Founder story

Why I started Onzaris

Sports organizations do important work, but the operational record is often scattered across calendars, messages, spreadsheets, and match documents.

I am Akrem Ziani, founder of Onzaris. I am building a sports operations platform for leagues, clubs, tournaments, and officials.

The product started from a simple observation: running sport involves far more than publishing a fixture. People need to coordinate teams, venues, officials, rosters, payments, game sheets, results, and communication around the same event.

That operational gap is the work Onzaris is built for.

The record is the starting point

A schedule on its own is not enough. The surrounding work needs structure, permissions, clear ownership, and a reliable record that people can use before, during, and after the game.

That is why I am focused on connecting the workflow around each fixture: what has to happen, who is responsible, what changed, and what still needs attention.

Why this matters to me

Before Onzaris, I built websites for local businesses, then built Lazo Growth, a digital marketing agency where I recruited and trained a 25-student cold-calling team. We made over 600 cold calls and closed our first $500 client.

That experience taught me how much work lives between a conversation and an outcome. Systems only help when they preserve context and make the next action clearer.

Onzaris is my attempt to make sports operations clearer: connect the operational record, surface exceptions, and keep a human in control.

What I am building now

I am building the product around bounded workflows that can be inspected and improved with real organizations. The goal is to validate the work itself, not to present a polished demo as proof of adoption.

If you want to follow the build, start with what Onzaris is built for or connect with me on LinkedIn.