Better envisions a future in which communities are more powerful than money.

We’re creating a smart community organizer to get us there, that helps passionate people get hands-on involved in visionary, community-driven movements, whether as workers/resources for hire, voluntary collaborators, or donors. By participating, they'll build a live resume, create great relationships, and earn income.

Community organizers manage and motivate workers, volunteers, resources for hire, and funders, around purpose. Every bit of that work is hard: recruiting the people that care, understanding what they can offer, matching them to meaningful work with collaborators that fit them, acknowledging and sharing their stories, listening how they feel to learn to match them better and better. Even the most capable human organizers can never do enough.

By creating AI to automate and replace the work of community organizers, Better will make that so easy, that people will matter more than money. That’s why we matter. Our tool, Better, will build networks of people that are more powerful than money.

I hope that this change will create a new level of accountability to our economy. Inequality and segregation in the USA are at levels that guarantee that richer classes – top decision makers, investors, politicians – will make bad decisions that don’t help us. But they’re not going to matter. You will matter. Our communities, our passions, and our abilities together, will be more powerful than their money. When you think about it, that means that young people will inherit the world sooner than later. I believe that change can’t come soon enough.

As a company, Better will build a simple, ethical business model that helps us grow without compromise. Great, inspiring work will happen on the Better platform with or without cash, that’s the magic! But Better will always facilitate real money moving throughout our communities, as support. And we will take a small fee, in return for 1) quality matchmaking 2) guaranteed timely payments & services 3) telling the powerful story of who you are through your work, both as passionate and purpose driven individuals, and as the movements you stand for together.

But we’re not stopping at that. We have concrete ideas for steps we can take to create a technology business that will benefit everyone that participates. Let’s call it New York City revolutionary, not Silicon Valley “revolutionary”, a new format of company. We’ll release those thoughts on Medium before long, so that we can contribute to developing the technology culture of the future, and so that we can vet our principles together to ensure that they will stand.

Thanks,

Kunal
Founder & CEO