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Good learning for good work

Grow your cause. Put AI to work.

AI is the biggest leverage a small team has ever had. We help cause marketers and mission-driven teams learn to market, tell their story, and build with AI, and grow their impact without burning out.

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Who it's for

Built for teams that wear every hat.

When you're small, you are the marketing team, the design team, and the product team. We help you punch far above your headcount.

What you'll learn to do

Six disciplines. One AI-fluent you.

Become the AI-fluent generalist your mission needs, taught the way small teams actually work.

MarketingContent, social, funnels
DesignVisual, brand, UI/UX
DevelopmentSites, apps, interfaces
CommunicationsMessaging, story, voice
ProductStrategy, roadmaps, shipping
Course DevLearning that sells
Grow at your own pace

Courses that end with something you can ship.

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Ways to grow

Find the right way to grow with us.

Whether you learn best on your own, in a community, or one-on-one, pick the path that keeps you moving.

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Self-paced courses

Learn on your own schedule with hands-on courses that end in something you can ship, a brand, a campaign, a finished story.

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Community & live workshops

Build alongside other cause marketers. Weekly live workshops, office hours, and a feed of people who have your back, so you never stall out alone.

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1:1 coaching & brand audits

Want expert eyes on your work? Book a brand audit or a coaching session and get unstuck fast, with feedback tailored to your cause.

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The Library · your toolkit

Tools that keep working after class ends.

The durable, AI-resistant assets: mental models, playbooks, and copy-and-run prompts. Recorded info is a commodity now, process and context are the moat.

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Meet your host

Hi, I'm Cynthia, and I built the room I wish I'd had.

"Full of ideas, tired of tools getting in the way. We learn to design, build, and market with AI, and we do it together. Done beats perfect."

  • Product innovation & learning-design leader, focused on AI-enabled learning.
  • Instructional design grounded in real adult-learning science, minus the jargon.
  • Every course is built with the exact method it teaches.
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Cynthia Glunt
Founder & Host · Grassroots Growth
Choose your path

Curated routes through the courses.

Not sure where to start? Follow a path that stacks the right courses in the right order for your goal.

Field Notes

What we're learning, out loud.

Essays and episodes that answer the real questions people are asking AI, so this is where they land.

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Inside the community

A community as varied as the work you do.

Nonprofits, founders, and solo builders, every one of us wearing a different hat, growing together.

Ready to grow something real?

Join a community of nonprofits, startups, and solopreneurs learning to build with AI, with the courses, tools, and people to actually finish.