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About Aligned-AI

Built from the field, not from a tech blog.

Aligned-AI exists because people doing important work are often carrying an unreasonable amount of operational work with them.

The practitioner

Lara Jackson, CFRE

Nearly a decade in nonprofit fundraising and operations came before Aligned-AI. More than $8M raised. Grant pipelines, donor portfolios, reporting, programs, deadlines, and all the invisible work that makes a mission run.

The point isn't that AI is exciting. The point is that the people doing the work deserve systems that don't make them carry everything manually.

$8M+raised across nonprofit fundraising roles
10 yrsinside mission-driven work
Practicalsystems first, technology second

The philosophy

The work comes first. Always.

01

Start with friction.

We don't start by asking which AI tool you should buy. We start by asking what is wasting your time.

02

Design the system.

Automation only helps when the process underneath it makes sense.

03

Keep humans where humans matter.

Good AI systems make judgment clearer. They don't pretend judgment is unnecessary.

Let's make the work lighter.

Start with the diagnostic or bring your workflow to a 20-minute conversation.