August 2026 · A birthday request

Instead of gifts, send a book

Help me celebrate my birthday and a huge achievement. I wrote a book to help every organization govern AI, not just the ones with the budget and the team to do it.

Send a book $35 · one book · one leader

Recipients come from public nominations and from sector partners who know their members. Books release on September 15 and will ship after that time.

For $35, you put The Insider You Built in the hands of a leader who is governing autonomous AI systems without a governance team, without a playbook, and with no time to write one.

Water utilities. Rural hospitals. Legal aid offices. County library systems. Human rights organizations. Organizations that run consequential systems on thin margins, that have already handed real decision authority to AI tools, and that have nobody on staff whose job is to ask what happens when one of those decisions goes wrong.

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$35 sends one book to one leader. Sponsoring more? Adjust the quantity in your cart. Books ship after publication on September 15.

$105a leadership team · qty 3
$350a department · qty 10
$1,050a sector cohort · qty 30
The more who give, the further each gift reaches.

Sponsorships compound quickly. $35 sends one book, but every copy we fund lowers the cost, so the number of books we can give grows faster than the number of sponsorships. At 100 sponsorships this delivers 109 books. At 250, it delivers 290. At 500, it delivers 618 — 118 copies nobody paid for directly.

Send a Book — The Insider You Built
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Send a Book — The Insider You Built
$35.00
$35 sends one copy of The Insider You Built to a leader at an organization governing autonomous AI systems without a governance team — water utilities, rural hospitals, legal aid offices, county library systems, transit authorities.

Set the quantity to sponsor more: 3 covers a leadership team, 10 a department, 30 a sector cohort. Bulk pricing steps down at 100, 250, and 500 total copies, and every dollar saved buys another book.

Books ship to recipients after publication on September 15, 2026. You'll receive a confirmation when yours ships. Recipients are selected from public nominations and sector partners — you can nominate an organization or leader during checkout.

This is a purchase from CAS Strategies, not a charitable donation, and it is not tax-deductible.
Who receives them

Leaders at critical infrastructure operators, nonprofits, civil society organizations, and public institutions that carry real consequence and thin governance capacity. A few examples of where the need shows up:

01Water utilities
02Rural hospitals
03Legal aid offices
04County library systems
05Human rights and civil society advocacy organizations

This is not a closed list. If an organization runs consequential systems on thin margins and has already delegated decisions to AI tools, it belongs here — school districts, food banks, community health centers, energy cooperatives, immigration and housing services, transit authorities, and small energy and port operators among them.

Who should get one?

We choose every recipient from nominations. The strongest ones come from people who work near an organization rather than inside it — vendors, consultants, board members, and former staff can usually see the gap from outside.

Tell us who they are and what risk they are carrying that they cannot yet see. It takes about three minutes, and you can nominate your own organization.

Nominate an organization
Questions
When do books ship?+

The Insider You Built publishes September 15, 2026 and sponsored copies will be sent in the weeks following. You will receive a confirmation when yours ships.

Can I choose who gets my copy?+

You can nominate an organization using the form above, and we work through nominations as we fill orders. We cannot guarantee a specific match because we balance across sectors and geography.

Who picks recipients?+

We select from public nominations and from sector partners including the ISACs, NTEN, TechSoup, and state library associations. Priority goes to organizations operating consequential systems without dedicated governance staff.

What happens to money above cost?+

It buys more books. Bulk pricing improves with volume, so the savings compound into additional copies. The running count reflects actual books funded, not sponsorships sold.

Can I sponsor more than 30?+

Yes. Reach out first at insideryoubuilt@cas-strategies.com so we can plan distribution well.

The fine print

This purchase will be facilitated by CAS Strategies, so it is not a charitable donation and it is not tax-deductible. I earn my standard royalty on these copies, the same as any other sale. Everything above cost goes into more books, and we publish the count.

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