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› Partners

AI literacy for ages 8–16, delivered in your space. At no cost to you.

Hi, Bot brings the complete program — curriculum, mentors, insurance, and payments. Partners bring space, audience, or funding, and share the revenue we create together. Qualified host pilots can launch in under 60 days once we align on space and staffing.

“Zero cost” applies to host venues — other models use your enrichment budget, a sponsorship package, or a license fee. See what exists today before you commit.

Want curriculum written for your standards and calendar instead of ours — or a program we build and administer for you? That's the Curriculum Studio. Just want something free to run this week, no agreement required? Get the free organization kit.

Four ways to partner

› Libraries, YMCAs, museums, faith orgs

Host a venue

You bring: A room, a calendar slot, and your community channels.

You get: A 30–40% revenue share on every enrollment sourced through your venue — plus modern, insured youth programming your families ask for.

Download the session guide (PDF)

› Schools, after-school providers, enrichment coordinators

After-school & districts

You bring: An existing enrichment budget or 21st CCLC funding line.

You get: A turnkey, mentor-led AI module delivered in your building — background-checked staff, 1:6 ratios, scripted curriculum.

Download the session guide (PDF)

› Employers, foundations, community funders

Sponsor a cohort

You bring: A sponsorship package, paid up front.

You get: A named AIPreneurship cohort or Builder Fellowship seats, your logo on demo night, and a photographable talent-pipeline story.

Download the session guide (PDF)

› Schools, co-ops, subscription boxes, kids-edu brands

License the library

You bring: Your audience and distribution.

You get: Site licenses or co-branded editions of 25 screen-free AI activity packs (111 pages) with facilitator guides — ready to run tomorrow.

Download the session guide (PDF)

Partnership shapes in practice

Illustrative scenarios — not live case studies. Each maps to one of the four models above so you can picture cadence, staff burden, and what families actually see.

› Host a venue

Setting
A branch library or YMCA multipurpose room, Saturday mornings, ages 8–14.
Cadence
Eight 90-minute workshops over a quarter — Build Studio one week, AI Arena the next, culminating in a family demo night.
What families experience
Ten to sixteen builders per session, two Hi, Bot mentors in the room, screen-light activities families can describe at dinner.
What you do
You reserve the room, list the series on your calendar and newsletter, and unlock the door — we bring facilitators, materials, insurance, and registration.

› After-school & districts

Setting
A middle-school cafeteria or enrichment wing, Tuesday and Thursday, grades 6–8.
Cadence
A ten-week module — 60-minute blocks, twelve to eighteen builders, aligned to your existing bell schedule.
What families experience
Scripted mentor-led sessions from our four-zone curriculum; no laptop cart required for most weeks.
What you do
You allocate the budget line or 21st CCLC slot and provide building access; we staff, roster, and report back enrollment data for your grant files.

› Sponsor a cohort

Setting
A regional employer or foundation funding youth AI entrepreneurship in Richmond.
Cadence
A named twelve-builder AIPreneurship cohort over one semester — weekly sessions plus a demo night your comms team can photograph.
What families experience
Builders ship a pitch-ready project; sponsors get logo placement, invited seats at demo night, and a talent-pipeline story that is not a generic check photo.
What you do
You fund the cohort package up front; we recruit builders, run the program, and hand you an impact summary you can reuse in ESG reporting.

› License the library

Setting
A homeschool co-op, kids-education subscription box, or microschool network with its own facilitators.
Cadence
A site license or co-branded edition — twenty-five screen-free activity packs with facilitator guides, ready to run on your schedule.
What families experience
Your leaders run the activities; families see your brand on the materials with Hi, Bot curriculum inside.
What you do
You distribute to your audience and run sessions locally; we provide the library, updates for a licensed term, and co-brand artwork.

What Hi, Bot provides

  • ›Four-zone curriculum: AI Arena, Build Studio, Robotics & Physical AI, AIPreneurship Lab
  • ›Trained, background-checked facilitators at a 1:6 mentor-to-builder ratio — read our safety page
  • ›General liability coverage, with hosts named as insured parties — details on safety & supervision
  • ›Registration, payments, and family communications — handled end to end
  • ›Materials, marketing kit, and the Hi, Bot brand

Families register and pay through Hi, Bot, so no invoice ever travels from us to a host — venues receive a revenue share on enrollments they source, and institutions that commission a program pay a single fee from budgets that already exist.

Questions we get

Is this really zero cost for our organization?

For host venues — libraries, YMCAs, museums, faith orgs — yes. You provide a room, a calendar slot, and promotion; Hi, Bot brings mentors, curriculum, insurance, and handles family registration and payment. You never receive an invoice from us. Venues earn a 30–40% revenue share on enrollments sourced through your channels. After-school and district partnerships use an enrichment budget or grant line you already have. Sponsors pay a package up front. Licensees pay a site or co-brand fee. The hero line applies to hosts; the four models below spell out what each path costs you.

Where do you operate?

In-person mentor-led pilots are Richmond, VA–first while we hire and finalize facilities — we will not over-promise travel before we can staff it properly. Licensing the activity library works anywhere you have an audience and a facilitator. Sponsored cohorts can be named for your organization in our market or adjacent ones we can reach with background-checked staff. On a scoping call we will tell you plainly whether your location fits the current pilot map.

What does our staff actually have to do?

For host venues, very little beyond what you already do for any room booking: unlock the space, point families to registration, and optionally co-promote on your channels. Hi, Bot facilitators run the session, set up materials, and tear down. Your staff does not need to teach AI. After-school blocks follow the same pattern inside your building. Licensees run activities themselves using our facilitator guides — that is the trade-off for no mentor on site.

How does revenue share work for hosts?

Families register and pay Hi, Bot directly — list prices live on our pricing page for planning, though in-person checkout is not open yet. When an enrollment traces to your venue's promotion or referral, you receive 30–40% of that tuition for the life of that enrollment. We handle billing, refunds, and family email so your finance office never chases us. Exact share and attribution rules are in the host agreement; the session guide PDF walks through a sample Saturday series so you can picture the flow.

Insurance, background checks, and how kids use AI?

Programs target a 1:6 mentor-to-builder ratio with Virginia-required background checks on every mentor who works with kids, general liability coverage, and hosts named as additional insured where contracts require it. Kids do not get dropped into unrestricted consumer chatbots — AI access stays mentor-mediated and age-appropriate. Licensing and Virginia out-of-school-time classification are still being mapped with counsel as we hire. Read the full baseline on our safety page; ask us directly on a partnership call if you need vetting specifics for a board packet.

Not ready for a full partnership yet?

Start with the free organization kit — print-ready games and activities, no agreement, no login. Run one session this week and see if your kids engage. If you need curriculum built to your standards and calendar instead of our off-the-shelf program, that is Curriculum Studio — a separate commissioned path. When you are ready for mentor-led delivery in your space, come back here and book a demo workshop; Week 1 is a free walkthrough for your staff and ten families.

More on supervision, background checks, insurance, and age-appropriate AI use: read the safety page. What runs today vs what we are still building: see our status page.

The first step costs nothing. So does the second.

Tell us about your space, your families, or your funding goals, and we'll bring a demo workshop to you.

Not ready for a partnership conversation? Get the free organization kit or browse print-ready games — no agreement required.