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I make things. Software mostly, sometimes hardware, sometimes a classroom.

Dylan Gutowski
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T E N O R A

2026 — now · live

A relationship manager built to keep a network alive. Contacts settle into rings by closeness, shift with recency, and surface the one person worth reaching out to next. it remembers the context, so following up never starts from a blank page.

tenoraapp.com
free · yours to copy

northstar-os.

2026 — now · live

My AI, given a memory. It holds all 16 of my projects, ranks them against what I actually want, and keeps one backlog so nothing lives in my head. It pulls me out when I've been down a rabbit hole, and syncs its own notes, so I never maintain it. no chat starts from scratch. free to copy.

15people have installed it
the repo
live · 44 schools seeded

UniformPass.

2026 — now · live

A resale marketplace for private-school uniforms. Parents buy and sell school by school. no shipping, no fees. The real moat is concierge consignment: we pick up a pile, list it, sell it, and pay the owner half the profit.

uniformpass.shop
2 hrs → 15 min

searchlight capital.

2025 · summer analyst · still in use

My summer job at a $17b investment firm: one-page summaries of companies we might buy. Every analyst built the same page by hand, hunting the same numbers across four data services, two hours a time. I rebuilt it so the numbers pull themselves in and the page fills itself out. Fifteen minutes. I showed it at the firm's North America meeting and the deal teams switched to it.

87%less time per page
40+pages I built on it
$17bthe firm's assets
12 courses · 3 tracks

rise & invest.

2024 — now · live

The education your school never offered. Three tracks (college counseling, plus 1:1 and group master classes) and twelve courses across college prep, career and finance, and AI. I teach the version I wish I'd had.

"Most people follow the path in front of them. Rise is the decision to go further. Invest is what that actually takes."

riseandinvest.org
$4,000+ raised · archived

prints 4 joy.

2022 — 2025 · high school charity · archived

Before I knew what a startup was. A 3D printing charity I ran in high school, layer by layer, four thousand dollars and change for good. The first time building felt like the only reasonable thing to do.

No. 01

you can outwork talent. you cannot outwork conviction.

No. 02

shipping ugly is a form of respect ... the user gets it sooner.

No. 03

the world needs more people who text first.

Music — Currently

on repeat
  1. fred again..
  2. kings of leon
  3. coldplay
  4. beach house
  5. radiohead

On the Piano

by ear
  1. nocturne no. 20 — chopin
  2. the man i love — gershwin
  3. sparks — coldplay
  4. clair de lune — debussy
  5. moonlight sonata, mvt. iii — beethoven
Credits
Written by
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Dylan Gutowski
Directed by
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The same
Designed & Debugged
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3am, mostly
Typeset in
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Cormorant Garamond & Inter
Shot on
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a 14" MacBook Pro
With thanks to
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everyone who texted back
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