Find the opportunity.
Identify a meaningful challenge and ask where working with AI might change your approach.
01 / The idea
AI should change how you approach a problem, not how fast you fix it.
AI can be an active thinking partner, one that helps you examine assumptions, investigate unfamiliar territory, make connections, and see possibilities you might otherwise miss.
Collaborating with AI doesn't mean surrendering your judgment or critical thought. You bring the context, experience, curiosity, and responsibility. AI contributes questions, perspectives, and possibilities worth examining. The thinking happens together; the decisions remain yours.
02 / The approach
Start with a real problem.
Not a list of prompts to memorize or a polished demo with an obvious answer. A real-life use case with uncertainty and complexity.
Think it through together.
Share context. Question assumptions. Look for missing information. Explore and test possible paths.
Use your judgment.
Evaluate what AI offers, challenge weak reasoning, and make decisions you can explain and defend.
03 / Who it's for
For community builders and managers.
Especially when the systems behind those communities are anything but straightforward.
Working across disconnected tools?
If your community runs through Slack, Discord, spreadsheets, or a collection of makeshift workflows, you know how much manual effort and ambiguity can hide between systems.
Working inside a dedicated platform?
Even with systems such as Higher Logic, Circle, or Gainsight, making sense of information, designing workflows, and solving unfamiliar problems still demand human judgment.
04 / The pilot
One small cohort. Real use cases. Four conversations that build on each other.
TandemMind AI Lab is a free proof-of-concept pilot for community professionals who want to experiment with a different way of working with AI.
10
Participants
4
Live sessions
60
Minutes each
SESSION 01
The approach, illustrated by a real use case
Thu, Nov 5
SESSION 02
A challenge chosen by the cohort
Thu, Nov 12
SESSION 03
Another challenge, another way to think
Thu, Nov 19
SESSION 04
Explore, reflect, and put the learning to work
Thu, Dec 3
All sessions: 12:00–1:00 p.m. Mountain Time · 2026
Thanksgiving week off.
05 / Join the experiment
Bring a problem worth thinking about.
I'll bring the opening use case and explain what we're doing and why. You bring questions and challenges from your work. Together, we'll decide which use cases to explore as a group.
Before we begin, I'll ask about your goals and challenges. After the pilot, we'll reflect on what worked, what didn't, and what you'd want more of. The goal is to learn whether this approach changes how people think and work with AI.