How to find smart, low-cost AI models
A short method for choosing API models by capability, total task cost, provider terms, and performance on your organization’s real work.
Guides
How to think about AI: policy, security, planning, and org readiness.
Picking the right AI model and effort level for the task
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.
Should you worry about law enforcement accessing your AI conversations?
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 AI to work with video
Use ChatGPT 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 pick the right AI tools for your team
How to divide an AI budget across a team: a paid assistant seat for everyone plus a meeting recorder, specialist tools for specialist roles, the AI features already inside your existing software, and heavier plans for the few people who will use them.
Create your organization's AI policy
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.
The six pillars of AI transformation
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.
Set up Claude for your organization
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.
Common staff concerns about AI
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.
Data security and privacy basics for AI tools
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.
Want help putting this to work?
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