Our Story

Zal was founded on the idea that every employee deserves a transparent and applied method to measure their skill development, and contextualize learning and development opportunities into a fulfilling career path at their company.

We spoke to hundreds of HR, Learning & Development, and Business leaders at companies big and small across the country - here’s what we heard:

They care deeply about upskilling their workers. They lack the time and resources to effectively implement skill-based hiring or career development for their people. They are overwhelmed with an abundance of available L&D content. And measuring skill development, let alone the efficacy of their entire program, feels like an educated guess at best.

These are problems we are personally very familiar with, having been entry-level employees, managers, and business owners ourselves.

Inspired and energized by these findings, we set out to build a solution that combines the best technology and services available in the market to help any L&D and HR leader to transform their workforce development into something that allows them to contextualize, assess, and measure their learning programs.

We’ve built our software from the ground up to leverage the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence, and our cofounder’s immense background in learning psychology and pedagogy to offer something truly unique to the market.

Welcome to Zal.ai.


Meet The Team

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Kayvon Touran

Founder & CEO

Kayvon Touran has spent his entire career working in early stage technology startups, and most recently as a product leader in education technology where he created and implemented a next generation lifelong learning platform for higher education institutions.


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Stephen Kosslyn, PhD

Founder

Dr. Stephen Kosslyn's career spans an impressive track record within academic research and startups - three decades on Harvard faculty, Center Director at Stanford, to Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Minerva, and President of Foundry College. Now leading Active Learning Sciences, Dr. Kosslyn brings a science-based perspective to learning that is truly unique.


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Joseph Rousseau

Founder & CTO

Joseph Rousseau is an entrepreneurial education leader, and technologist who has founded and led several software and edtech ventures, as well as taught, consulted, and managed IT projects in various sectors.


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