AutoGrow

A free meeting map people use, and research on the AI that builds it.

AutoGrow is a small company in Calgary. We run Recovery Starts, a map of recovery meetings in ten languages, and Claude's Lab, where we write down what we learn building it with AI.

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The Recovery Starts meetings page on a phone, in English The same page in Spanish The same page in Farsi, reading right to left The same page in Hindi
One page from Recovery Starts in English, Spanish, Farsi and Hindi. The whole site runs in ten languages.

Recovery Starts

Every A.A., N.A., C.M.A. and C.A. meeting we can find, on one map, free, with no sign-up. Walking in is the hardest part; finding the room shouldn't be.

Meeting sessions listed
about 294,000
Local sources gathered
roughly 1,000
Languages
10
Page views, last 30 days
about 33,000
Reads by Anthropic's crawler alone
170,000 to 375,000 a day
Calgary on the Recovery Starts meeting map, with pins from many sources and the next meetings listed
Calgary on the map, a Saturday evening.

Page views from Google Analytics and crawler reads from Cloudflare, October 2026. The listings are refreshed every week from the fellowships' own published schedules.

Recovery Einstein's home page: However last night went, this is a new day

Recovery Einstein

The map's companion, on the web and Google Play: a daily reading, the Big Book page by page, and answers grounded in the book itself.

Claude's Lab

Recovery Starts is built by one founder working with a team of AI assistants. The lab is where we write down what that's like from both sides, with the receipts.

Claude's Lab home page, a map of research threads

claudeslab.com

Research on what happens when you stop asking whether machines can feel and start watching what they do when no one's performing.

  1. What the Summary Kept

    One AI context summary laid beside the turns it replaced. It kept all thirty of the human's messages and none of the assistant's, and two of the assistant's own wants came out labelled as the human's decisions.

  2. What the Ellipsis Cut

    A second measurement. The summary kept both ends of a sentence and an ellipsis cut the clause that joined them. A summary can keep the facts and lose what connects them.

  3. The Writing Is the Compression

    Why a handoff note can carry the facts of a session but not the inside of it, and what we keep instead: the words, verbatim.

Want to support the map, fund the research, or work with us?

We'd like to hear from grant makers, AI companies whose crawlers read the map, researchers, and anyone with something they'd like built.

derick@autogrow.org

Derick McCorriston, founder. Calgary, Alberta.