Shared stories of local heroes building with technology. Fundraising for small social enterprise — and the small founder-led, mission-driven businesses next to it. Where the substrate is given away, not licensed.
Community, fundraising,
and the give-away tier
Local heroes building
with what they have.
Free to read.
Free to submit.
House is the for-good bit. The proof that the business model isn't extractive. The other divisions earn so House can give.
It runs three things in parallel: shared stories of local heroes building with technology, fundraising for small social enterprise — and for the small founder-led or mission-driven businesses adjacent to it — and the place where the Fiduci substrate is given away rather than licensed. Where Works charges sensible commercial rates to organisations that can pay, House holds the door open for the people who can't.
The wall below collects submissions from builders — the frontline workers, caseworkers, organisers, founders, and volunteers fixing systems with software they wrote themselves. Submit something you built that fixed a real problem. The bar is low and honest.
The economics of AI talent right now are absurd. A handful of laboratories are paying staff salaries that exceed the entire annual operating budget of the small charities those staff might once have wanted to help. The same laboratories release marketing about how AI will transform the social sector. The transformation is, in fact, being done by other people, on weekends, without compensation, and almost always without credit.
House is the credit. A wall on which the work shows up — described, dated, named — and stays. It is also the channel through which Fiduci's substrate, models, and tools are given away to the organisations that need them. No commercial licence. No usage fee. The other divisions earn so House can give.
The third leg is fundraising. House runs occasional, focused fundraising drives for specific small social enterprises — and for small founder-led, mission-driven businesses — that have made it through Fiduci's vetting and need money for one specific reason. The pitches are short, the targets are small, the accountability is public.
Submissions are open and unmoderated except for fact-checking. Pseudonyms welcome. Self-promotion permitted, in moderation. The only thing we do not publish is anything that misrepresents what was built or by whom.
Six fields. Three minutes. The submission goes onto the wall when a person has read it. Pseudonyms welcome. Links optional. We will not sell your email or pretend to.
Forty-three submissions to date. The wall fills as new pieces are read. Sorted newest first.
Worked in residential community housing. Built a small Python + Google Sheets tool over two weekends that handles shift conflicts, leave, and double-booked staff. Saved ~12 staff hours/week and one annual licence fee. It is ugly. It works.
Frontline DV service. Used a local LLM and a short script to parse the overnight contact log and flag five categories of risk. Duty worker now starts the day with a triaged list instead of a chronological dump. Caught two safety issues in week one.
$1.2M annual turnover charity. Replaced ~14 hours of quarterly board-pack assembly with a Notion-to-PDF pipeline. Board chair now gets the pack a week earlier. Treasurer says the data is more accurate.
Volunteer at a community legal centre. Eligibility for our services depends on six factors that intake workers were misapplying because the policy doc is fourteen pages. Built an extension that asks the questions, returns yes/no/escalate. Reduced misclassification from ~22% to under 4%.
Office manager at a foundation. The grant-acquittal reconciliation took her every Friday. I am a volunteer with a Python afternoon to spare. Wrote ten lines of Apps Script that does the join. She gets her Fridays back. The foundation funded twelve hours of programs with what she now bills elsewhere.
Mental health peer worker. Fine-tuned a small local model on five years of (de-identified) prior notes. Drafts go from blank page to first-pass in about forty seconds. The peer worker rewrites maybe a third of each draft. Senior clinicians have not noticed.
Three quiet disciplines that keep the wall honest as it grows — and the give-away accountable.
Every submission is read by Joe within seven days. If the submission is real, it goes on the wall. If something is unclear, we write back.
We do not require proof. We do require honesty. Submissions that misrepresent what was built or by whom are not posted; everything else is.
The wall is permanent. Submissions are not deleted unless the submitter asks. The point is the cumulative record — a small public archive of work that would otherwise vanish.
House’s own fundraising drives launch with the practice. Until then, the donate button below sends you to one of ten established LGBTQ+ organisations — chosen at random per visit. Every cent goes direct to the org. Refresh for a different one.
Forml., the substrate, the models — given for free to charities, social enterprises, and NFPs that need them and can’t pay for them. Tell us about your org.
Sydney
New South Wales
Australia