Solution
Find the relationships behind your next advancement opportunity.
Trailblaze activates your membership data into a living relationship graph.
Scout identifies members relevant to an advancement objective, surfaces the paths that connect them, and helps your team act on what it finds.
Beyond the list
A prospect list is a starting point, not a strategy.
Advancement teams can usually assemble a list.
What is harder to see is which members are genuinely connected to a prospect, who has stayed in touch, what they share, and which relationship could reasonably open a conversation.
That context tends to live in disconnected records or in the memory of whoever happened to be in the room.
Trailblaze puts it in one current, queryable place alongside the systems the team already uses.
What Trailblaze and Scout do
Relationship context, attached to the objective.
- Existing records become a verified graph of people, affiliations, and ties.
- Scout scores members against a specific advancement objective.
- Every recommendation carries the relationship that makes it plausible.
How it runs
From an advancement objective to a warm approach.
- 01Set the objective
The team describes what it is working toward and who it is trying to reach.
- 02Identify and score
Scout evaluates verified profiles, affiliations, and relationship paths across the network.
- 03Review the paths
The team sees relevant members alongside the shared history that makes a reach reasonable.
- 04Broker and follow up
Scout can help initiate the introduction, follow up, and stay active as the conversation develops.
What changes
A different starting position for every conversation.
Fewer cold approaches
Outreach begins from a shared affiliation rather than a name on a list.
Context the team can use
Each suggestion arrives with the relationship history behind it, not just a record.
Connectors you did not know about
Members with genuine ties to a prospect surface even when no one on staff knew of them.
Threads that stay open
Follow-up is tracked rather than lost between systems and inboxes.
Where it applies
Organizations that run advancement programs.
Universities
Advancement, alumni relations, and school-level teams working across decades of alumni records.
Fraternities & Sororities
National organizations and foundations raising from members across chapters and generations.
Affinity Groups
Communities whose supporters are connected by shared identity, experience, or purpose.
See the relationships behind your advancement objectives.
Explore how Trailblaze can add relationship intelligence to the work your advancement team already does.