The third meetup of our AI Support Group has taken place – and it showed once again how varied the questions, experiences and ways of working around artificial intelligence have become.
With 16 participants, the group was a colourful mix: many came from communications, editorial work and freelancing, others from companies or non-profit organisations. It was exactly this mix that made the evening so interesting, because very different perspectives on AI came together – from first experiments all the way to deeply integrated workflows.
Intro round: Claude ahead of ChatGPT.
We opened with a short intro round. Everyone shared how they currently use AI and which tools play a role in their day-to-day work. One interesting observation: the majority of the group now works primarily with Claude, while ChatGPT was named far less often as a main tool. Only one person said they use ChatGPT mainly for writing texts.
The majority of the group now works primarily with Claude – ChatGPT was named far less often as a main tool.
Q&A: How a US non-profit moved to AI.
A central part of the evening was a longer Q&A with a guest who works at a US non-profit civic-tech organisation. Over a lengthy transformation process, the organisation has shifted its way of working heavily towards AI. The conversation explored how that change unfolded internally, which processes shifted, which challenges came up, and how a team adapts to a new, AI-supported work culture.
Hands-on examples from the group.
Several hands-on examples from the group followed:
- One participant showed how, in just a few hours, he built his own screenwriting app with the help of Gemini.
- Another gave insights into his workflow with Claude Code and demonstrated how he integrates various interfaces to build automations with n8n.
- We also saw how Obsidian can be woven into an AI-supported workflow as a „second brain“ – a personal wiki, knowledge store and working basis for AI processes.
Three hours, plenty of exchange.
All in all the evening lasted around three hours and wound down afterwards over drinks and further conversation. To close, we once again gathered feedback from the group. The responses were very positive: many participants especially valued the openness of the exchange, the concrete hands-on examples and the chance to bring their own questions.
The next session of the AI Support Group takes place in August.