Confidentiality. Impartiality. Evidence.

Your information is entrusted to us. Our conclusions remain faithful to the evidence.

Confidentiality begins with the question

The asset you are considering, the question you ask and the decisions you are exploring can reveal sensitive commercial intentions. We treat customer-specific asset selections, correspondence, supplied documents, analyses and reports as confidential engagement information. Public source records do not make your engagement or the resulting work public.

Before accepting confidential material, we establish the applicable written terms, the purpose of the work, permitted recipients and suitable handling arrangements. We limit access to the people and service providers needed for the agreed work, under those arrangements.

Your information serves your engagement

We use customer engagement information only for the agreed service and its necessary administration, subject to the applicable agreement and legal obligations. We do not use it for another customer's work, ZAI's own asset origination, acquisition or project development, or unrelated experimentation or data collection.

ZAI also conducts its own asset research. Before accepting an engagement, we disclose any material interest that could affect our impartiality, while respecting other parties' confidentiality. If that conflict cannot be managed consistently with an impartial assessment, we decline the engagement.

Publication of a customer's identity, relationship, asset selection, report or findings requires separate written authorization for the proposed use. Payment for an engagement is not permission to use it in our marketing.

Before confidential work begins, we provide the applicable agreement and versioned privacy notice, including the relevant retention, deletion-review and disclosure arrangements. We do not promise absolute secrecy or immediate deletion of every provider copy and backup.

An impartial assessment

Our fee pays for the agreed work and deliverables, not a favorable conclusion, a qualifying score or a recommendation to proceed.

We distinguish source facts, customer-provided statements, calculations, assumptions and interpretations. We identify relevant sources and dates, explain material contradictions and keep missing evidence visible. Unfavorable findings receive the same care as favorable findings. Where the available evidence does not support a conclusion, we say so.

AI assistance and accountable human review

AI tools assist our internal development and public-source research. We do not currently use them to process confidential customer engagement information.

Before any such processing begins, we will establish the permitted provider and use, the applicable protection arrangements, and the required customer disclosures and permissions. Our public statement and the applicable customer notice will reflect that authorized workflow.

Agreement between AI tools is not independent human validation. Before release, a named human reviewer examines the exact report version, its promised deliverables, supporting evidence and limitations, and records the release decision.

Clear scope and honest limits

Each assessment is bounded by the selected service, the agreed scope and any included question, the available evidence and the stated dates. A desktop assessment does not, by itself, establish present field conditions, available gas, commercial rights, regulatory approval or deployment readiness.

ZAI provides evidence-based research and decision support within the agreed scope. Our reports do not constitute professional engineering services, professional certification or regulatory determinations.

We explain what the evidence supports, what remains unresolved and which further checks would be needed before a consequential decision.

Start with a non-confidential enquiry

Confidential intake is not currently open. Your first message should contain only general, non-confidential information. Please do not include asset identifiers, documents or details of your intended transaction. We will establish the applicable written terms and a suitable channel before you share confidential information.