EXP-001
Sea trial
WP Update Guard
An AI crewmate that watches over WordPress updates, so a plugin bump doesn’t take a public site down.
Awesome Cause Labs
We broke into our own website.
Labs is the pirate crew inside Awesome Cause: thinkers, builders and creative rebels chasing big ideas, with the focus to make them work. Everything here is an experiment until it earns its sails.
Who's on this ship
Thinkers, builders, and creative rebels with room to chase big ideas and the focus to make them work.
01
Question the rules
Most "that's just how it works" is a decision someone made once. We ask who it's working for.
02
Pull problems apart
Stubborn problems come apart at the seams. We take them to pieces with pencils, paper and real conversations first.
03
Build what makes life better
A government service people can actually navigate. A tool that gives nonprofit teams hours back. A new way to get help to someone who needs it.
The experiments · 04 on deck
Things we're building
Everything here is an experiment until it earns its sails. Some will become Awesome Cause products. Some won't, and we'll tell you why.
EXP-002
Napkin
free-ish
One-line pitch goes here: the problem, and who it helps.
EXP-003
Workbench
DisasterHub
One place for emergency managers and government comms directors to get the word out when it matters most.
EXP-004
Workbench
Floture
Where your company flows: policies, onboarding and HR answers in one intranet, with AI search.
EXP-005 · open slot
Your idea here.
The next experiment might start with your stubborn problem. Bring it on a napkin if you have to.
Napkin
Pitch an idea
How an experiment grows
From napkin to open water
- Napkin
Sketch it
An idea on paper, a problem worth chasing. Nothing built yet.
- Workbench
Build it
The crew is building. Not public yet, but the log is.
- Sea trial
Test it for real
Real people are using it. Expect rough edges, and tell us about them.
- Set sail
Ship it
It graduates into an Awesome Cause product, with support behind it.
- Scuttled
Or stop it
Any stage can end here, on purpose. The log says what we learned.
How we work
Pencils and paper. Models and code.
Analog
- pencils, paper, whiteboards
- sitting with the people who use it
- asking "why" one more time
- flipping the problem upside down
- walks (seriously)
// digital
- ai --models frontier --custom
- deploy --edge cloudflare
- build --web react --apps expo
- publish --cms wordpress
- ship --when "it actually helps"
We work at the forefront of technology and AI, with good old analog thinking right alongside it. The pencil decides what to build. The code is how it gets out the door.
Ship's log
Latest from the lab
Stage changes, launches and the things that broke. We write it all down.
Read the whole logLabs opens its doors
We broke into our own website. You’re looking at it.
WP Update Guard gets a home
A logo and a one-page site, so people can find the bot.
Floture finds its line
“Where your company flows.” Practical beat abstract.
Join the crew
Get the log in your inbox
One short note when an experiment changes stage. That's it.
Bring us a problem
Got a stubborn one?
A process your team hates, a service people can't find, an idea nobody's had time for. If it's in government or a nonprofit, we want to hear it.
Pitch an idea