Founder • Engineer • Operator
Zachary Neumann
12 years building and selling mission-critical systems for federal agencies and municipal governments. Now building AI products that help people understand themselves and make better decisions.
The Vision
Building What
Matters Next
I spent a decade as the technical lead inside the U.S. Forest Service Washington Office—architecting the agency's national GIS infrastructure, running enterprise stakeholder programs, and driving adoption of systems used by 30,000+ employees across 130M acres.
From there I moved into client-facing technical sales—running discovery sessions, building custom demos, and closing enterprise contracts with municipal governments and state agencies across California. I know how to translate complex technology into value for C-suite stakeholders and the engineers who actually build on it.
Now I'm applying that same operational discipline to my own products — building production AI tools and agentic systems through Audio Alchemy Collective, the studio behind Thronos, Cortex, and more.
The Portfolio
Audio Alchemy Collective
An AI product studio where ancient wisdom meets frontier technology — building tools that help people understand themselves and grow.
The Flagship
You chose this life before you arrived.
Sidereal • Vedic • True Sky
Thronos calculates your sidereal Vedic birth chart from your date, time, and place of birth — then turns it into a reading you can actually talk to. An AI companion grounded in your own sky and the real transits overhead, so you can move with the current, not against it.
Personalized readings
A full sidereal chart — planets, houses, nakshatras, and dashas — interpreted in plain language tailored to your placements.
An AI that knows your sky
Chat with an AI companion grounded in your chart and the real transits overhead. Ask about timing, relationships, or the season you're in.
Live transits & timing
See where the planets are tonight relative to your chart, so the guidance reflects the current moment — not a static printout.
Anthropic Claude • Swiss Ephemeris
More from the Studio
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Coaching AI
AI-powered transformation coaching that actually works. Built on real frameworks from world-class coaches. Not another chatbot.
Cortex
Relationship intelligence for the connected age. Never forget a connection. Never miss an opportunity. Your network, amplified.
Audio Alchemy Collective — Where ancient wisdom meets frontier technology
The Experience
Trailer Club
Everyone needs a personal trailer. We throw the party, film the whole thing, and hand you a two-minute cinematic trailer that makes your life look like the film everyone's been waiting for.
Live your life like a movie
The Other Side
Performing as
Akriza
World-fusion bass music that bridges ancient traditions with frontier electronic production. Sitar, ney, oud, and duduk woven into heavy, cinematic soundscapes.
Signed to Gravitas Recordings, Odyzey, and High Vibe Records. Hundreds of thousands of streams. Music placed in global compilations.
Performed for tens of thousands at Burning Man, Envision Festival, Lightning in a Bottle, Unison, and stages across the Americas.
Track Record
Background
Founder
2024 - PresentAudio Alchemy Collective
Building an AI product studio where ancient wisdom meets frontier technology. Leading product, go-to-market, and vision across the portfolio — from Vedic astrology (Thronos) to coaching and relationship intelligence (Cortex).
Co-Founder
2025 - PresentTrailer Club
Co-founded a cinematic personal-brand studio that throws a party in your honor, films the whole thing, and cuts it into a two-minute trailer. Turning real lives into the films everyone's been waiting for.
Technical Lead & Investor
2022 - PresentReal Estate Holdings — Sierra Nevada, CA
Building a portfolio of mountain properties in Northern California. Combining technical expertise with real asset investments. Long-term wealth building through strategic property acquisition.
Senior GIS Manager & Technical Lead
2022 - PresentConsultant — California & National Operations
Served as technical sales lead for GIS platform solutions targeting municipal governments across California—running discovery sessions, building tailored demos, and closing enterprise contracts with city planning and public works departments. Managed full sales cycles from prospecting to implementation, transitioning legacy infrastructure with 90% operational efficiency gains.
Lead Systems Architect & GIS Administrator
2016 - 2022U.S. Forest Service — Washington Office, Business Operations
Recruited to federal headquarters straight out of university. Served as the internal technical sales advisor for enterprise GIS adoption—running workshops, demos, and enablement sessions for regional directors and 30,000+ employees across 130M acres. Architected the agency's national infrastructure, automated 50+ workflows, and managed systems processing 7,000+ public stakeholder inputs. Cut deployment time from 80 hours to 15 minutes.
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