SoftwareforEveryone
Town is an applied AI company in San Francisco. We build tools that make it easy for anyone to create and use software in their everyday work.
Written by
Jean-Denis Greze
Tony Vincent
November 26, 2025
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Copy, X (Twitter), Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedInMost companies run on a long tail of glue work that never benefits from real software.
Research for a sales call. Reconciling a report. Pulling context for an interview. Explaining why a metric moved. Updating marketing materials after a feature launch. Building a deck from the financial forecast. Creating a video walkthrough for a new customer. All done manually, over and over.
AI changes what’s possible. If someone can describe an outcome in plain English, AI can figure out how to get there—if it has the right data, if it has reliable tools, and if it has guardrails.
What’s missing today is everything around those ifs: connecting private data so models can use it, fetching the right context instead of flooding the model with everything, giving AI controlled ways to act that match a company’s policies, all while making the result something people can test, run, approve, reuse, and modify without relying on IT or engineering.
That’s what we focus on at Town.
We enable people to build software by describing outcomes, not writing code. They do this through a coherent set of tools: search over public and private data, safe sandboxes to manipulate content, a browser optimized for agentic use, AI skills for common document types like spreadsheets and documents, memory so that agents learn over time, and integrations with internal and external services.
We make it easy for anyone to build with AI by describing the outcome: a spreadsheet model, a research report, a dashboard, or a mobile app. Which Town turns into working software, with the right UI and workflows.
We provide guardrails: permissions, human approvals, automated testing and evals, governance, and limits around irreversible actions. The goal isn’t to restrict people—it’s to make it safe for developers and non-developers to build real software.
When these pieces come together, something interesting happens: people start writing software in English. Not “chatbot prompts,” but descriptions of the work they want done—written by the people who do that work every day.
That’s the future we’re building: software where the people closest to the work get results simply by describing what they want. Software for everyone.
About the authors
Jean-Denis Greze is CEO & co-founder of Town. Previously he was CTO at Plaid, and prior to that Director of Engineering at Dropbox. Enjoys vibe coding badly named agents.
Tony Vincent is CPO & co-founder of Town. Previously he was Director of Product at Google, and prior to that Head of Design at Dropbox—all em dashes intentionally written.
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