Applications open
A fully funded month of Claude Code — Anthropic's agentic coding tool — for builders anywhere in the world held back by its price.
Claude Code gives one determined person the output of a small team. Nearly everything known about what people do with that kind of leverage comes from one narrow demographic: well-paid, English-speaking, productivity-driven. The Scholarship exists because we think some of the most interesting uses will be invented by the people the price currently excludes — students, self-taught developers, career-switchers, anywhere in the world — and the only way to find out is to fund the seats and watch what happens. These tools are still in their infancy and most of what they could be applied to hasn't been explored; we'd like to remove the barrier and learn alongside you how something this powerful can be used for good.
Scholars receive a personal Claude Code seat in our workspace for one month. Extensions from our reserve go to the scholars who put the seat to the most interesting use — not the heaviest. There is no cost at any point. By default the seat shares your Claude sessions with us — what you asked, what Claude did — because that is where we learn what people actually do with this. We collect it mainly to understand how people use tools like this once price is out of the way, so that future educational and philanthropic programs (ours and other people's) can be designed around real use. You can opt out on the form. If you do, your lottery odds are halved, and an extension becomes unlikely, since we decide those on what we can see.
It's a gate, not a contest. Against a published rubric (AI-assisted, with human oversight) we check exactly two things: that paying for tools like this is a genuine barrier for you, and that you could actually use the seat this month. Everyone who clears the gate enters a lottery for the 10 seats, seeded from a public randomness beacon. We don't rank applications — the uses we're most curious about are precisely the ones an essay can't predict, and ranking rewards polish. Substance matters, prose doesn't, and among qualified applicants, chance — not connections — decides.
The program runs in rounds like this until 1 January 2027. If we extend it, this page says so first.
Answer in whatever language you write most easily — we read them all, and writing in your own language never counts against you. Around 100 words each; specific beats polished.
Two friends — one in North America, one in Europe — who think funding seats like this does real good at very small cost, and that what scholars do with them is worth studying. It's an independent two-person project; the rubric and the process are public. Questions? Email hello@wildcardscholarship.org.