She Leads AI

Hi Reader, "It's not a character flaw. It's a design flaw." Erika Gianni brought that line to Social Saturday on April 4 — backed by 81,000 people across 159 countries from the largest qualitative AI study Anthropic has run. She Leads AI spent two hours on what it takes to build AI into your practice, one step at a time. Erika brought BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits research. Beth Lyons brought compound engineering. The Social Saturday Companion Guide from April 4th has both. The Tiny Habits recipe...

Hi Reader, Not everyone will be in the streets today. The backbone of every movement is the people working behind the scenes. Calling their representatives. Educating their neighbors. Capturing, documenting and sharing information at the right moment. If your role right now is to be a resource for the people you love, here are some tools from She Leads AI Society member and AI leader Erica Hanna to help them stay informed and stay safe: Why facts don’t break through to his die-hard fansThe...

Hi Reader, Saturday's session was all Claude Code — and none of us have coding backgrounds. Sarah Mary is a medical scientist who fired her developer and now runs her entire production app from a terminal. Beth Lyons brought a framework called compound engineering that changes how you think about every piece of work you do with AI. And I finally showed Sheila — the AI Chief of Staff I've been talking about for weeks. After the session, people asked about Sheila, so we published the whole...

Hi Reader, One of our SLAIers, C, who'd just lost her job, opened Claude Code before she opened Indeed. She built a coaching app for introverted, neurodivergent founders—women like her. She was one of over a dozen women who shared what they’re building - and more importantly - WHY - at a recent Social Saturday. A healthcare navigation app with Stripe in test mode. An ad video platform with paying customers. A tool that shows you exactly how AI models are ranking (or ignoring) your website....

Hi Reader,Last week we launched a living anthology of women leading in AI. You may have seen yourself in those stories — figuratively, literally, or both. This week I've been researching AI Adoption as Resistance — a talk title I submitted in a moment of zero fucks to give. Of course, I will be sharing (de-identified!) stories from our community at the conference...because.....HOLY COW: you people have BALLS and you bet we're here for it. Women using AI for all manner of resistance, from...

Hi Reader, We are a group of doers. As Michelle Muncy-Silva, our Executive Director of the She Leads AI Academy, likes to say: "We’re boots on ground." The case studies we’re sharing today are just a few examples of how the members of our community show up as empathetic leaders at just the right time. What's inside: A no-code symptom-validation app that gives ER patients an objective urgency score so they stop getting sent home with a saline drip and a dismissal. How one member rewrote job...

Hi Reader, When organizations experiment with AI without policies in place, let alone a governance practice, stakeholder trust is super at risk. And we know this is the case at most orgs - everyone is using AI, whether approved or now. At our recent Social Saturday, six experts from the She Leads AI community discussed why "move fast and break things" doesn’t apply in the social impact sector. The panel got specific about trust, cultural barriers, and the tensions that stall AI adoption...