Everybody loves a good comeback story. Until it's time to hire one.

Here's the deal: we build real digital solutions for community organisations and eligible charities, free or at a community rate, start-up packages that would cost tens of thousands commercially. In return, the people we train get real practice on live briefs, and we learn what London actually needs.

So bring us your gnarliest problem. We want to know what you're wrestling with, how you're using AI, and what a fix would be worth to you.

• An eligible charity? A full digital start-up package, free.
• A community group or non-profit? A build at a community rate, so cost is never the barrier.
• A business that can pay commercially? Even better. We take on paid commercial work ourselves, and every fee funds the mission. Same team, same quality, and your budget puts someone through the pipeline.
• Want to be found? We're building a directory so people can discover and connect with you.

How this works: LDN:KNEKT is delivered by The Lived Experience Project and, as each cohort comes through, built by the people we train, free for eligible charities and at a community rate for organisations that genuinely can't meet commercial prices. When a business can pay a full commercial rate, we do that work too, and the money funds the mission instead of leaking out to private benefit. One house, one mission. The commercial work pays for the community work, and every fee stays locked to the cause.

Once we know who needs what, we run the course, and learners build the actual solutions those organisations asked for. A portfolio and references, not just a certificate. No dummy exercises. The skills are general-purpose, so we are training owners, not placements. Alongside the build runs RE:SET, the inner work that finds purpose and self-belief. Give someone that and a real shot, and there is no ceiling we put on where it goes. We just never turn it into a promise.

To do it we need partners: real briefs to work on, and organisations whose tools and tech we can build on while we grow.

• Got a project we could build? Bring it, and help prove the model.
• Have tools or tech we could learn on? Lend it while we get funded.
• Want the skills yourself? Register and we'll tell you how to join a cohort.

With the model working, we run our own year-long programme with people coming out of prison, built before release and backed long after, so a sentence doesn't quietly become a life sentence. The aim is the same as everywhere else: not a placement, but a person who owns their next step.

It starts with sport, not screens. Twelve weeks of mentoring through rugby, boxing and group coaching, led by qualified coaches with lived experience, because teamwork, leadership and trust have to come first. Nothing built on top of them holds otherwise. The skills follow.

And we turn it into a research project of its own. If you're a prison, a resettlement service, or a university that might want to work with us, or study the framework, we'd love to talk early. How we do it is shared directly, not posted online.