@duncan
Duncan Schouten
Founder @ Pairwise
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I'm building Pairwise (pairwise.app) to help organizations provide mentorship programs to their members. Two years ago, my nonprofit (ProductBC; productbc.ca) needed to cancel our mentorship program in response to a lack of volunteer capacity, and I swore it would never happen again. I explored the commercial offerings, but none offered the sort of insights I knew were possible with AI. I made an offhand commitment to the board to build “a little GPT script” and help with matching. The results were so impressive that I kept fleshing it out, and other organizations took interest. Pairwise is now a full-fledged SaaS, currently running ProductBC’s Spring 2026 mentorship cohort, and will soon be used by the Toronto Product Management Association.
the log
On Stage
Launch Builders
May 2026
Touched Grass at Launch Builders
from the community · recognized by Launch Academy
Apr 2026
@duncan
Duncan Schouten
Founder @ Pairwise
skills
signals
On Stage
Touched Grass
built
about
I'm building Pairwise (pairwise.app) to help organizations provide mentorship programs to their members. Two years ago, my nonprofit (ProductBC; productbc.ca) needed to cancel our mentorship program in response to a lack of volunteer capacity, and I swore it would never happen again. I explored the commercial offerings, but none offered the sort of insights I knew were possible with AI. I made an offhand commitment to the board to build “a little GPT script” and help with matching. The results were so impressive that I kept fleshing it out, and other organizations took interest. Pairwise is now a full-fledged SaaS, currently running ProductBC’s Spring 2026 mentorship cohort, and will soon be used by the Toronto Product Management Association.
the log
On Stage
Launch Builders
May 2026
Touched Grass at Launch Builders
from the community · recognized by Launch Academy
Apr 2026