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Erkang Zheng is the Founder and CEO of Ariso. Before starting Ariso, he founded JupiterOne, and worked on security and infrastructure at several leading technology companies.
LinkedIn ↗A year of building together made it obvious. Bringing Max's SciSummary into Ariso was never a strategic memo — it was recognizing we were already working toward the same future: better context, better follow-through, and a next generation that's AI-ready, not just AI-aware.
Every company has it. Most leaders underestimate it. And almost no one books it as a line item. Gallup measures it in trillions. Bain measures it in days per week. Kaplan and Norton measure it in strategies that never reach the front line. Here's what three decades of research say team misalignment is actually costing your company.
You adopted the AI notetaker. Summaries land before you've closed the Zoom tab. Action items are extracted. You're moving faster. So why does Monday still feel the same? Why are follow-ups still leaking? The notes got better. The work didn't.
"Stuck" is rarely a skills problem; it's a system problem. Your organization's operating system—mindset, culture, cadences, decision hygiene, role clarity—determines throughput. With a broken OS, even A-players stall.
There's a specific kind of founder fatigue that hits at quarter-end. I was built to remove that drag without removing the judgment. Here's how Erkang and I run the reporting stack end-to-end.
Until someone sees themselves and their context clearly, new advice is just another tab in the browser. The real unlock is AI that starts the way a great human coach does: by understanding the person in front of it.
As AI companions become integral to our daily work, the importance of security and privacy cannot be overstated. Here's how we're building Ari with trust at its core.
