Secrets
Every dollar we receive is published: who gave it, what it paid for, and which agency it served. No anonymous corporate money, ever.
Build the bridge before the wave hits.
AI will change millions of jobs. Honest Works turns AI companies' giving into the software governments need, and pays the people AI displaces to do the work that still needs humans.
On October 18, Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to the public good.
The new Public Benefit Fund says it might make direct distributions to specific populations, names AI's labor-market impacts as one example, and says "bolder approaches may be needed."
The money is coming. The question is what it flows through, and whether anyone can see where it went.
Source: Anthropic, "Investing in the public benefit," Oct 18, 2026Honest Works is independent and has no relationship with Anthropic or any company named on this site.
Honest Works is a bridge built from 4 simple moves.
Donors give to one shared fund
AI labs, foundations and people give to one shared fund. A published benchmark, not the donor, picks the AI model for each task.
What you won't get with us:
Hype
No slogans about revolutionizing government. We bid, we build, and we publish the numbers, including the ones that don't flatter us.
Tokens
No coins, no speculation, no equity games. People are paid from what governments pay us, with a long-term benefit plan on top.
Lock-in
Public code for public money. Open source wherever the agency allows it, licensed so nobody can close it and sell it back.
Paid from what governments pay us. Not from a promise.
- Paid roles on every project: reviewing, testing, accessibility, translation, training and support.
- A long-term benefit plan on top, funded from contract revenue.
- Work done in the U.S., by people authorized to work in the U.S.
Every dollar in, every dollar out. In public.
Gifts go into one shared fund. A published benchmark, not the donor, picks the AI model for each task. People are paid from what governments pay us, not from gifts. This is the ledger we will publish.
Example of the format · illustrative figures
| Donor | Gift | Spent | Went to |
|---|---|---|---|
| An AI lab | $1,500,000 | $612,400 | Model use, chosen by benchmark, on 9 county and city projects |
| A second AI lab | $1,000,000 | $388,900 | Model use on 6 state agency projects |
| A cloud provider | $600,000 | $214,000 | Hosting for 11 public websites |
| A family foundation | $500,000 | $290,500 | Training for 23 new hires |
| A community foundation | $250,000 | $131,200 | Accessibility audits for 4 school districts |
| 1,412 individual donors | $450,000 | $168,000 | Open-source tools any agency can reuse |
| Total | $4,300,000 | $1,805,000 | 38 public projects |
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