Start here
Free Community Member
$0
forever
A low-lift way to show up, learn in public, and help the garden grow.
- Monthly community gatherings
- Open field notes and public tools
- A voice in the conversation
- Occasional calls for collaborators
Join the garden
There is room for your work here.
Membership is a practical invitation: bring your questions, your hard-won lessons, or a little time to help make responsible AI easier to operate.
Come tend it.
A community for the work between policy and production.
Govern in the open.
Learn from people who ship.
A gentle orientation
Start where the work feels most useful.
You can start free, deepen with paid membership, gather at AI House or virtually, contribute a field note to the Substack, or lend a little time as a volunteer steward. There is no single right way to belong.
After you sign up: you’ll see a confirmation here, and your note will reach the Foundation team. Tell us what you’re looking for or how you’d like to help; that is enough for a useful first step.
01 / Membership
Choose your way in.
Both paths start with people. Pick the one that fits the season of work you are in.
For the committed season
Paid Member
$120
per year
For practitioners who want the full shelf, a closer circle, and a steady place to work things through.
- Full research and learning library
- Monthly member events and recordings
- Member community and working sessions
- Ten AI governance agents
- Early looks at new frameworks
Annual membership. Business memberships can be arranged for teams — mention that in your note.
Member area note: paid members receive the full library and private event recordings; the public garden stays open to everyone.
For members
Use the member welcome desk when you need a resource, a conversation, or a little help finding your next step.
02 / Sponsorship
Put a little more water on the roots.
Sponsors make room for open tools, accessible gatherings, and careful research that does not have to chase a short-term return.
Every tier is an annual commitment.
Supporter
$100/ year
Help keep open field notes and gatherings accessible.
01 / annual tier
Ally
$1,000/ year
Back a year of practical community programming.
02 / annual tier
Partner
$10,000/ year
Support a shared governance toolkit or research season.
03 / annual tier
Founding Sponsor
$100,000/ year
Help establish the next enduring public-interest standard.
04 / annual tier
Help choose the right scale.
Tell us your name and we’ll follow up with the simplest way to put your support to work.
03 / Community
Pull up a chair.
Join the monthly gathering at the AI House in Seattle, or bring your mug to the virtual room. Come with a question; leave with a few more useful ones.
Every month
AI House + online
A warm, practical conversation for builders, operators, researchers, and people who keep asking what happens next.
Member area note: members get the calendar invite, follow-up notes, and recording archive.
05 / Volunteer stewards
Good gardens need good caretakers.
Stewards help welcome new people, tend shared resources, host a conversation, or bring a careful eye to a tool before it goes back into the world.
No special title required. Bring patience, curiosity, and a little time.
Become part of the tending.
Tell us where you’d like to help and we’ll find a useful first patch.
A shared next step