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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nAdam Wazzan is co-founder and CTO of Orchid, a personal assistant over iMessage from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch. His Y Combinator profile names him as a co-founder of Mail0, Zero Email, Orchid and Keiki, and lists earlier work at Wily Global, prezent.ai and Gala Games.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajxb/\n- X: https://x.com/theCTO\n\n## What Adam builds\n\n- [Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md), graded F, 20.4/100, in Personal assistants. Orchid is a hosted executive assistant people reach by iMessage, SMS or Telegram. It triages Gmail, drafts replies, coordinates Google Calendar, prepares meetings and runs habits and reminders, with drafts held until the owner approves. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Nizar Abi Zaher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nizar-abi-zaher/), Co-founder of Orchid; current X bio emphasizes CEO/co-founder of Keiki\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Adam Wazzan?\n\nAdam Wazzan is co-founder and CTO of Orchid, a personal assistant over iMessage from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch. His Y Combinator profile names him as a co-founder of Mail0, Zero Email, Orchid and Keiki, and lists earlier work at Wily Global, prezent.ai and Gala Games.\n\n### What does Zero Email, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Orchid from Zero Email, Inc.. Orchid is a hosted executive assistant people reach by iMessage, SMS or Telegram. It triages Gmail, drafts replies, coordinates Google Calendar, prepares meetings and runs habits and reminders, with drafts held until the owner approves.\n\n### Who has invested in Zero Email, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator.\n\n### How are Adam's tools graded?\n\nOrchid is graded F, 20.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orchid-ai\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/nizar-abi-zaher\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nizar-abi-zaher-801462272\n- https://x.com/nizzyabi\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/adam-wazzan\n- https://x.com/theCTO\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajxb/\n- https://orchid.ai/\n- https://orchid.ai\n- https://orchid.ai/contact\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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