How Balkan organizations actually use AI - real implementations, the tools they chose, and what happened.
Case studies
Lumi: a Local-First AI Assistant - CTRLAB.NET - AI, North Macedonia - CTRLAB.NET used Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini to design, build and run Lumi, the AI assistant on aibalkans.com, which answers readers from the publication's own content first.
AINOW - AI Literacy Platform - AINOW Society - Education, Literacy, AI, North Macedonia - AINOW Society used ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and GitHub Copilot to research, write, localize and develop edu.ainow.mk, a multilingual AI literacy platform in Macedonian, Albanian and English. The project shows how a small nonprofit can use AI to increase its capacity while keeping people responsible for accuracy, language quality, design and technical decisions.