In-person training
We come to you. Hands-on sessions built around your real work and run for your team in the room — not a webinar, not a manual.
Technology in service of mission
The tools of the age, in the hands doing the good.
The Foundation for Personal Agency helps charities, community associations and social enterprises master today's technology — including AI — so they spend less time wrestling their tools and more time on the work that matters.
01 — Mission
We believe agency is the whole point.
Technology should serve a mission — not consume it. Yet the organisations doing the most good often spend their scarcest hours fighting the very tools meant to help them.
Give an organisation true command of its tools, and everything downstream gets easier.
We exist to put that command back where it belongs: in the hands of the people doing the work. Practical capability, plainly taught — so that good organisations can act for themselves, and keep their attention on the impact they were built to make.
02 — What we do
Capability, plainly taught.
Three ways we put modern tools within reach — no jargon, no mystique, no lecture hall.
Demystifying AI
We make the new tools legible: what they are genuinely good for, what they are not, and how to use them safely and well.
Workflows & systems
We help you build the systems that absorb the repetitive work — so your people are freed for the work only people can do.
03 — How we work
From overwhelmed to in command, in three moves.
01
We come to you
Training happens in person, in your context, with your real tasks on the table — not abstract examples on a slide.
02
We demystify the tools
You leave understanding the technology itself — not just following a script that someone else wrote for you.
03
You focus on impact
With the busywork systematised, your team spends its time where it actually counts: on real-world results.
Who's behind it
After years advising governments on technology and its policy, I kept meeting brilliant, mission-driven organisations being left behind by the very tools meant to lift them. This is my answer — put the capability directly into their hands, in person, without the mystique.
James Oates
Founder · Former diplomat & technology policy adviser
Get involved
Bring the tools to your team.
We're just beginning, and we're looking for the first organisations to work with — and for partners and supporters who believe mission-driven groups deserve real command of their tools.