Every engagement is grounded in one question: where will AI create measurable value for your mission, and what has to be true organizationally for that value to materialize?
CNAI is led by a sitting field director at one of the nation's largest youth serving federations, responsible for a multi county territory, a team of executives, and a seven figure fundraising portfolio. Everything we teach and build is tested in a live field operation the same week we recommend it. Every service is available in English and Spanish.
We work with local chapters, councils, and affiliates of national federated organizations, with membership associations, faith-based organizations, and foundations, and with midsize community nonprofits. These are organizations with real budgets and real ambition but no internal technology team. National headquarters get the big consulting firms. Individual staff get the online courses. The leaders running the work get us.
Excellent introductory AI training is available at no cost from major AI labs and sector organizations, and it gets better every quarter. If that is what your team needs, we will point you to the best of it and wish you well. Our paid work begins where the free resources end: judgment specific to your organization, systems that work, and delivery in the language your community speaks.
Your organization needs someone accountable for AI strategy. It does not need a full time hire. A monthly retainer gives your leadership team a part time AI executive who prioritizes use cases, reviews vendor pitches with a skeptical eye, coaches your internal champion, and keeps governance connected to daily reality. We work with a small number of organizations at a time. You get judgment, not a subscription to advice.
A fixed scope engagement that ends with a working system, not a report. A bilingual intake form connected to your database. An automated document workflow that eliminates hours of manual processing. A pipeline dashboard your team actually opens. We build what your CRM's built-in AI will not: tools shaped around your workflows, your data, and your community. We build it with your data, train your staff on it, and leave it running. Most sprints complete in four to eight weeks.
Taking AI from one successful pilot to fifty chapters is an organizational problem, not a technical one. We design the rollout sequence, build chapter level playbooks, structure train the trainer programs, and define the measurements that tell headquarters what is working. This is the layer where most federated AI initiatives quietly die. It is also the layer where we live.
Every AI project fails on bad data before it fails on anything else. We clean membership rosters, reconcile records across systems, and make your reports trustworthy enough to build on. It is unglamorous work, and it is the prerequisite for everything above. Organizations that skip it pay for it later, with interest.
Every service on this page is delivered in English, in Spanish, or both. That includes board sessions, staff training, and the systems we build, which are designed for bilingual communities from the first screen. If your organization serves Latino families, or wants to, your tools and training should speak their language. Ours do.
A ten minute self assessment that evaluates your organization across leadership alignment, data quality, staff readiness, process maturity, and governance. It gives us both a shared starting point, and it costs you nothing but the ten minutes.
Take the Free Assessment
Focused sessions for leadership teams, boards, associations, and sector convenings covering what AI can and cannot do today, what peer organizations are doing, and the strategic questions your organization should be asking. No technical background required. For nonprofit and association audiences, briefings and speaking are provided at no cost. Fees apply for corporate and vendor audiences. Frequently the first conversation, rarely the last.
Request a Briefing
We clarify your situation, goals, and constraints. In English or Spanish, whichever fits.
A briefing, a sprint, or a retainer, matched to where you are. We will tell you honestly if free resources can cover what you need.
Every engagement produces something your team keeps using. A running system. A trained team. A rollout plan. Not a binder.
Not sure where to begin? The free AI Readiness Assessment takes ten minutes and gives us both a shared starting point.
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