Technology & Management Consulting
We build enterprise systems and implement AI for businesses that run on legacy processes.
Z6 Consulting works with owners and executives in construction, logistics, healthcare, and software, turning manual workflows and institutional knowledge into systems your people actually use. We measure success by adoption, not demos. Current focus: Vision-2030-era transformation programs in the Gulf and owner-led businesses in the US.
25+ years building enterprise software
A decade leading engineering at Cerner, now Oracle Health
US and Gulf, native Arabic and English
Services
Systems Strategy & Architecture
Assess how the business actually runs, then design the systems it should run on: build-vs-buy decisions, vendor selection, and integration architecture.
AI Adoption & Workflow Automation
Practical AI implementation: automating quoting, customer care, document workflows, and back-office processes, measured by adoption rather than demos.
Analytics & Project Controls
Business intelligence, cost engineering, and schedule and claims analytics for capital projects, grounded in decades of project-controls product work.
Special Situations
Modernizing legacy and distressed businesses: stepping into companies with decades of habit and rebuilding their technology, processes, and teams.
Engagement Models
Four ways to engage. Every one of them ends with working systems, not a slide deck.
Fractional CTO
A standing seat at your table without the full-time hire. Architecture decisions, vendor and team oversight, and a senior sounding board on a monthly retainer, sized to the stage of the business.
AI Modernization Sprint
One concentrated engagement that takes a legacy-process business and rebuilds its highest-friction workflows with AI: quoting, customer care, documents, back office. Defined scope, a defined end date, and systems your team actually adopts.
Product Conceptualization
You have an app or a platform in mind. We pressure-test the concept, define the product, and architect the build, then stand up the senior delivery team that ships it.
SaaS Acquisition Advisory
Buying or selling software? Technical and commercial due diligence from an operator who has owned and run software products: code and architecture review, team assessment, and what the numbers actually say.
Selected Engagements
Project-controls analytics suite: co-owner and head of product.
Schedule, delay, and claims analytics from EyeDeal Tech, used on major construction and oil and gas programs. More than fifteen years leading the product as a part-owner of the firm.
Century-old LTL freight carrier: digital transformation.
Architected the modernization of a six-terminal, unionized carrier. Automated quoting platform, online payments and shipment tracking, AI-assisted customer-care workflows, and enterprise integrations (TMS, rating engines, parcel APIs) replacing phone- and email-driven processes.
Digital freight brokerage, built from zero.
Co-founded a brokerage and designed its technology stack end to end: automated quoting and booking workflows, carrier network tooling, and the insurance and compliance framework.
Specialty contractor (~30 staff): systems rebuilt end to end.
Served a Florida specialty contractor as Board Chair, then VP. Built the estimating stack, cost-engineering and contracts functions, offshore engineering support, and remote-management systems.
Acquisition evaluation and structuring.
Diligence and deal structuring for owners across manufacturing, SaaS, and eCommerce, focused on what the systems and the numbers actually say.
Principal
Ahmed Zahran, MBA
Founder & Managing Principal
- B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, MBA
- Native Arabic, fluent English
- Based in Lake Forest, California
- Working across the US and the Gulf
- Senior-only delivery, backed by a vetted offshore engineering bench
Twenty-five years building enterprise software and leading engineering teams: a decade-plus at Cerner (now Oracle Health) leading the retail pharmacy engineering organization, head of product for a project-controls analytics suite used on major construction and oil & gas programs, and hands-on transformation work across logistics and construction.
His career began on the SUMED oil pipeline in Egypt, a joint venture of EGPC, Saudi Aramco, Mubadala, KIA, and QatarEnergy.
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