Recipes
Step-by-step instructions you can follow yourself. Every command here was checked against the tool's own page or its package registry, and every step tells you how to prove it worked.
These are instructions, not case studies
A recipe tells you what to do. It is not a report of something that already happened somewhere else. Nothing here claims that any organisation did this. It is written for you to do now, and every step tells you how to check it worked.
- Safe for sensitive material
Write your organisation's AI rules in one hour
Sixty minutes, a pen, and the person who can actually sign. 71% of the organisations we surveyed have no written AI rule at all.
- Time needed
- 60 minutes · 11 steps
- What it takes
- Nothing to install
- What it costs
- A free path exists
By role: Director or leadership, Grants and operations, Journalist or editor, Documentation and monitoring
- Careful with sensitive material
Turn your monitoring data into a donor report draft without letting a single name leave your office
Two files, one rule: the master holds the truth, and only the safe copy is ever pasted. Ninety minutes on a free tier, with nothing identifiable in it.
- Time needed
- 90 minutes · 16 steps
- What it takes
- Nothing to install
- What it costs
- A free path exists
By role: Grants and operations, Director or leadership, Documentation and monitoring
- Safe for sensitive material
Transcribe an Arabic interview on your own laptop, without it leaving the room
Free, no account, no card. The recording is never uploaded, and step 10 makes you prove the network is really off.
- Time needed
- 90 minutes · 20 steps
- What it takes
- Software to install
- What it costs
- A free path exists
By role: Documentation and monitoring, Journalist or editor, Researcher or analyst
- Careful with sensitive material
Find the paragraph you need in a pile of scanned Arabic legal documents, without trusting the machine's answer
Make a stack of scanned gazettes and judgments searchable for USD 0, then check every answer against the page it came from.
- Time needed
- 120 minutes · 26 steps
- What it takes
- Software to install
- What it costs
- A free path exists
By role: Legal work and accountability, Documentation and monitoring, Researcher or analyst
- Careful with sensitive material
Turn a box of Arabic paper receipts into a spreadsheet you can hand to a donor
Four hours for a first batch, on a free tier with no card. Two envelopes, and only one of them is ever photographed.
- Time needed
- 240 minutes · 25 steps
- What it takes
- Nothing to install
- What it costs
- A free path exists
By role: Grants and operations, Director or leadership
- Safe for sensitive material
Translate speech into Arabic or Kurdish on your own laptop, with nothing sent to the internet
The most technical recipe here: the command line, about 4 GB downloaded once, then live translation with the network off. One common laptop cannot run it at all.
- Time needed
- 100 minutes · 23 steps
- What it takes
- Technical: uses the command line
- What it costs
- A free path exists
By role: Journalist or editor, Communications and campaigns, Documentation and monitoring, Grants and operations