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About
Zentarai Labs

We build the AI operating system for government and the citizens it serves, starting in the Philippines.

mission

Solve everyone's problems with AI.

Become the infrastructure layer that every government runs on. Citizens never pay, and that is the moat. Officials pay for the dashboard their citizens are already using.

origin

It started with a crash.

Zentarai Labs began with a near-fatal moment. Founder Landon Little crashed a motorcycle on a Cebu road at night riding toward Moalboal. No street lights, no signage for a sharp turn, no warning. The road should not have been allowed to stay in that condition.

The insight: AI should be fixing urban-planning failures before they hurt people. That insight is the entire company.

the flywheel

We build it backwards on purpose.

Government technology usually starts top-down. Vendors sell software to officials and hope citizens accept whatever ships. We do the opposite.

Citizens get a free safety app that is instantly useful. Mass adoption creates leverage with barangay captains, then municipal officials, then provincial, then national. Officials become paying customers of the dashboard, and their data makes the citizen-side AI smarter. Network effects compound on both sides.

products

Three surfaces,
one engine.

NovaGovAI

The dashboard a local government runs on. CLUP compliance, urban planning, citizen-report routing, and SLA tracking in one place.

novagov.ph

Nova Citizen

The free safety app for Filipinos. Real-time barangay alerts, incident reporting, and safety guides.

novacitizen.tech

Nova Solutions

The same engine pointed at ordinary businesses. Phone agents, follow-ups, bookings, and pipelines.

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company

The facts.

Legal entityZentarai Labs LLC, Florida, USA
Founded2024 by Landon Little, Founder and CTO
StageEarly revenue. First sale closed May 2026.
Phase 1Philippines: barangay pilot, then municipality, province, national
Next phasesSoutheast Asia, then the global south, then developed markets
how we build

Six principles behind
every decision.

  1. AI runs the system

    Not a chatbot on top of an old system. It watches, decides, and routes the work.

  2. Close every loop

    Take it in, act, measure, feed the result back. Anything that runs and forgets is half built.

  3. Write everything down

    No work disappears into a chat window. The next person can pick it up without asking.

  4. People set the goal, AI builds it

    We decide what good looks like. The AI writes the code until the tests pass.

  5. Nobody should be a middleman

    If a person only moves data between screens, that job should be software.

  6. Spend compute, not headcount

    When an hour of compute costs less than the hour it saves, there is nothing to argue about.

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