Community Power

Crowd Funding

Local AI shouldn't be locked behind high upfront costs. Our community funding model lets groups, schools, and communities pool resources to get powerful AI infrastructure — shared ownership, shared benefit.

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How community funding works

Form a group

Gather your school, business syndicate, community org, or neighbourhood group

Choose a machine

Pick the right AI hardware tier for your group's needs and split the cost

Pool contributions

Each member contributes their share — we hold funds until the target is hit

We build & configure

Your machine is built, pre-configured with AI tools, and delivered ready to run

Shared access begins

Every contributor gets private, unlimited access — no subscriptions, ever

Campaign types

Six ways communities are funding AI

Community AI Hubs

Co-fund a shared local AI server for your neighbourhood, co-working space, or community group. Everyone gets private inference access — split the hardware cost, share the unlimited compute power.

68% Active · 14 contributors

Example campaign · $1,360 of $2,000 raised

School AI Lab Campaigns

Parents, teachers, and local businesses jointly funding an AI lab for their school. Purpose-built bundles, transparent costs, real AI literacy for students — no subscriptions, no data leaving the building.

45% Active · 22 contributors

Example campaign · $1,575 of $3,500 raised

Home School Collectives

Home-schooling families pooling funds for a shared AI machine — rotating access schedules, shared learning libraries, and a private tutor agent available to every child in the collective at no ongoing cost.

82% Nearly there · 8 families

Example campaign · $574 of $700 raised

SME Syndicate Builds

Small businesses in the same industry co-funding a shared AI workstation. Split across 3–5 businesses, the cost becomes trivial while the capability — private document AI, reporting agents, automation — remains extraordinary.

33% Early stage · 3 businesses

Example campaign · $1,155 of $3,500 raised

Research & Startup Grants

Researchers and early-stage startups accessing crowd-funded GPU infrastructure — community-backed compute for projects that benefit the many, not just the well-funded few. Grant-style campaigns welcome.

57% Active · 31 backers

Example campaign · $2,850 of $5,000 raised

Regional AI Infrastructure

Councils, iwi, and regional groups funding distributed AI nodes — bringing sovereign AI capability to rural communities, without dependency on overseas cloud providers or concerns about where community data travels.

24% Just launched · 7 orgs

Example campaign · $2,400 of $10,000 raised

Why it works

The community advantage

Shared cost, full power

A $3,500 workstation split across 7 contributors is $500 each — but every member gets full access to the same capability.

No subscriptions, ever

Pay once for hardware. Never pay monthly fees, per-token charges, or API costs. The machine is yours as a group forever.

Sovereign infrastructure

Community-owned, locally operated. No overseas data centres, no third-party access, no corporate dependency.

Transparent & trustworthy

All campaign costs are published upfront. Funds are only collected once targets are met. No hidden fees.

Questions

Frequently asked

All contributions are held until the campaign target is met. If a campaign doesn't reach its goal within the agreed timeframe, all contributors receive a full refund. No funds are used until the full hardware cost is covered.
We configure each machine with per-user accounts and optional scheduling tools so all contributors get fair access. For smaller groups this is often informal; for larger deployments we set up a central management dashboard.
Absolutely. Get in touch via the contact page and we'll help you design the right machine tier for your group's needs, set up the campaign page, and guide contributors through the process. We've done this for schools, iwi, co-working spaces, and SME networks.
The group collectively owns the machine. You decide as a group where it lives — typically at the most central or most-used contributor's premises, or in a dedicated server space. We provide the setup, ongoing support options are available separately.
Every machine comes pre-configured with Ollama for model management, Open WebUI for browser-based chat, a RAG document pipeline, and image generation tools. Additional agent frameworks (like n8n or LangChain) can be included on request at no extra software cost — it's all open source.

Build your community AI together

Tell us about your group and we'll design a campaign and machine bundle that fits your community perfectly.

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