Deliver on the Berkeley Method's networking pillar.
A tailored proposal for how Nunchi can power SCET's alumni engagement, mentorship matching, and entrepreneurship networking.
We heard you.
During our February meeting, three problems came up again and again. These aren't unique to SCET — but the way they're holding back your mission is.
We have to manually search LinkedIn to find alumni and their projects. It's up to us to go find them.
Joo Ae Chu
SCET staff spend hours manually tracking alumni post-graduation. The data lives in HubSpot and LinkedIn, but neither surfaces who can help students right now.
Someone has to be on that platform every day, encouraging people to connect. And I have a thousand other channels right now.
Keith McAleer
SCET already has LinkedIn groups and Slack. Adding another platform without reducing the admin burden makes the problem worse, not better.
Higher education is at a crossroads about what you're paying for. More and more, you're paying for the network you leave with.
Jen Nice
The Berkeley Method teaches networking as a core pillar. But SCET has no scalable system to actually deliver it — to connect alumni back as speakers, mentors, or donors.
What no other platform does.
Nunchi is Relational Program Infrastructure™ — a new category of software at the intersection of CRM, social networking, and business intelligence. Here's what that means for SCET.
Relational Profiles
Every profile is personalized to the viewer. Jen doesn't see a generic bio — she sees why this person matters to her: shared interests, complementary skills, and a suggested outreach approach. No other platform does this.
Recommended Actions
Nunchi constantly analyzes your network to surface what matters: who to introduce to Keith, ideal mentor pairs, what events people will actually attend, and the right affinity groups to launch.
AI Discovery
Ask in plain English: "Who are our alumni in climate tech?" or "Find a speaker with product management experience." Nunchi's RAG-powered assistant returns actionable results instantly — for staff and members.
When comparing platforms, ask: (1) Does this product show each user why the people in their network matter to them, personally? (2) Was the product designed specifically to perform this role? (3) Does it require you to hire someone to manage the community daily? If the first two answers are no and the third is yes, that's a fundamental capability gap and a hidden cost.
How Nunchi compares.
SCET will likely evaluate Nunchi alongside existing tools and purpose-built community platforms. Here's an honest side-by-side.
| Capability | Nunchi | Hivebrite | Circle | Airtable | Slack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Relational Intelligence | Community Platform | Community Platform | Database | Social Network | Messaging |
| Built for Higher Ed | ✓ Purpose-built | ✓ Strong | ✗ Creator-focused | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Personalized Relational Profiles | ✓ Only platform | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| AI Discovery & Search | ✓ RAG + NLP | ✗ Basic | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ Basic | ✗ No |
| Auto-Enriched Profiles | ✓ Yes | ✗ Manual | ✗ Manual | ✗ Manual | Partial | ✗ No |
| Mentorship Matching | ✓ AI-powered | ✓ Add-on ($) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| No Feature Gatekeeping | ✓ All tiers | ✗ Tiered | ✗ Tiered | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Requires Community Manager | ✗ Network-led + Agent | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | N/A | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On Berkeley Campus | ✓ eHub customer | ✗ No | ✗ No | Unknown | N/A | N/A |
| SOC 2 Type II + GDPR | ✓ Yes | ✓ ISO27001 | ✓ SOC 2 | ✓ SOC 2 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
Hivebrite and Circle are community management platforms. Airtable is a database. LinkedIn and Slack are general-purpose tools. Nunchi is Relational Program Infrastructure™: a platform that understands the relationships in your network and uses AI to activate them. These are not equivalent categories.
You're not starting from zero at Berkeley.
Nunchi already powers eHub on the Berkeley campus. SCET asked: can we collaborate but keep our data separate? Yes — that's exactly how Nunchi works.
Intelligence your current tools can't surface.
Nunchi doesn't just store contacts — it reveals what your network needs, who should connect, and what programs to build next.
Every profile is personalized to the viewer. Instead of a generic bio, you see why this person matters to you — computed from shared background, complementary skills, and opportunities between you.
Example: How Nunchi shows Trista why Jeffery Ponders matters to her — with a 75% match score, shared background, complementary skills, and a suggested opener.
What members are looking for
Activity Log
| Date | User | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 10 | Sarah Chen | Connection |
| Apr 10 | Raj Patel | Searched |
| Apr 9 | Maya Torres | New User |
| Apr 9 | Liam Foster | Profile Update |
| Apr 8 | Zara Whitfield | Group Joined |
| Apr 8 | Marcus Ellison | Intro Sent |
What SCET gets on day one.
Everything below is included at every tier. No add-on fees. No feature gatekeeping.
Your data. Your network. Our security.
Data ownership and security are non-negotiable. Here's where Nunchi stands.
Enrichment data that Nunchi provides is only available in-platform.
Enrichment data that Nunchi provides is only available in-platform.
Critical questions: (1) Who owns the data — can you get a clear, written answer? (2) Can you export everything at any time, in a standard format, with no fee? (3) Is your data used to train AI models that serve other customers? (4) What happens to your data if the vendor goes out of business? Nunchi's answer to all four is unambiguous.
Live for Fall semester.
Setup takes ~3 weeks of elapsed time and ~3–6 hours of SCET staff time. We handle the heavy lifting. Nunchi provides concierge-level support to every customer as a standard company policy. This is not a premium tier offering; it's how we operate.
Building meaningful relationships takes time but has a compounding effect. An academic year engagement with clear expectations gives SCET real data before a full-scale deployment. We define success criteria upfront, so the go/no-go decision is objective.
Standard pricing applies after 12 months.