Columbia Software Solutions: a student consulting club building free software for NYC nonprofits and small businesses. Founded 2026. One client shipped. Advisors from Bain Capital Ventures, OpenAI, and Harvard Business School.
Advisory Board
Senior operators from BCV, OpenAI, and HBS. They review scope and code with us.
Partner, Bain Capital Ventures
Early investor in DoorDash, Rec Room, and Tally. Columbia alum.
OpenAI
Building at the frontier of applied AI.
Incoming HBS
Previously SWE at Brex and Doppel.
What we do
We pair Columbia engineers with NYC nonprofits and small businesses. We scope the work, build the product, and hand it off.
Senior advisors in Big Tech review scope and code.
Projects run 1–2 months. Our first project shipped in Spring 2026.
Case Study — Spring 2026
Community kitchen — Harlem, NYC
WhatsApp logging bot and offline-capable tablet check-in app for a Harlem community kitchen. Replaces manual paper tracking with structured data pipelines writing to a shared Google Sheets backend.
For Columbia students
You're paired with a 3–4 person team and an advisor from BCV, OpenAI, or HBS. You ship a deployed product in 1–2 months.
Join the Fall 2026 waitlistFor NYC nonprofits & small businesses
Scope a project with us. We match a 3–4 person team. You ship in a semester. No cost.
Work with usTeam
Founder
Columbia CS '28.
Co-founder
Columbia CS '28.
Founding Team
Columbia CS '29.
Founding Team
Columbia SD '28.
