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The Easy Button for Employee Ownership: How Do We Build It?

The Easy Button for Employee Ownership: How Do We Build It?

The easy button for employee ownership needs connective tissue — infrastructure that brings the entire ecosystem together. Visa, the global payment network founded as a member-owned cooperative, built the easy button for money the exact same way.

January 11, 2026Company Update
Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

Co-Founder

Systems Thinking Over Syntax: Building Products in the Age of AI

Systems Thinking Over Syntax: Building Products in the Age of AI

How specification-driven development and AI agents enabled me to ship 100,000 lines of production code in seven weeks—without writing a single line of syntax.

January 10, 2026Product Update
Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

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Why Employee Ownership Isn't Scaling (And It's Not What You May Have Heard)

Why Employee Ownership Isn't Scaling (And It's Not What You May Have Heard)

The most common answers about EO barriers miss the real bottleneck. It's not awareness or financing - it's conversion efficiency. Here's the napkin math that reveals the true problem and what we need to focus on instead.

September 13, 2025Company Update
Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

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Building Community in the Age of AI: The Future of The Grid

Building Community in the Age of AI: The Future of The Grid

How AI is shifting power toward community-owned platforms and why we're evolving The Grid into a Platform Cooperative. A deep dive into the future of stakeholder ownership in the employee ownership ecosystem.

August 25, 2025Company Update
Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

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Get Your NAICS Code Right: Why Industry Classification Matters for Business Exit Planning

Get Your NAICS Code Right: Why Industry Classification Matters for Business Exit Planning

Your NAICS/SIC code determines business valuations, loan eligibility, insurance rates & buyer expectations. Wrong classification hurts exit planning. Zolidar's smart classifier helps you get it right.

August 1, 2025Product Update
Sonali Kothari

Sonali Kothari

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We Built the EO Market Map. Here's What It Reveals and Why It Matters

We Built the EO Market Map. Here's What It Reveals and Why It Matters

The first public, clickable visualization of organizations advancing employee ownership across the U.S. Discover how The Grid's EO Market Map brings visibility to a field that's been operating in the shadows.

June 23, 2025Product Update
Sonali Kothari

Sonali Kothari

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Zolidar and Project Equity Partner to Make Employee Ownership Actionable at Scale

Zolidar and Project Equity Partner to Make Employee Ownership Actionable at Scale

Strategic partnership combines Project Equity's trusted EO training with Zolidar's AI-powered tools, helping advisors and business owners confidently pursue employee ownership at scale.

June 5, 2025Company Update
Sonali Kothari

Sonali Kothari

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From fragmented to connected: Introducing The Grid for SMB transitions

From fragmented to connected: Introducing The Grid for SMB transitions

Support for small and medium businesses is too fragmented and opaque. The Grid by Zolidar is free, AI-powered, and built to change that—connecting founders, advisors, and experts across the SMB ecosystem in one dynamic, searchable, collaborative space. Learn why this shared infrastructure matters now more than ever.

April 14, 2025Product Update
Sonali Kothari

Sonali Kothari

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Inside The Grid: Turn hidden expertise working with SMBs into visible credibility

Inside The Grid: Turn hidden expertise working with SMBs into visible credibility

The Grid helps advisors like CPAs, employee ownership consultants, attorneys, and RIAs build their reputation in the small business transition space. By sharing insights, joining conversations, and showing up where it matters, professionals become more visible, trusted, and connected.

April 14, 2025Product Update
Sonali Kothari

Sonali Kothari

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What is Zolidar Building for EO

What is Zolidar Building for EO

Our vision for "building the easy button for employee ownership" has multiple epochs that align with the approach of a "compound company". This approach advocates building multiple products that are deeply integrated and seamlessly interoperable to unlock unique product capabilities.

Sep 9, 2024Product Update
Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

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Why We Are Building Zolidar

Why We Are Building Zolidar

We founded Zolidar with the mission of "increasing the wealth of everyday Americans" by virtue of "building the easy button for employee ownership". The name Zolidar is inspired by solidarity and the outcomes it can drive by aligning incentives of individuals towards a shared purpose.

Sep 9, 2024Company Update
Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

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