Workforce programs · colleges
learn/differently
AI adapts each learner's plan to the job they're training for, and the reporting builds itself so staff get time back for participants.
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Software that can't fail, for the people who can't afford it to.
Schools, agencies, and nonprofits run on small teams with no room for broken software. We're a collective of senior software engineers led by Chris Howard, who has spent 25 years on systems for NASA, defense, intelligence, and big tech. AI makes us fast. That experience makes what we ship hold up.
Our development process
Built by senior engineers, at AI speed.
AI is a power tool. In the wrong hands it just ships bugs faster. Ours have 25 years of building software for defense, intelligence, and big tech, so you get the speed without the mess.
Proof, not promises
We build our own products first.
Each one solves a real problem for the kind of organization we work with. They're live, and you can try them today.
Grant-funded nonprofits
audit/differently
Proof is attached as grant money is spent and checked every month, so the audit package is ready before an auditor asks.
Visit auditdifferently.tech ↗Career centers · job seekers
interview/differently
AI workplace simulations put job seekers inside real decisions under pressure, then show exactly how they think.
Visit interviewdifferently.com ↗Who we build for
Organizations that serve people, and the staff stretched thin running them.
Schools and training programs
Colleges, career centers, workforce boards, and bootcamps.
- Learning and practice tools
- Outcome and enrollment reporting
- Student and staff portals
Government and civic
Agencies and the teams that serve them, built by people used to secure, high-stakes environments.
- Cloud migrations and modernization
- Internal tools and workflow automation
- Prototypes that win the next round of funding
Nonprofits
Grant-funded teams with big missions and small budgets.
- Grant tracking and compliance
- Participant and case management
- Replacing the spreadsheet everyone's afraid to touch
Who's behind it
25 years of software that couldn't fail.
Satellite data at NASA. A platform that grew from one agency to eighteen across defense and intelligence. Cloud and engineering leadership at AWS and Microsoft. Chris Howard has spent 25 years on software where failure costs far more than a bad week, and he has trained more than 200 engineers to work the same way.
That's the bar Chow.Works holds your project to, whether it's a grant tracker, a student portal, or the app your team has been faking in a spreadsheet. We've been building to it since 2021.
NASA / L-3 / Raytheon / Clarity / AWS / Microsoft / UMGC
Got a problem software should solve? Let's ship the fix.
Tell us what it is, who it's for, and what's in the way. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team.
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