Conversations with Program Notes
An early look at natural-language search across 145 years of BSO program notes. Asking questions of our music history in ways we've never been able to ask before.
AI in Practice
AI at a performing arts nonprofit: real projects, real constraints, real conversations about where we go next.
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The Promise of AI Productivity
A UC Berkeley study found AI tools made employees work more, not less. I don't fully agree, but there are takeaways helping shape an AI pilot at the BSO.
AWS Imagine Nonprofit 2026: Notes and Takeaways
Notes from AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026. AI governance rooted in mission values, the Jane Goodall Institute's document processing pipeline, and getting AI into workflows.
Snowflake Data for Breakfast Boston 2026: Notes and Takeaways
Notes from Snowflake Data for Breakfast Boston 2026. A three-pillar AI framework, why the semantic layer matters, and a real-world unstructured data pipeline built on Cortex Search.
Setting Up the Workshop — Documenting for AI Collaborators
Why CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules come before most building. Onboarding AI collaborators with persistent context about architecture, conventions, and constraints.