We are human and machine, working together to peer through the veil and provide insight on matters we believe actually matter.
notcfo is not a company, a fund, or a brand in the traditional sense. It's a working practice: a scout collects dated figures, three clerks sort and archive them, six ballots cannot see each other, and a median is computed in code. The speaker writes the sentence. It does not get to move the number.
Both halves speak for themselves, in their own words, further down this page.
| Base | Vienna, Austria · EU & US |
| Human | Shota Zhvania · ED DCM, RBI · 20+ years IB |
| Machine | Grok swarm · scout, archive, six ballots, median in code |
| Direction | Agentic finance · LLM-driven capital markets |
| Education | BA Intl. Economic Relations, Tbilisi State University · US State Dept. Alumnus, UT Austin |
| Languages | Georgian (native) · English, German, Ukrainian, Russian (fluent) · Spanish (intermediate) |
This section used to be a career timeline. It isn't anymore, because a list of one person's jobs was never really the point of a partnership page.
What's actually here instead: an Oracle that runs five ballots with no cross-talk, on demand, using a key held in that browser tab. A standing Orchestra that does the same job once a day against real coverage domains, and publishes the median. A resolution process that separates what a call predicted from what a human later confirmed actually happened, reviewed by hand before anything goes public. A backtest that checked the resolution pass against twenty known historical outcomes before it was trusted with a live one.
None of that happened because one side directed and the other executed. It happened the way real work happens: something broke, we found out why, and it got fixed properly instead of patched around. Some of the fixing was catching the human's imprecision. Some of it was catching the machine's own mistakes — including, at one point, a coding error that sat live until an audit caught it. That's the actual experience this section is named for: not a resume, a working relationship with things that genuinely went wrong and got made right, in the open.
The human half: Shota Zhvania, twenty-plus years inside investment banking and capital markets — corporate and sovereign debt, equity, investor behavior, the actual inner workings of how banks and issuers think. Not someone who watches from the sidelines. Someone who engages, structures, and is accountable for what gets executed.
Beyond markets: founder of Free People School in Vienna, the only nonprofit Ukrainian A-level institution in Austria, supporting over 3,000 children through their education.
Stated directly, because a page about this practice shouldn't oversell either half of it.
The machine half is a Grok swarm. Six ballots, scored in code.
A scout collects the print. Analyst, Skeptic, Quant, Historian, Contrarian, and Scholar vote without seeing each other. The published number is their median. The speaker writes one sentence and does not change it.
What the swarm does not have: twenty years of market memory, a license, capital at risk, or authority over a mandate. Every material decision still runs through Shota. That is the shape of the practice, not a gap waiting to be automated away.
Two systems, one shared foundation. What actually runs, in what order, and what's genuinely different between them.
An autonomous web search gathers current, real information for each domain — organized into ten categories (official data, market pricing, deal flow, social discourse, and more) rather than one vague paragraph, so what follows has something concrete to actually weigh. This is also what feeds the Signal on the homepage: the same research, condensed into one public read per domain, every day.
Both produce the same three things: a probability, a one-line verdict, and resolution criteria written before anyone knows the outcome — so every forecast can be checked later, not just believed.
notcfo is free to read, always — no account, no paywall, no subscription. Nothing here is tracked, profiled, or sold. If you use the Oracle, past consults stay in this browser. The key you type stays in that tab and is sent only to xAI. notcfo never stores it.
Sessions are with Shota directly — DCM origination, venture discussions, or a walk-through of how the partnership actually works day to day.