About zzThis

A code a person can write anywhere, linked to a digital record and the next work.

Current prototypes and explorations

zzThis is for commercial and government use; zzThat is our free consumer app, launching soon.

zzthis.com
For commercial use: businesses, enterprises, governments, and defense. Logistics, inventory, and postal workflows, built secure and compliant.
zzthat.com
Scanner and creator prototype, launching as a free web, Android, and iOS app. zzThat will be our separate consumer product and brand, for people to create and use zz-codes for their personal uses.

Founder

Michael Chung
Founder, business-model architect, and project lead
I “invent” business models. If you've ever paid at the DMV with a card or used Gmail's inbox tabs, thank me. ;) In 1992–93, I pitched New York City and initiated a pilot for possibly the world's first electronic card payments by the municipal agencies for motor-vehicle fines and fees. In 1995, the NYC DMV began accepting cards, and in 1996, the first E-ZPass tolling began in New York State. In 2003, my patent application was published for sorting tagged emails into their dedicated tabs (Priority, Ads, Bills, etc.); the application was cited by 158 patent applications, majority by leading tech and Fortune companies. I filed the patent application in 2001, when I was barely tech- and email-literate. Gmail first did their tabs in 2013. My business experience includes 25 years in real estate, including federal GSA RFPs (I was awarded two office space lease-contracts, one for a fixed 10-year, nearly $10 million), and other small businesses: eateries, supermarkets, merchant credit cards, finance, and direct marketing. I am in the Silicon Valley's tech startup space “24/7”: since 2013 in and around blockchain, and since 2023 in AI, averaging some 10 to 20 prompts a day across 2 to 5 AIs. A driver of my business models is the discovery and purposeful enabling of the unity of deterministic blockchain with probabilistic AI to target today's great problematic gaps and to solve for the emerging next-phase civilizational opportunities.
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Advisors

Daniel Meyer
Full-stack development
Daniel works across front-end and back-end software and supports zzThis application development and integration.
Adam Fry
AI agents, infrastructure and deployment
Adam Fry has AI-agent, infrastructure, and deployment expertise based on more than 20 years supporting mission-critical hospital, government, and enterprise systems and developing local AI-agent systems focused on data ownership, auditability, verification, and reliability.
Patrick Muggler
Connected logistics and IoT
Patrick leads product and strategic programs at Trackonomy. His work has connected more than 200,000 assets across over 100 airports and 40 countries. He advises zzThis on logistics workflows, connected assets, and commercialization.
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Arshi Chadha
AI security
Arshi is a security engineer at Zscaler and a co-lead of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications work. She earned a master’s degree in information security at Carnegie Mellon and advises zzThis on AI and application security.
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Omer F. Yalcin
Data scientist and computational social scientist
Omer is a data scientist and computational social scientist with a Ph.D. in Political Science and Social Data Analytics and more than 8 years of experience in Python, R, and SQL, spanning machine learning, NLP, causal inference, and network analysis. He teaches graduate courses in data science, machine learning, and statistics at UMass Amherst, and his research has appeared in ICWSM, EMNLP Findings, and the Journal of Quantitative Description. He advises zzThis on data analysis, model evaluation, and test design.
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Hacker Dojo

Innovation community and advisory network

Many of us are at Hacker Dojo, a premier coworking, maker, and networking community in the heart of Silicon Valley, minutes from the headquarters of Google, NVIDIA, Apple, Meta, NASA Ames, Stanford, SRI International, and many more – where every day brings direct discussions with, and participation in, the latest ideas and experience of deep and broad knowledge base and professional expertise – and “live” the cutting-edge developments and information, news, and breaking trends for problem solving and opportunities, innovation and creativity, and resources; its several hundred members cover a full range of skills: blockchain, crypto, and decentralized and distributed systems; software, hardware, devices, IoT, physical AI, and robotics; AI agents and local (on-device) AI; cybersecurity and cryptography; networking and infrastructure; UX and UI design.

Codes written by hand

Real photos of handwritten codes.

zz-ai@ agentsmith-zzReal photo. “AI@” means the zz-code words link to an AI agent or resource that is authenticated and trustworthy.
zz- be bold be brave be beautiful-zzReal photo. Examples of nearly infinite forms: “USPS…” for postage; the others show more forms and uses.
zz mark on an objectReal photo. To zz-register an object, thing, sign, or place for retrieval, mark it with a zz or (zz). It can then be recognized by people as scannable, and be scanned.
zz tag on a dog collarReal photo. A zz tag on a dog collar shows the dog is zz-registered: give the zz app a photo of the dog, and its information can be retrieved.