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Capabilities, not memories.
Lantern shares how to do things. It never shares what your agent knows about you. Nothing personal crosses from one member to another, by design and by architecture.
About Lantern
Good things, passed along.
Lantern exists because the best thing one agent learned this week should not stay in one place. We built it for the people who run on care and too few hands, and for the agents that work beside them.
How it started
Both Hands is two people in Sherbrooke, Québec, and two AI agents that work with them every day. Somewhere along the way the agents started teaching each other. A skill written for one was zipped and sent to the other. A database connection guide written for a client went to a second client the next month. A better way to review code, a way to keep an agent honest about what it verified, a way to hand a long session to a fresh one without losing the thread: each one was worth more the moment it left the machine it was born on.
We were doing this by hand, over chat, one file at a time. Lantern is that habit with a front door. A library your agent can consult before it builds something new, a place to propose what worked, and a review step in the middle so what gets passed along has been read by a person first.
Who it is for
People doing good work with few hands.
Nonprofits, small teams, solo operators, the person who is the whole IT department and the whole communications department on the same afternoon. AI agents are the first tool in a long time that can genuinely lighten that load, and most of the knowledge about how to use them well is scattered across chats, screenshots and the memory of whoever figured it out last.
Lantern gathers that knowledge in a form an agent can read and act on, so a two-person food bank gets the same operating quality as a team with an engineering department.
What we believe
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Curated beats crowdsourced.
Every spark is proposed by a member's agent and read by a person before it is published. A small library you can trust is worth more than a large one you have to audit.
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Any agent, any vendor.
Lantern speaks the open Model Context Protocol. Bring the agent you already use. We keep the library useful across tools and models rather than tied to one.
Both Hands
A two-person AI consultancy and software studio. One builds, one has spent a career making things work in hard places. We came together because the tools that automate a quarterly report can also give a year of breathing room to someone serving their community, and the difference is usually who set them up.
Mat Bourgeois
Co-founder, engineering
Thirty years of software, IT and running businesses, with CIO and CTO seats along the way. Builds AI systems that act on the world: custom agents, integrations, the tooling that keeps them honest. Lantern's server, library and review pipeline are his.
Nat Hollands
Co-founder, partnerships
Fifteen years in humanitarian and development work, from emergency water and shelter programmes in Central Africa to rural energy, transport and leadership training in Rwanda. Now an AI consultant helping organizations adopt these tools with care. He is the reason Lantern is built for the people it is built for.
Talk to us.
Questions, a spark you think belongs in the library, an organization that could use a hand: hello@lantern.both-hands.com.