AuthZed aims to simplify permissions for developers by addressing scalability and flexibility issues in permission models through the open-core project SpiceDB, which brings relation-based access control to the developer community. The company faces challenges in the cloud-native ecosystem, including operational and permission management complexities in microservices architectures. AuthZed addresses these challenges with a comprehensive permissions solution, leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance its capabilities and simplify the permissions modeling process for customers. Ultimately, Jake Moshenko envisions making AuthZed a ubiquitous solution in permissions management, fostering network effects by enabling different applications to use a unified permissions database, similar to Google's ecosystem.