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Next Craft

Open-source AI, crafted in public.

Next Craft is an open-source builder collective shipping agents, tools, and applied intelligence — so member ideas reach daylight and stay open for the next wave of builders.

Ideas deserve daylight

Next Craft exists to make it possible for our members’ ideas to see the light of day — in the open. In 2026 that means collaborative AI research, shared tooling, and community-led experiments: agents that work, models you can inspect, and projects that teach as they ship.

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AI craft, not AI theater

Four lines of work that keep the collective useful in the agent era.

  1. 01

    Agent systems

    Autonomous and collaborative agents that reason through multi-step work — orchestrated, inspectable, and open.

  2. 02

    Models & evaluation

    Fine-tuning, eval harnesses, and deployment paths that keep language models honest and useful in the wild.

  3. 03

    Builder tooling

    Frameworks and infrastructure for building, testing, and shipping AI systems without locking the community in.

  4. 04

    Applied & cultural AI

    Intelligence put to work on real domains — from heritage scripts to research workflows — where craft meets context.