Frequently asked.
Straight answers for chairs, officers, and volunteers weighing whether AI belongs in their committee’s work.
No. The goal is to help the same people spend less time starting recurring work from scratch and more time on judgment, relationships, leadership, and follow-through. AI can prepare and structure work; people remain responsible for the decisions and the result.
No AI draft should be trusted without review. Our approach grounds drafts in public or approved source material, makes verification part of the workflow, and requires accountable human approval before anything is used publicly. Nothing is automatically published.
Do not submit voter, donor, member, personnel, financial, or other sensitive data for a Capacity Preview. We begin with public or approved non-sensitive materials. Any future use of sensitive information requires an approved process, appropriate controls, and clearly defined access and review rules.
AI can reflect bias, which is one reason it should not make political judgments. Our workflows ground drafts in approved sources, distinguish facts from interpretation, expose uncertainty, and require people to decide the organization’s position, strategy, tone, and final message.
Not at all. The training is built for nontechnical participants: chairs, officers, communications leads, and member volunteers. You learn practical workflows for the work you already do, not tools, code, or jargon.
Live workshops over Zoom, with a self-paced version of every course for members who learn on their own time. Start with a 30-minute Capacity Preview or a single course; private cohorts train the whole committee together.
If your team is new to AI or does not have shared responsible-use practices, AI Readiness is usually the best first step. If you already have a clear recurring workflow and approved source materials, a course, workshop, or bootcamp may be appropriate. Organizations with a proven recurring workflow, owner, and human reviewer may be ready for implementation or platform access. The Capacity Preview helps us determine which starting point fits.
The annual subscription for committees ready to run trained workflows year-round: upload civic materials, add local context, and generate structured, review-ready output for meetings, records, issues, and communications. Training comes first; the platform makes it operational. Plans start at $5,000 per year and are sized to your committee in a conversation.
A reusable system, not just notes. Every engagement leaves a one-page guide for each workflow, ready-to-use prompt packs, a sample input and finished output, a verification checklist, and a plain “don’t use AI for this” guide. The practice stays with you after the session ends.
No. The training works with widely available, approachable tools, so getting started doesn’t mean committing to costly software or long-term contracts. We help you choose what fits a volunteer budget, and we’re clear about where a tool belongs and where it does not.
The current packaged DTC Civic Intelligence Program and published DTC pricing are designed for Democratic Town Committees. CT Innovates is also developing and validating separate civic intelligence applications for municipal leaders and other civic organizations. Those offerings may share the same responsible-use principles and Learn → Apply → Operationalize approach, but their workflows, source permissions, approval rules, and purchasing arrangements are handled separately.