I'm building Streetlight, a free, no-account AI support tool for people navigating housing instability, paperwork, benefits, and hard decisions.
Streetlight is a small public-interest software project with a simple promise: useful AI support should not only belong to people who already have money, time, stability, and institutional fluency.
The project is built around a few non-negotiables:
- No accounts
- No ads
- No analytics
- No conversation storage
- No premium tier
- Open source from launch
- Plain-language privacy and safety docs
- Human help surfaced when the model is likely to be weak
I care about closing access gaps without turning people into projects. The richest people are using AI every day to draft, think, plan, translate systems, and get unstuck. I think access to these tools is one of the defining equity fights of this generation, and Streetlight starts from the belief that people facing housing instability deserve the same kind of tool, without accounts, ads, tracking, gatekeeping, or a premium tier.
This is not "AI for the homeless," a service directory, a research project, or a startup wedge. It is modest software that treats people as capable adults: plain-language, privacy-first, open source, honest about its limits, and connected to real humans where the model is likely to be weak.
For Streetlight issues or security reports, use the instructions in the repository:
- Bug reports: Report a problem
- Security policy: SECURITY.md