Cohorts, accelerators, associations, and funders
Multiply what you already deploy
You are not buying software for your own use. You are buying leverage on money, influence, or a program you already run. A funder putting $50,000 across ten nonprofits would rather those ten each raise another $200,000.
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The smaller version of the same argument
If you are not running a cohort and simply want a particular organization to be able to compete, that is the same leverage at a smaller size and it works the same way. Pay it forward sponsors a plan for one organization you name, for anything from a month to two years.
Several people do this for a nonprofit they sit on the board of, which is the cleanest version: you know exactly who it helps and you hand it to them yourself.
What a sponsor gets
- Join links with access bundled in
- Members onboard through a link you control, with privileges already attached, so you are not administering accounts one at a time. You can run several links and see which cohort or intake each came from.
- A shared credit pool
- You fund the work centrally. No member has to find a budget line of its own. When your members are small nonprofits or pre-revenue companies, this is frequently what makes participation possible at all.
- A track record across every member
- Applied, won, lost, pending, plus requested and awarded dollars, rolled up under a cohort header. The members at zero applications are visible by scanning the column, which is usually the first useful thing this tells you.
- Cohort readiness benchmarking
- Average readiness score, the distribution behind it, and category averages across market, capital, intellectual property, and operations. It shows what kind of help your cohort needs as well as how much.
- Onboarding conversion per link
- Invited against actually onboarded. It shows where people drop off between the announcement and the first login.
Your members’ work stays their own
You see the scoreboard. You never see the work. Clicking a member does not open their proposals or their documents, and there is no code path that would let it.
State that plainly in your program announcement and it removes the objection your members were not going to raise with you directly. Their material stays theirs. If they want you to read something, they share that file, and they can revoke it.
If your program is an accelerator, incubator, or university venture cohort, the version of this built for founders is on Quillify for accelerators.
If you are a funder
Community foundations, program-related investors, and individual donors all hit the same ceiling: what you can give is what you can give. Funding the capacity to raise money multiplies the gift instead of adding to it, and it keeps working after the grant year ends.
It also opens the part of the field almost nobody markets. Foundations make below-market loans, guarantees, and equity investments, and 480+ community development lenders sit alongside them. If your grantees only know how to ask for grants, they are not seeing most of what you and your peers actually deploy.
Security and procurement questions
- Who can see our members’ documents?
- Only the member organization and the people it shares with. Sponsors see counts and readiness scores. They never see documents or proposals.
- Where is our data stored?
- In the United States, encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Do you train models on our content?
- No. Your content is not used to train foundation models.
- Do you support single sign-on?
- Yes. Enterprise plans support institutional single sign-on over SAML or OIDC. Access and offboarding then follow your identity provider.
- Will you complete our security questionnaire?
- Yes. We answer procurement questionnaires in detail. A completed HECVAT is available on request, or we can answer in your own format. Send yours to sales@quillify.ai.
- Who handles payment?
- A PCI-compliant payment processor. Quillify never sees or stores card numbers.
Results
Accelerators and cohort sponsors are among the hundreds of organizations we have served. One customer won $1.2M across twenty-six proposals. Quillify can put that capacity behind every member of your cohort.
Rather than applying for grants directly, this customer wrote their services into other organizations’ proposals, and won work from twenty-six of them.
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