MZN Company
Five years. One founder. Zero external funding. The story of building what large teams couldn't -- from the hardest conditions possible.
Mazzaneh started with one question: why is the distance between "wanting" and "finding" still so long? A user wants something. A seller has it. But between them: search, filter, compare, trust, decide.
Mazzaneh was designed to reduce that distance to near zero. No search. No filter. Just "I want" and "here it is."
The idea was simple. The execution was not. 22+ modules had to be built simultaneously.
Sanctions meant no international banking. No global VC. No institutional support. Mohammad built five profitable e-commerce platforms simultaneously -- not as goals, but as internal revenue engines. Every dollar went into Mazzaneh.
$700K personal capital. 27-person team. Not a single dollar from outside.
Mohammad chose Shiraz -- one of the least digitally receptive cities in Iran. If it survives here, it works anywhere.
50%+ of target market businesses went bankrupt.
Push notifications cut. The app's heartbeat stopped.
Backup channel blocked. Every alternative eliminated.
iOS blocked. Half the market gone instantly.
After 7 months, organic adoption outside Shiraz exceeded the test city.
Product works. Model is resilient. Iran's limitations are structural, not about the product. And there was an ethical dimension: user data sovereignty could not be guaranteed at scale in that environment.
Proven in the hardest conditions. Now targeting the global stage.
Mohammad needed a team matching the speed and depth his ideas demanded. Not people. Not anywhere physical. AI could. And it did.
Building this level of diverse expertise traditionally would take years and millions. AI delivered it in months. One person. Never wrote a single line of code.
95% of the IP portfolio produced in this phase.
Mechanical Engineering + MBA. No CS, programming, AI, or cybersecurity education. Never wrote a single line of code. Every innovation conceived by Mohammad, built through AI collaboration.
From Shiraz, Iran. Sanctions, internet at one-third speed, restricted global tool access.
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Before MZN, organizational-scale IP production was assumed to require hundreds of specialists and decades. Mohammad proved a human mind with the right AI orchestration can match that output.
This is the first documented case. MZN is the first generation of this working model.
The question is no longer whether MZN works.
Which partner is ready for the next chapter?