Know I'm Here is designed to help residents discover, reach and participate in the resources, opportunities and services already around them.
Organizations can support different parts of that journey — from health and transportation to technology, economic mobility and community engagement.
Buildathon prototype. No organization named on this page currently sponsors, funds, endorses or partners with Know I'm Here. Everything here describes potential alignment only.
Help residents discover health, wellness, food, prevention and community-support resources.
Potential benefits
Help residents move from discovering a resource to actually reaching it.
Potential benefits
Support the digital infrastructure that powers discovery, personalization and Ask KIH.
Potential areas
Connect residents to employment, training, entrepreneurship and economic opportunity.
Potential benefits
Expand access to neighborhood programs, food resources, senior services, youth opportunities, recreation and community organizations.
Potential focus
Support privacy-conscious aggregate measurement of how residents discover, access and participate in resources.
Potential focus
Different partners can strengthen different parts of the resident journey. Know I'm Here can create value across community health, transportation, technology, economic mobility and neighborhood participation.
Each card below describes potential alignment only — not an existing sponsorship, partnership, funding or endorsement.
Know I'm Here can demonstrate how a Detroit-built solution moves from prototype to a sustainable technology venture while addressing a real resident-access problem.
Potential alignment
Help prove that civic technology built in Detroit can scale from neighborhood pilot to sustainable venture.
KIH can begin by solving Detroit's fragmented resource-discovery problem and develop into a repeatable connection platform for municipalities, institutions and community networks.
Potential alignment
Detroit becomes the proof point for a connection platform that could eventually scale beyond one city.
Residents cannot benefit from opportunities they cannot find or reach. KIH can make employment, training, food, health, transportation and neighborhood resources easier to discover and navigate.
Potential alignment
Help turn existing Detroit investment into greater resident participation and opportunity.
Ask KIH can turn natural-language questions into useful resource discovery, while Everyday Connect helps residents build confidence using smartphones, digital services and AI.
“What resources are around me right now?”
Voice / text →Location context →Trusted resource matching →Next step
Potential alignment
AI becomes useful when it helps a resident move from a question to a real community resource.
KIH can connect resource discovery directly to transportation information so residents understand not only what is available, but how to get there.
Discover →Get there →Participate
Potential alignment
Connect transportation access directly to community participation.
KIH can help residents discover nearby wellness, prevention, food-support and community-health resources — and understand how to reach them.
Potential alignment
Help residents discover health and wellness resources before a need becomes a crisis.
Environmental conditions are part of public health. KIH could eventually help residents discover trusted hyperlocal environmental-health information alongside neighborhood resources and alerts.
Potential alignment
Help residents understand how environmental conditions connect to health and neighborhood awareness.
Future integration opportunity — no JustAir data integration exists today.
Resource data
Help expand and verify community-resource information.
Technology
Support AI, maps, cloud infrastructure, geolocation and accessibility.
Community pilots
Fund neighborhood testing with residents and organizations.
Digital confidence
Support Everyday Connect education and onboarding.
Transportation access
Help residents reach community resources.
Outreach
Help more residents learn that available resources exist.
Measurement
Support privacy-conscious aggregate participation insights.
Never part of a sponsorship
Paid sponsorship never quietly changes public-resource recommendations. If sponsored content exists in the future, it will be clearly labeled Sponsored.
Know I'm Here is designed around resident trust. Sponsorship can support infrastructure, outreach and access without selling individual resident location or participation information.
Resident value → Partner value → City impact
Residents use Know I'm Here for free. Partners help strengthen the connection infrastructure. Organizations benefit when more residents can discover, reach and participate in the resources and opportunities already being funded across Detroit.
Prototype placeholders — a partnership contact workflow is not connected yet.
