You keep deciding: the idea, the customer, the business model, the priorities, the budget, what success looks like.
You have an appthat still isn't live.
Maybe You've spent six months with a freelancer who keeps missing deadlines.
Maybe An agency overcharged you and returned a build you don't fully trust.
Maybe Your intern, AI coding tool, or technical co-founder is doing fine work, but nobody is deciding what happens next.
You don't need a CTO.You need someone to lead the technical path to launch while you keep running the business.
Book an Office Hour(opens the booking calendar in a new tab)
- A$300
- Per Office Hour
- Every 2 weeks
- Until launch
- Directive
- Your next milestone
Every Office Hour is led by a Zorentia technical expert.
They review your app, make the technical calls, and write the directive your implementer receives.
Continue every two weeks until launch, or stop whenever you want.
No retainer. No lock-in.
PRE-LAUNCHTECHNICAL LEADERSHIPLAUNCH
You know your business. You know your customer.
What you don't have is the experience to know whether your developer's advice is right, whether that "quick feature" is actually a two week detour, or whether you're building toward launch or just building.
That gap is where founders lose months and burn budget.
Not because they hired the wrong developer. Because nobody was making the technical calls with the whole picture in view.
You own the business. Zorentia owns the technical path to launch.
Zorentia decides: what gets built next, what gets simplified, what gets postponed, and whether the work in progress is actually moving you toward a real launch.
Your developer, freelancer, agency, intern, or AI tool stays exactly where they are. Zorentia sits above that work, directing it.
Technical leadership from Zorentia
You work with a Zorentia technical expert.
This is not a coaching marketplace or a general advice call. Your expert learns your product and its build, makes the technical decisions, and writes the Implementation Directive your developer receives.
Mercy Nekesa
Founder of Zorentia · Computer scientist · Technical Expert
- Mercy began coding at 18, learned through software internships across the United States, built her first complete system at 22, and earned a BS in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
- At 24, she returned to Uganda and bootstrapped Raining Vegetables. She wrote code at night, ran the business during the day, deployed on AWS, managed payments, and scaled the platform to serve 7,000 farmers.
- Building the company taught her that writing code is only one part of launch. The harder work is deciding what the system needs, what comes first, how the pieces depend on each other, and what can wait.
- After earning an MS in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, Mercy used graph theory, dependency logic, and modular system design to create the One-Gram of Tech methodology.
- Westpac awarded her an A$7,000 grant to test the method with 10 founders. In the first month of the pilot, those founders secured more than A$15,000 in total contract value.
- Today, Mercy leads Zorentia Office Hours, bringing together her experience as a computer scientist, software builder, technical operator, and founder to keep pre-launch products moving toward a real launch.
Start with an Office Hour. Keep the whole project moving between sessions.
01 · In the Office Hour
Zorentia makes the next technical decision with the whole project in view.
Bring the app as it exists today. A Zorentia expert examines the real build and leads the path forward.
- 01
Review your app, what has been built, and what is blocking progress
- 02
Make the technical call and set the next milestone and exclusions
- 03
Hand you a clear directive to give your developer, agency, or AI tool
You leave withA downloadable Implementation Directive
02 · After the Office Hour
You get access to Office—your project’s technical home.
Your directive, Project Memory, Build Plan, session history, and everything you discover between sessions stay connected there in one place.
- Hand offYour implementer works from the directive.
- Keep currentYou track the build and record new ideas, evidence, and progress.
- Return preparedWe review the complete record at your next Office Hour.
Your directive
Take the decision from the session into the build.
After the Office Hour, your Implementation Directive is waiting in Office. Download it and give the same clear milestone, scope, and exclusions to your developer, agency, intern, or AI coding tool.
Published directive OH-0003 · ready to hand off
Common Table
Office Hours
One published session · latest directive
OH-0003 · Published
Implementation Directive
Shared Household Foundation
Current state
The prototype stores meal plans and grocery items against one local user, while the validated product promise now depends on several people sharing one household record.
Diagnosis
Building the meal-planning screens on the single-user model would bury the core collaboration rules inside feature code. Household ownership and access must become the implementation contract first.
Recommended milestone
Approve the shared household data and access contract before building the meal-planning flow.
Included scope
- Household, member and invitation records
- Owner and member permissions
- Invitation lifecycle and expiry rules
- Cross-household access protections
Implementation order
- 01
Write the household ownership and permission matrix.
- 02
Model invitation acceptance and membership removal.
- 03
Prove isolation with two-household access fixtures.
Deliberate exclusions
Recipe discovery marketplace · Nutrition and calorie tracking · Pantry prediction and stock levels
Your project home
The whole project stays in one place.
Project Memory carries the context from every Office Hour alongside your decisions, source files, discoveries, Build Plan, and previous directives. The project keeps its history as the idea evolves.
Office Hour context and project history carried forward
Common Table
Project Memory
What Office understands about the project, and what taught it that.
Version 3
Common Table
Common Table helps busy shared households agree on dinner and turn a week of meals into one grocery list everyone can use.
01
Product Promise
Common Table replaces the group-chat scramble around dinner with one calm weekly plan. A household chooses its meals together, and the product turns those choices into a grocery list without duplicate ingredients.
The first product promise is coordination: everyone sees the same plan, knows what still needs buying, and can update the list while someone is already at the shops.
Between sessions
Record what changes while the work moves forward.
As your implementer works, use Tell Office to add new ideas, customer discoveries, questions, files, decisions, and progress updates. Office preserves each input and keeps the project record current.
New founder context captured and traced to Memory v3
Common Table
Tell Office what changed
One founder update becomes the project’s updated understanding.
Memory v3 updated
Type Voice File
The interviews changed the priority. Housemates need to agree on dinners and shop from one live grocery list. The first release should support one household, link invitations, seven planned dinners and shared item check-off.
common-table-interview-synthesis-v3.pdf286 KB · Attached today, 2:12 pmIncluded
Office updated the record
Project Memory v3
Core promise, household roles and first-release boundaries rewritten from the interview evidence.
- Revised
- 5 sections revised
- Written
- Today, 2:18 PM
Your next Office Hour
Return with the full picture already in view.
Two weeks later, Zorentia can review what the directive asked for, what was actually implemented, and everything you added in between. We check progress, update the Build Plan, and issue the next directive.
Current stage, completion checks, and next work visible
Common Table
Build Plan
The order the work happens in, and the reason that order holds.
Stage 01 · 32%
First usable release
Stage 01 of 4 · 32% complete
In progress Shared Household Foundation
Objective
Define the household, membership and invitation rules before meal planning or grocery-list implementation begins.
Implementation
- 01
Define household, member and invitation records with explicit ownership.
- 02
Document what owners and members can view, create, edit and remove.
- 03
Specify invitation expiry, acceptance and existing-account behaviour.
Complete when
- Members cannot read or change another household’s records.
- An accepted invitation creates exactly one membership.
- 01
Meal Plan & Recipe Capture
PlannedConsolidated Grocery List
Planned
Most pre-launch founders don't overbuild because they're wrong.
They overbuild because they're reasoning from limited experience with what production software actually requires.
"I need three engineers so there's no single point of failure."
"I need this to scale before we even have ten users."
"I want to rebuild this because the vision changed slightly."
Every one of those instincts makes sense on the surface. Most of them are wrong for a company that hasn't launched yet.
Zorentia's job is to ask one question about every decision: does this materially increase the odds you launch a usable product?
If the answer is no, we say no. And we tell you why.
Not a Figma file. Not a working demo on your laptop. Not "basically done."
Launch means a real product, live, that a real customer can use today.
Customer stories
Hear from past Zorentia customers.
Across Zorentia's work with founders, the value is consistent: understand the business quickly, carry the technical burden, review the build at the right moments, and keep unnecessary work out of the first version.
“Zorentia's ability to grasp the concept so quickly, in order to turn idea into MVP. A rare talent for anyone to be able to quickly apply their own technical expertise to another person's expertise/big idea.”
“Having a technical co-pilot. A person able to translate outcomes into code. It's refreshing to hand over work and to have someone who will carry some of the burden. As a non technical solo founder it's an emotional assistance in some way.”
“Getting input at key points helped me stay on track and avoid going off scope. I was distracted by a lot of useless features, but the team's input and focus on launching the MVP and gaining traction were quite helpful.”
“Zorentia clearly outlined the need for short, simple scope on the first round of creating the program. This helped me decide what was most important now, and what could be done in future iterations.”
This works if you can say: I know my business. I need someone experienced to tell me how this gets built and get me there.
This does not work if
This does not work if you want every technical decision jointly negotiated until everyone agrees. Zorentia leads implementation decisions. You can push back and we'll explain our reasoning, but you're hiring judgment, not a debate partner.
Common questions:
What exactly is an Office Hour?
One focused working session with a Zorentia technical expert. We review the current build, make the technical calls, set the next milestone, and publish a written Implementation Directive for whoever is implementing the work.
What happens if my developer or Zorentia expert changes?
You do not start over. Your app's Project Memory, Build Plan, previous sessions, directives, and technical decisions stay together in Zorentia Office. The project keeps its history, so you can carry the same context into the next working relationship.
What if I disagree with a call you make?
Tell us. We'll explain the reasoning. If it's still wrong for your business, we'll adjust. But we're not going to agree with a technical direction just because you're the one paying.
Do I need to fire my current developer?
No. In most cases you keep them. We direct the work, they build it.
What if I don't have a developer yet?
That's fine too. Part of an early session is figuring out the right implementation setup for your stage, whether that's one contractor, an AI coding workflow, or something else.
What happens after launch
You're free to walk away.
Continue with Zorentia, hire a CTO, bring on engineers, or scale things yourself. Zorentia's job was never to make you dependent on Zorentia. It was to get you across the zero to one line with a real product, real customers, and real information about what to build next.
Pricing Book an Office Hour(opens the booking calendar in a new tab)
A$300per Office HourNo retainer.
You've probably already spent more than that on a freelancer who missed deadlines, or an agency that overcharged you for work you don't trust. This time, that money buys you a clear technical decision and a plan you can actually hand to whoever builds it next.
You pay for sessions as you go. Stop whenever you've launched, or whenever it's no longer useful. There's no lock-in.
StartOne Office Hour
ReturnEvery two weeks
ContinueUntil your app is live
StopWhenever you want