Building the talent that makes AI work, and opening the door to the people the field overlooked.
Building the talent that makes AI work, and opening the door to the people the field overlooked.
Skilled talent in every community is locked out of the fastest growing field in the economy.
Small businesses, nonprofits, and foundations lack the talent and expertise to adopt AI and keep pace.
Foundations want to fund the AI transition but lack a practical way to put money behind the right solutions.
Too many purpose-driven organizations and small businesses lack the AI talent, tools, and capacity to keep pace. AI Tech Corps closes that gap by training emerging talent, equipping them with practical AI skills, and connecting them to organizations that need support now.
A pipeline that develops overlooked talent into credentialed AI professionals, then embeds them inside the organizations that need AI done right.
Trained across ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and more. We recommend the right tool(s), never a single platform.
We rebuild how work gets done: grant writing, recruiting, data, support, knowledge management.
Durable skills and AI skills together: communication, judgment, implementation, responsible AI.
"We don't train people to use a tool. We train them to solve problems with AI."
Funders are looking for practical solutions that expand economic opportunity while helping communities adapt to a rapidly changing economy. AI Tech Corps meets that need by creating a new talent pipeline for the AI era. The program trains emerging professionals in practical AI skills, then deploys them to small businesses, nonprofits, foundations, and community-serving organizations that need capacity, tools, and talent to keep pace. The result is a double bottom line investment: workers gain marketable skills and career pathways, while organizations gain the AI support they need to improve operations, increase productivity, and better serve their communities.
The Knowledge House recruits and nominates talent from its programs and others.
Selected talent complete on-the-job training and a credential in AI solutions implementation and governance.
Talent transitions to paid opportunities, working under Senior Advisors at OptimaNova on real engagements.
Talent is embedded in organizations. Careers launched.
TKH graduates enter a credentialed pathway that trains them, supervises them on real work, and matches them with employer placements.
Alumni are trained as Associates in AI solutions implementation and governance, then deployed to small businesses, nonprofits, and foundations that need hands-on AI implementation support. Supervised by Senior Advisors on real engagements.
Placement: small businesses, nonprofits, foundations.
Fellows are embedded inside organizations that need AI implemented well and cannot hire for it: small businesses, nonprofits, and foundations. They redesign real workflows under Senior Advisor supervision.
Credential: OptimaNova AI Solutions Practitioner.
The pathway leads to paid professional experience, a portable credential, and a launch into the AI economy.
One cohort member. One host organization. Both walk away transformed.
AI Tech Corps is the only tool-agnostic program purpose-built for small businesses, nonprofits, and foundations. And it is built to outlast its grants: over time, the model pays for itself.
A renewable Corps across The Knowledge House's regions, a model others can replicate, and a generation of talent the AI economy cannot afford to overlook.
Philanthropy funds the pipeline. Host and sponsor revenue funds the placements. Philanthropy's share of pipeline cost falls from 100% in Year 1 to about 10% by Year 5.
Total five-year program value is about $100M. Grant funds build the training pipeline. Host and sponsor revenue funds the placements and, by Year 5, sustains the pipeline as well.
Fellow wages during deployment are funded by host organizations and client engagements. Grant dollars fund training, credentialing, and program build.
A community-rooted talent engine meets an enterprise-grade AI delivery firm.
Twelve years building tech talent from overlooked communities. Brings the talent, the community trust, and a track record with funders.
Reach: a national alumni network across six regions, sourcing talent from communities the tech economy has overlooked.
An AI implementation firm with a real delivery record. Builds the credential, supervises the work, and runs the commercial engine that sustains the Corps.
Credential: OptimaNova AI Solutions Practitioner, a portable, employer-recognized mark.
Neither of us could build this alone. Together, the combination is the moat.
We train 150 fellows in the Fall 2026 cohort. OptimaNova commits to hiring a minimum of 7 directly, onboarded in waves beginning with up to 3, while partner organizations host and place the rest.
What it proves: the model works and places people, at low risk, before we scale.
All learn AI fundamentals and durable skills throughout.
Year 1 targets, finalized with TKH and reported back to funders.
Help us prove that the future of AI can be built by everyone, for everyone.