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Press contact

EMAIL · press at zion-pbc dot com · typically responds within one business day.

FOUNDER · Dimitri McDaniel, founder and chief executive officer, available for on-record interviews. See Team for full bio.

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Zion is a public benefit corporation building consumer-controlled records, a community platform, and civic infrastructure for the 56 million U.S. households at the ALICE Threshold. The company is bound by a public Charter and held in a Perpetual Purpose Trust.

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Zion Datum Public Benefit Corporation is building public infrastructure for households at the ALICE Threshold — the working middle of the U.S. population that earns above the federal poverty line but below the cost of living. The company is structured as a Delaware PBC, bound by a public Charter that constrains every product surface, and held in a Perpetual Purpose Trust whose Trust Advisory Board includes community representation. Zion’s three products — LP Account (a consumer-controlled records primitive), OutPosts (the community platform that sits on top of it), and Oasis (a creator-economy and civic-infrastructure expansion) — are built in sequence, with each earning the right to build the next.

Facts that are true today

• Zion is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, incorporated in 2026.
• The Charter, Mission Trust Instrument, and No Core Paywall Pledge are public and downloadable.
• Zion is raising a $3.5M Pre-Seed round, with a philanthropic track open to foundation Program-Related Investments ($250K–$1M) and grants ($50K–$250K).
• LP Account v1 is the Pre-Seed deliverable; OutPosts is the Seed milestone; Oasis is the Series A → Series B story.
• The founding three-seat Trust Advisory Board is target-confirmed by Q4 2026 / Q1 2027.
• Founder and CEO Dimitri McDaniel practiced affordable-housing finance law for six years at Klein Hornig LLP in Washington, D.C., specializing in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, HUD, and IRS tax-exempt-organization frameworks.
• Dimitri holds a BA from The Ohio State University (2015) and a JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law (2020), and is admitted to the bar in Ohio and Washington, D.C.