Phillip An
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Projects

Companies & products

What I'm building and what I've built. Everything I'm working on now lives under Allston Labs — a small workshop for software products. Before Allston, I co-founded Homebase.

Allston Labs
  • Skylarq The operating system for outbound. Helps founders and operators run high-quality cold outreach end-to-end — ICP definition, signal-driven sourcing, per-lead personalization, multi-channel orchestration, and a QA layer that catches what generic tools miss. Active. Several paying clients. skylarq.ai →
  • Echo Every in-person meeting, transcribed on your iPhone. A calm mobile recorder for taking notes by speaking. Inspired by Granola; built for the iPhone. On TestFlight, regular updates. Site →
  • Rosetta Screenshot translation for iOS. Translate anything on your screen with one tap. Live on the App Store. App Store →   Site →
  • Nuance Stop copy-pasting from Google Translate. A translation keyboard for iPhone — italic-serif ñ, warm cream + terracotta. Live on the App Store as Nuance Translate. App Store →   Site →
  • Infinite Recall Working name for an AI-native memory product. Concept stage, name picked, building soon.

Education & AI
  • AI-native school · working name TBD An AI-native school exploring what apprenticeship-style learning looks like when an AI tutor is part of the cohort, not a replacement for one. Built separately from Allston Labs. Currently at the concept-and-pilot stage. Supported in part by the Chang Fellowship.
  • International School of Beijing Working with ISB on integrating AI into K–12 classrooms — curriculum, classroom tooling, and teacher enablement. isb.cn →
  • Bodley Academy Teaching at Bodley Academy in Hong Kong — education programs for exceptional youth and senior executives, with an Oxford / Cambridge curriculum lineage. bodleyacademy.com →
  • To My Future Kids A long-arc letter project that will become a book — the personal-writing companion to everything I'm thinking about around education, parenting, and what gets passed forward. tomyfuture.kids →

Before Allston
  • Homebase Co-founded 2019 with Junyuan Tan. Vietnam-based proptech offering a rent-to-own model that makes homeownership accessible across Southeast Asia. First Vietnamese company backed by Y Combinator (W21). Raised $30M from Goodwater Capital, Antler, VinaCapital Ventures, and others. Currently operating; I'm in an advisory capacity. YC profile →
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