Scout for Universities
Your alumni network is the asset. Scout makes it searchable.
Advancement teams sit on one of the most valuable networks in the world — yet the average gift officer visits only half their portfolio each year. Scout maps the team's combined relationships and the open web so every prospect comes with a warm path to the door.
Book a DemoThe state of advancement
The hardest part isn't knowing what you need.
It's knowing who already has a relationship that opens the door.
- 37%
- of assigned prospects are considered truly qualified to give by gift officers. RNL Survey
- 84%
- of B2B decision-makers start the process with a referral, not cold outreach. Harvard Business Review
- 92%
- of major gift officers want to spend their time differently than they do today. RNL Study
- 1–5%
- average response rate on cold emails — warm intros see 40–60%. Metal Research
What Scout does
Live web data + your team's network, in one search.
Six capabilities. Every prospect comes with a warm path.
- 01
Live web intelligence
Scout crawls open-web signals — career changes, fundraises, public appearances — and matches them against your prospect list in real time.
- 02
Relationship graph
Email, calendar, and LinkedIn data become a searchable graph of who knows whom on your team — by tie strength, recency, and direction.
- 03
Team network pooling
Every advancement officer's network is searchable across the team. Pool the whole department's relationships into one graph, with consent and access controls.
- 04
Live criteria scoring
Score prospects against your criteria as you describe them in plain English. Rank by capacity, interest, fit, and warmth in one query.
- 05
Warm intro paths
Every prospect comes with a verified warm-intro path — colleague, faculty member, board member — not just a wealth rating and a mailing address.
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Privacy-first design
FERPA-aware, role-based access, and full audit logs. Sensitive relationship data stays within your institution's policy boundary.
How it works
Search. Match. Warm intro.
- 01
Describe who you need
Tell Scout what you're looking for in plain English — major gift prospects in pharma, alumni founders for an advisory panel, hiring managers in finance. No taxonomy required.
- 02
Scout searches & scores
Scout searches the open web and your team's network in parallel, scoring every match by capacity, fit, and warmth path before showing you the list.
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Reach out through a warm door
Click a prospect and see who on your team can introduce you. Drafted intro request, suggested context, sent in the channel that already exists.
Use cases
One platform. Every advancement use case.
- 01
Major gift prospecting
Find alumni donors with the means and the relationship — surface who on your advancement team has the warmest path to every prospect, before the first reach-out.
- 02
Advisory boards & speakers
Recruit advisory members, commencement speakers, and panelists from alumni who already trust your brand. Search by role, sector, and second-degree connections.
- 03
Student placement & mentorship
Match students with alumni mentors who hire from your school. Career services teams source warm intros at scale, not one inbox at a time.
- 04
Research & industry partners
Find corporate partners for sponsored research, internships, and joint programs. Pool your faculty's networks — Scout maps the path to every decision-maker.
Bring your team's network into focus.
We'll walk you through how Scout maps your team's relationships, surfaces alumni prospects, and turns the open web into a real-time signal feed for advancement.