Webinar

Who Decides? What 1,452 Blinded Fundraising Decisions Reveal about AI, Judgment, and Authority

Recorded on: October 13, 2026

Watch our latest walkthrough of Kindsight’s new Fundraising Judgment Benchmark Report 2026. This blinded study explores how nonprofit professionals evaluate human versus AI-generated fundraising advice.

Most AI conversations in fundraising start with one question: should we use it? This study asks a harder one. When 363 nonprofit professionals compared human and AI recommendations without knowing which was which, what did they judge stronger? What did they judge riskier? And how much authority were they willing to give AI? Across 1,452 blinded comparisons, their answers give your team a clearer way to decide. 

In this session, report author Cherian Koshy (EVP, Market Insights, Kindsight) walks through what the data reveal and what they mean for your organization. Then Hemant Kashyap (CPO, Kindsight) shares how these findings shape our product vision, and how we’re building AI that earns trust one workflow at a time.

What you’ll learn:

  • Why quality depends on the workflow, and authority depends on accountability
  • How a named owner turns “human in the loop” into real oversight
  • A practical five-level framework for assigning AI authority, from Inform to Human Only
  • Where Kindsight’s AI informs, drafts, and recommends, and where it hands the decision back to your team