Engineering the Protocol of Work.
We build the infrastructure for
in a digital world shared by humans and agents.
Zeroth is a venture lab that disrupts the implied trust in legacy software stacks and replaces it with cryptographic certainty.
Our Principles
Isaac Asimov famously conceived of three hierarchical rules to govern the relationship between humans and robots. He eventually realized that for civilization to reach its full potential, a Zeroth Law was required to supersede all others—a foundation that prioritizes the collective integrity of the system to protect the individuals within it. It is from this law, our namesake, that we build our foundation.
At Zeroth Technology, we are optimistic about an automated future, but we believe it requires a foundation set correctly from the start to give equal footing to every participant. By building products that leverage cryptographic underpinnings to “keep the system honest,” we demonstrate how simple, universal rules at the core can enable complex, unbelievable things.
We are entering an era where humans and agents will co-create the future. This partnership requires trust, but the roots of that trust have fundamentally shifted. We can no longer rely on the slow friction of reputation or the reactive threat of recourse. Instead, we must establish trust in every transaction through real-time, verifiable evidence. This is a “zero-trust” architecture for every interaction: Human to Human, Human to Agent, and Agent to Agent.
Our core principles provide the framework for this vision, serving as the architectural DNA for every venture we launch.
Sovereignty
We believe trust starts with ownership. Whether it is your identity (Vero), your organizational context (Pyrana), or your economic assets (Settlement), the user must remain the sovereign source of authority. Our protocols ensure that data and rights are never surrendered to a central monolith.
Finality
The “integration tax” is a byproduct of systems waiting for external permission or manual reconciliation. We build for a world of instant finality, where verification and settlement happen at the speed of the handshake. By ensuring that every interaction is deterministic and irreversible at the moment of execution, we allow work to flow without the weight of administrative debt.
Agency
Technology should be a force multiplier for human intent, not a behavioral tax on human time. Our systems are designed to automate the “how” (the administrative and verification burdens) so that humans can focus exclusively on the “why.” We build for a future where agency is the primary directive.
The Ventures
Zeroth Agents
As we move from user-driven applications to autonomous agentic systems, Pyrana.ai provides the governance layer for the intelligence transition. By externalizing enterprise logic into immutable Context Units (CxUs), Pyrana.ai ensures that agents remain accountable to high-trust guardrails while allowing organizational knowledge to evolve dynamically. It enables enterprises to leverage the speed of AI without sacrificing compliance or human agency—keeping the human firmly in the driver’s seat.
Zeroth Attest
In an age where generative AI can simulate any voice or face, visual confirmation is no longer a proxy for trust. Vero restores the “human handshake” to the digital world by authenticating human-to-human video interactions in real-time. Using a novel one-time biometric, Vero establishes a zero-trust environment that allows users to know exactly who they are interacting with, neutralizing the threat of synthetic impersonation.
Zeroth Settlement
The friction of modern commerce often stems from the gap between action and verification. Zeroth Settlement bridges this divide by integrating financial finality directly into the operational flow. By tokenizing assets and automating performance bonds within our Confidential Settlements with Embeddable Rights (CSER) framework, we replace the “integration tax” of legacy supply chains with a streamlined, privacy-preserving protocol for enterprise transactions—ensuring that proprietary trade data remains visible only to the parties involved.