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Compliance-first operating system for fabless chip companies

Stay compliant and audit-ready, and run program operations automatically - without pulling an engineer off the chip.

A fabless chip program runs through a dozen partners and a constantly shifting set of export rules, and today both are held together by hand. JINZO is the compliance-first operating system that screens every party, keeps an automatic audit trail behind every shipment, and accelerates the coordination across your foundry, test, and vendors.

You stay in control of every decision, and every compliance determination is signed by qualified counsel.

Built with a 40-year analog and mixed-signal R&D and chip program veteran: 1999 ISSCC analog award; R&D leadership at Broadcom and Nvidia; VP at VeriSilicon, Etron, and TM Technology.

Become a design partner

A 20-minute walkthrough on your own program. See where you stand, what is drifting, and which compliance steps you are missing.

JINZO turning an incoming audit request into a live compliance score, with the screening and audit trail behind it. JINZO reading the agent inbox and turning each message into program and compliance actions in the system of record.
Built on four decades at the center of the industry
1999 ISSCC analog award●ISSCC paper, 9,000+ academic references●R&D leadership @ Broadcom●R&D leadership @ Nvidia●VP @ VeriSilicon●VP @ Etron●VP @ TM Technology
The JINZO Platform

Compliance-first chip program operations
- run by AI agents.

Semiconductor startups win or lose on three things: reaching tape-out and shipment on schedule, never tripping an export-control rule that can end the company, and staying audit-ready for the next raise or acquisition. JINZO runs the compliance and the program coordination behind all three, so a lean team moves faster and keeps its best engineers on the chip instead of on operations.

Compliance

Compliance, built into every interaction.

Export control is the fastest way for a fabless startup to end: the rules change constantly, the penalties are criminal, and most early teams have no compliance officer to keep up. JINZO makes compliance the default behind every interaction, so audit-readiness is something you have rather than something you scramble to assemble before diligence.

With JINZO
  • Every party is screened against the BIS Entity List, the OFAC SDN list, and the full Consolidated Screening List. Screening runs at onboarding and again before every shipment. The lists refresh daily, so a screen never goes stale.
  • Each product is classified under the EAR, with the right ECCN on file. A deemed-export check runs before any foreign person is given access to controlled technology.
  • Every action is written to an append-only audit trail. The file you hand a BIS auditor or an investor is already complete.
  • The rules shift constantly. JINZO tracks BIS rule changes with export-controls counsel and re-screens against the current lists, so you stay compliant as the regulations move.
  • The agents screen, flag, and route. A qualified lawyer signs every determination. You are never guessing, and never the one out of compliance.
JINZO screening a new party against the BIS Entity List, flagging the match, and routing the determination to counsel.
System of record

One live system of record, audit-ready by default.

Every screening, classification, document, and sign-off lands in one live system of record, the compliance core of your whole chip program. What used to be a scramble to reconstruct under deadline is simply there, current, and ready to share.

With JINZO
  • Program state and compliance trail in one place your whole team shares.
  • Every change, version, and decision captured the moment it happens.
  • Audit-ready by default, whether the ask is a BIS audit, a customer qualification, or investor diligence.
  • Nothing to migrate and nothing to rebuild later. The record builds itself as the work happens.
The JINZO compliance system of record: restricted-party screening, classification record, deemed-export exposure, and a pre-assembled audit file across two chip programs.
Program automation

Program management that runs itself.

On top of that compliance core, JINZO runs the day-to-day coordination across your design house, foundry, test, and vendors. It is how a small team operates like it has a program office, without making the hire.

With JINZO
  • Handoffs across every partner are tracked automatically, so nothing stalls waiting on an email.
  • Drift in yield, schedule, or specification is surfaced early, while there is still time to act.
  • Routine updates are drafted, and the hard calls are routed to the right person. You stay in control of every decision.
  • Your most senior engineer stays on the chip instead of running operations.
The JINZO program feed: each Outlook message captured into structured fields, flags, and routed actions in the program system of record, with a blocked tape-out gate surfaced.
Coming soon
Expert reviews · focused, expert-led reviews at the moments that decide a chip program.
Coming soon

From compliance core to the operating system for the whole program.

JINZO starts compliance-first and is quickly evolving into full program management, with compliance built into every interaction and an automatic audit trail behind all of it. The system of record becomes the operating system that runs the entire chip program.

What it costs to run this by hand
$374K
Top civil penalty per export-control violation - and a criminal case adds $1M fines and prison time. One missed screen is company-ending risk.
$5-20M
A single mask respin set off by a stale file version or a missed partner handoff - before counting three-plus months of schedule slip.
10-20 hrs/wk
Senior engineering and founder time lost every week to partner coordination, version chasing, and compliance prep - time JINZO gives back to the chip.
Weekly BIS changes
How often U.S. restricted-party and entity lists change. A screen run by hand is already stale before the next shipment; JINZO re-screens against the current lists.

All figures shown are illustrative.

The team

Built by individuals who have shipped chips, built global programs and hardware-software platforms at scale, and run compliance operations for startups.

Silicon

40 years building and shipping chips

  • 1999 ISSCC analog circuits award.
  • An ISSCC paper cited more than 9,000 times.
  • R&D leadership at Broadcom and Nvidia.
  • VP roles at VeriSilicon, Etron Technology, and TM Technology.
  • MS EE, Arizona State University.
  • Today, CTO at a specialty chip R&D and production company.
Platform

A decade building global programs and platforms at scale

  • Shipped a mobile device-intelligence and automated-tuning product line at Unity AI, used across billions of devices.
  • Signed roughly 100 global data-licensing partners.
  • Built the Google Play VC / Startups accelerator across launch, performance, and compliance.
  • Ten years compressing execution cycles for hardware and software teams.
Engineering

Infrastructure built for scale

  • First engineer at Scribe, the AI company that captures how people work and turns it into automation.
  • Infrastructure engineering for regulated hardware companies - Uber, Bird, and Twitch.
  • Builds the agent platform, the system of record, and the security layer.
  • Privacy and security designed in from the first commit.
JINZO surfaces and routes. You stay in control of every decision. The semiconductor expert of record signs every silicon judgment, and every compliance determination is signed by qualified export counsel. The two are never conflated.
Become a design partner

See JINZO on your own chip program.

Join as a founding design partner and shape what we build.

Become a design partner

Founding design partners get early access, direct access to the team, and real influence over the roadmap, in exchange for honest feedback as we build.

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