AI for the third sector, by builders.

Moonlabs is what we are. Two operators — James Freestone and Louis O’Connell-Bristow — who run Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk. We work with regulated data every day — the patterns for defensible AI deployment under Charity Commission, ICO and trustee scrutiny are the same ones we use ourselves.

The Academy is what we do. A twelve-week, in-person, twelve-student cohort in Derby. You build a real AI product. You sign a paid pilot on it. You write a deck and a financial model. You leave with a deployed system, a paying customer reference and a live investor pipeline — or, for charity applicants, the same artefacts pointed at a programmatic brief or a social-enterprise spin-out. Coding, Commercials, Investment — the three pillars taught in equal weight every week.

Why this page exists. Charities and non-profits sit in a strange place with AI — every funder wants to talk about it, almost no organisation has the in-house engineering depth to ship it, and the vendor pitches are loud. The case workers, fundraisers and programme staff doing the actual work have no easy way to evaluate any of it. You return as the charity professional who can ship the AI — or as the founder of a social-enterprise tool your sector needed someone to build properly.