Movement-Aligned Intelligence

AI built for the movement, not the market.

18 years inside movement organizations as the finance person, the ops director, the development support worker. That vantage produces a kind of pattern recognition no outside consultant or product vendor can replicate. It is the credential the rest of the work rests on.

From that ground I build MIAgents — your organization's own Movement Intelligence Agents: private AI tools for social justice organizations that center data sovereignty, preserve institutional knowledge, and put intelligence in the hands of the people already doing the work.

Your team has institutional knowledge that no vendor can replicate. The question is whether your systems capture it or let it walk out the door. I build AI tools that keep strategic intelligence inside your organization, under your control.

The accounting function is an underutilized intelligence hub — not merely a compliance obligation, but the place where the organization's full story lives. Your transaction data tells a story about organizational health that narrative reports alone cannot capture. I build tools that turn your financial data into actionable insight — without exposing it to corporate surveillance.

Your grantees are sitting on hard-won operational knowledge with no infrastructure to preserve it. I work with fiscal sponsors and program officers to build shared intelligence capacity across portfolios.

SLINGSHOT

The Slingshot Duo — two MIAgents sharing one data layer. They read the numbers, surface risks, model scenarios, and draft output for whoever needs it. Every other MIAgent in the roster either extends this duo or runs on its own ground. Explore the demos.

Prototype with simulated data — explore freely

Knowledge as Legacy, Not Extraction

Social justice organizations lose something no budget line captures. When experienced staff leave, they take accumulated wisdom with them. That is the turnover tax on movement work. The Human-AI Partnership Philosophy proposes a different path: technology that preserves institutional memory under community control. The full argument behind this philosophy lives in the writing, where each piece works out a specific part of the case.

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Data Sovereignty

Your data is never used to train external models. Processing happens through API providers whose terms prohibit training on your data, with network-isolated deployment available for organizations that require it. Your campaign strategies, community relationships, and organizational knowledge stay under your control. Data sovereignty is not a feature. It is the foundation.

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Adaptive Infrastructure

Your organization shapes its tools — not the reverse. Purpose-built systems that adapt to your workflows, your grant structures, your reporting cycles. The cost of building lightweight custom tools has dropped dramatically. No platform lock-in. No adapting your work around someone else's architecture. You own the code, the data, and the documentation — any qualified developer can maintain or extend what we build together.

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Collective Intelligence

AI that preserves institutional knowledge instead of extracting it. Systems designed so that the wisdom of experienced staff becomes accessible to everyone, regardless of when they joined. Strategic thinking distributed across the organization, not concentrated at the top.

These three pillars form a coherent arc: Data sovereignty protects what your organization owns. Adaptive infrastructure ensures your tools serve your actual work. Collective intelligence ensures that what you know does not walk out the door with any one person.

Three Paths Forward

Rejection

Continue without AI tools. The risk: other actors — including those working against movement interests — are already using these capabilities, and the gap in capacity may widen.

Capitulation

Adopt commercial AI tools with default settings. Accept the risk. Watch your organizational knowledge feed systems you do not control, governed by terms of service that can change without notice.

Alignment

Build AI tools that center data sovereignty, distribute intelligence, and preserve institutional memory under community control. The path that advances the mission while strengthening the organization.

Read the full philosophy paper

Who I work with

A body of argument, in progress.

Op-eds, frameworks, and a foundational philosophy paper built from 18 years inside movement organizations. The ideas come from the work.

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Luis Portalatin-Gauthier

18 years inside the work.

I have run financial operations, managed grants, and supported development inside nonprofits at every level — from grassroots organizations navigating paired C3/C4 entities to philanthropic intermediaries managing complex grant-making programs. I have been the finance person trying to make QuickBooks speak movement language, the operations director wrestling with disconnected systems, and the development support translating community wisdom into funder metrics.

That operational depth is what makes the technology work. I am not a tech person who learned nonprofits. I am a nonprofit person who built the tools my field needed.

Movement-Aligned Intelligence — technology that serves collective liberation rather than corporate efficiency.

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