Make the industrious worker the hero of America's AI century.

A nonprofit for industrial renewal.

The industrious worker is any person who can master new production tools faster than the tools become obsolete.

The thesis

America and its allies need to build again.

From clean energy and infrastructure to advanced manufacturing and defense, the U.S. and its allies need dramatically more capacity to make the physical things our economy and security depend on.

Capital and technology are moving faster than the workforce.

Public policy and private investment are putting billions into new factories, infrastructure, and industrial startups. But capital alone can't expand the grid, build advanced hardware, or operate the next generation of industrial infrastructure. The founders we work with say their tightest constraint is trained talent. There are not enough pathways (like apprenticeships) connecting people to these careers. We are building them, starting on the shop floor.

Too few institutions link the three worlds trying to solve this problem.

Industrial policy, industrial startups and their investors, and workforce development too often operate in silos. We bring them together.

We’ve published this argument in San Francisco, Washington, and Zurich.

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Where we start.

Data · Updated quarterly

Promised vs. Produced

33% of 165 promised factories are producing so far. Of the 73 due by the end of Q3, 39 are producing. As of Q3 2026

The Tracker follows America's biggest factory promises until they produce. AI agents assemble each record and a person checks it. Every project links to its sources.

Programs · Four cities

Shopfloor

Students gather around an engineer as he explains the parts on his workbench

We walk young people through the floors of the companies building the American industrial future, and put them in front of the people doing the work.