# Zayyan Latif **AI Implementation & Business Operations** — San Francisco, CA, United States > Available now for full-time AI Implementation, Business Operations, Founder’s Associate, and Product Operations roles at early-stage startups. SF Bay Area, Remote US, and NYC. I turn business problems into working products and repeatable processes. My work spans financial diligence, research qualification, workflow automation, and developer tooling. I take ownership of defining the problem, building the first version, and coordinating the work needed to move it forward. A few examples of what I’ve delivered: • DiliPilot: Cofounded an AI-assisted financial-diligence product for small-business acquisitions and built the first working MVP solo. Owned product direction, customer discovery, positioning, and financial workflow design, while coordinating technical and go-to-market contributors. • Apply OS: Built a research and qualification workflow whose importer screened 3,874 source rows and selected 70 job-opportunity records for review. Connected qualification, prioritization, preparation, and human approval in a structured pipeline. • MCP Guard: Shipped an open-source review tool for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, with six source-analysis rules, tool-inventory validation, and capability-change detection. Packaged the release with reproducible demonstrations, automated tests, and evidence-linked reports. • Berkeley Biologics: Supported accounting operations through invoice verification, accounts-payable reconciliation, and period-end documentation. Presented an internal-controls review to the Head of Accounting and company president. • Youth Advocates for Change: Spent three years on the executive strategy team working across operations and partnerships. Coordinated partner communications, candidate logistics, and community promotion for a $25,000 scholarship initiative with Elevate. I’m looking for a small team where I can take ownership of a cross-functional problem, build what is missing, and stay responsible for the follow-through. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Navigator** (HS-DG) — One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zayyanmlatif ## Experience ### Co-Founder, Product & Strategy, Dilipilot (2026-06 – present) San Francisco Bay Area · • Built and shipped the first working MVP solo, translating fragmented seller documents into a structured, source-linked diligence workspace for small-business acquisitions. • Designed workflows for historical financial spreads, adjusted-earnings bridges, debt-service coverage, downside scenarios, and lender-preparation materials. • Led customer discovery, market research, positioning, and outbound. Translated buyer questions and objections into product requirements and messaging priorities while coordinating technical and go-to-market contributors. ### Financial Accounting Intern, Berkeley Biologics LLC (2025-07 – 2025-09) Richmond, California, United States · - Processed and verified invoices in QuickBooks and organized accounts-payable documentation. - Reconciled accounts-payable transactions against purchase orders and receipts. - Assisted with month-end close and prepared AP aging reports. - Supported the transition to new accounting software and prepared a pitch deck on internal controls. - Gained practical exposure to GAAP-oriented accounting workflows. ### Member, California FBLA Collegiate (2024-08 – present) ### Runway Model, After Dark Entertainment (2022-09 – 2023-01) San Francisco Bay Area · Runway model for Sir Klothing and After Dark Ent. - a Bay-Area & LA-based fashion collective ### Member, DECA Inc. (2022-08 – 2024-06) ### Co-Executive Strategy Member, Youth Advocates For Change (2022-01 – 2024-08) San Ramon, California, United States · Worked with an executive team to help manage, strategize, and direct several community outreach efforts and creative/media campaigns. Campaigns worked on included a sexual assault awareness short film, a Lululemon campaign, and outreach plans with the SF Youth Commission ### Promotional Model, SKINCARE AGENCY (2021-09 – 2021-09) Berkeley, California, United States · Video/commercial model for "Agency Skincare by Curology" commercial ### Activism Agent, Junior State of America (2021-08 – 2023-05) Pleasanton, California, United States ### Social Media Marketing Intern, Prime Poke (2021-02 – 2021-06) Pleasanton, California, United States ### Volunteer, Muslim Community Center - East Bay (2019-05 – 2019-08) Pleasanton, California, United States ## Education ### Associate's Degree For Transfer in Business Administration and Management, General, Las Positas College (2024-08 – 2027-08) Intention on transferring to a 4-year University for double major - Data Science & business admin ### Undecided, Foothill High School (2020-01 – 2024-01) ## Projects ### RiskLedger • Built a concept for tracking operational, financial, or business risks across companies or workflows. • Designed structured fields for risk category, severity, likelihood, owner, status, and mitigation plan. • Practiced turning unstructured risk information into a more organized reporting system. ### Search Fund Sourcing CRM — Proprietary Acquisition Pipeline & Outreach Engine Built a CRM-style acquisition sourcing tool for tracking small business acquisition targets, broker relationships, outreach status, industry categories, and deal notes. Designed for search fund, independent sponsor, and lower-middle-market acquisition workflows. ### Zayyan OS Designed and built a personal operating system around the question “What should I do right now?” Structured context-aware prioritization, a Top 3 action queue, focus sessions, capture, recovery, and review workflows. Working prototype using demo/local state; no adoption or productivity outcomes claimed. ### SMB Due Diligence & Add-Back Scrubber Built a due diligence tool for reviewing owner-operated business financials and identifying potential add-backs such as personal expenses, family salaries, discretionary spending, one-time costs, and owner benefits. Designed to help normalize seller discretionary earnings and improve preliminary deal evaluation. ### SF FBLA Marketing and Sales Case Study First place winner for Marketing and Sales Case Study for NorCal Case Study Business Competition for FBLA ### Project Management Sales Presentation Project Summary Report Submission that won top 15 at DECA's International Career Development Conference 2023 ### Apply OS AI-powered career operating system for job discovery, qualification, prioritization, and application workflow management. Built to turn a fragmented job search into a structured operating process with eligibility filtering, opportunity ranking, agent-assisted research, and workflow tracking. Primary languages: TypeScript and SQL. ### Zayyan Agent Runtime Local-first AI agent infrastructure built for reliable multi-model execution. Includes deterministic task-aware model routing, sandboxed tool execution, browser automation, subagents, context optimization, multi-provider support, lifecycle/resource controls, and safety-oriented execution boundaries. Primary language: TypeScript. ## Skills SQL, Go-to-Market Strategy, Product Strategy, Business Operations, TypeScript, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Architecture, Browser Automation, Workflow Automation, U.S. GAAP Reporting, Accounting, M&A Research, Financial Statement Analysis, CRM Databases, Financial Analysis, Market Research, Microsoft PowerPoint, Corporate Strategy, QuickBooks, Public Relations, Social Media Optimization (SMO), Presentations, Nonprofit Organizations, Multilingual, Instagram, Digital Marketing, Canva, Media Strategy, Marketing, Social Media, Salesforce CRM, Adsense, Google Analytics, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office ## Credentials - **2nd Place, NorCal Regionals (Mar. 2025** — California FBLA Collegiate (issued 2025-03) - **1st Place, California State Competition — Marketing & Sales Case Study** — California FBLA (issued 2025-02) - **International Career Development Conference (ICDC) Top 15 Finalist** — DECA Inc. 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