The Knowledge House×OptimaNova AI
The Knowledge House × OptimaNova AI
AI Tech Corps
Building the talent that makes AI work, and opening the door to the people the field overlooked.
PARTNERSHIP OVERVIEW
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, schools, 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.
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.
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, and Gemini. We recommend the right tool, never a single platform.
We rebuild how work gets done: grant writing, recruiting, data, support, knowledge management.
Human 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."
TKH recruits and nominates talent from its programs.
OptimaNova's AI Solutions methodology and credential.
Associates work under a senior Advisor on real engagements.
Embedded in organizations. Careers launched.
Twelve years building tech talent from overlooked communities. Brings the talent, the community trust, and a track record with funders.
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 50 fellows in Year 1. OptimaNova commits to hiring 5 to 7 of them directly, putting our own payroll behind the model, 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.
What it unlocks: a proven model and the foundation to scale across six regions.
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.
A solution that pays for itself over time. The ask holds flat in Year 3 even as the program doubles, because client revenue carries a growing share of the cost.
Help us prove that the future of AI can be built by everyone, for everyone.