Forward Impact

Inspiration

I always believe in second chances, so rehab and reentry work resonates with me. I've previously built software for a nonprofit specialized in reentry support work in Maryland. It's currently active and being used to reduce recidivism from 20% to 2% at scale! Estimated savings for Maryland are $20M/yr

What it does

CBOs (Community-based Organizations) can email the agent a form submission, .csv files (at the program-level or individual-level like an attendance sheet), or a description on a program completed, and it'll de-identify it to protect sensitive participant data and structure it in the canonical aggregated database, which TPW can review and generate reports from - both at the CBO-level and TPW admin level (across CBOs)

How we built it

• Monorepo: pnpm
• Language: TypeScript (strict), zod
• Backend: Cloudflare Workers
• Database: Cloudflare D1
• Frontend: Next.js (App Router), deployed on Vercel
• Email: Gmail API
• LLM: OpenRouter (Haiku5.5)
• PDF: @react-pdf/renderer
• Crypto: WebCrypto (HMAC, AES-256-GCM)
• Testing: vitest

Challenges we ran into

Attribution of recidivism reduction.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building my first email-based agent!

What we learned

Government carefully guards certain crucial data that would be useful in calculating outcomes

What's next for Forward Impact

Hopefully collaborate with TPW in future projects!

Built With

• claude
• cloudflare
• gmail
• next.js
• openrouter
• typescript
• vercel
• vitest