Smarter Matching for Mentoring Programs That Need to Work
The right match can make the difference between a program people remember and one they quietly leave behind.
Pollinate uses Cross-Pollinate AI™ to combine strategy, participant insight and KTI assessment results to create stronger, more meaningful mentoring connections.
What is Cross-Pollinate AI™?
Cross-Pollinate AI™ is Pollinate’s advanced matching approach for building mentoring pairs, peer groups, teams, and cohorts with a stronger chance of success.
It gathers the details that matter, including experience, expertise, goals, competencies, interests, and preferences, then combines them with the Knowledge Transfer Index (KTI) to understand how people learn, communicate, and collaborate.
The result is a more intentional, explainable matching process that helps participants build trust faster and gives leaders confidence in the program.
Use Cross-Pollinate AI™ to form and refine mentoring pairs, peer groups, and cohorts around the goals your program is designed to achieve.
The KTI is Focused on 4 Core Areas:
How people seek and understand information
How people give and receive support
How people share their perspective
How people use what they learn
Cross-Pollinate AI™ uses the KTI to help match people with learning partners based on:
7 Insights
- Core Motivations
- Your Natural Talent
- Your Reference Point
- Physical Learning Style
- Resolution Style
- Sorting Style
- Ideal Interaction Level
Harper Smith
Manager of Operations
Our Stance On AI?
Pollinate Networks is a human-first mentoring company. We use AI-supported tools where they can improve efficiency, insight, and match quality, but we do not use AI as a replacement for the relationships, judgment, communication, and care that make mentoring meaningful.
Our Cross-Pollinate AI™ matching approach helps support more intentional and explainable mentoring matches by combining participant goals, experience, preferences, program criteria, and Knowledge Transfer Index results. At the same time, our program strategy, onboarding, project management, client communication, participant support and continuous improvement remain guided by the Pollinate team.
For us, AI supports the work. Humans remain at the centre of it.
Pollinate’s Knowledge Transfer Index
The Knowledge Transfer Index (KTI) is Pollinate’s proprietary psychometric assessment that gives deeper insight into how each participant prefers to learn, share knowledge, make decisions, and work with others.
Integrated into Cross-Pollinate AI™, the KTI helps match participants in ways that support communication, trust, mutual understanding, and productive relationships. It moves programs beyond surface-level criteria and creates a stronger foundation for measurable outcomes.
Population Intelligence at Your Fingertips
Understand your participants, their goals, and how they work together without adding manual work to your team.
Pollinate mentoring and collaboration programs generate useful insight into participant goals, interests, satisfaction, and collaboration styles.
Want to explore more?
Want to talk through what your mentoring program could look like? Do you have questions about program design, matching, implementation, reporting, pricing, or how mentoring could work for your audience?