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Jackson Lang

I make things. The category keeps changing.

Toronto
Building Armin
First-year Rotman Commerce at the University of Toronto

Selected work

Armin

Fall 2026 – present

Co-founder. Product and business direction, growth, user feedback, execution.

Mine

  • Product and business direction, growth and user feedback.
  • Execution on everything outside the core engineering.

Team

  • Matin Mahmoud is technical lead; Alfred Liu is co-founder.
  • Live in the Chrome Web Store as Armin for Canvas; free, with optional Premium study tools.Chrome Web Store listing and getarmin.com, fetched Nov 1 2026.

getarmin.com · Chrome Web Store

tPortal

September 2026 – present

Founder and hands-on developer.

Mine

  • Designed, built and shipped the desktop app; ran the beta and the releases.
  • Brand, launch posters and the social accounts.

Team

  • Built and shipped by me.
  • Eleven releases in the first six days (33 tagged builds).Git tag history, Sep 11–16 2026.
  • More than 50 beta users; more than 40,000 impressions on the launch posts.Internal account records (35 accounts on Oct 10 2026). Private; the count is not published.

tportal.ca · Downloads · Demo

Basil Home AI

2024 – present

Co-founder and co-CEO. Product, pitches, coordination.

Mine

  • Product direction, pitch decks and delivery; coordinated prototypes and the outside industrial designer; worked on the companion app.

Team

  • Three-person founding team; teammates owned the technical components.
  • 1st place, SPRINT ($3,000 prize).Résumé (Sep 2026) and facts bank. No public record found.
  • 2nd place and Sponsor's Choice, TYSIC.Résumé (Sep 2026) and facts bank. No public record found.

basilhome.ca (site and waitlist)

TEDxUCC Youth

September 2024 – May 2026

Co-founder and head.

Mine

  • Licence, speaker recruiting and coaching, marketing, sponsorship outreach, show day with the tech crew.

Team

  • Co-founded with Porter Riopelle; a student team and school staff.
  • One delivered event; the organization ran for two school years.Résumé (Sep 2026). No public event page or video found.

Night Shift

2026 – present

Initiator and product director of an agent-driven build experiment.

Mine

  • Priorities, briefs, review, and the call on what ships.

Team

  • AI agents do substantial implementation; the code is largely agent-authored.

First Dig (public repo) · GitHub

Earlier, and off the clock

  • A Rainbow Loom bracelet storefront as a kid; a few hundred dollars in sales.
  • Ski race coach and CSIA Level 1 instructor, Craigleith Ski Club, U10 race group (seasonal, since Dec 2023).
  • Captain, UCC varsity volleyball; CISAA division champions; four years of rep volleyball.
  • Tutoring with Spirit of Math (2020–2022) and Horizons Tutoring (2022–2024); Kilcoo Camp Leader-in-Training (2024).
  • Walkers Point Marina, summer 2026; built the ice-cream checkout tool coworkers used.
  • Outline Financial, Mortgage & Insurance Administrator, July–August 2025.
  • SAT 1590; Waterloo Fermat Certificate of Distinction; National Spanish Exam Gold; NSLC (Duke) pitch and management simulation wins.
  • Student short films; a Roblox game awaiting release.

Education

  • University of Toronto · Rotman Commerce (BCom), Trinity College, class of 2030 · 2026 – 2030
  • Upper Canada College · IB Diploma, class of 2026 · 2018 – 2026

Contact

Everything here was checked against a live source on 1 November 2026 or confirmed by Jackson on 3 November 2026. The full version with the machine is at jacksonlang.ca.