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Our Story

Built by people who understand the profession.

Zato is an agentic AI platform built specifically for accounting firms, combining deep compliance expertise with cutting-edge AI architecture.

Why Zato

Rethinking compliance from the ground up.

Accounting firms spend most of their time on work that technology should handle: chasing clients, checking ledgers, formatting workpapers, managing queries. Zato eliminates that overhead with an agentic AI layer purpose-built for compliance production.

1M+

Ledgers of domain intelligence informing Ziffy's reasoning

20 years

Of accounting compliance experience embedded in the platform

The Zato Difference

Purpose-built for ANZ accounting firms.

Up to 80%

Less time on compliance jobs

75%

Product and engineering workforce

ANZ Native

Built for AU & NZ compliance workflows

Our Values

What drives everything we build.

Precision

Precision

Engineered to perfection.

Velocity

Velocity

Build faster.

Trust

Trust

Owning the outcome.

Elevation

Elevation

The pursuit of better.

Unity

Unity

Humans and AI aligned.

A global team

Born in New Zealand, operating globally. Zato is a team of 60+ experts with a dedicated AI research team and deep expertise in accounting, compliance, technology, finance, implementation and support.

World map showing Zato global presence

People

Leadership Team

Saurav J Bansal

Saurav J Bansal

Chief Executive Officer

Global entrepreneur driving Zato strategy and go-to-market.

Dr Srinivas Kishan Anapu

Dr Srinivas Kishan Anapu

Executive Director, AI and Innovation

AI leader with dual PhDs and 30+ years in enterprise technology.

Viv Brownrigg

Viv Brownrigg

Executive Director, Sales and Marketing

Chartered Accountant and NZ accounting industry veteran of 25 years.

Greg Rathbun

Greg Rathbun

Executive Director, Commercial & Strategy

Former CA with 40 years of accounting and outsourcing leadership.

Kate Freeman

Kate Freeman

Chief of Staff to the Group CEO

Former fintech executive from Futrli/Sage and NAB, scaling high-growth businesses.

Alan Yu

Alan Yu

Head of Strategic Finance

Global finance exec with prior roles at BlackRock and Ping An Voyager.

Phil Allen

Phil Allen

Principal, Implementation and Growth

Implementation lead and ex-Xero and WorkflowMax operations executive.

Saurav J Bansal

Saurav J Bansal

Chief Executive Officer

Global entrepreneur driving Zato strategy and go-to-market.

Viv Brownrigg

Viv Brownrigg

Executive Director, Sales and Marketing

Chartered Accountant and NZ accounting industry veteran of 25 years.

Greg Rathbun

Greg Rathbun

Executive Director, Commercial & Strategy

Former CA with 40 years of accounting and outsourcing leadership.

Derek Syme

Derek Syme

Non-Executive Director

30+ year global banking veteran and former Citibank CEO/MD New Zealand.

Russell Stanners

Russell Stanners

Non-Executive Director

Ex-Vodafone NZ CEO with 25 years in technology and telecommunications.

Rob Stone

Rob Stone

Senior Advisor

Former Xero Regional COO with 20+ years in accounting and fintech.

Craig Hudson

Craig Hudson

Senior Advisor

Ex-Xero MD NZ and NZTE General Manager; 20+ years in growth leadership.