JDK Works is an advisory and build practice for rights holders, operators and founders carrying traditional IP business into AI- and blockchain-powered markets. We structure the deal, then write the code.
What you own, what you can license, and what a counterparty is really buying.
Production AI built around your material. Local-first where the catalog is sensitive.
Rights, royalties and settlement as software — where a ledger genuinely beats a database.
How the entity earns, who it partners with, what it must prove before the next raise.
Four stages, each a decision point you can stop at. Then the practice detail, the engagement models, and how to reach us.
Keep scrolling ↓A deliberate sequence. Each stage ends in something you can act on without us — including the decision to stop.
Rights audit, technical audit, and an honest read of market position. You get a written finding: what you own cleanly, what is contested, and where value is currently leaking.
Deal architecture and technical architecture designed against each other, so the contracts and the systems describe the same thing. Includes the operating model and the numbers behind it.
We ship it. Product, contracts, registries, pipelines — implemented by the same people who designed the structure, with your team in the room throughout.
Hand off to your team with documentation and training, or keep us on as an operating partner running the thing we built.
Engagements usually start in one and pull in the others. That is the point of keeping them under one roof.
Mapping what you actually own, what you can license, and what a counterparty is really buying — then structuring deals that survive new forms of use.
Production AI built around your material, not a demo. We favour local-first and open-weight deployment where the catalog is sensitive and the economics matter.
Rights, royalties and settlement expressed as software. Built on Base and other L2s where a public ledger genuinely improves on a database — and not where it doesn't.
The commercial layer around all of it: how the entity makes money, who it partners with, and what it has to prove before the next raise or the next deal.
Models
Sectors we know
Seoul-based, working across Korean and international counterparties. Comfortable on both sides of a cross-border licensing table.
Nothing gets built on material whose ownership we haven't traced. The audit comes before the architecture, every time.
Strategy that never becomes software is a document. We deliver working systems, and we're accountable for whether they run.
Plenty of problems are better solved with a database, a contract and a spreadsheet. We'll say so before proposing anything more elaborate.
Local-first and open-weight by default for sensitive catalogs. Your material should not become someone else's training set by accident.
A first conversation is thirty minutes and costs nothing. If the fit isn't there, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.