The Team

The operators behind JIDOKA.

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Crystal Dong

Founder & Managing Partner — Commercial Strategy & Operational Diagnosis

Crystal founded JIDOKA to give growing businesses the operational infrastructure they need to scale. Her background spans business operations, commercialization, digital growth systems, and venture development across service businesses, SaaS, and emerging technology — leading customer acquisition, operational transformation, and go-to-market execution.

At JIDOKA, Crystal leads diagnostic strategy. She sits with founders to find the real constraint, then translates a complex business problem into a scalable operating system the team can actually run.

Scope of responsibility: commercial strategy · operational diagnosis · venture development · growth systems · go-to-market · business transformation

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Jason Wilson

Co-Founder & Operator — Venture Strategy & Growth

Jason works on the market side of scaling — the partnerships, capital, and positioning that determine whether a business can actually grow into the systems it builds. His background spans venture development, capital relationships, and the commercialization of emerging technology.

At JIDOKA, Jason connects operational capability to market execution. He builds the growth strategies, partnerships, and capital relationships that let a business scale beyond what its internal resources alone can support.

Scope of responsibility: venture strategy · strategic partnerships · capital relationships · commercialization · market expansion · growth strategy

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Mark Davis

Co-Founder & Operator — Software Engineering & AI Deployment

Mark builds the software and AI that the operating systems run on. His background spans scalable platforms, cloud-native architecture, and the distributed systems that keep high-volume operations running — the engineering depth most operational vendors simply don't have.

At JIDOKA, Mark leads the build: custom internal tools, system integrations, and AI agents deployed into real workflows. He makes sure what we ship is engineered for the long run — secure, scalable, and built to be owned by your team.

Scope of responsibility: software engineering · cloud architecture · platform engineering · AI agent deployment · systems integration · technical operations

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Scott Ryan

Co-Founder & Operator — Infrastructure, Security & Reliability

Scott owns the foundation every operating system runs on: the infrastructure, networks, and security that decide whether automation holds up under real conditions. His focus is reliability — building systems that scale with the business instead of breaking as it grows.

At JIDOKA, Scott makes sure the workflows and automations we deploy sit on infrastructure that is secure, stable, and built to last. He turns infrastructure from a source of operational risk into something a growing business can scale on with confidence.

Scope of responsibility: operational infrastructure · systems administration · cybersecurity · network architecture · business continuity · technology governance

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Kenny Eads

Operator — Hardware & Physical-Digital Integration

Kenny covers the part of operations most software vendors ignore: the hardware, equipment, and physical systems that automation ultimately has to run on. Digital systems fail when the physical infrastructure underneath them is overlooked.

At JIDOKA, Kenny makes sure transformation reaches the real-world operating environment — aligning physical and digital systems so well-designed automation performs in practice, not just in a demo.

Scope of responsibility: hardware infrastructure · systems integration · facilities and asset strategy · physical-digital alignment · risk and resilience planning

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Sam Boustani

Co-Founder & Operator — Enterprise Systems & Automation

Sam works where systems meet execution — the platforms and workflows a growing team depends on, and the manual handoffs and gaps that quietly slow them down. He has built and modernized systems at scale across both public and private sectors, where bad architecture carries a real operational cost.

At JIDOKA, Sam leads the systems and automation work: turning fragmented, manual processes into integrated workflows a team can actually run, maintain, and build on.

Scope of responsibility: enterprise architecture · automation strategy · systems modernization · platform integration · operational scalability

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Timara Lau

Brand & Market Presence

Timara owns how JIDOKA and its clients show up in market — the trust and visibility that decide whether the right audiences engage, convert, and stay. Her experience spans ecommerce and service businesses, where she has built brand systems that connect strategy to consistent, market-facing execution.

At JIDOKA, Timara makes sure the operational systems we build are matched by the market presence to sustain them. Brand is not cosmetic — it is part of the infrastructure, and she builds it that way.

Scope of responsibility: brand strategy · audience development · content systems · social and digital presence · customer engagement

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Arvin Dong

Community Lead, Intern

Arvin helps JIDOKA ideate, organize, and develop Builders & Entrepreneurs, our community project for founders, builders, operators, and emerging business owners across multiple cities in the U.S.

His experience with UMD KSA and Celsius gives him a practical view of how campus community-building, brand activation, and event coordination translate into stronger communities and businesses outside of college life.

Scope of responsibility: community development · founder programming · local ecosystem coordination · Builders & Entrepreneurs · member engagement

Strategic Partners

An ecosystem built around founder solutions.

JIDOKA is part of a broader partner ecosystem designed to help founders and operators move from idea to infrastructure to market. Each partner brings a distinct lane, so clients can get the right mix of strategy, systems, marketing, software, vertical expertise, and growth support without having to assemble the whole network alone.

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Ideation to GTM strategy

Unstuck Labs

Helps founders move from early ideas into structured validation, positioning, launch planning, and go-to-market strategy.

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Business system builds for SMB

Jidoka Group

Builds the operating systems, workflows, dashboards, automations, and internal tools that help small and midsize businesses scale with more control.

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Full-service marketing agency with international capacity

Genzio

Supports brand, content, campaign execution, and marketing operations for founders and businesses that need broader reach and delivery capacity.

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LawTech

IntensifAI

Supports legal technology opportunities where firms, founders, and legal operators need sharper AI-enabled workflows, better case and document systems, and practical automation.

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Entertainment, sports, and music vertical

Brimz

Brings vertical expertise for creators, venues, entertainment operators, sports initiatives, music projects, and fan-engagement opportunities.

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Marketing for functional medicine practices, consultants, and coaches

Brk/Free

Specializes in marketing systems, positioning, content, and client acquisition for functional medicine practices, consultants, and coaches.

VERTICAL PARTNERS

Additional vertical partnerships

Coming soon

We are finalizing details across nonprofit, real estate, law tech, VC, and funding groups to expand the ecosystem of founder solutions.

One Integrated Team

Most providers are one thing. We combine them.

JIDOKA brings developers, operators, and specialists across infrastructure, systems, hardware, growth, and brand into a single partner — see why that matters compared to hiring an agency or a consultancy alone.

The result is operating systems that are technically sound and operationally intelligent — the same caliber of infrastructure enterprises spend millions building internally, delivered at a pace and price that works for founder-led and growth-stage teams.

Why JIDOKA

Most businesses hire advisors who deliver recommendations, agencies that work in one narrow lane, or vendors selling a solution in search of a problem. JIDOKA works differently — as an operating partner accountable for outcomes, not deliverables.

What that means in practice:

We fix the process before we automate it
We diagnose, design, build, and deploy — no gap between strategy and execution
We keep humans in control where judgment matters, and automate the rest
We build systems your team can own, run, and scale without depending on us

The result is a business that runs with more clarity and control — and is genuinely ready for what comes next.

Automation with judgment built in.

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