Michael E. Gruen

The visual storytelling platform made simple and beautiful.

Literacy Trust, founded in 1999 as a 501c3, is a literacy advocate and education nonprofit. We work with all members of school communities to bring research-based reading intervention to children in grades K-3. Literacy Trust is based in New York City and delivers early literacy intervention, family engagement sessions, online & in-person workshops, and core instruction consulting to schools within all five NYC boroughs & the U.S at-large. Vision: Ensure all students are reading on grade level by the end of 3nd grade. Mission: Literacy Trust leverages what exists to build educational capacity in schools and create fluent, motivated, self-confident readers.

The visual storytelling platform made simple and beautiful.

MVF is a highly efficient program and protocol for improving and maintaining fitness by creating reinforceable, sustainable habits. Beyond our 16-week reorientation program, we work with client on an ongoing basis to reduce the cognitive overhead of getting and staying fit. The program was built for busy professionals; in particular, for technology entrepreneurs and startup folks. Our name comes from "Minimum Viable Products"​, the concept that you do the least amount of work to test for traction in a market. Similarly, MVF is the minimal program and protocol to see meaningful fitness results.

Paperlex is a quick way to generate and use human-readable legal documents whenever you need them. As a collection of business people and lawyers, we at Paperlex are generally annoyed with how legal documents are created and transacted—reasons include questionable fees, ill-constructed forms, and needless long-windedness. We created Paperlex to start modernizing contract creation and review.