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.
Four 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. Harpenden-priced AI Night School, plus a residents-only speaker series in town.
See the leader path
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 teen pathI’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
Our organisation has a problem we think AI could help with.
Tell us a real problem your charity, school, or community group faces. We’ll match it to a working group.
Submit a problem
Not sure which door is yours? Start with Leaders if you work in a knowledge-economy role, or Volunteers if you’re retired and want to help. The doors aren’t locked.
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.