Nigel is Cajole's in-house helper — the little red baby devil you'll see around the site. He's built into the campaign flow to help you launch faster, write sharper, and keep things moving once your Cajole is live.
He's not a chatbot you go talk to. He's stitched into the parts of Cajole where a small assist makes the biggest difference.
What Nigel helps with
Drafting your campaign
Writing a Cajole is the hardest part of launching one. You know what you want to convince someone to do — but turning that into a punchy headline, clear conditions, and a story that makes people want to back you takes work.
When you're creating a Cajole, you'll see a "Help me draft this" option on the fields where it's available. Give Nigel a sentence or two about what you're going for and he'll come back with a draft for you to edit. Run him as many times as you like — every draft is a starting point, not the final answer.
Nigel respects your voice, keeps things short, and follows Cajole's house rules (no false promises, no hate, no spam).
Generating an image
If you don't already have the perfect image, Nigel can make one for you. Look for the image-generation option in the image step of the Create Cajole flow. Describe what you want, pick from his suggestions, regenerate as many times as you need, or skip him entirely and upload your own.
Reviewing your campaign before it goes live
When you submit your Cajole, Nigel takes the first pass before any human reviews it. He checks things like whether your headline and conditions are consistent, whether your goal looks reasonable for what you're asking, and whether anything obvious is off — broken images, conflicting numbers, missing context.
If he spots something, he flags it for the Cajole team to look at. If everything checks out, the team sees a green-light note from him, which usually speeds your campaign through approval.
The Cajole team always has the final say. Nigel's just doing the prep work.
Auto-applying safe edits after launch
Once your Cajole is live, you can still fix typos, swap your image, or tighten your story. Nigel can tell the difference between a small fix and a change that would affect what backers signed up for.
Small fixes go live right away. Material changes (like the goal amount, the conditions, or the target) get sent to the team for a quick review. You'll always see exactly what's pending and what's live on your Campaign Overview page.
What Nigel isn't
Nigel isn't a replacement for a human. The Cajole team reviews every campaign and every flagged edit before anything goes public. He's a first pass, not the final word.
He's also not perfect. He can miss things, misread context, or write something that doesn't sound like you. When that happens, just edit over him — that's the whole point.
Privacy
When you use Nigel, the text you send him is processed through Anthropic's Claude API. We don't store your drafts longer than we need to, and your inputs aren't used to train any AI models. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.
Where you'll find Nigel
Drafting buttons on the Create Cajole flow
Image generation in the image-upload step
Behind the scenes when you submit a campaign or save an edit
Got feedback on something Nigel did or didn't do well? Hit the support button at the bottom of any page. We read every message — and Nigel does too.
