Technique · 1 prompt, 5 uses
PDFThe Interview Prompt
The one-sentence technique behind everything else here: AI interviews you first — one question at a time — then writes.
Practical resource · Decision guide · 7 steps
Choosing AI tools without the sprawl
“Which tool should we buy?” is the most-asked question in nonprofit AI — and the least important one to get perfect. What matters is the shape of the decision: pick deliberately, pay for it, go deep, and stop the sprawl before it starts. This guide is that shape, ending in a recommendation for your specific role and budget.
Inside it
- Start from the use case — and why depth beats breadth
- Nonprofit pricing as at mid-2026, and why free tools are demos
- The evidence that free access alone fails, and what fixes it
- AI Sprawl: the symptoms, and the one-person fix
- Paid seats gated by maturity level, so access is an incentive not a cost
- The discovery interview that ends in a one-page pitch for your manager
The winning pattern is embarrassingly consistent: one tool, properly learned, beats four tools sampled.
For whoever has to answer “so which one do we get?” — ED, ops lead, or the accidental AI person.
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