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Three things. The AI Opportunity & Risk Snapshot takes about three minutes and gives you two scores plus the moves worth making, no policy required. The AI Policy Health Check scores an existing draft policy against 40 stakeholder questions. Both are free to run and free to read, with an optional €49 full report that’s credited toward an engagement if you go further. And the fit call itself is free on any offer, which makes it a reasonable step even before budget is secured.

Yes, and it’s work we’ve done. Our longest engagement so far, 10 hours over 5 weeks, ran through NonprofitBuilder to their own beneficiaries. A grantee cohort is scoped differently from an internal team: a shared core calibrated to a mixed group, role- or level-based tracks so beginners and advanced users both get their time’s worth, and reporting written for your board rather than a stack of individual completion records. Pricing is per cohort, not per seat. Bring the cohort size, the spread, and what you need to report, and we’ll scope from there.

Start by telling us the grant’s scope and its reporting requirements, because those shape the engagement as much as the budget does. Education tends to fit best: the deliverable is capability that stays with your people, and it produces artifacts you can attach to a funder report (training log, completion records, role-to-AI-system mapping, and one workflow that measurably changed). Guardrails produces the other thing funders ask to see, a dated and versioned policy with a named owner inside your organisation. If there’s a spend deadline, say so early and we’ll work backwards from it.

Yes. AI Capacity Building Education is a full offer, not an add-on. Formats range from a single two-hour session to a multi-week cohort, plus workshops delivered through capacity-building partners to their own beneficiaries. Training components can also sit inside a Guardrails or Workflow Upgrade engagement when that’s the better fit.

Article 4 requires documented AI literacy for staff who use AI systems or are affected by them: not certification, not an exam. Our education engagements produce a completion record for each person plus an evidence pack (training log, role-to-AI-system mapping worksheet, acceptable-use policy starter, and a one-page memo mapping the course to Article 4). Our courses target baseline literacy. People working with more advanced agentic systems, building AI others rely on, or in roles where a mistake could cause harm need literacy beyond that, and we’ll help you find where that line falls. Details on the Education page.

Yes. wAI-Finder community-entry pricing starts at €950, and a community-rate Guardrails Starter covers the minimal case. Education is scoped to the group, so a single session for a small team is a realistic purchase. Smaller nonprofits and grant-funded teams may qualify for community-rate options on the larger engagements as well. The container is smaller (fewer stakeholders, fewer review cycles, lighter documentation), not lower-quality.

If you’re coming through Nonprofit Builder, you can also find AlignIQ there and contact us through that profile.

This is the objection we hear most, usually from someone who already knows it’s needed and whose leadership doesn’t yet. Places this has fit for others: a professional-development or capacity-building line, a security or compliance training budget, an IT or data-security line, or a digital-capacity grant, the kind that funded our work with NonprofitBuilder. If the EU AI Act’s Article 4 applies to you, that’s a compliance argument too, not just a nice-to-have. The fit call is free, so it’s a reasonable first step before budget is secured.

The standard organisational rate for wAI-Finder is €1,500, and the deliverable is a focused working session plus usable artifacts (SBAR brief, risk map, decision table, five custom AI test cards), not a sales call. Many teams take the artefacts to a board or a leadership meeting and act on them with or without further AlignIQ engagement. On education, we specialise in small and medium organisations. Above roughly 500 staff we won’t turn you away, but we’re upfront that we may not yet have the team to run a rollout at that scale as well as we’d want to.

Either order works. Our training includes AI policy best practices built in, so it doesn’t assume a policy already exists. We support organisations before their policy is in place, during the process, and after, including the leaders setting it.

No. AlignIQ does not provide legal advice. Our work is not a security audit, vendor contract review, or compliance certification. Where any of those reviews are needed, we’ll flag it and recommend a next step.

Yes. Education and Guardrails pair well and often run close together. Workflow Upgrade can run in parallel if the team has capacity. Sequencing matters less than knowing which workflow to upgrade and which rules to set.

Send us a short note describing the workflow that feels stuck, what must not go wrong, and what you hope AI might help with. We’ll come back with a right-sized first step.

Agentic patterns are reviewer assistants, structured draft checks, source-grounding, task routing, and reusable assistant workflows. We use them where they’re a clear fit inside a workflow upgrade. We don’t use them to look impressive. The goal is a workflow that produces better outputs faster, with appropriate human review.

We use public information and client-approved, non-sensitive materials. We do not ask you to share confidential, privileged, client-identifiable, donor-identifiable, HR, or safeguarding-sensitive data. If sensitive material is relevant, we design around it using redacted examples, categories, or process descriptions.