No fake logos, reviews, or results
Founded 2026 means no logo wall yet — so there isn’t one. We’d rather show an honestly empty proof page than a decorated one; a single invented artifact would poison everything else on this site.
About
Built by an engineer. Priced in the open.
FIG. 01 — about · engineering posture
Engineering posture
Company principles translated into shipping behavior and controls.
Company model
Engineering-led delivery, transparent commercials
- fixed-scope automation engagements
- production-first execution standards
- handover and ownership by your team
ZSTronics is a US LLC founded in 2026 by The Founder — founder & principal engineer. There is no sales team. The person who takes your first call is the person who scopes, quotes, and builds your automation.
The company exists to remove hidden scope, hidden pricing, and hidden ownership from automation engagements.
Our operating model is simple: publish pricing bands, define scope in writing, and ship against named deliverables.
Engineering-led also means restraint: use the simplest reliable mechanism that solves the task.
Principles
What we refuse to do
Easier to hold us to than a values page:
No vague quotes
Every quote is fixed, written, and itemized, produced after a free audit. If scope grows, we re-quote before work continues. “It depends” is an answer you’ll only ever get with numbers attached.
No lock-in
You own the workflows, the documentation, the source code, and the accounts everything runs in. Cancel the care plan and it all keeps running without us. Firing us should be a config change, not a migration.
No LLM where a cron job works
If a scheduled script does the job for fractions of a cent, we won’t sell you an AI agent for it. Choosing when not to use AI is most of the engineering — and it’s your tool bill we’re choosing with.
No launch-and-leave
Every build ships with documentation, a Loom walkthrough, alerting, and 30 days of included fixes. An automation that fails silently three weeks after handover is our failure, not yours.
Stack
The stack we run
Technical buyers judge a vendor by its tool choices, so here are ours — each with the reason it earned the slot.
n8n, self-hosted
The workflow engine. Self-hosting means no per-task fees — on the order of 100,000 executions a month for the price of a VPS.
Claude API
The LLM behind agents, email triage, and RAG. API traffic isn’t used to train models — your data stays your data.
Postgres
One boring, durable database for state, queues, and vectors alike. Twenty years of not losing people’s data.
Docker
Every deployment rebuilds from a file in a repo, not from memory of what’s on the server.
Next.js
This site runs on it: statically generated, self-hosted fonts, nothing tracking you before consent.
Cal.com
Open-source booking. Its webhooks feed the same n8n pipeline we sell — the booking flow is a demo.
Resend
Transactional email for the 5-minute lead replies we promise. Every reply time is logged, so we can’t quietly miss it.
Google Sheets
The launch CRM. A spreadsheet the whole team reads beats a platform nobody opens — see “no LLM where a cron job works,” above.
Next step
Talk to the founder
No SDR handoff. The call is with The Founder, who scopes and leads delivery. In 15 minutes, you leave with fit, scope direction, and budget range.