Orbytt Mission – By the numbers
Keeping Filipino families together by building the pathway to AI-powered work at home
Every year more Filipinos leave to find work. We think the honest question is not whether that is sad. It is how many people a program like ours can realistically bring home, at what cost, and how fast.
The gap
Four numbers that set the problem
Money keeps coming home. People do not.
Cash remittances hit a record 35.63 billion dollars in 2025, the fourteenth straight annual rise. The flow is a symptom, not a solution. It is the price families pay for being apart.
Source: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, 2025 cash remittance data.
Mission
Build community-led pathways to AI-powered careers, so a Filipino can earn a global wage without leaving the people who depend on them.
How
Three pillars, one pathway
AI literacy
MabuhAI
- Free AI courses in Filipino and English
- Train the trainer for teachers, barangay officials, faith leaders
- Youth camps and intergenerational sessions
Community innovation
Sama-Sama Labs
- Barangay design sprints on local problems
- Rural connectivity and library labs
- Support tools built with OFW families
Economic opportunity
Hanapbuhay
- AI-ready VA bootcamp with direct placement
- Worker cooperative for fair rates and shared benefits
- Scholarships and stipends that remove the money barrier
The arithmetic
From learner to livelihood
Where people fall out between first hearing about us and holding a paying job. Every bar is measured against the top of its own funnel.
The model
Move the inputs. Watch the impact.
Nothing here is a hope. Every output below is arithmetic on the conversion rates above and the unit costs listed at the bottom of this page.
Each ambassador reaches about 90 learners a year in their own community.
Selective intake, scholarship funded, 55 percent placed.
Years one and two run at 35 and 70 percent of capacity while the network builds.
The plan
How does it look like in phases
Bars show cumulative progress at the end of the selected phase against the 2030 target.
Grant fit
How this maps to People-First AI
AI literacy and public understanding
Community innovation
Economic opportunity
Every assumption behind these numbers
| Learners reached per ambassador per year | 90 |
| Free track: reached to enrolled | 34 percent |
| Free track: enrolled to placed | 4.9 percent |
| Bootcamp: seats to placed | 55 percent |
| Ambassador cost, training plus five years support | 460 dollars |
| Cost per learner reached, platform and materials | 4 dollars |
| Cost per bootcamp seat, stipend and instruction | 340 dollars |
| Monthly earnings, placed AI-ready remote worker | 780 dollars |
| Monthly earnings, comparable local work | 250 dollars |
| Share of placements who would otherwise work abroad | 42 percent |
| Capacity ramp, years one, two, three onward | 35, 70, 100 percent |
Context data from the Philippine Statistics Authority and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Conversion and cost assumptions are Orbytt planning figures, drawn from our own placement operations and deliberately set at the conservative end. We publish them so a funder can argue with them.
Build it with us
Funders, community partners, educators, and Filipino professionals ready to pay it forward. The model works better the more of you are in it.