For Nonprofit Executive Directors & Program Leaders
You have a strategic plan.
You don't know how well your team is executing it.
Pulse shows you where your theory of change is understood, where alignment is breaking down, and what it takes to close the gap.
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The situation you're in
You're carrying a plan the board approved. Your team has to run it.
The ED set the direction. Now you're the program director, the development lead, the site manager, and you have to make it real. Whether the clarity survived that handoff is the question nobody has a tool for.
Staff says they understand the mission direction. You can't verify it without putting them on the spot.
Your all-staff meetings are strong. You still can't tell what survives between them.
Someone quietly left last quarter. In hindsight, the signals were there.
A funder asked about alignment data. You had outcomes. You didn't have the answer they needed.
The gap your current tools miss
The plan didn't sit on a shelf. The clarity did.
Task-tracking tells you what got done. Annual surveys tell you how staff feels. Neither tells you whether your program directors have a clear enough model of the theory of change to make good judgment calls in the field. Pulse surfaces that, without putting anyone on the spot.
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In practice
What a Pulse deployment looks like.
We import your strategic plan.
Theory of change, annual priorities, focus areas. Pulse maps what you're actually trying to accomplish: On Track, At Risk, and everything in between.
Your team participates honestly.
Participatory design means staff help shape what they're measured on. Individual anonymization protects everyone.
You see the gap, specifically.
Not a score. A map. Which parts of your strategy are understood, where capacity is present, who needs attention, surfaced at the team level.
You run it monthly, not once a year.
Monthly reporting lets you see what moved after you acted. Build organizational memory that outlasts any leadership transition.
What you get that you don't get anywhere else
Most tools tell you where you are. Pulse tells you whether you moved.
Month 1
You know where the gaps actually are.
Not what you assumed from your last all-staff. Which programs have clarity, which teams are guessing, and where the theory of change stopped translating into daily work.
Month 3
You see what moved after you acted.
You addressed the gap in the Development team. Pulse shows you whether that conversation changed anything, as a data point, not an opinion. That feedback loop doesn't exist anywhere else.
Month 6+
You have memory the organization owns.
Alignment trends, intervention history, what worked after which leadership action. No longer locked in one person's head. Survives transitions. Informs your next strategic plan with evidence instead of guesswork.
What's different about Pulse
Reports your board, funders, and leadership team actually want to receive.
Pulse generates a different report for each audience each month. Your board gets governance data. Your funders get grant compliance evidence. Your leadership team gets execution detail.
One deployment. Four audiences served. Every month, automatically.
View sample reportFoundation Report · Q2 2026
Exponent Group
Jan–Jun 2026 · Hartley Family Foundation
82%
Strategic Alignment
+11 pts
218
Youth Served
+23 YTD
87%
Completion Rate
+13 pts
62%
Post-Program Placement
On target
7-page sample · Generated by Pulse · Exponent Group / Hartley Family Foundation
Pricing
Transparent pricing. Because you deserve to know before we ask for your time.
Foundation
$4,800 – $6,000 / year
For nonprofit organizations with 15–75 staff. Monthly deployments, core alignment mapping, narrative intelligence.
Systems
$12,000 – $18,000 / year
For organizations 75–500 staff or multi-site networks. Full feature set, longitudinal tracking, multi-program views.
Pricing is here not because we don't want a conversation, but because you deserve to know whether this fits your budget before we ask for 30 minutes of your time.
Tell us about your plan and the gap you're trying to close.
30 minutes with the founders. We'll ask about your mission, your strategy, and where the clarity isn't translating. If Pulse isn't the right fit, we'll tell you.
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