ZANUS AI FOR UNIVERSITY & RESEARCH — ALUMNI & DONORS

Stewardship that never lets a donor lapse.

Alumni newsletters, giving-day campaigns, event invitations, thank-you sequences — drafted by the AI from your own records, in the donor’s language, queued for your approval. Advancement-office reach, whatever the advancement office’s size.

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Private tenant or your own servers · unlimited users · FERPA-conscious handling

AI marketing module drafting alumni outreach campaigns

Campaigns and sequences drafted from the records — newsletters, invitations, stewardship — awaiting approval.

What it does

Audiences from your own records

Engineering alumni of the last decade, lapsed annual donors, event attendees who never gave: audiences built from your own categories — no exporting lists to a third-party tool.

The right words, 40 languages

Stewardship notes and newsletters written the way alumni actually read them — warm, specific, in your institution’s voice, in the recipient’s language.

Consent, respected automatically

Opt-outs and contact preferences are enforced by the system, not by memory. Every send is on the record.

From the records to the campaign, without export

The audience, the content and the sending all live in the same system as the records — nothing leaves your tenant to reach a mailing platform. “Invite every alum of the chemistry department to the lab dedication” becomes a drafted, scheduled campaign in minutes.

Audiences from your own data — private by architecture
Campaigns and sequences drafted for review
Follow-up sequences for non-responders, approval-first

AI marketing automation drafting alumni outreach

Outreach drafts awaiting advancement approval

Approval first, always

Every outbound communication lands in the approval queue unless you designate the category as auto-send. The advancement office stays in control of every word that reaches an alum or a donor.

Approval workflow per communication type
Full history of what was sent to whom
Results tracked: replies, RSVPs, gifts

Higher-ed software is procured module by module and seat by seat, research computing sits behind request queues — and the grants office still rebuilds every budget justification from scratch the week the proposal is due. Zanus AI: one AI operating system for grants, papers, policies and student services — unlimited users, FERPA-conscious handling, hosted in your private tenant or on servers the institution owns.

Questions, answered

Can it draft individual thank-you letters?

Yes — from the gift record and the donor’s history, in your templates, queued for a human signature. The development director edits and sends; nothing goes out automatically.

Does donor data leave our system?

No. Audiences, content and sending happen inside your tenant — donor data never travels to an outside marketing platform.

Stewardship that never lets a donor lapse.

What it does

From the records to the campaign, without export

Approval first, always

Questions, answered

See it working on YOUR campus — the demo IS the product.