You shouldn't have to choose between keeping pace and keeping student records safe.
Lansby helps leaders at small liberal arts colleges save hours on grants, reports, and outreach, while protecting every student and donor record in your care.
7:50 a.m. on Tuesday
The quad is quiet. The first seminar starts at nine.
A foundation report is due Friday. The accreditation self-study grows by the week. Your inbox is full of faculty who disagree about AI: half want to ban it, and half already use it. The president wants a recommendation before the next cabinet meeting.
Your college has fourteen hundred students. You know many of them by name.
The report that writes itself.
Someone in advancement drafts the foundation report with AI in an afternoon. It is good.
Then you ask what went into it. Alumni giving histories. Scholarship records. A note about one family's finances. Student records are protected by federal privacy law, and no one can say where these went.
So the report waits, the faculty keep arguing, and the recommendation stays unwritten.
You don’t need another expert.
You need someone to guide you.
We believe in the work you do, and we know you should not carry this alone.
Jennifer De Witt taught in a classroom and has sat at nonprofit board tables.
Alan Murphy holds patents in data security and worked within nonprofits. Together, we help you choose AI tools that are simple, worth your time, and safe for every name in your files.
Jennifer De Witt
Partner
Alan Murphy
Partner1.
Talk privately.
Begin with an AI Advisory Session: just you, your questions, and a clear next step.
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Decide together.
In the Executive Position, your leadership agrees on one AI position and puts it in writing.
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Lead with confidence.
Your staff are trained, your tools are secure, and your board has its answer.
Commencement.
The self-study went in on time. Advancement uses one approved tool, set up so that every student and donor record stays where it belongs. At cabinet, you handed the president one page, and the faculty debate became a policy everyone can follow.
On the lawn, a graduate you have known since orientation waves you over for a photograph.
That is what your time is for.
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Common Questions
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We pair deep technical expertise with years inside mission-driven work.
We advise on strategy and security, then build the tools and train the people who carry the work forward, so your team leads on its own.
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Start with decisions, then choose tools.
A 2026 survey of 346 nonprofits found that 92 percent use AI, yet only 7 percent report major gains, and nearly half have no formal AI policy.
Our work starts with decisions: agreeing on goals and guardrails, then building the tools that serve them.
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Only under clear rules. Free AI tools may store what staff type, and some use it to improve their models.
A strong AI policy names the approved tools, sets their privacy controls, and keeps donor and client details out of everything else.
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Yes. A private, or sovereign, AI system runs on infrastructure your organization controls, so donor and client data stays in your hands.
We help you choose, set up, and run these systems to fit your budget and needs, from a single secure assistant to custom tools for an entire team.