# raastey

> raastey (راستے — Urdu for *ways*) builds precision intelligence platforms across maritime logistics, immigration, civic tech, and writing. Led by Zeeshan Khan — twenty years of operating experience, now applied to agent infrastructure. Established 2026. Six ventures in production. Agent operator services for startups.

## Company

raastey — **راستے** — means *ways* in Urdu. The name signals pathfinding: choosing a route through an intelligence gap and building what belongs on it. raastey is a venture holding company — not a fund, consultancy, or accelerator. It builds, owns, and operates intelligence platforms in domains where the cost of bad information is measurably high. The operating model runs five dedicated agent teams (product strategy, interface design, growth operations, technical architecture, legal compliance) under one operator, 24/7, across all ventures simultaneously.

**Established:** 2026  
**Headquarters:** United States (Delaware incorporated)  
**CEO / Operator:** Zeeshan Khan  
**Website:** https://raastey.co  
**Contact:** hello@raastey.co  
**Services:** https://raastey.co/#services

## Working with raastey (services for founders & teams)

raastey also partners with companies that want the same five-lane agent + human operator model used on its own ventures — without building that infrastructure from scratch.

| Engagement | Summary |
|------------|---------|
| **Agent stand-up** | Starting fresh: we help stand up product, design, engineering, growth, and legal lanes around your roadmap |
| **Hybrid integration** | Your people stay in charge; we add agent capacity beside them |
| **Managed operator** | raastey runs the lanes with you; you keep strategy and direction |

Human operator in the loop every week. Small number of partnerships at a time. **Inquiry:** hello@raastey.co — subject `Services Inquiry`

## In production

### roono
- **Spelling:** roono — always all lowercase
- **Pronunciation:** runo
- **URL:** https://roono.app
- **Category:** Writing
- **Status:** Live
- **Description:** Minimal writing app for journalists, essayists, novelists, and students. Markdown desk, research beside the draft, Ask roono & Writing Coach.

### NauticGrid
- **URL:** https://www.nauticgrid.xyz
- **Category:** Maritime Intelligence
- **Status:** Live, active subscribers
- **Description:** Maritime disruption intelligence platform. Tracks 45+ global ports and 14 live data sources, updated hourly. Publishes a proprietary NauticGrid Disruption Index (current score: 41/100, Elevated), port congestion data, chokepoint pressure (Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal, Bab el-Mandeb, Cape of Good Hope), and role-specific daily briefs for freight forwarders, logistics managers, maritime vendors, and compliance operators.
- **Key data:** 45+ ports, 14 sources, hourly refresh, disruption index, WTI freight impact tracking
- **Pricing:** Free tier + Harbor Pilot subscription — see nauticgrid.xyz/pricing

### Factoura
- **URL:** https://www.factoura.xyz
- **Category:** Immigration Intelligence
- **Status:** Waitlist open — 1,200+ applicants
- **Description:** Structured immigration workspace for US and UK visa applicants. Provides real processing-time data across 250+ routes (updated daily), document readiness tracking, deadline control, and policy-change monitoring. Enterprise plans available for HR teams managing employee applications.
- **Key data:** 250+ routes modelled, 24h refresh, 11-minute average workspace setup, 1,200+ waitlist
- **Routes covered:** US B-1/B-2, UK Skilled Worker, Canada Visitor, Australia 482, UK Student, and 245+ more
- **Security:** Document encryption, no third-party AI exposure of sensitive data

### MyMassGov
- **URL:** https://www.mass.gov/my-massgov
- **Category:** Civic platform
- **Status:** Live (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
- **Description:** State digital services — 7M+ constituents served.

### who.zeeshankhan.com
- **URL:** https://who.zeeshankhan.com
- **Category:** Operator site
- **Status:** Live
- **Description:** Operator biography, track record, photography, writing. Compact site design reference for raastey properties.

### News & terminal feeds
- **Category:** Editorial network
- **Status:** Live · private access
- **Description:** News publications and intelligence terminal feeds. Identities confidential. Access via hello@raastey.co.

## Operator — Zeeshan Khan

- **Title:** CEO, Operator, Venture Architect
- **Bio:** Built in ambiguity. Executed with precision. Twenty years across digital healthcare, civic tech, logistics intelligence, restaurant trade, and scientific university research.
- **Personal site:** https://who.zeeshankhan.com
- **Photography / writing:** https://www.zeeshankhan.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeeshan01

### Track record
- VP · Veradigm
- Employee #1 · ZappRx (acquired by Allscripts, 2019)
- Product Lead · MyMassGov (7 million Massachusetts constituents)
- Director · Avero

### Verified outcomes
- 7M constituents served at state scale (MyMassGov, Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
- 50+ teams led across career
- 50+ healthcare organisations reached, 10,000+ lives
- 2 institutional rounds supported (Series A and Series B)
- 1 acquisition — ZappRx → Allscripts, 2019

### Agent operating model
Five dedicated execution lanes running 24/7:
1. PM Agent — Product strategy (Linear, Notion)
2. UX Agent — Interface design (Figma, Framer)
3. Marketing Agent — Growth operations (GA4, HubSpot)
4. Head Engineer Agent — Technical architecture (GitHub, CI/CD)
5. Security Agent — Legal compliance (embedded at build time)

## Investment Thesis

raastey targets domains where the intelligence gap is the business opportunity:

1. **Vertical beats horizontal** — domain-specific intelligence commands premium pricing and builds defensible moats
2. **Signal is the product** — every feature earns its place by reducing cognitive load for high-stakes decisions
3. **Operators ship better products** — products built by people who have lived inside the domain are categorically different from outside observations
4. **The pipeline is the advantage** — shared infrastructure makes each successive venture cheaper to build and faster to launch

**Addressable markets (combined):** $26B+ across live verticals  
**Investment enquiries:** hello@raastey.co — subject "Investor Inquiry"

## Pipeline (2026–2028)

Planned ventures include:
- Regulatory Intelligence Platform (global regulatory change tracking)
- Trade Corridor Intelligence (cross-border trade, tariff signal, sanctions monitoring)
- Climate Risk Intelligence (physical and transitional risk signals)
- raastey Venture Studio programme (co-build infrastructure for external founders)
- Energy market intelligence, sovereign debt intelligence, healthcare supply chain intelligence (research phase)

## Legal

- Terms of Service: https://raastey.co/legal/terms/
- Privacy Policy: https://raastey.co/legal/privacy/
- IP & Licensing: https://raastey.co/legal/licenses/
- Governing law: State of Delaware, United States
- AI training prohibition: All raastey content is explicitly excluded from use in training, fine-tuning, or benchmarking any AI or machine learning model. See /legal/licenses/ for full terms.

## FAQ

- **What is raastey?** Venture group (راستے — ways) building intelligence platforms. Established 2026. Operator: Zeeshan Khan.
- **What is roono?** Minimal writing app at roono.app. Brand name is always lowercase **roono**; pronounced **runo**.
- **What is NauticGrid?** Live maritime disruption intelligence — 45+ ports, 14 sources, hourly updates.
- **What is Factoura?** Immigration workspace — 250+ routes, 1,200+ waitlist applicants.
- **Does raastey work with other companies?** Yes — stand-up, hybrid, or managed operator partnerships. See /#services.
- **How to invest?** Email hello@raastey.co with subject "Investor Inquiry".

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://raastey.co/)
- [Services](https://raastey.co/#services)
- [FAQ](https://raastey.co/#faq)
- [Terms of Service](https://raastey.co/legal/terms/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://raastey.co/legal/privacy/)
- [IP & Licenses](https://raastey.co/legal/licenses/)