About Eldercraft
A working lifetime leaves people with skills the rest of us still need — and often no easy way to share them. Eldercraft is the platform that fixes that.
Why we built it
Retirement is rarely the end of usefulness. It's the end of the contract that organised it. Heritage trades, precision crafts, traditional textiles, midwifery, restoration, governance — the people who know these things are mostly past sixty, and most platforms are built for someone else.
We're starting with the Rare-Skills Register: a catalogue of people who hold knowledge that would otherwise vanish. From there we will add philanthropic mentoring, paid engagements, and non-executive and board roles.
Who it's for
- Mentors — retired and semi-retired people of any background, gender and culture, with skills they want to share.
- Seekers — apprentices, students, restorers, founders, charities, museums, family historians, and companies looking for governance experience.
- Communities — guilds, societies and indigenous groups who hold collective knowledge.
Where we're launching
New Zealand and Australia first, in English. The platform is built multilingual from day one so we can add Te Reo Māori, Pacific languages, and the major European and Asian languages as demand warrants.
Who runs it
Eldercraft is built by Insight AI Systems Limited — a one-person software company in Christchurch, New Zealand, founded and led by Alan Booth. We work alongside heritage societies and regional guilds, not above them.
Get involved
Mentors, seed-society partners and pilot organisations: write to alan@insight-ai-systems.com. Press and media: press@insight-ai-systems.com.