Your town. Your AI. Yours to shape.
Harpenden is becoming the UK’s most AI-fluent town - not by accident, and not by leaving anyone behind. Wherever you are on the journey, there’s a door here that’s yours.
Pick the door that fits you. You’ll find a clear first step, the people you’ll meet there, and a way to sign up that takes less than two minutes.
Six doors
Pick whichever describes you today. You can change your mind later.
I run, lead, or work in a serious knowledge-economy job.
Get fluent in AI before your role does. The AI Leaders Fellowship runs alongside Harpenden.AI.
See the AI Fellowship
I'm a teenager and I want to build with AI, not just use it.
Sherpas AI - Harpenden edition. Get paid to bring real ideas to life, alongside other Harpenden teens.
See the Summer of AII've got time to give. I want to help my town.
Become an AI Coach, host a weekly clinic, or join a community working group. Your experience is exactly what your town needs.
See volunteer roles
AI for community impact - I want to use AI to help my neighbours.
A course for residents who want to use AI in their volunteering, their advocacy, and their role in Harpenden's civic life.
See the residents pathAI for creatives - I make things, and I want AI to make me sharper.
Writers, designers, musicians, photographers, performers. A practitioner's path through AI that respects the craft and adds to it.
See AI for creativesAI for Parents - I want to understand what my children, my grandchildren, my pension is dealing with.
A patient, jargon-free path through AI for parents, grandparents and older residents who'd rather understand it than be told what to think.
See AI for ParentsNot sure which door is yours? The doors aren't locked. Pick whichever feels closest and email Hugo - we'll help you find the right starting point.
Or you represent a community in Harpenden
We work with whole communities, not just individual residents.
Each of these is a dedicated page with the offer, the why, and a direct line to Hugo.
Already in motion
Real Harpenden problems, posted by real Harpenden organisations.
When a local organisation tells us about a problem AI could help with, it goes here - so any resident can join the working group and help solve it. This is what an AI-fluent town actually does on a Tuesday evening.
From AI Optimist
Short videos that explain why this matters - start anywhere.
Risk, honestly
Why AI isn't going to take our jobs
Hugo's case for the optimist's read on displacement - why fear is the wrong response and what to do instead.
Teens & families
The school system in the UK is broken
Why our children's education can't rely on the old assumptions - and what Sherpas AI proves is possible in its place.
High street
Cursor as an AI-first business interface
A practical walk-through of a tool that replaces a handful of SaaS products for small businesses - useful for the high street.
Sherpas
Startup Sherpas · Episode 27
The conversation that sits behind the Sherpas AI model - how real mentorship accelerates real people.
Harpenden.AI
Whichever door you walk through, you’ll find your neighbours already inside.