Free Resource
Is Your Community Ready for AI?
A practical checklist for small and community-driven teams to assess whether AI moderation or chatbots will help—or harm—trust, safety, and engagement.
- Best for
- Community managers, volunteer moderators, and small nonprofit teams.
- Time
- About 10 minutes.
- Outcome
- A readiness score, gap list, and printable discussion guide.
- Next step
- Start the interactive checklist and review results with your team.
Why this checklist matters
AI tools are easier than ever to deploy, but they are just as easy to misuse. Most failed rollouts happen because teams skip process decisions, not because the technology itself is impossible.
- AI moderation without clear rules
- Chatbots replacing human judgment
- Silent failures and unclear accountability
What the checklist covers
- Community trust and moderation maturity
- Clear problem definition before automation
- Human-in-the-loop decision making
- Transparency and explainability
- Failure and rollback planning
- Data and privacy awareness
Who this is for (and not for)
This checklist is for...
- Volunteer moderators
- Small community teams
- Non-profits and grassroots organisations
- Platforms experimenting with AI
This checklist is NOT for...
- Fully automated moderation systems
- Large enterprise-only teams
- Communities replacing humans entirely
What you'll get
- Interactive, section-by-section checklist flow
- Automatic score and readiness guidance
- Printable results for team discussions
- No fluff and no jargon
- Designed specifically for small teams
- No tools required, no prior AI experience needed
Ready to assess your community's AI readiness responsibly?
Start with the interactive flow, then use the scorecard to decide which safeguards to fix before any AI rollout.
Start the interactive checklist