The help was always there.
Now it has a map.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people walk out of prison and have to rebuild a life from almost nothing: a job, a place to live, an ID, a way to eat. The programs that help with all of that already exist. They're just scattered, and almost impossible to find. Alyosha is what we built to fix that.
0+
people released from U.S. prisons every year
2 in 3
are rearrested within three years of release
0 million+
released from incarceration worldwide every year
U.S. figures: Bureau of Justice Statistics. Worldwide releases: global estimate (~30 million/year; ~11.5 million currently incarcerated). Demo data throughout is fictional and unverified.
The problem
Everything a person needs already exists. Finding it is the problem.
Picture someone in their first weeks home after years inside. They need the basics, fast: a job, a place to sleep, an ID, legal help, food. The good news is that all of it already exists, and there's a lot of it. Thousands of nonprofits, government programs, and fair-chance employers (companies that hire people with records) are working on reentry right now.
The catch is that it's spread across hundreds of organizations that don't talk to each other, each with its own intake forms and eligibility rules. So even though the help is out there, there's no single place to go and actually find it.
So you end up with real help that almost nobody can actually reach.
The solution
So we built Alyosha to do one thing: connect the programs that already exist to the people they were meant to serve — and connect those programs to each other.
Alyosha is one platform with two faces. For the person starting over: a calm guide that turns an overwhelming list into a single next step. For the people helping them: an AI-assisted dashboard that clears the busywork. Both draw on one living network of resources, and every organization that joins makes it richer for everyone already inside.
The person reentering
a step-by-step guide
Shared network
every resource, one pool
The organization helping
an AI-assisted dashboard
Two sides, joined by one living network.
For the person reentering
A guide, not another form to fill out
Plain language, one clear step at a time. We built it for someone who might be doing this on a borrowed phone after years away.
Getting Started
A personal, dependency-ordered path (ID before bank account before housing before work) with what to do, where to go, and what to bring for each step.
Find Help
Search one shared pool of real resources (jobs, housing, legal aid, benefits, training) filtered to the person's situation, pulled from every participating organization in one place.
AI companion
Ask a question in plain words and get a grounded answer drawn only from verified sources, with the citation shown, and legal or medical questions handed to a real human.
Connect with organizations
Message a reentry organization directly through the platform. It's a real human-to-human channel, with no AI in the middle.
Progress tracking
Check off each step as it's done. Momentum is shown as forward progress, never as a deficit. The people helping can see it without a check-in call.
For the organizations helping
An operations dashboard that does the busywork
The same shared network, seen from the caseworker's side. AI handles the first pass; the caseworker makes every real call.
Smart Intake
Turn a messy intake conversation into a clean profile and a dependency-ordered plan in seconds. The caseworker reviews, edits, and approves: the AI drafts, the human commits.
Caseload Intelligence
A digest that surfaces who needs follow-up (the client who's gone quiet, the milestone that's overdue) so no one falls through the cracks.
Gap Analysis
Compares clients' unmet needs against the resource network and points to partner organizations that could fill the gap.
Resource Management
Each organization owns and maintains its own listings. Every resource it adds joins the shared network and becomes findable by every client.
Client messages
Messages from clients land in the organization's inbox with full context alongside, so a caseworker can reply without switching screens.
This isn't a mockup. It's running.
Two sides, one live demo set in New York City. Pick a side and walk through it.
The person reentering
Enter as a client
Walk Marcus's experience: the Getting Started map, Find Help, and the AI companion that answers with sources and hands you to a human.
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Enter as a caseworker
See Diane's side: Smart Intake, Caseload Intelligence, Gap Analysis, and the inbox where client messages arrive and get answered.
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