The practical manual
The Practical Manual
A practical AI manual for small and micro businesses across the Caribbean and Latin America.
READ PART 1 ↗ FREE REGIONAL AI REFERENCE BUILT IN THE CARIBBEAN · FOR THE CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA
The LAC AI Playbook / Start here
AI IS GLOBAL.
YOUR WORK IS LOCAL.
Find what AI can do for your business, institution or community. Start with your country, choose a practical task, and test the result.
AN INITIATIVE LED BY ADRIAN DUNKLEY ↗ · PRESIDENT, CARIBBEAN AI ASSOCIATION
EXPLORE THE PLAYBOOK.
HOW THIS INITIATIVE WORKS ↗39Country and economy guides
13Sector guides
13Practical Claude Skills
4Translated introductory guides
THREE PARTS. ONE START.
OPEN THE FULL PLAYBOOK ↗The practical manual
The Regional Context Prompt
A reusable briefing template for your country, customers and constraints, with checks for privacy, missing facts and local requirements.
READ PART 2 ↗The practical manual
Your Business Knowledge Base
Build a reusable business briefing and share only the relevant, reviewed details for each AI task.
READ PART 3 ↗START IN YOUR COUNTRY.
ALL 39 ECONOMIES ↗Local sectors, local languages and locally relevant use cases. Choose an economy to read its guide.
AI IN YOUR INDUSTRY.
ALL 13 SECTORS ↗SECTOR PLAYBOOK
Tourism and Hospitality
Hotels, tours, and experiences. AI for concierge, revenue, and reviews.
READ SECTOR GUIDE ↗SECTOR PLAYBOOK
Agriculture
Farm record keeping, draft communications and questions for qualified local advisers.
READ SECTOR GUIDE ↗SECTOR PLAYBOOK
Finance and Banking
Synthetic-data exercises and administrative drafts with authorised financial review.
READ SECTOR GUIDE ↗SECTOR PLAYBOOK
Education
Teachers, schools, and lifelong learners. AI tutors, lesson planning, and multilingual content.
READ SECTOR GUIDE ↗SECTOR PLAYBOOK
Healthcare
Administrative and educational drafts for qualified clinical and privacy review.
READ SECTOR GUIDE ↗SECTOR PLAYBOOK
Creative Industries
Music, design, fashion, and storytelling. AI for production, distribution, and rights.
READ SECTOR GUIDE ↗BUILT FOR YOUR ROLE.
CHOOSE A TRACK ↗TRACK 01
Small and Micro Business Owners
Choose one business task, test it with safe inputs and measure the work needed to check the result.
VIEW THE TRACK ↗TRACK 02
Governments and Policymakers
Evaluate bounded public-service uses with evidence, accountable review, accessibility and routes to challenge errors.
VIEW THE TRACK ↗TRACK 03
Educators and Students
Plan teacher-reviewed AI exercises with age-appropriate access, protected data and a non-AI alternative.
VIEW THE TRACK ↗TRACK 04
Investors and Funders
Examine evidence, costs, permissions and failure modes before forming an AI investment thesis.
VIEW THE TRACK ↗PUT AI TO WORK.
ALL 13 SKILLS ↗LATIN AMERICA / SKILL 01
Agent safety and security reviewer
Map tools, permissions and untrusted inputs; assess prompt injection, high-impact actions and emergency stop controls.
OPEN SKILL ↗LATIN AMERICA / SKILL 02
Behaviour evaluation specialist
Test whether an AI system follows specified goals, restrictions and escalation rules on representative cases.
OPEN SKILL ↗LATIN AMERICA / SKILL 03
Safety assessment specialist
Assess model and product risk across ten domains, then produce an evidence register and release decision.
OPEN SKILL ↗CARIBBEAN / SKILL 04
Content Creator
Draft posts, articles and scripts from verified facts and supplied voice examples; check local language, rights and claims before publication.
OPEN SKILL ↗CARIBBEAN / SKILL 05
Customer Service
Prepare replies from verified business policies, protect customer information and escalate complaints or commitments to authorised staff.
OPEN SKILL ↗CARIBBEAN / SKILL 06
Export Advisor
Prepare product-specific export checklists, cost scenarios and questions for customs and regulatory specialists. Do not issue certificates or guarantee market access.
OPEN SKILL ↗GO FURTHER.
READ THE ARTICLES ↗AI GOVERNANCE
Assess risks, responsibilities and incident response before deploying AI.
EXPLORE ↗SAFETY & ALIGNMENT
Record a manual risk review of AI tools, agents and proposed release decisions.
EXPLORE ↗AGENTS & SMALL MODELS
Learn how to build agents and choose models that fit regional constraints.
EXPLORE ↗MODELS, RANKINGS & TOOLS
Compare practical options and understand where benchmarks fall short.
EXPLORE ↗KEEP LEARNING
PLAYBOOK UPDATES.
Country guides, practical examples and project news.
ABOUT THE INITIATIVE.
READ THE FULL STORY ↗The LAC AI Playbook is an educational initiative led by Adrian Dunkley, President of the Caribbean AI Association.
It brings together the Playbook, country and industry guides, practical skills and responsible AI resources for people working across Latin America and the Caribbean.
ABOUT THE PROJECT ↗