Building AI That Helps Nonprofits Win More Funding | Jake Butt, GxP Solutions

Most AI builders point their tools at the biggest companies with the biggest budgets. Jake Butt points his at the opposite end — nonprofits with small teams, big missions, and tiny budgets.Jake is the President of GxP Solutions, an AI education, strategy, and implementation consultancy for small and midsized organizations based in Frederick, Maryland. He's built AI-powered tools that are quietly changing how nonprofits operate: grant writing assistants and auto-report generation apps that help nonprofit executive directors save serious time and apply for — and win — more funding.And he practices what he preaches. Jake runs his own consulting business on a stack of automations: Claude and Notion workflows, email consolidation systems, and integrations built on platforms like n8n, Zapier, and Make.In this episode, Jake walks us through:▸ Why he chose to focus on nonprofits when enterprise clients pay more▸ What grant writing actually looks like for a small nonprofit — and why it's such a brutal bottleneck▸ A walkthrough of the grant writing assistant and auto-report generator▸ How AI expands capacity for organizations that can't just hire more people▸ The Claude + Notion automations running his own business day to day▸ His unusual take on AI governance, shaped by a career in GxP and biotech compliance▸ Real results: time savings for executive directors and more funding won▸ Where a small business or nonprofit should start with AI this weekThe core message: AI isn't just for enterprises with big budgets. A small consulting firm can build tools that help a nonprofit win another grant — and that grant might be the one that keeps the lights on.If you run a small business or nonprofit and think AI is something happening to other people, this episode will change your mind.▸ ▸ ▸ABOUT 120 OCTANE120 Octane is the podcast where founders, operators, and builders show us the AI systems they actually built. No hype. No theory. Real builds. Real impact. Real numbers.Hosted by Avi Slavin and Alexandra Jacobo, every episode pulls back the curtain on a real AI system in production — and extracts the lessons, playbooks, and tactical advice listeners can use in their own work.▸ ▸ ▸WHERE TO FIND USWebsite: 120octane.comApply to be a guest: 120octane.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/120-octane▸ ▸ ▸GUEST LINKSJake Butt on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jacobwbuttGxP Solutions: gxpsolutions.net▸ ▸ ▸If this episode helped you, please rate, review, and share it with one operator who needs to hear it. Every subscribe matters when a show is just getting started.Until next time. Stay building.