Tsai CITY at Yale
Prepared for Tsai CITY · April 2026

“The best matchmaking tool we’ve seen.”
Now shaped around how Tsai CITY actually works.

You said it on the demo. Here’s what that looks like, shaped for the center whose job is getting there first.

Prepared for Sade Owoye, Emily Roller & Matt Gira

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Innovators engaged
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Workshops & intensives

The scale where relational intelligence compounds. Source: Tsai CITY Annual Report 2024–25

The Challenge

We heard you.

Three priorities came through on our call yesterday. Everything in this proposal maps to one of them.

Track our innovators from student to alum to mentor — in one place, with our Airtable data integrated.

Priority 1 · Student & Alumni Tracking

Your 2,748 innovators span students mid-program, recent grads, and established alumni. A unified tracking layer turns that pipeline into a compounding asset — with a possible Airtable integration so you don’t have to choose.

Automated mentor matchmaking across our 683-mentor network, connecting the right mentor to the right innovator at scale — not by hand.

Priority 2 · Mentor Matchmaking

You’ve built a 683-mentor network across 2024–25. 328 are active. The other 355 are the dormant opportunity. Matching at this scale can’t happen in spreadsheets.

A place for members to post their companies and job openings — and for the right innovators to find them.

Priority 3 · Company Cards + Job Postings

Your alumni are building, hiring, and investing. Surfacing their companies and open roles inside Nunchi means the network moves capital and talent without anyone needing to broker it.

Tsai CITY · Today
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Airtable Integrate or Replace

Your current contact home. Nunchi can live alongside Airtable with a 2-way sync, or ingest it once and become the new home of truth. Your call.

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With Nunchi
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Nunchi
One intelligence layer. AI-built profiles, relational intelligence, matchmaking, public bulletin, and alumni tracking — with Airtable integrated or retired.
What Tsai CITY Gets

Every priority you named, mapped to a Nunchi capability.

Six rows. What Tsai CITY asked for, mapped to what Nunchi delivers — with an honest status tag on each.

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Student & Alumni Tracking
AI profiles + lifecycle stages (student → alum → mentor)
Every innovator has a living profile that moves through lifecycle stages — alumni who’ve built companies surface back as potential mentors automatically.
Live today Possible Airtable integration
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Mentor Matchmaking
AI-scored match cards + admin-approved intros across your 683-mentor network
Matches run across all 683 mentors, explain the fit, and ship the intro in under a minute.
Live today
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Company Cards + Job Postings
Members post companies and job openings via company cards
Members create company pages and post open roles; others browse and connect directly.
Live today
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Platform → Email Delivery
All sharing lands in inboxes
Bulletin posts, group messages, and announcements reach members by email — no one misses what you posted.
Actively building
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Student-Manager Permissions
Role-based permissions — students get a manager role
Students get a manager role: create events, run cohort groups, and send communications — without full-admin data access.
Live today
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Public Bulletin Board
Public bulletin: jobs, events, company cards, people directory
Non-founder students, alumni, and donors engage with jobs, events, and people inside Tsai CITY — without needing an account. See the concept →
Possible for Yale Headline FDE build
Signature moment

How the Mentor Matchmaking agent actually works.

Three screens, one export. This is the real Nunchi Assistant running live — admin configures, agent matches, program manager exports the full cohort in one click. Below is what it would look like for your Summer Fellowship 2026 cohort.

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Set up the match
Mentorship Matching

Choose the two groups to match

Pick from Groups you've already created. The agent matches across them.

Mentor Group
Tsai CITY Alumni Mentors 300 members
Mentee Group
Summer Fellowship 2026 15 teams
Distribution
Preview 15 teams × 1 mentor each · 1:1 pairing · 285 mentors remain available for the next cohort.
Create Pairs Mentorship Matching Matchmaking
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Describe the ideal match
Describe ideal matchmaking
Step 2 of 3

What should the agent optimize for?

"Match Summer Fellowship teams with alumni who share their domain and stage. Prioritize New Haven-based mentors first, then warm Yale alumni paths. Avoid duplicating past mentor relationships."

Use these profile fields

Looking for
Industry
Occupation
Skills
Location
Stage
Availability
Yale program
Back Run Match
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Review the teams
Final Review · Teams
68 pairs
AI Innovation · Leadership
Pair 01 · AI / Edtech
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Maya Hassan
Mentee
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Rohan Kapoor
Mentor
Pair 02 · Climate Tech
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Ade Okafor
Mentee
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Sofia Park
Mentor
Teams Spreadsheet
15 pairings, ready to export
Summer Fellowship 2026 · Mentorship Matching · Produced in 42 seconds
Copy Export Excel
GroupRoleNameMatch reason
AI / EdtechMenteeMaya HassanFounder, Yale '25 · building AI study assistant
AI / EdtechMentorRohan KapoorCEO, AI edtech · Yale '14 · London
Climate TechMenteeAde OkaforFounder · carbon credit marketplace
Climate TechMentorSofia ParkVP Climate, Yale '09 · 3 prior mentees
FintechMenteePriya DesaiFounder · SMB lending platform
FintechMentorJames WhitfordPartner, fintech VC · Yale '07
Social ImpactMenteeNadia BekeleFounder · refugee employment platform
Social ImpactMentorDaniel MbekiED, impact fund · Yale '11
The time delta: 15 mentor pairings, explained and exportable, in under a minute. What took a program manager a full week of spreadsheets, LinkedIn tabs, and bias-prone guesswork now runs consistently across every cohort and every program.
What changes on Monday

Sade opens her inbox. Nunchi has already done the work.

The weekly email from Nunchi is what makes "nudges to engage" real. Not a digest — a set of specific, acknowledged decisions waiting for sign-off.

Monday · 08:14

Three intros ready to approve. Four dormant mentors to re-engage. Two events the network is already asking for.

Sade scans the weekly email from Nunchi. She approves two intros, snoozes the third, drafts a re-engagement note to four dormant mentors flagged in the Tsai CITY alumni group, and forwards two event suggestions to Emily. Total time: eleven minutes. What used to take most of Monday.

Honest status

What you asked for, where it stands today.

You raised several features during the demo. Here’s the honest view — live now, actively building across 2026, or possible for Yale during your contract year. No vaporware.

Live Today
AI-generated profiles
Excel → enriched profiles
Match cards & intro suggestions
Relational intelligence engine
Groups (public & private)
With admin controls
Mentor matchmaking workflow
End-to-end loop
Segmented email management
Audience segmentation today
Bulletin board & smart distribution
Tells you who to send what to
Weekly engagement emails
Auto-sent to members
Slack integration
Already in production
Publicly viewable groups & profile cards
Member & company pages shareable outside the platform
Actively Building 2026
Email delivery for all platform sharing
Bulletin posts, group messages, and announcements all land in members’ inboxes
More Agents
Automatically handles staff needs — making intros, posting resources, scheduling
More Admin Controls
Cadence and type of email nudges
Customizable Group Emails
Say goodbye to one-size-fits-all newsletters
Save & Organize Profiles
Every user can create collections
Expanded Impact-Reporting Exports
Annual report-ready outputs
User Tools
User agents, create bios, etc.
Possible for Yale
Public-Facing Bulletin for Non-Members
Jobs, events, company cards, people directory — the headline Yale build
Airtable Integration
Two-way sync or one-time migration — either path
Tsai CITY Branding / UI Skin
Tsai CITY visual identity applied across the platform
Tsai CITY Dashboard — Custom Build-Out
Impact reporting configured for Tsai CITY’s specific KPIs
Concept mockup Tsai CITY Public Bulletin Board concept
The headline “Possible for Yale” build

Your existing Bulletin Board opened publicly.

External partners post resources and browse opportunities. Activity flows back to your Nunchi admin feed. Full moderation. Same AI ranking, same auto-tagging — just flipped public.

See the full interactive concept
The FDE option below exists because of this list. A dedicated engineer sitting with Tsai CITY moves items from “Possible for Yale” to “Live” faster — starting with the public bulletin.
Infrastructure & Trust

Built for institutions that take data seriously.

Tsai CITY serves US and international students, alumni, and mentors. Nunchi’s architecture is built for institutional data protection at Yale’s standard.

SOC 2 & GDPR

Built to meet institutional security and data protection standards.

Role-Based Access

Granular permissions per team member — only the right people see the right data.

Your Data is Yours

No vendor lock-in. Your network belongs to Yale, not to us.

Full privacy practices and policies at heynunchi.com/privacy
Implementation

Live in 4 weeks or less.

A three-phase rollout designed around your team's cross-functional load and the academic calendar.

Phase 1 · Weeks 1–2
Ingest, Enrich, Brand
Excel file or Airtable contacts ingested. AI enrichment runs across the selected count (Advanced: 3,500; Enterprise Essentials: 10,000). Tsai CITY branding skin applied (Enterprise Essentials). Admin accounts provisioned for Sade, Emily, and Matt. Role-based permissions configured, including student-manager roles.
Excel ingest AI enrichment Tsai CITY skin Admin training
Phase 2 · Weeks 2–4
Integrations & Soft Launch
Airtable integration live (if Integrations Bundle purchased). Slack integration live. Weekly engagement emails activated. Mentor matchmaking runs against the enriched pool. Team begins running real workflows on their own data. The Tsai CITY network is invited in to start building relationships.
Airtable live Slack live Mentor matching Weekly emails
Phase 3 · Week 4 onward
Full Roll-out & Compound Value
All Tsai CITY programs running on the platform. Roadmap items from “Possible for Yale” ship across the contract year. If you add the FDE, this is where the compound value starts to show — Tsai CITY-specific workflows built for you.
All programs live Possible for Yale ships First report export Custom workflows & agents
Investment

Three options. No hidden fees.

Two platform options based on how many of your contacts you want enriched upfront. Optional add-ons — the FDE and Integrations Bundle — only if you want to move faster than the roadmap.

Option A
Advanced
Full platform. AI enrichment on 3,500 profiles.
$ 24,000 / year
  • 3,500 profiles fully AI-enriched
  • Slack integration included
  • All core features: profiles, match cards, groups, mentor workflow, segmented email, bulletin board, weekly emails
  • Role-based permissions (incl. student-manager roles)
  • Dedicated setup & admin training
  • Refresh & re-enrich profiles anytime inside Nunchi
Recommended
Option B
Enterprise Essentials
Everything in Advanced — with 10,000 profiles enriched and Yale branding in the UI.
$ 55,000 / year
$110,000 $88,000 2-year contract · 20% off · save $22,000
  • Everything in Advanced
  • 10,000 profiles AI-enriched from day one
  • Yale / Tsai CITY branding in the UI
  • Matchmaking runs at full community scale immediately
  • Segmentation accuracy across the entire contact base
  • Refresh & re-enrich anytime inside Nunchi
Add-on
Dedicated FDE
A Nunchi forward-deployed engineer embedded with the Tsai CITY team each week.
+$ 30,000 / year
  • Dedicated weekly time with your team
  • Adoption & implementation support
  • Scopes and builds custom workflows for Tsai CITY
  • Ships enhancements specifically for your use cases
  • Accelerates “Possible for Yale” items into production
  • Direct pipeline into Nunchi engineering for Tsai CITY requests
Integrations Bundle · Optional
+$10,000 one-time

Two custom integrations (for example Airtable plus one more) — built, tested, and maintained for your account. Slack integration is included in all platform options.

What's always true across every option

AI profiles can be refreshed and re-enriched at any time inside Nunchi — so contacts stay current as careers evolve. Unlimited users & admin seats. Unlimited AI usage. Full feature access. No per-seat fees.

Pricing reflects Tsai CITY’s account priority to Nunchi — enrichment is offered close to our delivery cost. This is an investment in the partnership, not a list-price quote.

Let's make this real.

Tsai CITY is built to get ahead of what comes next. The right infrastructure should move at that speed. Nunchi is that infrastructure.

Let's Go

Trista Van Tine  |  Founder & CEO  |  trista@heynunchi.com
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