Meet Our 2023 Awardees
Project Goals:
Podsie's mission is to empower teachers and improve student learning outcomes by providing a free, user-friendly web app that makes it easy for them to leverage research-backed strategies in the classroom.
“ Working with ENG(INE) has been transformative for Podsie. The team helped us lay a much stronger foundation for developer experience and productivity, ensuring that our development processes are efficient and scalable. They set up an infrastructure for LLM-based features, dramatically enhancing the capabilities of our platform. ENG(INE) assisted us in fleshing out our hiring processes for product designers and engineers, which led to us hiring our first full-time designer and engineer, both of whom have been wonderful additions to our team. In essence, ENG(INE) helped us evolve from a one-person, scrappy setup to a well-structured team with a much higher chance of achieving our mission.”
— Josh Ling, CEO, Podsie
Podsie
Project Goals:
Magipie Literacy’s mission is to unlock the great reader in every child through comprehensive, research-based, digital reading products.
“ We needed a partner with strong AI expertise in helping students match the skills they need to practice with specific texts. We were successful in creating functionality that we can put into our product in the near future. And we took a quantum leap forward toward getting students the right texts at the right time! There is demonstrable value from bringing in outside expertise. Nonprofit Eng(ine) was able to curate their partnering team from a much larger team in a way that we could not have done.”
— Rebecca Kockler,
CEO , Magpie Literacy
Magpie Literacy
Project Goals:
Trans Lifeline provides our trans peers with the connection, care, and advocacy we need and deserve. We were able to reimagine our hotline with ENG(INE) to use modern technology to develop a synchronous and asynchronous chatline that increases our overall service capacity.
“This project was desperately needed but not something we wanted to take on alone.”
— Rebecca Reuchel,
Former Director of Technology , Trans Lifeline
I think the value of NPE for Teaching Lab was gaining a technical understanding of the practical applications of AI for our idea. I was somebody who had the yin—I didn't know how to leverage tools to achieve something that I knew was broadly feasible, but not in any way meaningfully feasible. And so, having a team to translate the idea into a plan, and then simultaneously be able to deliver on that plan, was hugely valuable for us as far as not needing to possess that expertise to make progress toward it.
I think a sub-benefit of that has been the team’s perspective on how to test this concept, and an investment in the broad philosophy of what we're trying to do so that we could get directional guidance on how we should test this, and what to look out for.
— Adam Franklin, CEO, Teaching Lab