Tool Overviews

Plain-language overviews of the AI tools advocacy teams use.

Every entry: What it is, what it's good at, watch-outs, and how to start.

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI's coding agent, comparable to Claude Code in many ways. Describe a website, platform, or tool and it builds and tests it, in the ChatGPT desktop app, the terminal, or the cloud.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's general AI assistant for drafting, summarizing, analyzing files, and multi-step research. The most widely recognized tool of its kind, and often the one your staff have already tried.

Faunalytics Lens

A free AI research assistant that answers questions using Faunalytics' library of 6,000+ human-vetted animal advocacy research summaries, with citations to the underlying sources.

Gemini

Google's general AI assistant, built into Gmail, Docs, and Drive. Eligible nonprofits get the premium features at no cost through Google Workspace for Nonprofits, though it now trails ChatGPT and Claude on capability.

Claude

A general AI assistant from Anthropic for drafting, summarizing, analyzing files, and thinking through problems. For most staff, this is the right first tool to learn.

Gamma

An AI tool that turns prompts, outlines, and existing documents into first-draft presentations, documents, and lightweight websites.

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