Noto

Operating system for after-school businesses

Noto is building an AI-native operating system for after-school businesses — tutoring centres, music schools and sports academies — replacing spreadsheets and outdated tools with a unified platform. There are roughly 150,000 such businesses across the US, each small enough that no vendor has built properly for them and collectively large enough that the gap matters. Founded by technical founders AJ Ding and Steve Wang and based in New York, the company is assembling a small team of builders who care about craft, users and the local communities these businesses serve.