About

Verification tooling should not cost six figures to try.

Learning chip verification has always had the same problem: the tools are locked behind commercial licences, and the licences are locked behind employers. You cannot practise what you cannot run.

Zenzei exists to remove that step. We build our own SystemVerilog simulator, put it in the browser, and wrap it in demos and courses worth working through. No installs, no licence server, no lab machine — just write code and run it.

How it compounds

Free sandboxes and demos draw engineers in. They learn hands-on, and some of them stay. That funds deeper sandboxes, which mature into tools worth paying for. Meanwhile every free run is real-world testing that hardens the very simulator we eventually sell.

It is the same funnel the established players run — except we own the tool at the centre of it instead of licensing someone else's.

Get involved

Four workstreams, each one ownable.

Zenzei is early and the work divides cleanly. Bring your interest and your skillset — full-stack, backend, simulator/EDA, ML, DevOps and security, or content and curriculum.

01

Platform Core

Web app and API, auth and accounts, database and content model, billing and tiers.

Full-stack · Next.js · PostgresLive — billing planned
02

Content

Authoring the demos and graded courses for each domain.

Verification engineering · CurriculumBuilding
03

Execution & Sandboxes

The RTL/DV simulator, the in-browser IDE, and the future AI sandbox.

Simulator / EDA · Systems · MLRTL live · IDE building · AI planned
04

Infrastructure & Security

Hosting, edge protection, sandbox hardening, monitoring.

DevOps · SecurityPartial

Interested in one of these?

Create an account and try the platform first — the fastest way to understand what needs building is to run something on it.

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