Artificial Intelligence is already transforming how businesses plan, communicate, and make decisions. But for the cooperative movement, AI isn’t just a new productivity tool—it’s a strategic imperative. The challenge is clear: how do we harness AI’s potential without compromising cooperative values or ceding control of our knowledge to outside corporations?

That’s where CoopAI comes in.

What CoopAI Really Is (and Isn’t)
We’re not building our own neural network from scratch—and that’s a good thing.

Instead, CoopAI is an enhanced deployment of existing, world-class AI engines—the same kind of intelligence that powers leading public AI tools—but with something extra: a cooperative-exclusive layer of knowledge and data.

Think of it as two layers working together:

The General Intelligence Layer – The public knowledge, language capabilities, and reasoning skills of a top-tier AI model.

1. The Cooperative Layer – A walled garden of cooperative-specific data, best practices, benchmarks, case studies, and sector intelligence—available only to the movement.

This means CoopAI has all the benefits of the broader AI world, plus the insight, accuracy, and cultural fluency that comes from being steeped in cooperative reality.

CoopAI vs. CoopGPT

• CoopAI is the ecosystem: the cooperative knowledge layer + secure infrastructure + integrations that make AI work for the movement.
• CoopGPT is one tool inside that ecosystem: a cooperative-exclusive chatbot interface that makes it easy to query and apply what’s in CoopAI.

Put simply: CoopAI is the engine; CoopGPT is the steering wheel.

Coming Soon: Your First GPT Tools on P6
CoopAI is still in its early development phase. You won’t see every feature on day one—but you will start interacting with it soon through purpose-built GPT tools:

• P6 Cooperative Storybuilder (coming soon) – Our first GPT, designed to help cooperatives quickly craft compelling, values-driven narratives by combining structured prompts with AI-assisted writing. Perfect for grant applications, newsletters, or media stories.

• Collaborative Community Engagement Tool (next in line) – Will assist community managers in planning discussion topics, engagement prompts, and surveys for their Collaborative Communities, drawing from the P6 survey library and best practice archives.

These are the entry points into the CoopAI ecosystem. Over time, we’ll add more AI-enabled features for automation, analysis, and ideation—from generating insights based on sector-wide data to synthesizing cooperative solutions at scale.

Why a Cooperative-Owned AI Layer Matters
Without a cooperative-owned layer, our movement would face three risks:

• Losing ownership of cooperative data and insights
• Having our priorities shaped by outside commercial interests
• Being subject to policy changes that could limit access or raise costs

By building our own secure layer on top of existing AI engines, we:

• Keep cooperative data inside the movement
• Ensure AI reflects cooperative values and priorities
• Maintain the ability to control, expand, and evolve the system for our own needs

How CoopAI Works

1. Knowledge Gathering – CoopAI draws from cooperative-contributed best practices, case studies, survey results, and verified sources.
2. Integration with General AI – It combines this cooperative-exclusive data with the public knowledge base of a leading AI engine.
3. Secure Access – The cooperative layer is private, movement-owned, and available only through Principle 6 tools.
4. Application Through Tools – Insights surface in platform features like the Dynamic Intelligence Library, Member Benefit Statement, and Cooperative Impact Statement.

Why This Matters for Cooperatives and Federations
For cooperatives, CoopAI delivers on-demand intelligence—whether for member engagement, operational planning, or market adaptation—grounded in both global knowledge and cooperative-specific context.

For federations, CoopAI enables sector-wide synthesis, making it easier to identify trends, share solutions, and produce aggregated impact reports that prove the value of membership.

What’s Next

• The P6 Cooperative Storybuilder GPT launches first, followed by the Collaborative Community Engagement Tool.
• The beta version of CoopAI will debut later this year, starting with its integration into the Dynamic Intelligence Library.
• Federation and cooperative beta testers will help shape the system by contributing knowledge and testing its outputs.
• Sector-specific versions will follow, giving every region or industry its own specialized cooperative AI hub.

Evolving Together
The world of AI is changing at a breathtaking pace. What we’ve shared here reflects our thinking today—but we know it will evolve as the technology and the cooperative movement’s needs evolve.

That’s the beauty of building CoopAI cooperatively: we can collectively decide how we want AI to work for Principle 6 and for the movement at large. We welcome feedback, questions, and ideas at every stage. Together, we’ll make sure AI serves our members, strengthens our movement, and stays true to our values.

📢 Call to Action
If you want to be part of the CoopAI beta, now’s the time to raise your hand. The more cooperative knowledge we add now, the stronger our collective intelligence becomes.

Click here to get started and request an access code!

Because in a world where AI is everywhere, owning our intelligence is owning our future.