A 10-week AI Accelerator in which PFI's staff mapped their own workflows and rebuilt them with Claude, ending in a demo day where 7 presented their work.
PFI's teams spend much of their week on work AI can speed up: reviewing long reports and literature, writing documentation, analysing programme data and designing presentations for government and donor audiences. Before the programme, a pulse survey of 11 staff showed where they stood: 2 were using AI across several workflows, 4 used it occasionally for specific tasks, 4 were experimenting without integrating it, and 1 rarely used AI. Nine of the 11 named information accuracy as a top concern, and several worried about privacy and generic output. A one-day workshop would not have closed that gap.
A 10-week Accelerator, built on each person's own work. Accuracy and privacy got direct attention throughout: checking sources, keeping sensitive data out and keeping a person responsible for every output.
Ten staff mapped their own workflows and rebuilt them with Claude over the ten weeks; seven presented the result at the closing demo day.