How We Use AI to Speed Up Our Work | Coefficient Giving
Hello! I’m Chris Webster, Coefficient Giving’s AI Enablement Lead, a role that didn’t exist until just a few months ago. We’re a relatively small team trying to tackle the world’s biggest problems. Our staff’s time is a key bottleneck, so when AI tools got good enough to meaningfully speed up knowledge work, we invested in figuring out how to use them well. I’ve taken this on as my full-time job: training staff, implementing new tools, and building workflows. In this post, I want to share what we’ve learned so far as we’ve integrated AI into our work. I’ll share how we think about AI as an organization, what our team has built, and specific resources I’ve written to help our staff. I hope other organizations can take our learnings and apply them to realize some of the productivity gains we’ve seen. Several years ago, when LLM tools were first released to the public, they weren’t much more than fun toys. They could finish your poem (if you didn’t care about rhyming), or give you a pizza