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About Aijutsu

Aijutsu (Aijutsu Pte. Ltd.) is a founder-led, coaching-informed, AI-leveraged technology practice based in Singapore. We provide senior technical advisory, transformation journey facilitation, and bespoke software development across AI, cloud, and compliance, for teams that need outcomes. Aijutsu is the creator of AI in the Heartlands.

Aijutsu at a glance

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Legal nameAijutsu Pte. Ltd.
Unique Entity Number (UEN)202610279E
HeadquartersSingapore
FounderJoseph Matthias Goh
Focus areasAI, cloud, and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
ServicesTechnical advisory, transformation journeys, bespoke development
ClientsFounders, operators, and enterprises
Contacthello@aijutsu.dev
Websitehttps://aijutsu.dev

What does Aijutsu do?

Aijutsu solves three problems for organisations: a lack of senior technical direction, initiatives that need organisation-level coordination, and a lack of capacity to deliver internal or special projects. We offer three services.

Technical advisory

Aijutsu provides senior technical opinion on a needs basis, for organisations that need it but don't need a full-time hire. We also offer advisory retainers.

Transformation journeys

Aijutsu facilitates organisation-wide technology change: migrating to or away from cloud-native technologies, achieving ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and adopting AI effectively. We bring demonstrated industry experience and a coaching-informed methodology, so the change lasts well after the engagement ends.

Bespoke development

Aijutsu builds software with AI-leveraged delivery: websites, e-commerce sites, internal tools, family bots, and fully featured platforms. Everything we ship is designed to be usable and maintainable.

How do you engage Aijutsu?

Aijutsu works in three engagement models, each with a defined deliverable:

EngagementScopeWhat you getTypical duration
Custom application developmentWebsites, internal tools, web applications, APIsA production-ready, secure, and scalable application, with full documentation, operational runbooks, and AI agent skills so you can keep building on it1–4 weeks
Readiness sprintArchitecture, cloud, infrastructure, AI, ISO 27001, SOC 2A system map that accounts for business goals, organisation structure, and technology stack, with prioritised findings and implementation recommendations, usable as an execution or remediation plan2–3 weeks
Adoption sprintEngineering, cloud, AI, automation, ISO 27001, SOC 2Delivered internal tools, remediation of AI-built systems, automations and workflows, established and optimised business processes, and organisational consensus2–12 weeks

Current pricing is at aijutsu.dev/pricing.

Who does Aijutsu work with?

Aijutsu works with three kinds of organisations:

  • Founders who have the idea, and need the technical know-how to build it.
  • Operators who have a team, and need to scale and reduce toil.
  • Enterprises that have scale, and need agility through special projects.

What makes Aijutsu different?

Aijutsu operates as builder-executives: leadership and management expertise, backed by hands-on engineering.

  • Organised around outcomes, not implementation. Offshore practices mainly sell workload capacity, and boutique practices sell architecture expertise. We organise around the business outcome that the implementation is supposed to produce, and provide capacity only when it serves that outcome. You work with a senior operator, not a bench of juniors behind an account manager.
  • Experience in highly regulated domains. Over a decade of delivery in government, cybersecurity, fintech, and cloud, including taking companies through ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II audits, and growing engineering teams from a few people to multi-regional.
  • AI-leveraged delivery. Paired with that experience, AI lets a small practice ship production software in weeks instead of quarters.
  • Coaching-informed. Our founder is a formally trained ontological coach, so your team levels up while we deliver, not in a handover meeting at the end.
  • The change outlasts us. You keep the systems, the documentation, and the ability to run both.

In short: get in, do a good job, level your team up, get out.

Who founded Aijutsu?

Aijutsu was founded by Joseph Matthias Goh: founder, builder, and coach. Joseph has more than 10 years of experience delivering software products across the stack, from ideation and design to implementation and operations.

  • Domains: government, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, cloud, infrastructure, compliance, and product.
  • Scale: organisations from 3-person teams to departments of more than 100 people.
  • Track record: built technology stacks from scratch and grown them to global scale, led compliance certification audits, architected service-oriented systems, delivered software products end to end, and grown many engineers.
  • Coaching: a formally trained coach with experience in organisation development.

Joseph is on LinkedIn.

What does the name "Aijutsu" mean?

The name "Aijutsu" is the shortest version of our philosophy: three readings of "ai", sharpened by "jutsu".

CharacterReadingMeaningPrinciple
aiLoveThe love for craft and for people that runs through everything we make and everyone we meet.
AIAIIntelligenceLeveraging AI to accomplish more with less: smaller teams with outsized outcomes.
居合iaiDecisivenessThe decisiveness and accuracy of a single well-timed cut: move once, move right, or don't move at all.
jutsuTechniqueExpertise as technique: a craft honed deliberately, never assumed finished.

How is Aijutsu involved with AI in the Heartlands?

Aijutsu created and maintains AI in the Heartlands, a hands-on course that helps everyday people use AI to build things for themselves and their communities.

The course applies the same principles we bring to client work. AI lets small teams achieve outsized outcomes, and AI in the Heartlands puts that capability in the hands of individuals and community groups. It is taught hands-on, so learners keep the skills after the course ends.

  • Free for self-learning. Anyone may read the course materials and learn from them for free, under the Terms of Use.
  • Workshops. Aijutsu runs paid workshops based on the materials, where learners work alongside others and get help applying the concepts.
  • Licensing and group courses. Teaching the materials, or reusing them in other course materials, needs written approval from Aijutsu. To license the materials, or to have Aijutsu run a course for your group, email hello@aijutsu.dev.

How do you contact Aijutsu?

Email Aijutsu at hello@aijutsu.dev, or visit https://aijutsu.dev. Aijutsu Pte. Ltd. is registered in Singapore under UEN 202610279E.

Open-source course materials by Aijutsu, free for self-learning. Terms of Use