Movement-Aligned AI Solutions

Transform Your Mission with Human-AI Partnerships

Where movement values meet intelligent technology—creating systems that amplify your impact without compromising your principles

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Common Challenges

When Your Systems Feel Like Barriers to Justice

Finding clarity in digital chaos

It's Friday afternoon. Your program director just texted that she can't make Monday's funder meeting because she's still struggling to track down impact data scattered across three different systems. Meanwhile, somewhere in your Google Drive labyrinth lies the perfect community testimony from last year's campaign... if only anyone could find it.

Most organizations piece together software solutions without a cohesive strategy. The result? Disconnected systems that create more work rather than less—and usually on the shoulders of the people doing the most essential community work.

"We have all these powerful tools at our disposal, but they don't talk to each other. Our organizers end up becoming data entry specialists instead of relationship builders." – Most Lead Organizers

When budget spreadsheets become power imbalances

It's budget planning season, and your program directors avoid financial conversations because the spreadsheets are intimidating and disconnected from their daily work. Meanwhile, your finance person is overwhelmed trying to translate program visions into numbers without the right systems to support them.

Budget tools should illuminate your organization's story, not obscure it. But without the right approach, financial systems become barriers that exclude voices and centralize power in ways that contradict your values of distributed decision-making and collective leadership.

"I know our financial systems should be a source of clarity, not confusion. But right now, our budget process feels like it's working against our mission instead of supporting it." – Any Executive Director

Measuring impact without missing the heart

How do you demonstrate your organization's true impact when traditional metrics miss so much of what matters? Funders want numbers, but your work creates ripple effects that aren't easily quantified: community relationships strengthened, narrative shifts, emerging leadership.

You're left cobbling together stories and statistics without a coherent framework that honors both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of your work. And all that reporting effort takes away from doing the work itself.

"We're drowning in data but starving for insight. We collect so much information across different systems, but struggle to transform it into meaningful stories about our impact." – Many Program Directors

When fundraising feels disconnected from organizing

Your development director uses a donor database, your organizers use a different system for community engagement, and these worlds rarely connect. The result? Fundraising that feels transactional rather than relational, disconnected from the heart of your movement work.

You know your supporters could be powerful participants in your mission, not just sources of funding. But your current tools treat them as data points rather than community members with multiple ways to contribute to your vision.

"Our donor management system and our community organizing database might as well be on different planets. We're missing so many opportunities to deepen relationships because our systems don't support an integrated approach." – Almost all Development Directors
Data Sovereignty

Your Data, Your Power

In today's digital landscape, social justice organizations face a troubling reality: the very tools we use to organize are extracting our data, surveilling our work, and commodifying our movements. Every email, document, and campaign plan lives on corporate servers beyond our control—often feeding the same systems of power we're fighting against.

This isn't merely a philosophical concern. For immigration rights organizations working with undocumented communities, reproductive justice groups operating in hostile legal environments, and racial justice movements confronting targeted surveillance, data sovereignty becomes a critical shield for the communities we serve.

My approach offers a fundamentally different vision: technology that respects community ownership, protects sensitive information, and keeps movement knowledge under movement control.

Solutions

Human-AI Partnerships That Amplify Your Mission

AI-Powered Systems Assessment

Imagine sitting down with both a human consultant who understands movement work and an AI assistant that can quickly process your organization's information flows. Together, I explore how your team really works—not just your official processes, but the actual day-to-day reality.

An AI assessment helps me map all your existing systems—from QuickBooks to Slack to Google Workspace—visualizing how information moves (or doesn't) between them. It identifies patterns you might not see: where data gets duplicated, which teams struggle to share knowledge, and where mission-critical information gets lost.

Most importantly, this isn't a cold technical audit. It's a human-centered exploration guided by your values. AI helps me process the details while I focus on the deeper questions: How do your systems distribute or concentrate power? Do they enhance relationships or create barriers? Does your technology reflect your theory of change?

Key Benefits:

Comprehensive Visibility: See your entire organizational ecosystem revealed through AI-enhanced analysis

Pattern Recognition: Discover insights that might take months to surface through traditional methods

Value-Centered Assessment: Evaluate systems based on how they support your mission, not just efficiency

Data-Informed Planning: Make strategic decisions backed by concrete analysis, not just intuition

Financial Intelligence Co-Pilots

Picture Maria, a finance director at a community rights organization. For years, she's been the sole keeper of financial knowledge, creating bottlenecks and vulnerability. Now she has an AI financial co-pilot that helps bridge the gap between finance and programs.

When program directors explain their work in plain language—"We need to expand our legal clinics to three new neighborhoods this year"—the AI helps translate these real-world needs into financial terms. It suggests budget scenarios, helps model "what if" situations, and explains financial concepts in language that connects to mission work.

This isn't about replacing Maria's expertise—it's about extending her reach. The AI supports routine calculations and data organization, enhancing Maria's ability to engage in strategic thinking and relationship building alongside her team. And because it's built to work with your existing tools like QuickBooks, Airtable, and Google Sheets, there's no massive new system to learn or maintain.

Key Benefits:

Democratized Financial Intelligence: Financial insights accessible to everyone, not just the "money person"

Real-Time Scenario Planning: Quick modeling of different funding and program scenarios

Language Translation: Bridging the gap between technical financial terms and mission language

Team Capacity Enhancement: Enabling all staff to engage with finances meaningfully, regardless of accounting background or expertise

Knowledge Management Assistants

Consider a racial justice coalition with fifteen years of campaign history spread across dozens of Google Drives, email threads, and staff memories. As teams naturally evolve and grow, it's vital to ensure institutional wisdom remains accessible to everyone, strengthening your organization's resilience.

I build a contextual knowledge system using your existing document storage and communication tools. Your team's AI research assistant helps transform scattered information into accessible, searchable institutional memory. It connects related documents, surfaces historical context for current decisions, and ensures that vital community relationships and strategies aren't lost during staff transitions.

When new staff join, they can ask questions in plain language: "What approaches worked well with the tenant association at Parkview Apartments last year?" The system provides relevant context drawn from meeting notes, emails, and reports—all while maintaining appropriate privacy controls and keeping your data under your control.

Key Benefits:

Living Organizational Memory: Preserve and access institutional knowledge across staff changes

Contextual Understanding: Connect current work to historical efforts without manual research

Relationship Continuity: Maintain community relationships across staff transitions

Accelerated Onboarding: Help new staff quickly gain context for their work

Impact Storytelling Engines

Imagine an environmental justice organization struggling to communicate their full impact. Their data lives in spreadsheets, participant stories in interviews, and policy tracking in yet another system.

I create an AI-powered impact intelligence system that helps you make meaning from this scattered information. Your impact storytelling assistant helps identify patterns across programs, connect quantitative metrics to qualitative outcomes, and generate compelling narratives tailored to different audiences—from community members to funders.

When board meetings approach, leadership doesn't just get static reports. They can ask questions like, "How has our community organizing affected local policy this quarter?" and receive a rich analysis drawing from multiple data sources. The system helps surface unexpected connections and ripple effects that might otherwise remain invisible.

Key Benefits:

Multidimensional Analysis: Capture both numbers and narratives in a cohesive framework

Pattern Recognition: Identify connections and ripple effects across programs

Audience-Tailored Communication: Generate compelling stories for different stakeholders

Learning Acceleration: Surface insights faster to inform strategic decisions

Philosophy

The Human-AI Partnership Philosophy

Beyond the Binary Debate: A Third Path for Social Justice Organizations

For too long, the conversation around artificial intelligence in movement spaces has been stuck in a binary: either embrace corporate AI and sacrifice our values, or reject technology entirely and struggle with limited capacity. This false choice ignores the possibility of a third path—one where technology amplifies human wisdom rather than replacing it, where data remains under community control, and where tools serve our movements rather than extracting from them.

My Human-AI Partnership Philosophy offers a different vision: technology designed explicitly for liberation work, built with community ownership at its core, and focused on amplifying rather than replacing human judgment. This isn't about adding technology for its own sake—it's about creating thoughtful partnerships between people and intelligent tools that embody our values while addressing the practical challenges of movement work.

AI as Movement Ally

I design AI systems that align with movement principles and center community needs:

Value-Aligned Intelligence: AI systems trained to recognize and support social justice frameworks

Power-Aware Design: Technologies that distribute rather than concentrate knowledge and decision-making

Relationship-Centered Tools: Systems that enhance human connections rather than replacing them

Mission-Driven Assistance: AI co-pilots that understand your theory of change, not just generic efficiency

True Data Sovereignty

Your movement's data contains sensitive strategies, community relationships, and hard-won insights. Unlike extractive models that treat users as data sources to be mined, my Human-AI Partnership centers data sovereignty as a foundational principle:

On-Premises Processing: Critical AI functions run on your infrastructure, not corporate cloud servers

Local Intelligence: Systems that learn from your context without exposing sensitive data

Transparent Operations: Clear visibility into how AI systems make recommendations

Community Governance: Control over what data is used, how it's processed, and who can access insights

Accessible Intelligence

AI shouldn't become another barrier to participation or create new hierarchies within your organization. My approach prioritizes accessibility in multiple dimensions:

Natural Language Interfaces: Systems that respond to plain language, not technical commands

Multiple Access Points: AI assistance available through familiar tools like chat, email, or voice

Skill-Building Integration: Implementation that builds your team's capacity to work with AI tools

Equal Benefit Distribution: Ensuring AI assistance reaches all levels of your organization, not just leadership

About Me

The Human Behind the Vision

Luis Portalatin-Gauthier

Luis Portalatin-Gauthier

I work at the intersection of social justice, financial systems, and AI innovation. For over 17 years, I've supported organizations from grassroots collectives to national foundations, watching how technology can either liberate or constrain movement work.

My journey hasn't followed the typical FinOps Tech consultant path. I've worked inside social justice organizations at every level—from grassroots collectives juggling C3, C4, and PAC structures to philanthropic intermediaries managing complex grant-making programs. I've been the finance person trying to make QuickBooks speak movement language, the operations director wrestling with disconnected systems, and the development support helping translate community wisdom into funder metrics.

What sets my approach apart is the combination of deep financial expertise, lived movement experience, and cutting-edge AI integration skills. I don't just understand spreadsheets and databases—I recognize how to enhance them with intelligence that respects movement values and protects community data.

"We stand at a pivotal moment where AI could either reinforce existing power structures or help create more just alternatives. I'm committed to ensuring social justice organizations have access to these powerful tools in ways that amplify their mission rather than extracting their knowledge."
Services

Tailored Solutions for Your Organization

My services are designed to meet organizations where they are—whether you're looking for comprehensive AI integration or targeted intelligent tools for specific challenges. All services are offered on a sliding scale based on organizational budget to ensure accessibility.

AI Readiness & Systems Assessment Starting at $1,500 for grassroots organizations

A comprehensive evaluation of your current systems and how AI could enhance them without disrupting your work. Includes:

• AI-powered systems mapping and data flow analysis

• Collaborative visioning sessions with your team

• Ethical assessment of current tools and potential integrations

• Detailed roadmap with phased implementation recommendations

• 60-day follow-up check-in to support initial steps

AI Co-Pilot Implementation Sliding scale for grassroots organizations

Creation and integration of custom AI assistants that enhance your existing tools. Example projects include:

• Financial Intelligence Co-Pilot for budgeting and reporting

• Knowledge Management Assistant for Google Workspace

• Impact Storytelling Engine for program data

• Donor Engagement Co-Pilot for relationship-centered fundraising

Strategic AI Roadmapping Sliding scale based on organizational complexity

A comprehensive strategic engagement to develop a multi-year AI integration strategy aligned with your theory of change and mission goals:

• Vision alignment workshops with leadership, staff, and community members

• Technical, ethical, and operational assessment

• Phased implementation planning with clear milestones and success metrics

• Funding strategy development for technology initiatives

• Community governance framework for AI systems

Get Started

Ready to Transform Your Systems?

Schedule a Free 30-minute Exploration

In this conversation, I'll explore how intelligent tools might address your organization's specific challenges. You'll walk away with at least one concrete idea you can implement, whether we work together or not.

"The future of movement technology isn't about replacing human wisdom with algorithms—it's about creating thoughtful partnerships between people and intelligent tools. When designed with care and aligned with your values, AI becomes a powerful ally in building the world we're fighting for."