About Zannova
Zannova was built on a single observation: every major financial platform on the market is structurally incentivized to work against the CFO's interests. Payment processors want all your volume. Banks want your deposits and your debt. None of them will ever build a product that tells you to use less of their services.
That structural conflict is the gap Zannova exists to fill. We're the neutral AI orchestration layer that works for one party only: the company.
Our Mission
Every company deserves a financial brain that works in its best interest — sitting above every payment, payroll, accounting, and insurance tool, deciding in real time how money moves. Zannova is that brain.
Our Principles
Neutral by design
We own no rails, earn no interchange, hold no deposits. Our only incentive is your outcome.
Explainable always
Every AI decision comes with full rationale. CFOs don't accept black boxes.
Control stays with you
You set the rules and thresholds. Zannova executes within them. Autonomy without abdication.
Our Team
Companies don't fail from lack of effort — they fail from lack of control over their operations, data, and money.
Our founders saw firsthand how disconnected systems, manual workflows, and poor visibility create costly mistakes across accounting, HR, and daily operations. Instead of solving these problems in isolation, they designed a unified approach — one system that brings everything together.
Today, our team combines expertise across operations, financial systems, AI, and infrastructure to build what Zannova represents: a single operating system where companies can see, control, and move everything in real time.
Every department, every dollar, every workflow — in one place, in real time.
AI agents handle the routine decisions so your team focuses on what matters.
Clean, connected data means your CFO acts on facts — not spreadsheet approximations.
Every movement governed by rules you set — transparent, auditable, and always yours.
Founders
Orville Black
Co-Founder & CEO
Serial entrepreneur across media, real estate, FinTech, and InsurTech. Orville built and operated inside the exact systems we now replace.
FOUNDER–MARKET FIT
Not theoretical — rooted in firsthand experience with fragmented operations, underwriting risk, and workforce management.
Andy Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO
Mathematician and ML engineer with 10+ years across robotics, AI systems, and data infrastructure. Andy brings the technical rigor and systems-level thinking that our orchestration architecture demands.
TECHNICAL DEPTH
The orchestration layer Zannova is building requires mathematical precision and systems-level thinking across AI, data, and infrastructure — not just software development.
Ryon Batson
Co-Founder & CPO
Product Operator focused on translating vision into structured, scalable systems. Ryon drives product execution aligning user needs, workflows, and data into cohesive solutions.
PRODUCT EXECUTION
The systems that Zannova refines and automates require the ability to analyze workflows, define requirements, and turn ambiguity into scalable product solutions.
Team Expertise
Deep experience running finance and operations inside fast-growing companies — we've lived the problem we're solving.
Building intelligent agents that reason on structured financial data and execute decisions with full explainability and audit trails.
Engineering the programmable settlement layer — Z-Unit — that gives every connected platform a single, real-time view of where money is and where it needs to go.
Our Mission
Zannova isn't just improving workflows — we are building the control layer for how modern companies operate.
FOR COMPANIES
Active real-time decisions across every platform — not passive end-of-month reports.
FOR WORKERS
Real-time access to pay and dynamically priced benefits — no legacy payroll lag.
FOR GOVERNMENTS
Every transaction structured, tagged, and regulatory-ready from day one.
FOR AI
AI agents reason on clean real-time financial data — not exported spreadsheets.