A food bank with no people in it. Donors text in what they have, a robot arm sorts the food into boxes, and AI helpers arrange the pickups. Over one weekend it delivered about 100 pounds of food to real shelters.

We've spent years volunteering at food banks and shelters, experiencing firsthand the challenges of both front-office admin and back-breaking logistics. When Anthropic released Project Vend showing Claude could run a business autonomously, we wondered- what if we applied that same capability to helping people give instead of take? With agents now able to reason, communicate, and operate in the physical world, Project Lend was born at the intersection of technical possibility and human need. Project Lend is an autonomous food bank run entirely by AI.