Real AI for the work that matters. At no cost.
Each year we build production-grade AI systems for a small number of mission-driven nonprofits. Same senior practitioner, same engineering, same quality as our paying clients. You keep the code. You keep running it. You owe us nothing.
Five things we could build for you.
You don't need to know the words for any of this. We translate. If something on this list sounds close to a real problem you have, that's a strong reason to apply — and if it isn't on the list but it should be, tell us anyway.
- Example 01
Always-on community help line
An assistant that answers your community's most-asked questions any time of day — about your services, your hours, how to get help, what paperwork they need — in any language they speak.
- Example 02
Volunteer matcher
A system that takes what people are willing to do and what they're good at, then quietly pairs them with the right shifts, projects, and roles in your organization.
- Example 03
Donor follow-up that sounds human
Personalized thank-you notes drafted from a few facts about each gift, so every donor — from $20 to $20,000 — gets a real reply within a day, in the donor's own words back to them.
- Example 04
Caseworker assistant
A tool that turns a caseworker's voice memo into a structured case note — names, dates, follow-ups, needs — so your front-line staff stay with the person, not the paperwork.
- Example 05
First-contact triage
When somebody calls or texts your organization for help, the right person inside your organization gets the right context on the first try — not the third hand-off.
Organizations doing real work with people.
We're built to serve charities whose work shows up in someone's actual day — food on a table, a phone answered, a shelter bed, a treatment plan, a child mentored, a family kept together. If that's your work, you fit. A few of the kinds of organizations we hope to hear from:
- Churches and ministries
- Food pantries and meal programs
- Recovery and addiction-treatment programs
- Crisis pregnancy and family-support centers
- Hospice and end-of-life care
- Child abuse prevention and survivor support
- Prison and re-entry ministries
- Dignity housing and homelessness services
- Foster care and family reunification
- Youth mentoring and after-school programs
- Special-needs care and disability services
- Schools and education ministries
We don't accept:
- Political campaigns, partisan advocacy, or political-religious movements
- Policy work aimed at changing law on contested issues — immigration, sentencing reform, and the like
- Clinics, programs, or advocacy that promote medical gender transition for minors
- Drug-supply harm reduction — needle exchange, safe-injection, paraphernalia distribution. Recovery and treatment programs are welcome (listed above)
- International advocacy organizations and multinational policy NGOs
- Anything we couldn't explain in plain words to someone we respect
Registered 501(c)(3) status (or international equivalent) is required for the program. If you're close to that line but not there yet, write to us anyway — contact form.
Four steps. One cycle a year.
- 01
Submit
Tell us what you'd build with this, in plain words. The form below takes about 15 minutes.
- 02
Review
We read every submission. Within 60 days of the window closing, we pick three to four organizations to work with this cycle.
- 03
Build
Same senior practitioner, same packages, same engagement quality as our paying clients. We ask for about an hour of your time per week during the build.
- 04
Hand off
The code is yours. We train your team on running it, and we stay reachable for questions long after.
How we pick.
Submissions are reviewed by the founder. We weight every application against four things:
Mission alignment
What you do, who you serve, and whether it's a mission we'd defend in plain conversation.
Feasibility
Whether we can build something genuinely useful for you in the time of one cycle.
Impact
How many people benefit from what we'd build, and how meaningfully.
Readiness
An internal champion, a clear problem, and the operational capacity to use what we build.
We notify everyone — accepted and not — within 60 days of submissions closing. Honest, brief feedback on rejections is available on request. Reapply next cycle if you'd like; many of the strongest matches take a cycle or two of conversation.
We work for free. We're not free of expectations.
- About an hour of your time per week during the build, with whoever inside your organization owns the problem we're solving.
- Honest feedback — what's working, what isn't, what scares you about it.
- Permission to publish a brief case study after launch, naming you.
- A commitment to keep operating the system after handoff, or to hand it back as a paid engagement if it grows beyond your capacity.
- An openness to talk about what we built and why — with peer nonprofits, our other clients, the public.
Tell us what you'd build with this.
Plain words are fine. Submissions are open through September 30, 2026.We'll send an acknowledgement within three business days, and you'll hear our decision within 60 days of the window closing.
Common questions.
Can churches apply?
Yes.
Can international organizations apply?
Yes. Communication is in English.
What does pro-bono cover?
Implementation work matching one of our productized solutions. Excludes ongoing operations.