
After years spent selling infrastructure and cybersecurity, DevRev's Federal Founder is asking a harder question: how can public institutions adopt AI without surrendering context, control or sovereignty?

The Army veteran and attorney built City Detect around a stubborn municipal truth: cities cannot fix what they cannot see. His next test is making computer vision useful without letting the machine make the human decisions.

Before founding Zenysis, Jonathan Stambolis moved through corporate law, a housing venture, UN diplomacy and Palantir. The through-line is less glamorous than the résumé: making complicated institutions usable.