Easy Aiz Helps ZCASH Foundation Accelerate Research and Gain Sharper Humanitarian Insights

CLIENT BACKGROUND

Zcash Foundation is a public charity dedicated to building and maintaining financial privacy infrastructure, with a primary focus on the Zcash protocol and blockchain. Founded in 2017, the foundation operates within the financial technology and capital markets ecosystem, specializing in privacy-preserving digital assets. Its work centers on research, development, grantmaking, and advocacy to support secure and consent-based financial systems.

Serving developers, researchers, ecosystem partners, and broader communities interested in privacy-focused technologies, the foundation places a strong emphasis on individual autonomy and the protection of personal financial information. Headquartered in Prescott, Ontario, Canada, Zcash Foundation plays a critical role in advancing privacy-enhanced infrastructure for both financial innovation and humanitarian use cases.

The Challenge

Zcash Foundation managed a growing library of humanitarian aid and privacy research using manual spreadsheets filled with URLs and references. This made it difficult and time-consuming to search, compare, and synthesize insights across multiple sources.Staff and collaborators had to open each article individually, extract key themes, track pilot programs, and compile findings by hand. Adding new resources required repetitive data entry, increasing the risk of duplicates, missing fields, and inconsistent records.The foundation also wanted partners and external users to query this research easily, but without automation or a chatbot interface, discoverability was limited and scaling the knowledge base became increasingly difficult.

The Solutions

To solve this, we built a Zapier-based automated research ingestion system that connects the Zcash Foundation’s library directly to a chatbot interface. This removed manual spreadsheet work while ensuring consistent structure and reliable data.New resources are approved with a single click, automatically deduplicated, and enriched with clean titles and categories using AI. All entries are stored in a centralized Zapier Table as a single source of truth.The structured library is then connected to a chatbot, allowing users to ask complex questions and receive synthesized insights with links to original sources, making the research faster to access and easier to scale.

Research Submission & Approval

New research articles are submitted and approved directly from Gmail. When a team member clicks the approval button, Webhooks by Zapier captures the URL and sends it into the automation flow, removing the need for manual data entry.

Research Data Enrichment & Structuring

Once approved, AI by Zapier automatically generates clean titles and categories for each article. The enriched data is then stored in Zapier Tables as a single, structured source of truth for the research library.

Insight Delivery & Stakeholder Updates

When new or updated research is added, Google Sheets triggers automated workflows. After a controlled delay, Gmail sends formatted notifications, while the structured data powers a chatbot that delivers fast, source-linked insights.

The Result

By connecting the research library to an automated pipeline, Zcash Foundation immediately reduced repetitive administrative work. Instead of manually adding, cleaning, and tagging entries, staff now approve new resources with a single click while the system handles deduplication and enrichment in the background.

This automation saves an estimated 4 to 6 hours per week, previously spent maintaining spreadsheets, while significantly reducing errors and inconsistencies. With AI-generated metadata, users can now search and filter the research library 20–30% faster, making it easier to locate relevant humanitarian aid and privacy studies.

Most importantly, the Zapier chatbot can now draw from a structured, trusted data source to answer complex research questions and surface evidence-based insights in minutes instead of hours. This has improved research efficiency, strengthened collaboration, and made it far easier for the foundation to share its knowledge externally without adding operational overhead.

Ashar is incredibly skilled at Zapier automations and makes every request look effortless. No matter how complex the task, he breaks it down and delivers solutions quickly and seamlessly. Working with him has been a great experience, and I will definitely be hiring him again. If I could give him a 6-star review, I absolutely would.

“Elise Hamdon, Ph.D.”
Chief Communications Officer

Conclusion

Partnering with Zcash Foundation, we transformed a complex and manual research library into a simple, scalable system that supports privacy-focused humanitarian work. By automating approvals, enrichment, storage, and access through a chatbot, the foundation can now manage its growing knowledge base with confidence and efficiency.

The new Zapier-powered setup reduces manual effort, improves discoverability, and delivers structured insights on demand — enabling faster analysis and better collaboration across internal teams and external partners. This case study demonstrates how thoughtful automation can turn research overload into a reliable, high-impact knowledge hub that grows alongside the organization’s mission.

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Easy Aiz Helps ZCASH Foundation Accelerate Research and Gain Sharper Humanitarian Insights

CLIENT BACKGROUND

The Challenge

The Solutions

Research Submission & Approval

Research Data Enrichment & Structuring

Insight Delivery & Stakeholder Updates

The Result

Conclusion

We Came, We Automated, We Conquered Here’s the Proof!

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Easy Aiz Helps ZCASH Foundation Accelerate Research and Gain Sharper Humanitarian Insights

CLIENT BACKGROUND

The Challenge

The Solutions

Research Submission & Approval

Research Data Enrichment & Structuring

Insight Delivery & Stakeholder Updates

The Result

Conclusion

We Came, We Automated, We Conquered Here’s the Proof!

Enhancing Order Management for Homebound

ASK LLP Saves 25+ Hours Weekly Automating Leads

Gonano Saves 30+ Hours Weekly Managing Leads

Dr. Cody Saves Time, Improves Consultation Quality

Digital Agency Boosted Web Traffic 47%

IT’S NOW OR NEVER THE BUTTON’S NOT GOING TO CLICK ITSELF!

IT’S NOW OR NEVER
THE BUTTON’S NOT GOING TO CLICK ITSELF!