Announcing ArtsManaged Compass
An AI-fueled arts management thinking partner built on three decades of teaching, research, and practice in the nonprofit arts
“…a problem well put is half‑solved.”
—John Dewey, from Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938)
As an arts manager, what do you do when you don’t know what to do? When your community isn’t finding you, or isn’t returning. When your gift requests aren’t resonating with donors. When your board is wandering in the weeds. When you or your team are at full capacity and the work still wants more. When you can’t quite name or frame the problem to be solved.
You could Google, or read, or phone a friend. And you probably do. But general sources offer generic insight that often doesn’t fit your context. And friends or colleagues with context awareness are, themselves, often overclocked.
That was the gap I sought to bridge with the ArtsManaged initiative — an array of resources for arts management practitioners that could grow over time. But those resources couldn’t ask questions, gather context, and focus your thinking for the tasks at hand. Now they can.
Today, I’m opening the preview phase of a new component in the ArtsManaged initiative: ArtsManaged Compass. It’s an AI-fueled thinking partner, built on three decades of arts management teaching, research, and practice, and calibrated to sharpen your thinking rather than write your content.
In a ten-minute interview, it can generate a profile of your current practice and the tensions you’re navigating. Through ongoing discourse, it can help you clarify your challenges and clear your path. By design, it will not write your grant, your agenda, or your marketing plan. Instead, it will help focus your thinking to take action for yourself.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be inviting batches of new users from the waitlist to preview and fine-tune the system. All new users get a seven-day trial before the monthly subscription begins ($15/month, or $10/month for active university students or faculty). You can cancel at any time.
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Now you have an option that’s always on, and already grounded in your practice. Join the waitlist to start the journey.
p.s. ArtsManaged Compass doesn’t remember or store anything from your conversations between sessions. You can download your Compass Profile or Session Portfolio to view, edit, and keep. And you can upload these documents to pick up where you left off. The service’s terms and privacy details are available here.
p.p.s. While all other elements of the ArtsManaged initiative are free, ArtsManaged Compass carries operating costs that I can’t cover myself.
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