Hope Town, Inc. · Windham, Ohio · A companion to our Claude Corps host application

fel·low·ship

/ˈfe-lō-ˌship/ · noun

a community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience.

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Part one · The fellow

The Trailhead

A future about to begin. Walk the first three steps.

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Finished school. Now what? A choice between passion and purpose?

Thousands stand at this trailhead.
This story follows the Fellows.

Part two · The host

Meanwhile, at Hope Town, in rural Windham, Ohio

While the two of them looked for their first chance, Hope Town was building second ones.

2020 · a $175,000 seed and two townhouses 2026 · a $1.5M recovery ecosystem Always · built by people in recovery

Housing

Pillar one

34 men housed

ORH-certified. Peer-managed.

Transportation

Pillar two

10,824 rides in 2025

287,103 miles. Speed is a vital sign.

Workforce

Pillar three

100 AI learners

Ohio's first community AI Academy.

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Hope Town AI

Claude as a cornerstone. Every day, building the tools in the toolbox below, designed to help people on their recovery journey.

Part three · The toolbox

What is already in the box

Not aspirational. Hope Town has built automations that would be the envy of tech companies, let alone non-profits.

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The lock on the box: NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware running open-source models like Qwen, on site. HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, honored beyond what the law requires. Frontier models for building. Local models for the people we protect.

Part four · Why Hope Town?

What would make the Hope Town Claude Corps experience entirely unique?

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REASON 1

Already Claude builders.

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Learn what we've built and why.Fellows will see under the hood to understand what's next.

REASON 2

Already teachers.

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Tyler coaches founders and entrepreneurs at Cleveland State and Case Western. Shane has taught high schoolers AI.The Fellows and the coaches will feel at home in an environment that incubates contribution, learning and innovation.

REASON 3

Powerful infrastructure.

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Not only access to frontier models, but local models, DGX Spark hardware, and the importance of privacy.An expansive and diverse infrastructure that will advance the Fellows' imaginations far beyond prompting.

REASON 4

Visionary leadership.

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Hope Town's early embrace of AI affords it insights transferrable to Fellows, which will be transferrable wherever they end up.The Fellowship impact outlives the Fellowship.

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Part five · The union

Where Hope Town and Claude Corps unite

More than a fellowship. A membership to the team.

Ted St. John · CEO visionary AI luminary with significant influence Tyler Kohrt · Coach Co-Founder, Entrepreneur in Residence, Mentor Shane Winnyk · Coach Co-Founder, tech professional, AI educator Christopher Lattimer Automations Supervisor Gavin Kohn Automations Designer Fellow one Fellow two one team · each fellow paired one-to-one

Not your conventional internship. Fellows become full team members with a say in the roadmap.

Perfecting PassportableAdding AI learnings into the holder's experience.
Growing GrantmatchingFund-seeking assistance for Hope Town and peer non-profits.
Always AutomatingPutting the "human" back into human services.
AI-powered workforce intakenew buildVoice interviews that inform individualized resident and rider AI upskilling and workforce learning plans.

Part six · Amplifying the Fellowship impact

Capturing what we teach and what Fellows learn

Our commitment to Anthropic: Partnership with Hope Town gets you a distributable record for future Fellows, hosts and non-profits to benefit from.

How we coach

Captured while it happens.

Becomes curriculum

A blueprint any nonprofit can run.

Reaches everyone we serve

Residents. Riders. Workforce.

The Fellows build; we build the Fellows; what we build together builds everyone we serve.

Part seven · The takeaway

What the fellow leaves with

Mentors, knowledge, experience, yes. But the takeaway is purpose.

Hope Town · Windham, Ohio

Fellows learn to build not only systems but people. And understanding the union between the two will guarantee it to be carried forward.

"It is not just an education our fellows will receive. It is an inside look at the incredible difference that can be made in the course of a neighbor's life."

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Fellowship, noun: a community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience.

Building one at Hope Town since 2020. We would be honored to unite it with Anthropic's through Claude Corps.