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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 a record each household owns and controls, a community front door that connects households to local help, and public systems that follow, for the 56 million U.S. households at the ALICE Threshold. The company is bound by a public Charter and held in a Mission 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 sets hard limits on every part of the product, and held in a Mission Trust whose Trust Advisory Board includes community representation. Zion’s two applications, LP Account (a record each household owns and controls, with plain-language consent over who sees each part) and OutPosts (the community front door: a low-barrier engagement platform where individuals, online communities, nonprofits, and local organizations find and connect with the people who need their services), are built in sequence, with Oasis, a later platform where practitioners and community businesses earn, following once the first two are widely used.

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 $2M Pre-Seed round, with a philanthropic track open to foundation Program-Related Investments ($250K–$1M) and grants ($50K–$250K).
• LP Account and OutPosts are built; the LP Account opened in the DMV region in September 2026. The Pre-Seed turns beta into state contracts; 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 for six years at a Washington, D.C. mission-driven affordable-housing law firm, 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.