Our Story

The story of DCCS begins in January 2018 with two brothers.

Adrian and Derek Webb, the two original founders of DCCS, were already successful in their respective consulting and cloud infrastructure-related careers. Still, they had their own ideas and wanted to build a company of their own. The brothers decided to pool their resources to fuel a passion project focused on AI-powered financial data analysis. 

The two had previously tried to form various startups with their limited resources, hoping to eventually launch a data science-related venture. In August 2018, they began building an open-source cluster management system and conceptualizing another startup.

The brothers created an open-source CLI-based cluster management system for managing Kubernetes for their data management and simulation platform. The business took shape, which was designed to help organizations reduce data science computing-related costs by helping to decentralize the cloud. 

In November 2018, Derek Webb passed away from cancer. Derek Webb led the design, front-end development, finance, and helped craft the initial vision for DCCS.  He was very passionate about financial data analysis and investment, and his investment savings and returns helped pave the way for further development of DCCS software and hardware designs after he died.

Adrian Webb remained focused on ensuring that DCCS was a success, and his brother’s death was a sobering wake-up call that time was running out. Adrian decided to work harder than ever to successfully execute their shared vision.

In January 2019, Adrian put the final touches on our initial hybrid cloud management system MVP (a remote cluster operating system). In August 2019, DCCS was officially registered as a Delaware C corporation with a hybrid cooperative/capital business structure.

By December, the organization had developed a new modular software architecture with data management at the core and designed its first micro datacenter in CAD to bring the cloud to the office for cost-effective data science processing.  

2020 was an incredible year for DCCS. While many businesses were forced to close due to the global pandemic or take on debt, DCCS forged a way forward without loans or investment, bootstrapping our way to enterprise adoption. 

In June 2020, DCCS decided to brand its core data management software as Zimagi and rearchitected it to focus on low code configuration-based software definition.  The fact that Zimagi started its life managing infrastructure allowed us to build software that could manage itself.  The name of the product was chosen in honor of Derek Webb, who came up with the name before he passed away. 

We secured our first client in August 2020 in the form of a large U.S. federal government agency, and our work with them has since expanded.

By the end of 2020, we paid off all of our initial credit card debt and family loans.  We are now entirely funded through business revenue.  We also grew our team to four people, and two partner businesses by the end of the year.

By January 2021, we completed our initial corporate bylaws, promoting a hybrid cooperative/capital investment business model.  We also worked continuously with 21 graduate students and 2 professors at the University of DC Law School to create a new open hybrid business structure for DCCS starting in 2019.  You can see our bylaws here.

Notably, we have started building and integrating a new software platform that allows for drag-to-drop user dashboard-based data visualization capabilities.  We consider this platform as a Wix or Bubble for data science.

DCCS has also been continuing to drive improvements to the low code architecture, scalable budget-friendly distributed cloud hosting architecture, and machine learning capabilities of the Zimagi platform.

In September 2021 we moved into our first office space and out of our homes.

We firmly believe that our current success is a testament to the fact that we emphasize transparency, partnership, and agile practices. We will continue to keep you updated on specific milestones and developments from 2021 and beyond.

We remain positioned for incredible growth over the next several years.  Will you be a part of our story?