Used AI to write team anthems that built culture and eased colleagues into the AI era

Overview

This project explores AI as a creative empowerment tool through two AI-assisted songwriting experiments, where I guided and shaped the lyrical direction to strengthen morale, shared identity, and cultural alignment within our Information Systems working group:

1. Too Many Tabs, Too Many Windows – a playful reflection on digital overwhelm.

2. Regenerating, Elevating – a knowledge-informed anthem created for our four-person Information Systems working group, designed to strengthen team empowerment through living systems thinking, designing for an impactful year, and ethical AI stewardship.

Both pieces were created through intentional human-AI collaboration, using structured prompting and iterative refinement. While initially developed for our Information Systems team, the songs have since been shared across overlapping organizational groups as a cultural window into our work and values. This has helped ease people into the AI era as well.

Objectives

- Use AI-assisted lyric creation as a team empowerment and culture-building tool in low-risk, high-creativity contexts.

- Explore the difference between light prompting and knowledge-fed thematic prompting.

- Translate abstract systems thinking into emotionally resonant language.

- Strengthen team identity and empowerment through creative expression.

- Lighten heavy technical conversations and gently introduce AI into the workplace for colleagues who may be hesitant or resistant.

Methodology

Song 1 – Playful Prompting

- Brought a real-life moment of digital overwhelm ("too many tabs and too many windows") as the originating creative concept, literally.

- Allowed AI to generate structured verses and chorus.

- Focused on relatability, humor, and rapid iteration.

- Treated AI as a brainstorming partner rather than final authority.

Song 2 – Knowledge-Fed Anthem (“Regenerating Elevating”)

- Supplied structured content about living systems, regeneration, ethics, AI integration, and team transformation.

- Directed tone toward empowerment, stewardship, and forward momentum.

- Iterated to align language with regenerative principles and team values.

Tools Used

- Claude - aka Smudge - (lyric generation and iteration for the team anthem)

- SUNO Music generation platform (for song production and lyrics for Too Many Tabs)

- Slack and Zoom screen share to share songs with my colleagues

Achievements

- Demonstrated how AI can be used to empower small teams through shared language, humor, vision, and song.

- Converted complex systems thinking into accessible, energizing lyrics.

- Reinforced that AI amplifies clarity of human intention.

- Built confidence in rapid creative prototyping using AI tools.

- Generated morale uplift and engagement within a four-person Information Systems working group and extended that energy across cross-functional organizational groups.

- Provided a low-pressure, playful entry point for colleagues to see AI as an amplifying tool rather than a threatening replacement.

Key Learnings

- Structured context significantly improves thematic depth.

- AI is most effective when guided with clear objectives and values.

- Creative experimentation can strengthen culture and team alignment.

- AI collaboration can be joyful, energizing, and strategically useful.

Relevant URLS  SUNO: 

- Too Many Tabs, Too Many Windows https://suno.com/s/2NraJSGFWwgJOXi1

- Regenerating, Elevating https://suno.com/s/KCsnaob9oywo3hYJ

this may have been submitted by me from my work email - not sure which is the "purchasing" email.