Earthsight AI Consortium · Flagstaff, AZ

Rooted AI
for people who want
their community to thrive.

A team of practitioners, not consultants. We help Northern Arizona's schools, businesses, nonprofits, and working adults put AI to work — practically, responsibly, and right here at home.

San Francisco Peaks with lightning
3
Founding practitioners
K–65+
Age range we serve
80+ members
Northern Arizona AI Meetup
Aug 26, 2026
Grand opening, Flagstaff
Why Earthsight exists

The people most affected by AI are often the last to have a seat at the table.

Workers, families, small businesses, educators, and community organizations across Northern Arizona are navigating one of the most disruptive technological shifts in a generation — mostly alone, mostly without support built for them.

Earthsight AI Consortium exists to change that. We're three practitioners who came up through the real world — sustainable building, fire science, land stewardship, and resilient communities — not the tech world. We know what it means to adapt. And we know how to help others do it.

"AI that grows from the community it serves, addresses physical needs, and stays accountable to the place and people it touches."

Based at Moonshot, Flagstaff's business accelerator, we're here for the long term — building the local AI ecosystem one person, one organization, one classroom at a time.

What we believe

Three principles behind everything we do.

Rooted in place
We're not a national firm parachuting in. We live here, and we're accountable to this community for the long haul.
Technology in service of people
We don't lead with AI. We lead with the problem you're trying to solve. The tools come after.
Built for the ones left behind
We exist specifically for the people and organizations that aren't getting the support they need to keep up and who have the most to gain when they do.
Our approach

Responsible AI, built for a water-scarce, wildfire-prone, high plateau community.

Northern Arizona doesn't need AI adoption that's abstract or disconnected from local reality. It needs AI that's careful, useful, and accountable to the place it serves. Every project we take on is measured against four practical gates:

Truth & Verification
Human review for anything high-stakes. No black-box decisions.
Equity & Bias
Built and tested for everyone in this community, not just the easiest users to serve.
Privacy & Security
Data minimization by default. No surveillance-style deployment, ever.
Ecology
Every AI project is weighed against its water, energy, and waste footprint — not just its benefits.
Regional reality snapshot
Water scarcityFlagstaff has cut water use from 186 to ~84 gallons per person per day since 1988
Housing emergencyGoal: help 6,000 residents, create or preserve 7,976 housing units by 2031
Wildfire riskGuided by the Coconino County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Climate goalCommunity-wide carbon neutrality target: 2030

These four gates aren't abstract philosophy — they're how we show up on every engagement, starting with where our combined backgrounds run deepest.

Where our work is most focused — and where else we show up.

Where it all comes together — Earth, vision, resilience, community

Environmental, Engineering & Natural Resource Organizations

This is where all of our backgrounds meet — land, engineering, sustainability, and community work — and where we do our most focused work together as a team. It's for organizations working at the intersection of land, water, infrastructure, or community, whether you're an engineering firm, a nonprofit, or something in between. We're still finding the full edges of this space, but this is unmistakably where it starts. Meet the team behind this work →

environmental & engineering sustainability & natural resources nonprofits & land stewardship grants, governance & compliance
Norm Lowe David V. Moore Ariel Strong
Two more places we show up
Education & Workforce Development

Story-based, nature-connected enrichment for kids alongside workshops, coaching, and courses for adults navigating AI-driven job disruption — from first curiosity to confident, everyday use.

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Business & Organizational Systems

Right-sized AI integrations and workflow tools built around how your team actually works — affordable, easy to understand, and designed to preserve your IP and institutional knowledge.

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Not sure which one fits? Start here. We work together — so the right person (or team) finds you. Reach out, and we'll point you in the right direction, no sales pitch required.
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The team

The people behind Earthsight.

Each of us came up through the real world, not the tech world. Together, we cover the full arc from invention to education to community change.

Norm Lowe
Norm Lowe
Sustainability Science & Community Resilience
Norm has spent a career in the unglamorous, essential work of land and water stewardship — soils, watersheds, range management — and in getting people who disagree to build something together anyway, whether through nonprofit boards, grant-funded partnerships, or his own land restoration nonprofit. In a world where AI is politically divisive, that same skill, bringing people to a shared table, may be Earthsight's single most important asset.
David V. Moore
David V. Moore
Technical Build & Entrepreneurial Empowerment
David built his career in AEC and technical writing, with a background in sustainable building that shapes every system he designs. He mentors NAU computer science students on capstone projects and believes AI should be right-sized — affordable, easy to understand, and built around how your team actually works, not the other way around. For David, that's also about legacy: leaving the earth, and the people who inherit it, better off.
Ariel Strong
Ariel Strong
Applied Fire Behavior & AI Applications Development
Ariel is an NFPA Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist and a licensed drone pilot — real fluency in the terrain Earthsight's environmental and engineering clients navigate — and brings 20 years of software, data, and security expertise. She founded the Northern Arizona AI Meetup and builds hands-on, learn-by-doing training that lets people experience new ideas instead of just hearing about them, including a wildfire-prevention game for kids. When a project needs someone to step forward and point the way, that's her role.
Associate
Katherine O'Donnell
Katherine O'Donnell
Communication & Human Trust
Katherine built her career helping mission-driven organizations communicate with clarity, build trust, and strengthen relationships with the people they serve. At Earthsight, she brings that same focus to AI — helping people develop their own voice, communicate with confidence, and stay relevant through rapid change. Her empathy runs deep, from animal welfare to healthcare access and equity. It shows in how she helps people move forward, true to their values and their humanity.
Connected to the Flagstaff Community Local First Based in the Moonshot Accelerator Sponsor of the Northern Arizona AI Meetup

Not sure where to begin? That's exactly where we start.

Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute conversation. No jargon, no pressure, no sales pitch.

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Or attend a Northern Arizona AI Meetup to learn more about AI — free, monthly, open to everyone.