Building Values-Aligned AI for Mission-Driven Organizations.
“Can you build an AI platform that’s for us?”
Change Agent was born out of a question from a colleague at leading civil rights organization Community Change Action in the fall of 2023: “can you build an AI platform that’s for us?” As in for a values-first nonprofit, a justice-minded organization dedicated to the communities it serves.
We’d spent years watching an ugly cycle take root between Big Tech and the social sector—they promise the world when they need our causes to burnish their reputation, then jack up prices when we depend on their tools. We rely on their privacy guarantees and their carbon reduction commitments only for them to exploit our data and renege on their climate action. Silicon Valley extraction at AI scale could not stand.
Also, Big Tech was never going to build to our needs. Their language is not our language. Their values are not our values. Our workflows are not their priority. So we built our own AI.
Change Agent is the mission-based alternative to Big AI, an enterprise-grade platform built of, by, and for the social sector.
Our values aren’t a marketing page. They’re engineering constraints.
Of, By, and For the Social Sector
The social sector has particular needs so it needs specialized AI. We build for the people who advance missions, not the corporations that prioritize margins.
Cultural Competence
Language is an expression of culture. We train our model to mitigate harmful bias and center social sector values and perspectives.
Privacy Over Profit
Your data belongs to you. We never sell it, share it, or train on it. Zero data exploitation and permanent deletion on request. Now and forever.
Impact-Positive
AI built to solve the world's problems must not exacerbate them. 250 Change Agent users consume roughly the energy of one refrigerator. Staunchly pro-worker.
Platform and Partner
We don't hand you software and disappear. Our solutions team builds your workflows, trains your people, and stays through adoption. Your success is our retention strategy.
Independent by Design
Own model. Own infrastructure. No Big Tech dependencies, no VC strings, no investor pressure to monetize your data. We answer to our clients, not our funders.
Ready to See What AI
Can Do for Your Team?
We’re building the future of AI for social change. Come see what that looks like.