Build the Digital Co-Founder
CR3SCENDO AI is building the world’s first true Digital Co-Founder: an AI platform that launches companies, runs daily operations, and shows up every morning. We need builders who learn fast, ship real code, and care about adding genuine value.
To democratize the C-Suite for every Founder.
36 million small businesses power the US economy: 62.3 million employees, $5.9 trillion in GDP. Nearly 30 million of them are solo founders with no employees, no CFO, no safety net. Nearly 94% cannot afford a full-time CFO, General Counsel, or COO. Every year, more than 5 million Americans file to start a new one. 21.5% fail in the first year. 48.4% within five years. 65.1% within a decade. The market is more about ‘Survival’ than ‘Thrival.’
We are building the world’s first true Digital Co-Founder: an AI platform that launches companies, runs daily operations, and shows up every morning. Voice or text. English, Spanish, or Simplified Chinese. One platform replacing 8+ tools. From idea to operational company in under 60 minutes.
AI is the mechanism. Execution is the product. We don’t compete with AI assistants. We do what they can’t: take real-world, legally accountable actions.
From the Founder
It’s all about adding value. When you focus on adding genuine value (to customers, to teammates, to the ecosystem), everything else follows. Revenue follows value. Trust follows transparency. Growth follows execution.”
5x startup founder (2 acquired). Former VP of Digital Content & Commerce at Amazon. CEO of CR3SCENDO AI. Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
Has worn every hat (Developer, CTO, CPO, COO, CEO) across media, commerce, and enterprise software. Teaches Entrepreneurship at UW, coaches student founders at the iStartup Lab, and mentors first-time founders at community colleges across the Pacific Northwest.
Currently advises three companies across AI, social platforms, and consumer brands, each in a wildly different domain.
Wrote the 84-page Nexus Manifesto mapping 9 AI agents to the 9 documented causes of small business failure. Then built the engineering team and codebase to execute it.
“I’ve not only built companies, but I’ve dedicated my career to teaching the next generation how to build theirs. From the classroom at UW to the iStartup Lab to advising startups across wildly different domains, I’ve always wanted to give back. Entrepreneurship is the ultimate vehicle for human agency. This time, I’m building for the 36 million small businesses, nearly 94% of whom can’t afford a CFO, a General Counsel, CMO, or a COO. They deserve the same operational tools as a Fortune 500 company. That’s the mission.”
The Deal
“You bring the passion. We bring the platform, the mentorship, and the mission. Whether you’re an intern shipping your first PR or a veteran helping to fast track my vision, you will build something real, for real founders, that compounds your career forever. We grow together, we learn together, and we ship together. That’s the deal.”
We Eat Our Own Dogfood
Every claim is backed by something we actually built.
We build Nexus AND we run on Nexus.
Our teaser site, our analytics pipeline, our deployment scripts, our content platform. All built using the same infrastructure we offer to customers. We are customer zero.
Every tool we build for founders, we use first.
The Daily Huddle, the formation engine, the compliance calendar: before any founder touches it, we have already used it to run our own company. If it is not good enough for us, it is not good enough for anyone.
Simulation-first development.
Before any code touches production, it runs in simulation mode. 3,067 tests. Every service. Every commit. Zero external network calls in simulation. We built the testing infrastructure before we built the features.
Security from day one.
We hardened Firebase authentication with WebAuthn passkeys, audited every deployment script, and gated production behind 9 automated security checks, all before writing a single marketing page. Security is not a phase; it is a foundation.
Governance as code.
Our engineering standards are not in a wiki that nobody reads. They are in 11 governance documents, checked into every repository, enforced by automated scripts that block deployment if violated. When we say "standards," we mean code that runs, not slides that gather dust.
Built by Engineers. Verified by Numbers.
These numbers are real.
What You’ll Work With
Real technologies powering a real platform. Every tool listed here is in production today.
No Kubernetes. No GraphQL. No Kafka. No service mesh. We keep it simple until complexity earns its place.
Ready to build something that matters?
We are looking for builders, learners, and tinkerers who want to ship production code to a platform that serves real founders.
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