AIResourceHow to think about AI: policy, security, planning, and org readiness.
What to check before you choose a CRM, project management tool, or database, now that AI does much of the work inside them. The guide walks through five questions, from whether your AI can connect to a tool to whether you need to build your own.
How to build a reusable AI persona that stands in for the expert you can't hire or the stakeholder you can't interview, how to use it on real work, and where the technique stops being trustworthy.
Anyone can now build a website or app by having AI write the code. Vibe coding works best when an expert uses it to share what they know with the movement, and it needs thorough testing before anyone relies on the result.
Nine features do most of the work: the right app, memory, connectors, browser control, projects, skills, automations, meetings, and interactive pages. Learn them in this order and each one makes the next easier.
Claude Code has always been the most capable way to use Claude, and in the desktop app it now needs less setup than Cowork as well. Cowork still makes sense if you want to limit what Claude can reach on your computer.
The fastest way to find out whether an AI agent can do something, and how to set it up, is usually to ask the agent. Here is how to ask, which tools it works in, and when to check the answer.
Keep shared information useful across AI tools with a project brief, example folder structures, and options for maintained files and AI memory.
Options for deciding who can change shared AI instructions, what connected tools may do, and how to review and hand over the work.
Most advocates should use Claude or ChatGPT for everyday work. Chinese-developed models can still make sense inside tools and automations.
A short method for choosing API models by capability, total task cost, provider terms, and performance on your organization’s real work.
AI tools give you two separate dials: which model answers, and how hard it works before answering. A professor/student analogy shows which one actually helps for the task in front of you.
Major AI vendors and meeting recorders will hand over conversation content when compelled by valid legal process, and both OpenAI and Anthropic report doing exactly that — but most reported cases so far involve a phone or laptop seized from a suspect, not chat data pulled from the vendor.
Use OpenAI Codex or Claude Cowork to understand footage, find strong moments, and create a social edit. This guide shares what we tested, where Premiere may fit, and what still needs human review.
How to divide an AI budget across a team: a paid assistant seat for everyone, two tiers of general-purpose tools, a meeting recorder, specialist tools for specialist roles, and heavier plans for power users.
A section-by-section worksheet for writing an AI policy your staff will use, with starter questions for each section and a skeleton outline you can copy.
A working framework for organizational AI adoption: six areas — narrative, tools, training, guardrails, workflows, and rhythm — that need attention together for experiments to build lasting capability.
A practical walkthrough of setting up a Claude Team account for a nonprofit: verification and discounts, admin choices, connectors and shared skills, privacy settings, and recommended defaults for advocacy orgs.
The objections staff often raise about AI, taken seriously rather than dismissed — with what is true in each, the data behind it, and language options for the conversations leaders are already having.
A simple four-tier model for deciding what data can go into AI tools, what to check before you trust a vendor, and practical defaults a small organization can adopt this week.
Vegan Hacktivists offers free AI and automation support to animal protection organizations — from a first conversation to a full build.
