- Referral pathopen
- Onboardingday one
- Barrier checknamed
Turn instability into opportunity.
Earn, learn, and stabilize — a path to opportunity. Shelterix is not a donation platform: businesses buy AI-augmented labor and hire pipelines; workers get paid tasks, credits, and credentials from day one.
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Recruit.
Meet people at shelters, street teams, and partners. Start without a résumé.
Referrals open · barrier named -
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Stabilize.
Credits for meals and transport, savings with a match, hardship review from the reserve.
Runway cleared · next action ranked -
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Train.
AI Operator certification and sponsored cohorts. Credentials employers can verify.
Ladder visible · credential sealed -
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Work.
AI-assisted tasks and local shifts. Human QA before pay. Trust ratings both ways.
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Reinvest.
Margin funds recruitment, hardship reserve, training match, and mobility bonuses.
Buckets purposed · flywheel turns
Platform register 001Two flywheels — money and growth — both end-to-end. English/Spanish and large-text accessibility ship in the product app.
Money turns. Growth turns.
Money
Business posts work → worker claims → AI-assisted draft → human QA → paid to wallet → auto-save and mobility bonus → employer billed. Margin splits into recruitment, hardship reserve, training match, and worker-mobility.
Growth
Recruit → stabilize → consistency streak → train → hire-readiness coach → offers and retention. Two-sided trust: workers rate employers; fair employers surface first.
Surfaces that turn end to end.
Worker, employer, and admin share one foundation: auth, credentials, wallet, and AI agents with deterministic fallbacks. English/Spanish and large-text accessibility ship in the product app.
AI advises. Humans approve.
Agents match tasks, coach learning, flag churn risk, estimate benefits cliffs, and check safety — with deterministic fallbacks so a mock provider never blocks the loop. Money and support stay human-gated.
Payouts
Every cash-out and task payment clears a human QA or admin queue before it hits the wallet.
Support
Housing and food referrals, hardship grants, and safety incidents require human resolution — AI does not auto-approve.
Appeals
Rejected work can be appealed. Dispute resolution stays on the admin ledger, not buried in a model score.
Capitalist flywheel, not charity theater.
For businesses
Affordable AI-augmented labor, local services, training pipelines, and future hires — billed for work delivered.
For workers
Paid tasks from day one, simple AI tools, credits, credentials, and a hire-readiness path you can inspect.
For Ephemerent
Aligned with the lab’s push of funding toward poverty and homelessness — productive mobility, not a second manifesto. Principles →
Start a pilot.
Shelterix is in private preview. Request a walkthrough of worker, employer, and admin loops — demo data shows the full money and growth flywheels.
Part of the Ephemerent lab: temporary systems, inspectable results, and work aimed at greatest suffering without trading direction for capital.