Module 0
The Experiment
Your baseline. Before the frameworks, before the games.
Before we teach you anything, we want you to see something.
The tools your team already reaches for — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot — are, right now, the largest communications department any funder has ever had. They draft, translate, summarise and confidently describe your sector to anyone who asks. Including donors. Including journalists. Including grantees.
So let's ask one of them a question your foundation cares about. Read the answer with a critical eye. Then write what was missing, wrong, or flattened. That gap is where this Lab begins.
Key principle
AI is not neutral. What it doesn't know about South African philanthropy is already shaping how the world hears about your work.
What was missing? What was wrong? Whose voice was flattened?