ChronoFlow to Pilot AI Workflow Platform at CSUN in Spring 2026
ChronoFlow, an AI-powered workflow automation platform founded by four California State University, Northridge students, will pilot its technology at CSUN in spring 2026, marking the company’s first enterprise-level customer.
Founded by Robert Paronyan, Ashot Gharibyan, Timothy Tracy and Karen Shirvanyan, ChronoFlow was developed in response to a common challenge in higher education: administrative workflows slowed by manual approvals, fragmented communication and decentralized systems.
The startup gained early attention after competing in the Jeff Marine Bull Ring New Venture Competition. Less than a year later, the team is preparing to introduce its platform into selected administrative workflows at CSUN.
ChronoFlow is designed to streamline complex, multi-step processes such as faculty workload adjustments, hiring approvals, curriculum changes, research documentation and procurement requests. The platform replaces email chains and manual follow-ups with automated workflows, real-time task tracking and smart approval routing.
“The flow of administrative work in large institutions is often predictable,” said Paronyan, CEO and co-founder. “These processes follow the same steps every time, but they’re buried in email threads and scattered tools. Automating that flow reduces delays, errors and wasted time.”
The team refined the platform through participation in the CSUN Summer Accelerator and extensive collaboration with campus administrators. Those conversations helped identify recurring workflow patterns across colleges and departments.
“People weren’t struggling with the work itself,” said Gharibyan, a co-founder. “They were struggling with how the work moved.”
The spring 2026 pilot will allow faculty and staff to use ChronoFlow in live administrative workflows and provide feedback as the system evolves.
While the initial focus is CSUN, the founders say the problem extends well beyond a single campus.
“Once you look past one university, you realize these challenges exist everywhere,” said Tracy, a co-founder. “Any organization that runs on approvals and compliance can benefit from faster, clearer workflows.”
All four founders are recent CSUN graduates with backgrounds in computer science and finance. They say their firsthand experience navigating academic bureaucracy shaped the platform’s design.
“We’re building solutions for the environment that shaped us,” said Shirvanyan, a co-founder.
As the Jeff Marine Bull Ring New Venture Competition enters its 11th year on April 23, 2026, ChronoFlow stands as an example of student-led innovation translating into real-world impact.