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A field guide

AI uplift, for people and organisations in effective altruism

“AI uplift” is a working name for one kind of help: someone who has tested the tools sits with you, or your organisation, and gets real work moving with them. Not a course. Not a licence. Usually one session, sometimes a few weeks.

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Fig. 1 — the route, detail

This page explains what that help can look like, and lists three people who do it independently. [PLACEHOLDER — plain definition of AI uplift and who this guide serves]

The people

People doing this work

Three people who do this work, independently of each other. Each sets their own terms and availability. Contact whoever fits.

Open a profile for availability, links and how to get in touch.

Listed alphabetically. Nobody is first.

The route

Where you'd start

The useful intervention depends on where you are now. Five common starting points:

  1. You only use the chat box

    What a session does

    Pick one accessible tool and finish one real task together

    You know it worked when

    Useful work is done before the session ends

  2. You have one clear problem

    What a session does

    Twenty minutes of questions, then one clear win, built or configured live

    You know it worked when

    A working change exists before the session ends

  3. You have many pain points

    What a session does

    Triage the list and name an intervention for each priority

    You know it worked when

    You leave with a ranked route

  4. You know the task but can't start

    What a session does

    Someone works beside you while you do it

    You know it worked when

    The blocked task moves or finishes

  5. You already use AI heavily

    What a session does

    Longer delegation, parallel agents, task tracking, reusable documentation

    You know it worked when

    You delegate more without losing state

These are possible interventions, not packages. Any practitioner will shape a session to the person in front of them.

Two tracks

Inside an organisation

For a whole organisation, two things run together.

Discovery before the build list

Fifteen-minute calls with team leads and staff about recent work, bottlenecks and what they dislike — no leading questions, no tool pitched. Group the pain points, then choose.

Track A

Staff adoption

  1. Intake
  2. Open discovery
  3. One-to-one sessions
  4. Practical wins
  5. Tool configuration
  6. Advanced-workflow coaching
Track B

Operations improvement

  1. Short interviews
  2. Pain-point map
  3. Then tools, automations and system fixes

Think of an internal IT function for AI — someone who tests the main tools, knows their real limits, answers capability questions, writes the guidance down where people can find it, and keeps it current as tools change.

A working model from one practitioner, not an official definition.

Field notes

What good uplift looks like

Six principles.

  1. Work on a real task, not links or theory.

  2. Use the most accessible tool that meets the need.

  3. Test integrations; don't trust the model's claims.

  4. Leave reusable instructions or Markdown behind.

  5. Start from demand and adoption, not infrastructure.

  6. Small wins where they fit, then deeper work.

How this work is done

Recipes

The methods behind the sessions, written down so anyone can use them. Published here as they settle, each attributed to whoever wrote it.

  • Recipe card 1

    The starting-point map

    Five starting points and what a session does at each. See above ↑

  • Recipe card 2

    Discovery interviews

    1. Fifteen-minute calls with team leads and staff.
    2. Ask about recent work, bottlenecks and what they dislike doing.
    3. No leading questions. No tool pitched.
    4. Group the pain points.
    5. Choose the first intervention from the groups, not from the tools.

    A working method from one practitioner, not a standard.

  • Recipe card 3

    Intake questions

    [PLACEHOLDER — intake questions, once approved by their author]

  • Recipe card 4

    Standard packages

    [PLACEHOLDER — standard packages, as they settle]

Recipes move to their own page once there are more than three.

An empty pin on the map

Doing this work yourself?

A place on the map

More people should be doing this than three. If you help people or organisations in this community use AI well, and you'd like to be listed here or compare notes with others doing the same: [PLACEHOLDER — practitioner community / Slack link] [PLACEHOLDER — how to get listed]

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Listing is free. The only test is that you do this work with people or organisations in this community and are happy to be contacted.

Shared recipes — intake questions, the starting-point map, discovery interviews — will be published here as they settle. [PLACEHOLDER — link to open playbook]

Further reading

Further learning