Impact Labs
A focused day of building around a real public problem.
An Impact Lab is a one-day AI workshop built around a challenge from a nonprofit or public agency. Domain experts and AI builders form small teams, work with real data, and build functional prototypes. Participation is free. Projects the partner wants to continue get support after the event.
How it works.
Prepare with the partner
Before the event, we sit down with the partner organization to choose a problem worth tackling. We gather the relevant data and context, then write a brief that teams can use on day one.
Build for a day
Domain experts and AI builders form teams around the brief. They spend the day making functional prototypes. The person who understands the permitting bottleneck matters as much as the person writing the code.
Keep useful work moving
After the lab, we review what teams built with the partner. Projects with a real path forward can continue with technical support and help finding the right owner.
For partner organizations.
You already know where the problem is and why earlier attempts fell short. We help turn that knowledge into a brief that builders can act on.
Your team provides the challenge, relevant data, and context. We handle recruiting, team formation, data preparation, facilitation, and the work that follows the event.
What you get
- A working brief grounded in your priorities, data, and constraints
- Domain experts and AI builders recruited around the challenge
- Functional prototypes built in one day
- A clear decision about which projects are worth continuing
For people who want to build.
You know the problem.
We need people who know the system, where it breaks, and what a useful result would look like. You do not need a technical background. You will work alongside builders who can turn your knowledge into something the partner can test.
You know how to build.
You will get a real problem, real constraints, and a teammate who knows where the edge cases are. Your job is to listen, build, and make something the partner can evaluate.
What the day looks like
- One well-scoped problem from a partner organization
- Small teams with both domain and technical expertise
- A full day set aside to build and test
- Support for projects that are worth continuing
What happened in San Diego.
The first Claude Impact Lab, sponsored by Anthropic, brought 60 participants together with the City of San Diego's open data. Twenty-seven teams spent one day building tools for permitting, neighborhood services, water quality, public safety, and government accountability.
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