Volunteer engineers embed with mission-driven organizations and small businesses, solve their problems through software, do it for free — and open-source all of it.
No invoices. No strings. Every line of code public.
Volunteers are never paid by the organizations they help. No invoices, no strings.
Every engagement is open-sourced under MIT, so the next org starts ahead — not from zero.
We sit with you and learn the real problem first — not a drive-by hand-off.
We hand over with docs and a walkthrough, so you can run it long after we leave.
How it works
Five steps, every time. Small enough to finish, open the whole way through.
You tell us what's slow, manual, or impossible today — in your own words.
We shape it together into a project small enough to actually finish.
Engineers embed and ship in the open, demoing early and often.
Docs, accounts, and a walkthrough — you fully own what we built.
The code stays public for the next org with the very same problem.
Who we help
We give our time to good causes and the independent businesses at the heart of local life — wherever a little engineering would make a real difference that wouldn't happen any other way.
Charities, nonprofits, community groups, mutual aid, and social enterprises — the people quietly holding things together.
Independent, owner-run businesses — the kind that give a place its character. Being for-profit is no barrier; we just go where there's no in-house tech and a bit of engineering changes things.
Our mission
Charities, community groups, and small local businesses keep our neighborhoods running — yet most are locked out of the software that would help them, simply because they can't afford an engineer.
We exist to change that: real engineers, embedded alongside them, building what they actually need — for free — and opening it up so the next organization starts ahead instead of from scratch.
For mission-driven organizations and small businesses with a real problem and no budget. Tell us what's painful — you don't need to know the solution.
Use your engineering skills for something good. Any stack, any seniority. Pick an engagement that fits your time and ship something real.