Answers with their feet on the ground.

AI assistants for environmental nonprofits. They only say what your trusted sources say, show their work, and admit what they don't know.

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Most chatbots answer from everywhere. Ours answers from what your experts trust.

Any chatbotThe whole internet, confidently.
A Groundwork assistantOnly sources your experts approved. Every answer carries its receipt.

Groundwork is a nonprofit building for nonprofits. Nothing to sell but a true answer.

How it works

Four steps. Your experts in the room for all of them.

  1. Vet

    Your staff pick the reports, datasets, and guidelines it may use. Nothing else gets in.

  2. Organize

    Every source is tagged by author, audience, topic, and place, so the most authoritative one wins.

  3. Break

    We attack it with made-up facts, leading questions, and medical asks, in every language it speaks.

  4. Hand over

    It goes live on your site with a playbook. You own it. We stay reachable.

Try it

Ask it something a real person would ask.

Pick a question. Watch where the answer comes from, and what it refuses to do.

Breathe Mongolia assistant (sample)English
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Approved sources
Before launch

We try to break it before the public does.

Every assistant has to pass a suite written with the partner's experts. It runs again every time a source changes. Tap a test to see what it checks.

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Partners get the full results, including the failures we fixed along the way.
What we promise

Three rules it will not break, even for the people who deploy it.

1

It only says what it can cite.

No approved source, no claim.

2

It says "I don't know" out loud.

Gaps are part of the answer, never papered over.

3

Honest with the public first.

When honesty is inconvenient for the mission, honesty wins. We put that in writing.

Breathe MongoliaOur first partner. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
January Illustrative: winter heating smoke sits under a cold-air lid.
First partner

Starting where the air is hardest to breathe.

Ulaanbaatar has some of the worst winter air in the world. Breathe Mongolia's assistant is our first, in Mongolian and English.

  1. NowVetting sources and writing the test suite with Breathe Mongolia's team.
  2. NextTesting with parents, teachers, and clinic staff before the heating season.
  3. LaterLive on their website, then a second partner working on air, water, heat, or land.
Get involved

Just getting started, which is the best time to shape this.

Run a nonprofit?

We take a few partners at a time. Tell us what your community keeps asking.

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Fund the work?

The build is cheap. Testing properly and staying around is what funding buys.

Ask about supporting us

Want to build it?

Retrieval, evaluation, and languages most AI tools treat as an afterthought.

Say hello
Or write to us directly: hello@groundwork.ngo
Questions we get

What a director asks before saying yes.

What does it cost a partner?

Nothing for the build or the testing. We're grant and donor funded. Hosting afterward is a small cost we walk through with you first.

Who owns it once it's live?

You do. Sources, tagging, tests, configuration, and the playbook are yours. Nothing depends on us staying.

What happens to the questions people ask?

No names or contact details are collected. Questions are logged only so your team can catch bad answers, kept as long as you decide, and never leave your organization.

Which languages?

Whichever your community uses, provided we can test properly in them. We won't ship a language we can't evaluate.

Which AI model is underneath?

Commercial models, swapped when a better or cheaper one appears. The behavior comes from the sources, rules, and tests around them, so a swap doesn't change what it's allowed to say.

What if a source turns out to be wrong?

Retire it and every answer that leaned on it changes. Sources are versioned, so an old guideline stops being cited the day the new one is approved.