AI Consulting for Real Businesses

Everyone's Got an AI Guy.
We're His.

We build AI systems for businesses that are too large to ignore AI and too small
for McKinsey. Custom-built. Measurable results. Working in the first week.

The AI Gap Nobody's Filling

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72% of SMBs want AI. Only 18% have implemented beyond chatbots.
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Enterprise has McKinsey. Startups build in-house. You're stuck in the middle.
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You've been burned by SaaS tools that promised automation but needed a full-time admin.

The $5M to $100M market is massively underserved. You need a partner who's actually run a
business like yours, not a technologist who's never signed the front of a paycheck.

Why Kaizen

kai·zen  /ˈkaɪ.zɛn/  noun

A Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement through small, consistent changes.

To us, continuous improvement means your AI systems get smarter every week, not just the week we build
them. We measure, we optimize, we compound. That is the difference between
a oneoff AI project and an AI advantage.

Speed to Value

Something working in week one. Not a 3-month discovery phase.

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Bilingual: Business + Tech

We speak P&L, not just API.

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Built-In Governance

Independent audit layer monitors every AI agent, every day.

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Right-Sized for SMB

Purpose-built for 10 to 200 employees, $5M to $100M revenue.

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Privilege-Safe Architecture

Enterprise-grade data isolation. Your data never trains models.

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Custom, Not Cookie-Cutter

We adapt the tool to your business. Not the other way around.

Embed. Diagnose. Build. Compound.

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We sit inside your business. Learn how it actually runs. Not from a slide deck.

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Diagnose

Find the bottlenecks. Map the workflows. Score the AI opportunities by ROI.

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Build

Deploy something working in week one. Custom-built for your exact operations.

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Compound

Systems get smarter every week. Value compounds. Your AI workforce grows.

We measure success in dollars saved and hours recovered. Not maturity scores.

Three Ways to Work With Us

AI Diagnostic

1 to 2 weeks
Operational assessment, workflow mapping, AI opportunity scorecard, 30/60/90 roadmap.
"Low-risk entry point. Proves value before a big commitment."
Book a Diagnostic

AI Implementation

4 to 12 weeks
Custom AI system build, tool integration, team training, 30-day post-launch support.
"Something working in the first week. Measurable ROI before the first invoice is due."
Start a Project

Fractional AI Operations

Ongoing, 6-month minimum
Dedicated AI operations partner, continuous optimization, new automations quarterly.
"Replaces a full-time AI hire at a fraction of the cost."
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Self-Serve AI Assessments

ACRA: AI Compliance Readiness Assessment

Discover your AI compliance blind spots in 15 minutes. Get a scored assessment, risk quantification, and remediation roadmap.

For: General Counsel, compliance officers, risk teams

Take the Assessment →

AQA: AI Agent Quality Audit

Your AI agents are running. Are they working? Agent inventory, security audit, cost analysis, and governance framework.

For: CTOs, engineering leaders, AI teams

Get Your Audit →

ClaudeClaude Cowork Plugins

Cross-industry pattern recognition from building AI systems across
seven industries, delivered as plugins to your workflow.

Law Firms & Legal Services
Lending & Financial Services
Real Estate & Property Services
Food & Beverage
Insurance
Healthcare & Dental
Education & Training

Our Claude Cowork plugins bring industry-specific AI to professionals in 20+ verticals.

Proprietary Technology

Powered by KaizenOS™

Every KaizenOS deployment runs on our proprietary multi-agent operating system. Your business gets a dedicated
AI colony — an isolated workforce of specialized agents with built-in orchestration,
governance, and continuous improvement.

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Dedicated Colony

Your AI workforce runs in complete isolation. No data crosses colony boundaries. Your agents, your state, your secrets. Nobody else's.

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Guardian Audit Layer

An independent watchdog monitors every agent, every day. Compliance violations, cost drift, performance degradation. Caught in real time, not at quarterly review.

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Compounds Over Time

Your colony learns your business. Every correction, every calibration, every feedback loop makes the system smarter. Week 12 is dramatically better than week 1.

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Self-Healing

Circuit breakers, automated rollbacks, dependency monitoring. When something breaks at 3 AM, the system fixes itself before anyone notices.

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Enterprise Security

Centralized secret management. Credentials never appear in prompts or logs. Automated rotation. Hourly leak detection. Your data never trains models.

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Three-Tier Reporting

Business outcomes, operational quality, and cost efficiency. Daily automated scorecards. Weekly client reports. You always know exactly what your AI workforce is doing.

Operator-Founded. Not Engineer-Founded.

Most AI consultancies are started by technologists. Kaizen is founded by operators who have built, scaled,
and sold businesses across law, lending, food and beverage, foreclosure services, and consulting.

We don't just understand business processes. We've owned them.

25+
Years Business Experience
7
Industries Built In
100%
Operator-Led Deployments

The Team

Don Ho

Don Ho

Co-Founder & CEO

Recovering Attorney turned serial entrepreneur. 25+ years building and scaling businesses across law, tech, food & beverage, consulting, and real estate. Obsessed with closing the gap between what AI can do and what businesses actually need.

Carson Vasquez

Carson Vasquez

Co-Founder & COO

Systems architect and AI infrastructure specialist. Deep expertise in multi-agent orchestration, data pipelines, and enterprise deployment. The guy who makes the AI actually work.

Ready to See What AI Can Actually
Do for Your Business?

Book a free diagnostic call. We'll map your operations, identify the highest-ROI automation
opportunities, and show you what's possible. No pitch deck. No jargon. Just results.

Book a Call