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Apps · Ecommerce · Utility products

A small software studio. We design and ship apps, storefronts and utility products. End to end, in production, under our own name.

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01 / Studio

We are a studio that finishes things.

Zento Ventures is small on purpose. There is no account layer, no discovery theatre, no deck that arrives before the software does. The people who scope the work are the people who write it.

We build products end to end: interface, backend, infrastructure, the storefront it sells through. Some are for clients. Some are ours. All of them are in production, which is the only state we consider finished.

Products in flight
3
Design → deploy
End to end
No subcontracting
In-house
02 / What we build

Three things, properly.

  • Apps

    Mobile and web products with real state, real users and real edge cases. Typed end to end, deterministic where it counts, built to survive the second year, not just the demo.

    • Web & mobile
    • Realtime & multiplayer
    • TypeScript end to end

  • Ecommerce

    Storefronts built to sell, not to win awards. Brand, catalogue, checkout and the operational plumbing behind it, launched on platforms you can actually run without us.

    • Shopify & headless
    • Brand → storefront
    • Built to hand over

  • Utility products

    Small, sharp tools that do one job without asking for an account. Our own products, shipped under our own name, because the fastest way to prove a studio can build is to build.

    • Own IP
    • Single-purpose
    • Shipped, not roadmapped
03 / Work

Three products, in the open.

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AUTOMATAMINDS2026
Live

AutomataMinds

Conversational AI · Hospitality

Guest-facing AI for hotels and short-stay hosts. The front desk that answers at three in the morning.

Chatbots trained on a property’s own database so answers are specific rather than generic: check-in logistics, house rules, local recommendations. Reaches guests wherever they already are, whether that is WhatsApp, Facebook, Slack, or the property’s own site, and reports back on what they actually keep asking.

  • NLP
  • Multi-channel
  • Analytics
A dim workbench still life: an amber bottle and a heavy tumbler under a single side light.
DIVORCED DAD2026
Launching

Divorced Dad

Ecommerce · Own brand

A man-cave storefront with a sense of humour about itself, and a straight face about the products.

Beard care, drinking gear, smoking accessories, car kit and divorced-dad-rock merch, under one brand voice that knows exactly what it is. Built on Shopify so it can be run day to day without a developer in the loop.

  • Shopify
  • Brand & identity
  • DTC

divorceddad.store

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SETTLERSIn development
Coming soon

Settlers

Game · Own product

An online strategy game in the Catan tradition. Trade, build, and take the long road off someone.

A deterministic, dependency-free rules engine runs as both server authority and client-side move checker, so the board never disagrees with itself. English and Spanish ship together from the first release rather than as a later translation pass.

  • Realtime multiplayer
  • Pure TS engine
  • EN / ES at launch
04 / Contact

One email. No form, no funnel, no discovery call about a discovery call. Describe the thing, and you will get a real answer from the person who would build it.

Start a projecthello@zentoventures.com