Most organizations are bushwhacking their way through AI.
95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing (MIT). Hoplight builds the ones that do: 130+ production AI systems for the labor, advocacy, and mission-driven organizations that can’t hire a Chief AI Officer.
Hoplight’s founder leads AI strategy for one of North America’s largest unions.
- Unions
- Nonprofits
- Advocacy groups
- Foundations
- Progressive agencies
- Mission-driven campaigns
of enterprise AI pilots deliver zero return.
The reason is rarely technology. It’s a stale corporate playbook: buy the fancy tool, mandate its use, train people badly, and call the headcount you cut an innovation. We do the opposite.
The Choice: Austerity or Abundance
The most revolutionary technology in recent history just landed in our laps. The billionaire and CEO response has been austerity. There’s another way.
The Corporate Playbook
- Unilaterally determine AI use cases and governance.
- Mandate tools from the top down.
- Surveil and disempower the people using it.
- Lay people off, cut headcount, double revenue.
- Call the cut an innovation.
The thesis: increase profit by decreasing headcount.
Building with Hoplight
- Your team identifies the highest ROI deployments for AI.
- Build the tools and workflows around their priority use cases.
- Train your team by meeting them where they are.
- Keep your people. Unlock the institutional knowledge they carry.
- Do more with the same headcount than you ever have before.
Using the greatest technological innovation in history as a Trojan horse for austerity is visionless.
The Hoplight thesisBuilt for organizations without a Chief AI Officer.
Most shops offer one layer: a policy, a training, a pile of tools. Real adoption needs all three in the same room.
Practitioners
The front line, closest to the actual work. When left out, they run shadow AI (staff using AI tools nobody approved), open security holes, or quietly sabotage the rollout.
Builders
They can build almost anything you need. When left out, they ship every idea they have and may build tools nobody asked for.
Governance
Legal, HR, compliance, and security. They own risk and operational exposure. When left out, they freeze the work.
What we’ve shipped.
Tools that national organizations are using. Not proofs of concept. Our flagship is Rayli, a communications intelligence platform for mission-driven organizations.
AGIS, the AI Governance Intelligence System
Query AI governance across 2,100+ jurisdictions in plain English. Cross-references what companies promise publicly against what they lobby for privately.
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The Psychographic Message Engine
Validated in a 3,006-person randomized controlled trial, 60.9% matched to the voter file: up to 26 points over a placebo group who read an unrelated message. Persuasion you can audit, control, and improve.
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