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Practivated is experiential learning, customized to your organization and to each person on your team.
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot
–Finds and summarizes what you upload
–Starts with a blank box
–Knows your files, not fundraising
–Forgets your growth between chats
–Helps you finish a task
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Practivated
✓Knows what good fundraising looks like
✓Asks the questions, so no prompt skills needed
✓Knows your institution and your standards
✓Builds on every conversation you’ve had
✓Helps you get better at the work, not just get it done
Why a copilot isn’t enough
Most advancement teams already have the case for support, the talking points, and the campaign deck, and now a copilot that can retrieve all of it in seconds. What they don’t have is the confidence and muscle memory to use it when a donor pushes back. That gap lives in the nervous system, not in a folder. General assistants are built to help you finish a task. Coach Tivy is built to develop the person doing it, with fundraising expertise, your institution’s standards, reps, feedback, and a method that knows what to do next.
Built by fundraising coaches and behavior scientists, on training that has reached over 150,000 fundraisers, not general internet knowledge.
Your case for support, campaign pillars, competencies, and language shape every conversation, so guidance sounds like your best gift officer, not a search result.
Each conversation and rep builds a picture of where that person is and what they need next.
Tivy asks the questions, pushes back kindly, and helps people find their own words. No perfect prompt required.
Conversations that push back, with feedback on fundraising skills and what to try next. A copilot can write a script; it can’t give you reps on it.
Team growth trends for managers, conversations private, nothing training a model.
Side by side
Coach Tivy and Practivated
General AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot)
An AI add-on in another tool
Built for
✓Developing advancement and fundraising teams
Productivity across every kind of work
One feature among many
Expertise
✓Fundraising coaching and behavior science
General knowledge
Usually generic
Your institution
✓Your materials, standards, and competencies shape every conversation
Retrieves what you upload
Limited
Knows the person
✓Builds on each person’s conversations and growth
Little memory of your development
Varies
How it helps
✓Coaches first, then reps with feedback, sequenced by the method
Answers when asked
Practice without a method
Leader insight
✓Team growth trends, conversations private
None
Varies
Privacy
✓No model training on your data
Depends on licensing and settings
Varies
Proof
280%
more donor outreach and engagement at UTEP
33%
better ask effectiveness in 30 days
12➛4
weeks to onboard a new fundraiser
40%
revenue growth at Child Bridge
“As a manager, I don’t have time to role-play individually with everyone. Having Practivated as a practice tool has been tremendous for the team.”
Chris Huff AVP of Annual Giving
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Use both
Practivated isn’t a general productivity assistant. If your main need is drafting emails or summarizing documents, keep your copilot. We’re the layer that gets your team ready to use what it finds and much more.
FAQ
Our IT team already rolled out Copilot. Isn’t that enough?
Keep it; it’s great for drafting and finding things. Practivated is the development layer on top: the coach, the reps, and the method that turn knowledge into readiness.
Can’t we just load our case for support into ChatGPT or Claude?
You can, and it will summarize it well. It won’t know what good fundraising sounds like, ask the question that gets you unstuck, give you reps on the ask, or notice that you’re getting better at discovery.
Does Practivated use generative AI?
Yes, because it’s the only technology that can do this, with guardrails built by a co-founder of Fundraising.AI.
Practivated
Keep your AI tools. Add the coach.
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