Welcome to SID
Welcome to SID
What Is SID?
The Social Impact Designer (SID) is a free AI-powered planning tool developed by Eric Dahlin, PhD and Kyla Russella Soriano. It has been fine-tuned using the leading frameworks in the social sciences including peer-reviewed academic materials that were hand-selected by university researchers. This ensures that chatbot responses are applicable and effective in planning social impact projects. It guides social impact practitioners through the early stages of project design, helping you articulate basic theories of change, identify appropriate outcomes and indicators, and build logical frameworks that connect your activities to the impact you intend to create. Whether you're drafting a grant proposal, scoping a new initiative, or validating an existing program model, the Social Impact Designer asks the right questions to sharpen your thinking before you invest significant resources. When you're ready for deeper, context-specific strategy consulting contact us using the SOCIO web portal.
While SID is hosted on OpenAI's platform, your conversations are not shared with OpenAI or any of its affiliates. Please note that SOCIO is not liable for the outputs generated by this chatbot. As with any AI tool, responses should be treated as a starting point rather than final guidance. We encourage users to critically evaluate all recommendations and verify how appropriate they are before applying them to real-world projects.
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Socio AI Policy
SOCIO is a research-led consultancy of sociologists and data scientists. Our value lies in our rigorous research methods and our deep contextual understanding of social problems. The quality and depth of the work we produce comes from consultants with advanced degrees who offer a depth of insight that is very difficult to replicate. Any use of technology is meant to enhance that work without diminishing the quality of our insights and analyses. That said, our goal is to provide the best possible service for our clients, which requires that we use the best tools available to deliver work efficiently and effectively, including AI tools and chatbots. We are committed to maintaining the integrity of our intellectual contributions while staying on the cutting edge of AI methods to serve our clients and advance social impact progress. This policy governs how we use AI tools in ways that enhance our work without compromising the original thought, methodological rigor, and PhD-level analysis that define our Contextual Analytics approach.
Our main use for AI tools is to develop our project deliverables more efficiently after we have fine-tuned social impact strategies using the best available academic research and our own expert analysis. The question we ask before any AI use is: Does this diminish or enhance the human insight that our clients are paying for?
Human Expertise is our Product
Every deliverable must reflect the judgment, domain knowledge, and contextual understanding of SOCIO team members.
AI is a Tool to Enhance our Human Expertise
AI may help us work faster on mechanical tasks, but strategic insights, analytical frameworks, and recommendations must emerge from expert researcher analysis.
We Protect Client Data
No client data, proprietary information, or personally identifiable information is entered into AI tools without explicit protocols.