Client Service Selection Policy
Mission
The purpose of the AI Foundry is to develop disciple-leaders who use AI to enhance human flourishing.
Human flourishing
Human flourishing can be defined in a variety of ways. We seek to do work that focuses on four dimensions.
| Dimension | In-scope of mandate | Out of scope of mandate |
|---|---|---|
| Physical | Extends capability, health, and safety | Grows consumption of habit-forming substances |
| Mental / Intellectual | Builds resilience, judgment, and skill | Monetizes compulsion or distress |
| Social | Strengthens teams, families, and communities, and expands opportunity | Monetizes anger or conflict |
| Spiritual | Serves dignity, purpose, and meaning | Degrades dignity for attention or profit |
Work that sits outside our mandate
We ensure project fit by considering an organization’s primary business and a particular project’s purpose. In general the following categories fall outside our mandate:
- Alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, cannabis, and other drugs of dependence.
- Coffee, tea, and similar habit-forming beverages.
- Volume growth for controlled substances: sales, script volume, and prescriber targeting.
- Gambling: sports betting, prediction markets, gamified retail trading, and casino-mechanic monetization.
- Pornography and the commodification of sex, in any form or channel.
- High-interest lending: payday, title, and refund anticipation.
- Political work: parties, campaigns, candidates, PACs, legislative offices, ballot initiative advocacy, and lobbying on a client’s behalf.
- Products marketed on unproven or deceptive claims.
- Brands whose public marketing is sexualized, innuendo-forward, profanity-forward, or built on party or intoxication culture, regardless of product category.
If a prospective client or project looks like it touches this list discuss with the faculty advisor before a scoping call.