Backed by Y Combinator, Acadian Ventures, and Soma Capital, Arist is a text message learning platform helping Fortune 500 companies and large organizations — including DuPont, GE, and the State of California — create, deploy, and assess text message courses.

Our long-term vision is to deliver critical knowledge and training to anyone in the world, regardless of traditional learning barriers, one text message at a time.

What's a text message course?

A series of texts, images/GIFs, and interactive exercises/questions delivered over 5 to 30 days via SMS or WhatsApp. Backed by research from Stanford and Harvard, text message courses see ~10x the completion and satisfaction rates of other learning mediums.

In fact, we view text message courses as a brand-new content medium, with a variety of impactful use cases ranging from preventing misinformation to COVID-19 training in refugee camps to DEI training for startups.

Why text messages?

A majority of the world's population — including frontline employees, distributed teams, and remote audiences — has access to SMS and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, internet access is limited globally, making video courses inaccessible to over 3 billion people, including 30 million Americans.

As well, it can also take months to build a traditional workshop or video course, while text message courses can be built and deployed in a day — by one person — ensuring frictionless transfer of knowledge. Writers have to get to the point, so learners get the most valuable insights, concepts, and case studies.

The best part? 95% of people read a text within 3 minutes. As a result, we help create and deliver content employees love in a way that they will actually read and engage with. Don't take our word for it — try a text message course about text message courses here.

Join the AI team at Arist, the leading enablement platform used by teams at the world’s leading organizations like Novartis, HP, and Intuit.

You'll work directly with cofounders and our founding engineer to define and deliver the user experience layer of our end to end enablement agentic AI system that we’re building out over the next 6-12 months.

We need someone who is incredible at rethinking designs for human workflows from ground-up, and who has opinions on how humans will interact with AI technology in the next 5-10 years.

What you'll build:

• Admin experiences for managing AI agents and workflows
• Messaging-based learning interfaces (SMS, Teams, Messenger)
• UI components that adapt to complex state and role logic
• UX patterns for agent oversight, content editing, and data visualization
• Design system and visual language for a new class of enterprise software

We're looking for someone who:

• Has strong frontend skills in Vue.js (or similar)
• First principles thinker
• Can translate ambiguous product needs into usable, beautiful interfaces
• Thinks in systems: reusable components, scalable design patterns, accessibility
• Can handle both Figma and code
• Moves fast, iterates quickly, and has an eye for detail

If you're excited to design and build the interfaces that let enterprise teams actually trust and control their AI systems—used every day by teams at Novartis, HP, Ecolab, and Intuit—reach out.

Arist is built on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, MongoDB, Vue.js, Express.js, and AWS. We use Twilio for message processing.