A free guide for charity boards and teams: the Compass Framework, real examples from charities, and a worksheet for your next meeting.
From AI Compass Labs, who help charities move from AI curiosity to systems they actually rely on.
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Download the guide (PDF)Start with one decision your team is facing right now. You don't need all six questions every time.
Most charities aren't deciding whether to use AI. It's already happening, on personal accounts, with no policy. The real question is whether leadership is shaping it or finding out later.
Read it before a board meeting, put it on the screen, or work through it together. It works for a trustee board, a senior team or a staff session.
What each question is really asking, what a good answer sounds like, and the prompts to use in the room.
How organisations like BIMA, Muslim Sports Foundation and the Association of Muslim Schools made these decisions, and what changed.
A page to fill in together: three actions with owners, and the principles you won't break, whatever the pressure.
The guide takes each one in turn, with what it's really asking and a real example from a charity that has been through it.
Start with what's really going on, not the tool.
Every AI project needs an owner, not just a champion.
One step you'll actually take in the next 30 days.
The lines you won't cross, decided before the pressure arrives.
Where the decision lands in real work, and who it changes things for.
What to share or partner on, instead of building it alone.
A tool someone wants to try, a risk you're worried about, a workflow that eats time, or a scenario you want to be ready for.
You don't need all six. Some decisions are all about ownership, others are all about red lines.
Three actions with owners, and your red lines written down where everyone can see them.
AI Compass Labs has run staff days and built AI systems with organisations like these.
Case note write-ups went from one to two hours each to minutes.
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Board minutes went from hours of drafting to checking a draft.
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A whole-staff AI day rated 4.53 out of 5, with an NPS above 60.
Read the case study"The fear around AI completely disappeared. It went from something people were anxious about to something they felt confident using."
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