68%
of people released from state prison were arrested within 3 years
Source: BJS
Too many people leave prison only to find the world has left them behind.
Kintsy exists to break that cycle.
WE DON’T HIDE THE CRACKS.
WE BUILD WITH THEM.
A criminal record can follow someone long after they’ve served their sentence. It can close doors to employment, housing, education, and opportunity—making it harder to build a stable life and easier to fall back into the system.
Kintsy believes a person’s past should be part of their story, not a permanent sentence.
We don’t ignore what happened. We build from it.
A Future Worth Building
Kintsy helps people turn skills, ideas, and experience into meaningful work and greater independence. Through entrepreneurship, practical skills, mentorship, and community, we create opportunities to build something new.
How Kintsy Works
A place to build, sell, and grow.
Turn skills into something you can build on.
Kintsy gives people rebuilding their lives a place to develop their skills, showcase what they can do, and turn their experience into products, services, and income.
More than a marketplace.
The Kintsy Marketplace gives people a place to sell their products. The Kintsy Directory helps customers, employers, and collaborators find people offering skills and services.
Your past can be part of what you build next.
From entrepreneurship and practical skills to meaningful work, Kintsy creates pathways for people to turn experience into opportunity—and opportunity into independence.
Rebuilding doesn’t happen alone.
As Kintsy grows, we’ll connect people with mentors, peers, partners, and resources—a community invested in helping them build something better.
Build a business on your terms
For justice-involved creators ready to use their skills to gain financial stability for them and their family in a meaningful way.
Shops & Services Rooted in Story
For conscious consumers looking for thoughtful, well-made products—and a direct way to support independent makers
Help Build What Comes Next
For mentors, donors, and organizational partners who want to help Kintsy grow its support for makers.
A stronger future, for everyone, built one sale at a time.
Kintsy envisions a world where people with a past can thrive through creativity, entrepreneurship, and meaningful opportunity. Every maker who builds a business and every thoughtful purchase moves that vision forward.