Author Profile

Zaal Panthaki (BetterCallZaal)

Founder, The ZAO | web3 music + AI builder | build-in-public

Zaal builds at the intersection of music, culture, and AI. He founded The ZAO, a decentralized impact network that returns profit margin, data, and IP rights to artists, and runs it in public - documenting the process as he ships. His approach treats AI as an operator layer: agent stacks that research, draft, and coordinate real work across his projects (WaveWarZ, ZABAL Games, the ZAOstock festival), with humans keeping the judgment calls. Through BetterCallZaal Strategies he also advises founders and communities moving into web3 and AI, biased toward open source and shipping over pitching.