Empower Work offers free, confidential support by text for people facing job loss and workplace crises. Founder Jaime-Alexis Fowler’s team uses OpenAI models to help volunteer counselors retrieve vetted resources and prepare handoff summaries. The nonprofit reports that the share of counselors able to handle at least three conversations rose from 27% to 53%.

Elizabeth Rider used ChatGPT to work through the economics and design of Butler, a meal-planning app built around the food families already cook. During development calls, she generated interface concepts that helped her team resolve design decisions on the spot. Working with three developers and a designer, she built the first version in 12 weeks. She and her husband financed the business themselves.

A practical guide for federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial teams using ChatGPT image generation to communicate disaster preparedness, response, and recovery concepts more clearly.

Recording of our August 26 Builder Bootcamp session on Agents.

High school student Max Kornstein used Codex and ChatGPT to build Campus Evidence Lab, an archive of public campus civil-rights records. He says Codex helped him gather and organize roughly 150,000 records in a single day, bringing material from government investigations, court dockets, and institutional responses into one collection.

Florida game developer Jim Chaney uses ChatGPT to set up projects in Unity, a game-development engine, and troubleshoot technical problems. For a client exploring facial-tracking avatars on mobile hardware, it helped him prepare the project and navigate unfamiliar software.

At Tech in Asia, data journalist Duc Tran uses Codex to build tools that generate tracked article links, organize company coverage, and deliver article-performance reports in Slack. He says he can test and implement features in days rather than weeks.

Ryan Hansen uses an OpenAI tool to analyze a year of online-school results at Utah’s Davis School District. He asks follow-up questions to investigate patterns in student performance and prepare feedback on teachers’ strengths and areas for improvement.