Donations, Collaboration, and AI in the Room

Ali Al Mokdad opens with a Sunday morning at his door. A family with two children, collecting donations for an NGO, and his trained brain immediately runs through overhead, restricted funds, disallowed costs. Then it stops. Kim Kucinskas, Thomas Jepson-Lay, and Ali Al Mokdad sit with what just happened: this is not only a funding problem, it is a social contract problem. The conversation widens into AI in the workplace (productivity gains that get clawed back, atrophy, agents that do not collaborate with each other) and collaboration as a discipline rather than a slogan.