Aviation Tech Founder

Building AI tools for the people who keep aircraft flying

I’m Glenn Cowan — founder, builder, and someone who spent a year talking to 200+ aviation professionals to understand what they actually need. Now I’m building it.

200+
Industry Interviews
2
Products in Build
60%
Non-Native Speakers
Glenn Cowan
Based in the UK
Live

JetInbox

AI Email Assistant for Aviation

Understands MRO terminology, AOG urgency levels, leasing compliance language, and parts trading conventions. Saves 8+ hours per week for non-native English speakers.

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In Development

CrewIQ

Schedule Intelligence for Cabin Crew

Mobile app for flight attendants to predict reserve call probability, track fatigue, manage schedules, and monitor certification expiry dates.

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Generic AI doesn’t understand that “airworthy” and “serviceable” have different legal implications. My tools are built from 200+ aviation industry interviews.

The Backstory

From outreach to aviation

I spent 12 years in B2B digital marketing — running outreach campaigns, building lead generation systems, and learning what makes people respond to a message.

When I started talking to aviation professionals, I discovered something unexpected: 60% of the industry’s workforce are non-native English speakers who waste 8+ hours every week just composing emails. Not because they lack expertise — because professional English in a high-stakes, compliance-heavy industry is genuinely hard.

Generic AI tools make it worse. They don’t know that “ex-stock Dubai” is standard terminology. They add “I hope this email finds you well” to AOG emergencies. They confuse legal terms that could ground an aircraft.

So I built the tools myself — as a non-technical founder, using AI to build AI products. Every feature, every terminology choice, every communication style was informed by those 200+ conversations with real aviation professionals.

“I’ve met so many talented aviation professionals whose English wasn’t the problem — it was the time and effort required to communicate clearly.”
200+
Interviews
8hrs
Saved Weekly
60%
Non-Native Speakers
12yr
B2B Experience
My Thinking

Thoughts on aviation & AI

Aviation AI

Why generic AI fails in aviation

When terminology has legal implications and safety consequences, “close enough” isn’t good enough.

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Building in Public

Non-technical founder, AI-built SaaS

How I built a multi-tenant platform with React, Flask, and MariaDB — without writing code the traditional way.

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Industry Insight

The language barrier nobody talks about

Aviation runs on English, but most of the industry doesn’t speak it natively. This is bigger than people realise.

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