nonprofit Network about handing off the work you both do

High value

You marked Tennessee Nonprofit Network as an overlap: you may be duplicating work they can carry, and they have real power over your future. Handing it off frees your time for what only you do.

Talk with United Way of Greater Kingsport about handing off the work you both do

High value

You marked United Way of Greater Kingsport as an overlap: you may be duplicating work they can carry, and they have real power over your future. Handing it off frees your time for what only you do.

This is a real ranking from the product’s priority engine, run on a sample profile. Your own map and numbers would rank differently.

A research partner, not a chatbot

The coach reads your organization’s profile before it says anything, so the advice is about your budget, your county, and your mandates. It never proposes sharing information about the people you serve.

It researches your ecosystem

Point it at your region and it searches the live web and X for the funders, agencies, health systems, and peer nonprofits around you. Every suggestion comes back as a draft card with its sources, and nothing joins your map until you keep it.

It ranks what to do first

Your map crossed with your own numbers: funding concentration, unrestricted share, months of reserve. The result is a short list of relationship moves, each one naming the fact about your organization that drives it.

It thinks it through with you

Ask why a move comes first and you get a plain-language case you can argue with, then carry straight into your annual cycle as a strategic issue. It coaches; you decide.

How a year runs

1

Describe your organization

Mandates, programs, capacity, funding, governance. This is the context every later answer is built on.

2

Map the world you sit in

Who funds you, who sends you people, who does similar work, who sets your rules. Research it with AI or add it yourself.

3

Commit to a year, then keep it alive

Name the few issues that matter, choose strategies, set goals, and hold quarterly check-ins that write your grant record as you go.

The Organization

Who you are, who you serve, and who funds it

The Strategy

Your annual cycle: explore, commit, check in

Start with the map

Most leaders already know the organizations around them. Seeing them in one picture is what makes the year’s decision obvious.

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