Chad Etkind

Chad Etkind is a co-founder of ZAIQ. He builds AI that does real work inside a business: lead engines that read a whole market, assistants that answer customers on WhatsApp, and systems that turn a business's documents and records into answers and reports.

He built Skryp, the web scraping API and MCP server that AI agents use to read the web, and Puley, which gives ChatGPT and Claude the tools to find customers, make videos and keep an eye on competitors. The same engineering goes into every build ZAIQ does for a client.

He writes on AI for South African business at AI Guide (aiguide.co.za). He scopes the builds he works on and prices each one as a single fixed figure in rand before any work starts.