Standing Business Policy

AI & Ethics
Policy

We build with AI. We also believe the people displaced by it deserve more than a press release. This is our standing commitment — not a marketing claim, not a footnote.

Effective: January 2025 — reviewed annually

The Core Commitment

10% of profits go to workforce transition education — every year, no exceptions.

G00Dtech donates 10% of net profits to organisations providing retraining, reskilling, and career transition support for workers whose jobs have been eliminated or substantially changed by AI and automation. This is a standing policy, not a campaign.

10%
Net profits donated annually
100%
Disclosed recipients, no vague "giving"
Year 1
Policy active since founding

01 — Why This Exists

We profit from AI. That creates a responsibility.

The tools we build — automation scripts, AI integrations, LLM-powered workflows — make businesses more efficient. Efficiency often means fewer people doing the same amount of work. We are not naive about this.

We didn't create this dynamic, but we participate in it every time we ship a product. The 10% commitment is how we take partial ownership of that outcome.

This isn't guilt — it's accounting. If our tools create value by reducing labour costs, some of that value should flow back to the people absorbing that cost.


02 — What We Fund

Retraining, not charity.

We specifically target organisations focused on practical workforce transition — not general poverty relief, not tech evangelism. The criteria:

  • Skills-first programs that teach transferable, employable skills to displaced workers
  • Community college partnerships and vocational retraining for non-traditional learners
  • Blue-collar to tech pathways that don't require a four-year degree
  • Rural and underserved programs where automation impact is high and alternatives are few

We will disclose recipient organisations annually. If we can't name where the money went, it doesn't count.


03 — How We Build

Our internal standards for responsible AI use.

Beyond donations, we hold ourselves to a set of building standards for every product we ship:

  • No dark patterns. We don't build features designed to manipulate, addict, or deceive users.
  • Automation with a human fallback. Any automated system we build for a client includes a documented path for a human to intervene or override.
  • Data minimalism. We collect what's needed. We don't store, sell, or broker personal data beyond what the product requires.
  • Honest capability claims. We don't oversell AI. If a feature is a heuristic, we say it's a heuristic. If it's an LLM making a guess, we say that too.
  • Client education. We brief every client on what their AI tools can and cannot do before handoff, in plain language.

04 — What We Won't Build

Hard limits. Not negotiable.

We turn down work that involves:

  • Surveillance tools intended to monitor workers without their knowledge
  • Automated hiring systems designed to screen out candidates without human review
  • AI-generated content intended to impersonate real people or fabricate credentials
  • Tools built to automate SPAM, phishing, or mass manipulation campaigns
  • Any system where the primary value proposition is removing human judgment from a decision that materially affects someone's livelihood

This isn't a legal disclaimer. It's a list of things we've been asked to build and said no to.


05 — Accountability

How we stay honest about this.

Policies are easy to write. Here is how this one stays real:

  • Annual disclosure. Recipient organisations and amounts published each January.
  • No carve-outs. The 10% applies to net profit regardless of whether the revenue came from AI-adjacent work or not.
  • Client-facing. Any client who asks can see the current year's giving status. We don't hide the number.
  • This page is the policy. If something changes, this page changes — with a date. No quiet edits.

06 — Contact

Questions, challenges, partnership.

If you run a workforce transition program and want to be considered for funding, or if you have questions or challenges about this policy, reach out directly: jharvmail@gmail.com

We're a small operation. Every email gets a real reply.