Sponsor Trove vs. Airtable
Airtable can be almost anything. Sponsor Trove is built for one thing.
Airtable is a powerful way to build your own sponsorship tracker, with linked tables, interfaces, forms and automations. But someone has to design it, wire it together and keep it running as your program grows. Sponsor Trove comes ready for selling sponsorships, and it knows something no base can: which sponsors are reading your deck right now.
Where an Airtable CRM starts to slip
Shared links don't tell you who's looking
Send a prospect your deck or a shared view and Airtable won't record who opened it. You find out a sponsor is interested when they reply, not when they're reading.
Someone has to be the builder
Tables, linked records, interfaces and automations are powerful, and every one of them is something to design, test and fix. When the person who built the base moves on, the knowledge often goes with them.
Follow-ups are an automation project
Reminders and alerts are automations you set up yourself, and they count against your plan's monthly run limit. None of them notice that a sponsor just opened your deck three times.
What you get with Sponsor Trove
See who's reading your deck, by name
Share your prospectus as a Sponsor Trove link. Prospects enter their name and email to view it, so you see who read it, when, and when they came back, and each new reader is added to your pipeline as a deal, matched to their company.
- Named views and return visits
- One link for everyone, or one per prospect
- Your logo and colors on the viewer
A sponsorship pipeline with nothing to build
Stages, packages, amounts, owners and a revenue goal for each event are ready the day you sign up. Tailor the stages and fields to how you sell, with no linked tables, lookups or interfaces to design.
- Drag deals between stages
- Goal progress for each event
- Custom fields when you need them
Follow-ups without writing automations
Add a follow-up to any deal with a quick date and a note about what to do. Due ones turn amber, overdue ones turn red, and a Follow-ups due view shows everything owed today. Nothing to configure, and no run limits.
- Tomorrow, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, or any date
- As many as a deal needs
- Completed follow-ups kept as history
Prospects can ask your deck questions
While they read, prospects can ask questions and get instant answers drawn from your document. Every question lands on the deal, and anything your deck doesn't cover is flagged for you to follow up on.
- Answers come only from your deck
- Unanswered questions flagged for you
- A clear signal of who's serious
Email sync without building automations
Connect Gmail and every email with a sponsor lands on their deal automatically, with nothing to wire up between your inbox and a base. New people at a sponsor's company are added as contacts.
- Read-only, and only emails with your pipeline
- Matched by contact and company email domain
- Flags sponsors waiting on your reply
AI that reads your deals, not your schema
Every deal gets a short summary with what to ask on the next call, and deals that have gone quiet are flagged. Ask "What should I focus on today?" and the assistant starts with follow-ups that are due, then the deals that need you.
- Summaries refresh as deals change
- Answers link straight to the deal
- Drafts follow-up emails for you