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For community partners

You bring the question. We bring the method.

Each year, four community-based organizations are selected for a full applied research partnership with SEEN AI Systems. Partnerships are free to the community and are anchored in a written commitment to independence, transparency, and return of knowledge.

The partnership

What a year with SEEN looks like.

  1. Step 01
    Scoping (Q1)

    We meet on your ground. Together we clarify the question worth studying, the environment, and what a good outcome would mean for your community.

  2. Step 02
    Protocol (Q1–Q2)

    The research protocol is co-written and reviewed by our network. Data-stewardship, consent, and ethics are documented before fieldwork begins.

  3. Step 03
    Fieldwork (Q2–Q3)

    We work in place, with your staff, over months. Findings are held provisionally and revisited with community reviewers.

  4. Step 04
    Return of knowledge (Q4)

    You receive the findings first — in briefings, plain-language reports, and working sessions — before anything is published.

What we commit to

Written into every partnership.

No cost to the community

Community partners never pay for a SEEN study. Sponsorship covers the work.

Findings returned first

You see and respond to the findings before any external audience does.

Independence of study

Sponsors do not direct or edit findings. Ever.

Data on your terms

Data-stewardship and consent are agreed in writing before fieldwork begins.

Is this the right fit?

Partners we look for.

  • You are rooted in a community you know deeply and are accountable to.
  • You have a real question about how AI is showing up in the lives of the people you serve.
  • You can name a small team who can work with us in place over the study year.
  • You want research done with you, not on you or about you.

"The community that lives with the answer should be the one that shaped the question."

— Working principle
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