JMK Ventures | AI Strategy, Automation & Data Engineering for Growth-Stage Companies

Joe KhouryFounder & CEO · Boston

Founder & operator

Built by an operator who has run the P&L, not just advised on it.

Joe Khoury spent 13 years building and scaling companies, from bootstrapped startups to a $150M+ enterprise, before turning that playbook into JMK. He has consulted for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 teams, and builds the same systems for mid-market operators who can't justify a McKinsey retainer.

13+years building and scaling companies

$150M+annual revenue engine architected

$45M+operating cost eliminated

2startup exits led

Also on the record: SaaS platforms with $1B+ in revenue · Fortune 100 & 500 consulting · MariMed acquisition

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Our Story · Part 1

Built On Word Of Mouth

JMK Ventures didn't come from a pitch deck. It came from years of operator experience — running revenue systems, shipping product, and seeing firsthand where AI, data, and automation actually move the number versus where they just look good in a demo.

It started by helping friends. A founder buried in spreadsheets. An ops lead whose CRM had become a graveyard. A team trying to make sense of data they couldn't trust. Every problem solved became a referral, every referral became a relationship, and word of mouth quietly turned a few favors into a portfolio.

That's still how we grow. No outbound, no agency theater — just operators sending other operators our way because the work held up. When you've been in the seat, you build differently.

JMK Ventures founder speaking on AI panel at CannaDataCon

In their own words

What it actually feels like to work with us.

Three founders, three different industries, one consistent thread — they got their hands back on their business.

We're booking new clients every week from AI referrals.

"Customers started telling us ChatGPT recommended us. Then Gemini. Then ones I'd never heard of. That's not a channel we knew existed a year ago, and it's filling our calendar weekly. Joe sees these shifts before they're shifts — by the time the rest of the industry catches on, we've already been there six months."

Cam

Owner

buff brothers mobile detailing

Four years of revenue growth through three platform overhauls.

"Joe built us a custom API mesh between two vendor platforms that weren't supposed to talk to each other. When one of them gutted half their capabilities, he rebuilt the whole thing — and we kept growing through it. Most agencies hand you something that works on launch day. Joe hands you something that compounds while the landscape under it changes three times."

Connor W

Owner

Releaf shop dispensaries

Our pipeline has been full for decades. He's the reason.

"I've worked with Joe across more businesses than I can count. He's the only person I've ever had in a fractional marketing seat who actually performs at the executive level — not "running campaigns," but owning the pipeline. Ours has been full the entire time he's run it. That's not a streak. That's just Joe."

Trevor

Owner

Urth & fyre

AI TOOLS DIRECTORY

The Stack We
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314 tools rated and reviewed by the JMK team. Honest assessments, real deployment data.

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n8n

Workflow Orchestration

Self-hostable workflow automation that connects APIs, databases, and SaaS tools — no per-task pricing, no vendor lock-in.

★★★★★

4.7

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Claude

AI Assistant

Anthropic's safety-focused AI assistant with industry-leading reasoning, 200K+ context windows, and enterprise-grade privacy controls.

★★★★★

4.5

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DATA

Snowflake

Data Warehouse

Enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse with separated compute and storage — JMK's recommendation when clients need performance or multi-cloud flexibility.

★★★★☆

4.0

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CRM

Klaviyo

Email & SMS Automation

Email and SMS marketing platform with native Shopify integration and predictive audience segmentation built for ecommerce.

★★★★★

4.7

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What you’re signing up for

Things we promise — in plain English.

No mission-statement gymnastics. These are the operating commitments behind every engagement — the things that come up in client reviews, not the things that go on a slide.

OWNERSHIP

Your team owns it when we leave.

Every system ships with documentation, walkthroughs, and a 60-day shadow period. We measure success by whether you can run it without us — not by how dependent you become.

TOOL FIT

We use the boring tool when the boring tool works.

No résumé-driven architecture. No “let’s rebuild it in the latest framework despite none of the requirements calling for it” We pick tools that fit your team, your budget, and your five-year horizon — not ours.

PRICING

Pricing is fixed before we start.

Scope creep is on us, not you. If we underestimated the work, we eat the difference. The number you sign is the number you pay.

HOW WE WORK

A Process Built
Around Outcomes

We don’t start building until we’ve proven the ROI on paper. Every engagement follows the same disciplined process — regardless of size.

Discovery & Workflow Audit

Full operational audit — every tool, every process, every bottleneck. We calculate ROI for each opportunity before presenting recommendations.

⏱ Weeks 1–2

Architecture & Sign-Off

We design the complete solution — tool selection, data model, security architecture. You approve before we write a single line of automation.

⏱ Weeks 2–3

Build, Test & Staging

Full implementation in a staging environment. Every edge case tested. Every failure mode mapped. We validate against real data before production.

⏱ Weeks 3–7

Launch, Monitor & Handoff

Coordinated production launch, 72-hour live monitoring, full documentation, and team training. 90 days of post-launch support included.

⏱ Week 8+

TYPICAL ENGAGEMENT TIMELINE

Discovery

Wk 1–2

Architecture

Wk 2–3

Build

Wk 3–7

Launch

Wk 8+

Support

90 days

BREAK-EVEN POINT

Month 6

Avg. client recovers full engagement cost

Active Engagements• 5 active

Avg. Engagement Length14 months

NPS Score+82

JMK Ventures founder at Google Cloud Helix Enterprise AI summit

Our Story · Part 2

Why We Built JMK

We built JMK Ventures to do the work the AI hype cycle keeps skipping past — the unglamorous infrastructure that turns models into measurable outcomes.

Our philosophy is simple: results over noise, systems over slideware, partnership over project handoff. We measure ourselves on what your business does after we leave — ARR added, hours returned to operators, decisions made on real-time data instead of last quarter's exports.

We don't pitch transformations. We ship them. Every engagement starts with the systems you actually have, not the ones a demo assumes you have, and we design forward from there.

If you want a vendor, we're the wrong fit. If you want operators who think like founders, you're in the right place.

10+

Years operating

40+

Clients served

$62M+

ARR added for clients

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Your growth bottleneck has a name.
Let's find it.

30 minutes with a JMK operator. You leave with a written read on the three highest-leverage moves in your stack — and the honest math on what each one is worth. Free. No follow-up sequence.

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Full Workflow Audit
Map every repetitive process and quantify the time cost

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3 Automation Opportunities
Ranked by ROI potential — highest impact first

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Implementation Roadmap
Realistic timelines and tool recommendations for your stack

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AI systems that move the revenue number.

Built by an operator who has run the P&L, not just advised on it.

Numbers our clients report, not numbers we promise.

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