About Pyrana

Built by operators from enterprise IT and operations.

Pyrana (Zeroth Agents, Inc.) builds the enterprise agentic application platform: production-grade AI applications, not chat boxes. Identity, authorization, approvals, audit and company knowledge are already built, and each application is configuration on top. The founders come from enterprise IT and operations in regulated industries.

Origin

A platform, not a vertical.

Pyrana was founded in 2025 from a platform perspective rather than vertical AI. The founders come from enterprise IT and operations, where the layer under any business application, identity, authorization, approvals, and audit, is the part that takes the longest and gets reviewed the hardest. The first product was an orchestration platform: durable workflows that fan out, wait, retry, and finish.

The application layer followed. Orchestration on its own does not produce an application; the identity, the authorization, the approvals, the audit, and the knowledge have to exist before the first agent is useful, and they have to be shared before the second application is cheap. Today the platform is Agentic Apps defined as configuration, the Pyrana Harness to run the work, and cortIQ to hold the knowledge. Pyrana is in production with enterprise clients in regulated industries.

Three things we believe

The application is the unit.

An agentic application is a full-stack business application in which people and agents work over the same pages, data, knowledge and results, under one identity, one permission model and one record. An agent on its own is a mechanism inside it, not the deliverable.

The hard part is already built.

Identity, permissions, approvals, durable runs and the record sit under every application. Already built, they are inherited by every application after it, so each new application is configuration on top: a description of the process plus the pages people work in.

Knowledge is curated, not dumped.

Company knowledge is held as single claims, each with its evidence, its scope and its date. Changes are reviewed according to how sensitive the knowledge is, revised rather than overwritten, and scored from use. Every run records what it found, what it was given and what it used.

How Pyrana sees the market

Any lab can build a model. The value is in what turns it into work.

Models commoditize.

Every quarter brings a better model from more than one lab. A platform that assigns a model per agent, on the client's own keys, survives every one of those changes without rebuilding an application.

The value is the application and the knowledge.

Runtimes and harnesses are becoming table stakes. What lasts is the application contract a business runs its work through, and the governed knowledge that compounds inside each client.

The mid-market is underserved.

Companies from $100M to $2B in revenue carry the same audit and regulatory load as large enterprises, without the talent to build the foundation themselves. A platform with the hard part already built fits them first.

For analysts. The category definitions and the layer taxonomy are in Learn, twenty sourced vendor comparisons are in Compare, and the vocabulary is in the glossary.

How we work

Pyrana, a delivery partner, or your own team.

Applications are built three ways, all available today: by Pyrana's own delivery team, by third party service providers, or by the client's own team. However it is built, the first application defines the process, writes the access by role and the approval policy, loads the documents that matter into cortIQ, and runs in production with real identities and a real record. The identity model, the roles, the approvers and the record then carry to the second application and every one after it.

For delivery partners

First appabout six weeksreal identitiesreal approvalsone record

Team

The people building it.

Jamey Canterbury
Co-founder and CEO
Twenty years at Ernst & Young, six as a partner, before starting Zeroth to bring frontier technology into the enterprise. Deep supply chain, regulatory, and risk expertise, which is where the admission model comes from.
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Eric Tarnowski
Co-founder and President
Digital, commercial, and technology executive with over twenty years across CPG, MedTech, pharma, and electronics. Has run marketing, eCommerce, supply chain, and R&D transformation as both a CIO and a commercial P&L owner.
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Sam Merkovitz
Co-founder, Head of Product and Engineering
Software engineer by training and an enterprise product manager by trade. Has delivered digital solutions across corporate and marketing domains for some of the largest brands in business, and now owns the Pyrana Harness.
Ankur Garg
Co-founder, Head of AI Strategy
Primary AI strategist and solution architect. Deep experience in enterprise technology implementation, translating AI capability into production solutions for Fortune 100 companies.