About Kudari
KU | DA | RI
KU|dos
Recognition earned through achievement. Judge the work by the value it delivers.
ko|DA|wari
Japanese concept of a deep commitment to craft. Pay attention to the details that make a system reliable and useful.
kudu|RI|
Hausa word meaning resolution or firm intention. Start with a clear purpose and a problem worth solving.
We created Kudari from three ideas that reflect how we work.
Together, they express our philosophy: clear intention, careful execution, earned recognition.
Why we started Kudari
We started Kudari to give agentic AI a stronger foundation in the business.
AI deployments can fail when the work is poorly defined, the data is unready or the people responsible are left out of the change.
Our team brings experience in enterprise AI delivery, Responsible AI and operations to address these gaps from the outset.
David Bergendahl
Chief Executive Officer
Former Senior Strategist at the AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre, Head of AI APAC at Crayon, and GM at ABEJA Singapore. Shipped his first AI powered SaaS in 2016, and has a successful track record of bringing AI/ML solutions from proof-of-concept to production across startups and Fortune 500s.
Jeffrey Lee
Chief Operating Officer
Former Operations and AI Manager at Hayer Engineering, the largest contract manufacturer in Singapore for Halliburton. Shipped his first AI product in 2018 based on reinforcement learning to optimize production scheduling for food and chemical manufacturers. Certified AWS AI Practitioner. Graduated from Harvard University with honors.
Jesse Arlen Smith
Chief AI Officer
Former Global Blackbelt and Data and AI BD Lead at Crayon. Experienced builder of GenAI and Agentic AI systems, agent fleets across Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, and Langflow, published on GitHub. Cambridge and MIT trained, Doctoral Researcher in Responsible AI.
Five Pillars
Our five pillars connect people, processes, data, responsibility and economics. They guide the decisions that make an agentic workforce ready for real work.
That discipline continues after launch. We manage the workforce, review its performance and help your team adapt as the business changes.