Services
Four paths, your Habitat.
Habitat, under everything.
Under every service is a single instrument: Habitat. Habitat is software, three years in the making, that we had a hand in developing. It reads language and sees how things are expressed. It is also transparent, and it keeps all agents and models separated from its work.
Used together with Claude. Habitat doesn't speak for you and doesn't decide for you. It reads what a body of writing is already doing — what it says, what it implies, what it leaves unsaid — and hands the reading back, for you to weigh.
Your words remain yours, verifiably.
Learn
Make something simple, useful, and yours.
We make things together.
Real projects, with Habitat underneath using a real development tool, Claude Code. A small game. A tool your group will actually use. A way to keep the record of where you live. You learn by making something that works, and you can walk out with it.
We publish.
Habitat Foundation publishes Habitat Quarterly. Habitat Quarterly is a component-based digital magazine with features on life, culture, democracy, care and play. First publication in mid July '26.
You can help write, build, and ship a piece that goes into an issue. The teaching is the making, and the making goes somewhere people read. It is the clearest way we know to learn Claude Code: by doing the work the magazine needs done.
We meet people where they are.
One to one, in workshops of up to six, and in public talks at Cape Ann libraries and other venues.
Claude 101 sessions open the door, beginning in late June and running through the summer.
When you'd rather have a working tool built with you than build it yourself, that's Implement.
Read your corpus
Read the whole of what you hold — and how it reads to others.
Most organizations have never read their own corpus whole — the reports, filings, plans, and public words that, together, are the story they tell about themselves. Habitat reads it whole and hands the reading back: where you are aligned, where you only claim to be, and what goes unsaid. It measures; you decide. Nothing is summarized away, and no model is handed your words to judge them for you.
We did this on Cape Ann: over 30 recent climate-centered documents — across government, policy, design, and nonprofit registers — read together, to see how each presents itself and how they stand in relation to one another. The gaps and the overlaps are both legible, and both are findings. Your own corpus would read the same way: honestly, and only to you.
See how this reads in practice — Cape Ann's climate conversation across its own records — in the Cape Ann case study.
Implement
When you need a working tool — built with you.
Sometimes the need is specific and ongoing: a way to read the public comment coming in, a living archive, a tool a department will open every week. The same Habitat components you can see running in Habitat Quarterly can become an application built for that need — transparent and auditable by design, and yours to keep and to run.
The Foundation helps you shape the work and stand it up as your own. The building itself is done with our partner, Curious, a dedicated build team. We don't build you a dependency; we build with you, toward the day you hold it yourself. That is the line we keep — the Foundation is a mission home, not a vendor.
Sustain
We fund the work, not only do it.
A community's story is told by more people than us, and the best of that work needs a place to stand. As a public charity, Habitat Foundation supports people and organizations whose work uses new technology and media in this same spirit — to help expression be heard and kept. If you are building something aligned and need a fiscal home, or a fund to begin, this is for you.
In addition to the grants and contributions we receive, we will use proceeds from each service engagement and from workshop fees to build our funding treasury. We are beginning to build our treasury now.
We will offer to fiscally sponsor early, new media organizations — particularly those that form out of work done with the Foundation.
Please contact us at the end of summer, 2026 for more information.
Support the work
Habitat sustains the whole, living story of our community.