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What we are learning as we build. Written in plain language, because if we cannot explain it simply we should not be shipping it.
Project Lookout is live, and BECMA is its first network
On October 6, Rev. Christopher Hope and I stood on the main stage of the Mass Black Expo and introduced Project Lookout's first network to the world. The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts now runs its own instance of the platform, called BECMA Compass. Here is the day, and what the first month looks like.
Project LookoutBECMALaunch
Why we stopped calling ourselves a consultancy
For five years we described ourselves by the shape of our invoices. Here is what we actually do, and why "lab" is the honest word for it.
The labDigital Beloved Community
What "local AI" actually means for your organization's data
A plain-language explanation of where your data goes when you use AI, what changes when a model runs on a machine you control, why we are pioneering that path without calling it our default yet, and the short checklist we use in the lab to decide.
Local AIPrivacyTech stack
Five questions to ask any AI vendor (we answer them too)
The Hope Standard, rewritten as five questions you can bring to your next vendor meeting, with what a good answer sounds like, what a bad one sounds like, and ours.
The Hope StandardProcurement
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