- Workforce role AI Development Director Employee
- Vertical Nonprofits
- Agent Syntic Pyramid Specialist Agent
- Capabilities Custom interactive visuals
- Share Copy link
The request
Every development director has built a gift pyramid at some point, usually in a spreadsheet the week before a feasibility study. The tiers themselves are simple to fill in, but what the spreadsheet hides is the prospect math sitting behind each tier. Closing three gifts at the $100K level means having nine to twelve qualified prospects at that level, and most mid-size organizations have four or five. That gap is the actual feasibility question — and it's the number that doesn't show up until someone forces it to.
A development director is weighing a $2M capital campaign and wants to see the shape before committing to a feasibility study. The AI Development Director Employee dispatches a Syntic Pyramid Specialist Agent that ships the pyramid inline with the prospect math visible at every tier, and clicking any tier names the gap between what the campaign needs and what a typical organization that size actually has.
"We're thinking about a $2M capital campaign. Show me what the gift pyramid needs to look like — how many donors at each tier and how many qualified prospects I'd realistically need behind each one. Let me drag the goal and watch the shape change. Flag the tiers where I'm probably thin."
How the Director briefs the Agent
A goal number is enough to get the shape. The Pyramid Agent uses standard campaign math (roughly a third of the goal from the top one or two gifts, tapering down through five or six tiers, with a 3-to-1 or 4-to-1 prospect-to-gift ratio per level) to fill in the rest. Asking the Director to "flag where I'm probably thin" is what gets the prospect gap called out rather than just the gift counts.
What the Agent needs
Nothing to upload. Type the numbers directly in your prompt.
Prospect list XLSX optional.
What ships back to chat
The Pyramid Agent ships a five- or six-tier pyramid with each tier showing three numbers: the gift range, the number of gifts the campaign needs at that level, and the number of qualified prospects that realistically takes. A slider above lets you drag the goal and watch every tier rebuild. Click any tier and a short note compares the prospect requirement against a typical pipeline — where the feasibility question actually lives.
Shipped by the Syntic Pyramid Specialist Agent.
Follow-up dispatches
Keep the loop going — the Director dispatches deeper as the campaign takes shape.
Click a tier to see the gap
Click any tier and the Director compares the prospect requirement against a typical pipeline for an organization your size, naming the gap and the two or three ways campaigns usually close it.
"Focus on the $100K to $250K tier. How many qualified prospects do I realistically need, how many does a typical org my size have at that level, and what do campaigns usually do when the gap is that big?"
Redraw with a constraint
The top of the pyramid carries most of the weight, so telling the Director your lead gift is capped changes everything below it.
"Redraw this assuming our lead gift tops out at $250K. What does that do to the rest of the pyramid, and where does the pressure move?"
Turn the pyramid into a cultivation timeline
A gift pyramid is a snapshot, but feasibility is really about time. The Director dispatches a Timeline Agent that stretches each tier across the months it typically takes to cultivate and close.
"For each tier, give me a rough cultivation timeline — how long from first real conversation to close — and lay it out so I can see whether an 18-month campaign is realistic given where our pipeline actually is today."
Tips for the workforce loop
Verbs in your prompt shape what ships
Asking for "qualified prospects I'd realistically need" is what surfaces the 3-to-1 math rather than just the gift counts. A plainer "show me a gift pyramid" tends to ship the tiers without the pipeline reality check, which is the spreadsheet you already know how to build. "Flag where I'm thin" tells the Director to do the comparison for you rather than just stating the requirements.
Check the ship against your own understanding
The prospect ratios the Pyramid Agent uses are sector rules of thumb, and your actual close rate might be better or worse. If you've run a campaign before and know your top-tier conversion is closer to 2-to-1, tell the Director and the prospect counts will tighten. The pyramid is a stress test, not a verdict on whether to launch.
What to do with the visual next
Hover for options to copy the pyramid as an image for a board or campaign committee deck. Save as Artifact if you want to bring it into a feasibility conversation live and drag the goal while stakeholders watch the prospect requirements move. Or ask the Director to write the feasibility memo version, turning each tier's gap into a paragraph you'd hand to a consultant or board chair.