ZPQV is an AI-first products studio. We build software that the founders and executives running small and mid-sized businesses can set up and run on their own, without writing code or hiring developers.

Most software is built by technical people for technical people. The rest of us are left running our companies on a daily improvisation that happens around the SaaS we bought, the processes we invented on the fly to make that SaaS work, and a business vocabulary that came with the software and rarely fit the way we actually run. ZPQV is our attempt to turn that into products an operator can use on their own, now that AI has reached the point where it is possible.

Anand Krishnan and Sai Ganesh launched ZPQV in 2024, after fifteen years of doing the same kind of operating-layer work by hand at their services firm thinkbridge, where the companies they worked with have generally gone on to higher valuation or better operating efficiency. Anand and Sai met in college in Bangalore in 1992 and have been friends since. ZPQV is their third company together. Sai and Anand live in the US, and the rest of the team is in India, working
day to day alongside a set of AI assistants and agents we keep adjusting as we learn.

Our first open experiment is Things Have History, a 15-category history publication that an autonomous editorial engine runs end to end. It runs in public on purpose at thingshavehistory.com, with the parts that don't work yet visible alongside the parts that do.

Most of what we are building is shaped for founders and operators running mid-sized businesses, roughly the $25M to $150M revenue band, where the SaaS-and-spreadsheet pattern is sharpest. We expect the products will end up serving a wider range than that as the products come together.

Write to us at hello@zpqv.com.

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