Exploring Youth Capital Raising Strategies
🟢 LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED
Spotlight: How We’re Using AI to Listen to Youth at Scale
Understanding our audience in real-time is a challenge we all face. Manual research is slow, and data can often feel disconnected from the human experience. To solve this, Siler Bryan (Principal Strategist for Out-of-School Youth) built a custom tool called Insight Loop.
Built by Siler using Google AI Studio, Insight Loop is a prototyped AI agent designed to bridge the gap between us and the youth we serve.
The Workflow in Action
In this walkthrough, Siler demonstrates a fast, structured feedback loop by:
Drafting Targeted Questions: Creating specific prompts focused on the challenges youth face when securing funding.
Automated Outreach: The agent sends these questions via SMS to a sample database.
Smart Scaling: It anticipates response rates and ensures the right number of users are reached to get meaningful data.
Surfacing Insights: Instead of a pile of raw text, it identifies recurring themes and authentic quotes that can immediately guide our decision-making.
Why This Matters for Educate!
This is about automation and authenticity. By hearing directly from young people more frequently, we can ensure our strategies are grounded in their actual lived experiences rather than assumptions.
📘 Watch the Walkthrough & Read Below on How to Get Involved
Siler built this tool to be a shared resource. Whether you are in product, monitoring and evaluation, or design, we want this to work for you.
Have an idea for a different use case?
Want to see specific questions tested in your region? * Interested in building a similar "Loop" for your own project?
Reach out to Siler Bryan (siler.bryan@experienceeducate.org) with your thoughts, inputs, or ideas.
Be part of the change! 😊