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Catalyze Impact

First employee at the incubator for new AI Safety organisations. Co-ran the incubation program end to end

Group picture of Catalyze Impact's winter 2024/2025 cohort

Technologies

Airtable Python Spreadsheets

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AI Safety Operations
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Catalyze Impact incubates new AI Safety organisations. I was their first employee, and for a year and a half I co-ran the incubation program:

  • Recruitment: finding promising founders through personalised outreach and social media campaigns.
  • Selection: reviewing applications and test tasks, and interviewing candidates.
  • Program design and logistics: designing the program, arranging speakers and venues, and organising events and trips.
  • Participant support: handling requests from founders during, before and after the program.

I also built the systems everything ran on using Airtable bases and Python scripts that automated the repetitive parts of recruitment and selection, and I made some really great spreadsheets.