You know the gaps your community faces every day. Hand one to motivated builders and they'll prototype a solution.
Nonprofits and frontline organizations are at the center of this challenge — not as a logo, but as the source of the real problems teams work on. Taking part is free, you help shape what "good" looks like, and the work teams produce for your mission is yours to keep.
We designed this so the burden is on the teams and the organizers — not on you. You bring the lived expertise; we bring the builders, the structure, and the mentorship.
Participating as a community partner is free. Teams volunteer their time and skills to work on problems that matter.
Prototypes built for your problem are open-source and yours to use, adapt, and deploy — forever, at no cost, with no strings attached.
You define the problem and what "better" looks like, and you help select the team that best advances your mission.
Pick the level of involvement that fits your capacity. Even just submitting a problem brief is enough to make a difference.
Share a real pain point your organization or community faces, using a short standardized format. Teams choose a brief to build for directly.
Submit a brief →Name an award aligned with your mission and select the team whose work best advances it — even if they tackled a different problem. categories TBA
Name an award →Bring your community's perspective to evaluation. You know better than anyone whether a solution actually fits.
Volunteer to judge →Help define the guiding principles and example use cases that keep the whole challenge grounded in real community priorities.
Get involved →If you choose to submit a brief, it's short — four prompts. The standard format just helps teams understand and compare problems fairly, and we're glad to help you write it.
You don't need a technical background or a polished spec. If you can describe the problem in plain language, we can help you turn it into a brief teams can act on. The goal is to capture real need, not to add work to your plate.
Skilled, motivated teams working on your problem at no cost to your organization.
Prototypes and documentation you can carry forward, test with your community, or take to funders.
Recognition you bestow — visibility for your cause and a meaningful moment at the event.
Connections to builders, project managers, and mentors who care about community impact.
Real influence over the principles, the judging, and what the challenge prioritizes.
Recognition as a community partner across the challenge and its materials.
Because these tools are aimed at the people you serve, every team commits to a set of responsible-AI and ethics principles — and we'll never ask you to compromise your community's trust.
Your community's information never enters the competition. Teams build and test with synthetic, sample, or public data — real personal details about the people you serve are never required, requested, or put into play.
Solutions are expected to be usable by and beneficial to underserved and frontline populations — accessible by default.
The strongest solutions are shaped by the communities they serve. Your perspective leads the work, not the technology.
Teams disclose how they used AI and keep a human accountable for what their tools produce. Read our ethics commitment →
Every project is open-source and built for the commons. Work that comes from community problems can't be taken private or sold for profit — but you and the communities you serve can always use, adapt, and deploy it freely, including recovering costs to keep it running.