About Dukai Studio

Built by people who ship.

Dukai Studio is a small team of engineers and an operator. We set the AI strategy with the people who run a company, then build the systems ourselves.

Small on purpose, and close to the work.

01

The builders do the scoping.

The people who map how your company runs are the people who write the code. Nothing gets lost between a strategy deck and a delivery team.

02

Engineering and finance, one table.

Every build starts from a baseline and a number to beat, agreed with you before anything ships, so the result can be measured rather than described.

03

Yours to keep.

Model-agnostic, no referral fees from any lab or vendor, and the code, the data layer and the agents all belong to you.

01 — The team

The people you will work with.

Portrait of Francis Meng

Co-founder · AI engineering

Francis Meng

Francis is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience building large-scale systems at Microsoft and Groupon. At Dukai, Francis leads AI engineering, designing the data foundations and agent architecture every engagement is built on.

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Portrait of Joshua Aragon

Co-founder · AI applications

Joshua Aragon

Joshua is a software engineer at Microsoft, building agent and AI solutions for one of the most widely used products in the world. At Dukai, Joshua leads AI application development, turning agents into tools teams rely on every day.

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Portrait of Leighton Bayola

Co-founder · AI strategy & finance

Leighton Bayola

Leighton is a finance manager at Microsoft AI, with prior experience in venture investing and corporate finance. At Dukai, Leighton leads AI strategy and finance, building the business case for every engagement and measuring the return.

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02 — Talk to us

Start with a conversation.

Tell us where your team loses the most time. Every message is read and answered by one of the founders, not a sales queue.

The Dukai Letter

One email a month, worth opening.

What we shipped, what we learned, and the use cases worth borrowing. No filler and no recycled webinars.