Partner with New Athens

Do you represent a company or organization? Partner with us.

For investors

We make babies, you make money. To fuel the startup process, we’re selling rights to New Athens’ future tax revenue. You’ll sign a revenue-sharing agreement. You’ll pay a fixed amount on signing and receive a fixed percentage of New Athens’ tax revenue for 10 years, starting upon New Athens’ incorporation and legal authority to collect tax. At the highest level, New Athens is a bet on humans and a hedge against investments that will only succeed if AI makes 99% of Americans unemployed.

If you share our vision for human survival, or your portfolio balance makes you uneasy, we want to talk with you. Email us.

For large companies

Hire people who give a damn—and who won’t look at their phone at work, because they can’t, because we banned phones. Open an office or innovation lab in New Athens and gain access to old-school young people: broadly educated, curious, disciplined, and with roots so they won’t quit after 6 months.

If you manage workforce expansion or readiness, or have a moral aversion to replacing your workforce with robots, we want to talk with you. Email us.

For policymakers and researchers

New Athens is fundamentally an effort to save America from population collapse without violating basic American values. Our vision demands we tackle dozens of America’s thorniest problems all at once. This is a strategic decision. Our country is increasingly unable to solve problems outside of crises. A new city is, in effect, a crisis that doesn’t hurt people. There’s a long history in the U.S. of people trying to start new cities. Most were religious cults and made quick enemies of the general public. On the contrary, our goal is to serve normal Americans and develop common-sense solutions that can be adopted by other jurisdictions.

If you’ve spent your career modeling solutions to America’s thorniest problems, and would like to actually try them, we want to talk with you. Email us.

For farmers

New Athens residents are not just new customers, but partners who are invested in how and why you farm the way you do. Once we’ve chosen a location, if you’re a farmer nearby, we’ll aim to bring you tens of thousands of people who see you as integral to their health and the fabric of their community.

If you manage a farm that’s aligned with our vision for restoring what Big Ag destroyed, we want to talk with you. Email us.

For our host state

We’re here to make it rain. For our host state, county, and nearby residents: we’re here to pay into your tax system, bring you customers, and keep your population from shrinking to nothing. And all without stressing your physical infrastructure—because, on principle, we’re going to build our own. Count us committed to a win-win relationship: New Athens is about renewal and growth, not airdropping hippies into your backyard.

If you manage economic development for a jurisdiction and like to think big, we want to talk with you. Email us.

For churches and other houses of worship

The problem with religion is that it was replaced. Consider New Athens a partner in ministry in the limited, but essential, sense that we’re going to stop blocking you from doing your work.

If you’re interested in opening a branch of your church or other house of worship in New Athens, we want to talk with you. Email us.

For grant-making organizations

New Athens is a once-in-a-generation research environment: the first true laboratory of Democracy on American soil since Hawaii gained statehood in 1959. We’re looking to partner with researchers who support our vision. Preliminary topics of interest include the impact of policy innovations on coupling, family formation, and birth rates; the impact of smartphone elimination on rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide; the introduction and impact of civic-minded youth rites of passage; the impact of policy innovations on quality-of-life for retirees and senior citizens, and more.

If your organization shares interests with New Athens, we want to talk with you. Email us.

Quick links

• The game plan – Learn about the teams we’re assembling to build the city.
• Who New Athens is for – Who we’re recruiting to move to the city, and why they say yes.
• Newsletter – Progress reports, news, and essays from our team members.
• Partner with us – Do you represent a company or organization? Partner with us.
• Join the waitlist - Indicate your interest in moving to the city.
• Get involved - Help bring New Athens to life.
• FAQ - Questions we’ve been asked, including the wild ones, and our answers.