Seed — $7,500 per year
For smaller independent schools. Includes the Phay purpose diagnostic, voice-dictated Class Notes, and core alumni engagement.
AlumniAgent activates your alumni network.
AlumniAgent is alumni activation infrastructure from GiveIQ. Phay, a single AI guide, matches graduates to real work across the 5T (Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, Thought) and EIC (Empower, Innovate, Collaborate), with every action requiring human approval.
AlumniAgent is built by GiveIQ, founded by John Judge, author of GiveIQ: Purpose and Philanthropy in the Age of AI and The Outdoor Citizen.
How it works
- Phay is the graduate's named AI guide. Phay matches opportunities and never pushes.
- AlumniAgent Islands are bounded purpose-and-philanthropy projects where alumni, institutions, partners, and AI agents coordinate around a concrete outcome.
- The Cairn Pathway records verifiable lifelong impact across the 5T in five stages: Discovery, Contribution, Leadership, Stewardship, Legacy.
- EIC (Empower, Innovate, Collaborate) crosses the 5T to form the 52-card matching engine.
Pricing
AlumniAgent is priced per year by school size, with onboarding included and no setup fee.
Grove — $18,000 per year (most popular)
For established programs. Everything in Seed, plus the matching engine, Islands and Find a fit, Insights, Reunion Challenges, the portable purpose card, and more admin seats.
Summit — from $36,000 per year, custom
For universities and multi-program institutions. Everything in Grove, plus full agent-to-agent capability, integrations, SSO, and priority support.
Onboarding is included. There is no setup fee.
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AlumniAgent is an alumni engagement platform, not a job board or employment agency.
Frequently asked questions
What is AlumniAgent?
- AlumniAgent is alumni activation infrastructure from GiveIQ. A single AI guide named Phay matches graduates to real work across the 5T (Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, Thought) and EIC (Empower, Innovate, Collaborate), with every action requiring human approval.
Who builds AlumniAgent?
- AlumniAgent is built by GiveIQ, founded by John Judge, author of GiveIQ: Purpose and Philanthropy in the Age of AI and The Outdoor Citizen.
Who is Phay?
- Phay is the graduate's named AI guide. Phay surfaces matched opportunities, walks the Cairn Pathway alongside the graduate, and never pushes.
What is an AlumniAgent Island?
- An AlumniAgent Island is a bounded purpose-and-philanthropy project where alumni, institutions, partners, and AI agents coordinate around a concrete outcome with human approval at every step. Completed contributions become stones in the graduate's cairn.
What is the 5T framework?
- The 5T framework records contribution across five equal dimensions: Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, and Thought. It is always five, never four, and never weighted toward Treasure.
What is EIC?
- EIC stands for Empower, Innovate, Collaborate. EIC crosses the 5T to form the 52-card matching engine that pairs graduates with initiatives inside Islands.
What is the Cairn Pathway?
- The Cairn Pathway is the graduate's lifelong record of verifiable impact, built one stone at a time across five stages: Discovery, Contribution, Leadership, Stewardship, and Legacy.
Who owns the alumni data?
- The graduate owns the profile. The institution earns permissioned, revocable, field-scoped access. The graduate can grant, narrow, or withdraw access at any time, and no AI action is final without human approval.
Is AlumniAgent a job board?
- No. AlumniAgent is an alumni engagement platform, not a job board or employment agency. Jobs, events, and mentoring are initiative types inside AlumniAgent Islands, not standalone surfaces.
What plans does AlumniAgent offer?
- AlumniAgent offers three plans: Seed, an entry plan for institutions starting alumni activation; Grove, a growth plan with multiple AlumniAgent Islands and full EIC matching; and Summit, an enterprise plan with the complete Alumni Activation Infrastructure and governance controls.
AlumniAgent vs Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
AlumniAgent is alumni activation infrastructure. Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT is a fundraising CRM. AlumniAgent activates graduates across the full 5T (Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, Thought); Raiser's Edge NXT manages donor records and gift processing for the Treasure lane only.
| Feature | AlumniAgent | Raiser's Edge NXT |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Activate alumni across the full 5T and EIC | Manage donor records and process gifts |
| 5T coverage | Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, Thought — all five, equal | Treasure |
| AI guide for graduates | Phay, a single named guide that never pushes | None |
| Matching engine | 5T × EIC, 52-card engine inside AlumniAgent Islands | Donor segmentation and gift prediction |
| Data ownership | Graduate owns the profile; institution earns scoped, revocable access | Institution-owned constituent records |
| Human approval on AI actions | Required on every recommendation | Not applicable |
| Where graduates act | AlumniAgent Islands and the Cairn Pathway | Donation forms and giving days |
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Does AlumniAgent replace Raiser's Edge NXT?
- No. AlumniAgent activates graduates across the full 5T and complements a fundraising CRM. Treasure flows AlumniAgent records can be exported to a CRM like Raiser's Edge NXT.
Is AlumniAgent a fundraising tool?
- Fundraising is the Treasure lane only. AlumniAgent treats Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, and Thought as five equal lanes and never weights toward Treasure.
Who owns the graduate's data?
- The graduate owns the profile. The institution earns permissioned, revocable, field-scoped access. The graduate can grant, narrow, or withdraw access at any time.
For alumni offices
Does AlumniAgent replace our Raiser's Edge NXT records?
- No. AlumniAgent activates graduates across the full 5T and sits alongside Raiser's Edge NXT. Treasure-lane outcomes recorded in AlumniAgent can be exported to your CRM.
How does AlumniAgent change what my office does day to day?
- Your team stops sending generic appeals and starts approving Phay's matched recommendations across all five lanes, with the graduate's consent on every share.
For admissions
How does AlumniAgent help admissions?
- Alumni who contribute Time, Talent, and Trust through Islands become visible mentors and ambassadors. Admissions surfaces use only consented graduate signal.
Is admissions activity ranked or scored?
- No. AlumniAgent never ranks graduates by institutional yield. There is no graduate percentile and no high-value or high-potential label anywhere in the product.
For data teams
How does AlumniAgent integrate with our CRM data?
- AlumniAgent exposes outcome events per Island and per 5T lane. Treasure-lane events map cleanly to a fundraising CRM like Raiser's Edge NXT.
What is the underlying data model?
- A graduate-owned profile keyed to a stable person_id, with a tenant link granting field-scoped, revocable access to your institution. Every AI action is logged with the approving human.
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AlumniAgent vs alumni engagement platforms
PeopleGrove, Almabase, Hivebrite, and Graduway are community and mentoring platforms. AlumniAgent is alumni activation infrastructure: a single AI guide named Phay coordinates real work across the 5T and EIC inside AlumniAgent Islands, with every action human-approved.
| Feature | AlumniAgent | PeopleGrove / Almabase / Hivebrite / Graduway |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Alumni activation infrastructure | Community and mentoring platforms |
| AI guide | Phay, one named guide per graduate | Search, directories, recommendation widgets |
| Coordination unit | AlumniAgent Islands — bounded purpose-and-philanthropy projects | Groups, channels, mentor pairs, events |
| Matching | 5T × EIC, 52-card engine | Profile-tag matching and search |
| Contribution model | 5T: Time, Talent, Treasure, Trust, Thought | Mentoring, networking, events |
| Lifelong record | Cairn Pathway across Discovery, Contribution, Leadership, Stewardship, Legacy | Activity feed or engagement score |
| Governance | Human approval required on every AI action | Standard moderation tools |
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Is AlumniAgent a community platform?
- No. AlumniAgent is activation infrastructure. Community and mentoring are surfaces inside AlumniAgent Islands, not the product itself.
Can AlumniAgent run alongside an existing alumni community platform?
- Yes. AlumniAgent can sit above an existing community platform and route graduates from that platform into AlumniAgent Islands with Phay's guidance.
What does Phay do that a directory or mentor-matching feature does not?
- Phay is a single named guide that walks the Cairn Pathway with the graduate, matches across 5T × EIC, and never pushes. Every recommendation goes to the graduate for explicit approval.
For alumni offices
Can we run AlumniAgent alongside our existing community platform?
- Yes. AlumniAgent sits above an existing community or mentoring platform and routes graduates from that platform into AlumniAgent Islands with Phay's guidance.
What does my team gain over running PeopleGrove or Almabase alone?
- A single AI guide per graduate, 5T × EIC matching, and the Cairn Pathway as a verifiable lifelong record, rather than a directory of groups, channels, and mentor pairs.
For admissions
How can admissions use Islands?
- An Island can be a structured admissions ambassador program with consented graduate participation, tracked outcomes, and the same human approval on every AI action.
Does Phay contact prospective students?
- No. Phay only ever talks to the graduate it guides. Admissions surfaces show consented graduate signal and never push messages to prospects.
For data teams
What does AlumniAgent expose that a community platform does not?
- A 5T × EIC event stream, per-Island outcome records, and a Cairn Pathway timeline per graduate, in addition to the activity feeds a community platform produces.
Can we federate identity from our existing platform?
- Yes. The graduate's profile is portable. AlumniAgent links to an existing community account through a scoped, revocable tenant link.
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AlumniAgent vs LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a generic professional network owned by Microsoft. AlumniAgent is a purpose network the institution owns, where graduates contribute across the 5T with Phay as their guide. AlumniAgent is an alumni engagement platform, not a job board or employment agency.
| Feature | AlumniAgent | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Purpose network for alumni activation | Generic professional social network |
| Owner | The graduate owns the profile; the institution owns the network | Microsoft |
| Primary use | Contribution across the 5T inside AlumniAgent Islands | Profiles, posts, job listings, ads |
| AI guide | Phay, one named guide per graduate, never pushes | Recommendation feeds and AI features tied to engagement metrics |
| Job board | Not a job board. Jobs are one initiative type inside an Island, not a standalone surface | Yes — a primary surface |
| Loyalty objective | The graduate's stated goals | Time-on-platform and ad inventory |
| Data ownership | Graduate-owned profile, scoped revocable institutional access | Platform-owned profile and graph |
Frequently asked questions
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Is AlumniAgent a job board?
- No. AlumniAgent is an alumni engagement platform, not a job board or employment agency. Jobs, events, and mentoring are initiative types inside AlumniAgent Islands, not standalone surfaces.
Why a purpose network instead of a professional network?
- A purpose network organizes graduates around contribution across the 5T inside AlumniAgent Islands. A professional network organizes people around profiles, posts, and job listings for an outside platform.
Who is the network loyal to?
- AlumniAgent is loyal to the graduate's stated goals. The institution earns scoped, revocable access. No ranking by institutional yield or graduate percentile is permitted.
For alumni offices
Should we stop using LinkedIn?
- No. Graduates can keep their LinkedIn profile. AlumniAgent is the institution-owned purpose network where graduates contribute across the 5T inside AlumniAgent Islands.
Does AlumniAgent post to LinkedIn on a graduate's behalf?
- No. Phay never auto-posts, auto-sends, auto-gifts, or auto-commits anywhere. Every action requires the graduate's explicit approval.
For admissions
Can admissions message prospects through AlumniAgent?
- No. AlumniAgent is not a messaging platform for prospects. Admissions consumes consented graduate signal from Islands the graduate has joined.
How is this different from a LinkedIn alumni search?
- LinkedIn search returns profiles. AlumniAgent surfaces graduates who have consented to contribute, matched by 5T × EIC inside a bounded Island with human approval at each step.
For data teams
Who owns the data?
- The graduate owns the profile. The institution earns scoped, revocable, field-level access. Microsoft does not own or process AlumniAgent data.
What is the loyalty objective of the matching engine?
- AlumniAgent matches to the graduate's stated goals. It never ranks by institutional yield or by the time-on-platform metrics a generic professional network optimizes for.
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