AI Sandbox
Practical AI support for civil society organisations

Is current AI right for your challenge?

AI Sandbox helps civil society organisations assess real-world challenges, explore practical AI pathways, and move promising ideas towards useful MVPs with the right resources, models, and technical support.

Early access is opening in phases for organisations that want to explore, test, and help shape the Sandbox.

A practical pathway
sketched with care
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Challenge

Start with the real work in front of you.

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Is current AI a fit?

Be practical about what is useful now, and what is not.

Resources
Models
MVP
built with people

Start with the problem, not the hype

Not every challenge needs AI. And not every challenge that was a poor fit for AI a year ago is still a poor fit today.

AI Sandbox is designed to help civil society organisations think carefully about the problem in front of them, assess whether current AI is a good fit, and take practical next steps where it is.

That may mean using a simple template. It may mean exploring models and technical support. It may also mean deciding that a non-AI approach is better.

A practical pathway from problem to MVP

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Assess whether current AI fits

Review a challenge, consider the risks and opportunities, and decide whether current AI is the right tool for the job.

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Start with practical resources

Use prompt guides, templates, workflow examples, and other materials shaped around real civil society needs.

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Access models and building blocks

Explore suitable models and pathways for solutions that need more than guidance alone.

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Move promising ideas towards MVPs

For selected early participants, the Sandbox can support the shaping, testing, and launch of useful first versions.

Why this matters

Civil society organisations are under growing pressure to make sense of AI, often without the time, technical capacity, or trusted support needed to do that well.

Some challenges may benefit from current AI. Others may not. Some may be worth revisiting in six months, as tools continue to change.

AI Sandbox exists to make that process more practical.

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Challenges the Sandbox may help with

Summarising reports and researchTranslation and multilingual communicationOrganising internal knowledgeRoutine drafting and content preparationCommunity feedback analysisLightweight assistants and workflows

More than a resource library

AI Sandbox is not only a collection of guides and templates.

For selected early participants, it can also offer access to technical support, helping promising ideas move from exploration towards workable MVPs.

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Explore
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Build
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Test

Built for practical, responsible use

Current AI can be useful, but it is not neutral, and it is not magic.

Is current AI actually a good fit for this problem?

What are the risks around privacy, bias, and verification?

Where is human review essential?

Would a simpler non-AI approach work better?

Choose the path that fits where you are

Whether you are just curious, already working through a challenge, or interested in helping shape the Sandbox more closely, there is a way to take part.

Choose the path that best matches where you are now. You do not need to have everything worked out before getting in touch.

Light-touch

Get updates

Follow the Sandbox and hear when new opportunities open.

Problem-led

Share your challenge

Tell us what you are trying to solve and whether current AI might help.

Stay close

Request early access

Join organisations interested in exploring the Sandbox as access opens in phases.

Higher involvement

Join the early cohort

Help shape how the Sandbox develops and inform future MVP pathways.

Help shape practical AI support for civil society

Whether you are exploring a challenge, looking for useful starting points, or interested in testing an MVP pathway, we would like to hear from you.