About CrowdSmart
CrowdSmart AI enables any team to quickly engage and reason together to co-create solutions to business challenges. Delivered as a cloud service, CrowdSmart’s patented human-interactive AI helps groups share and refine their intelligence with curated insights from channels and the Web to generate trusted and predictive strategies, plans, and decisions. CrowdSmart AI is a SOC II-compliant cloud service that integrates easily with other applications, transforming any group of people into powerful co-creators in Web3 ventures, public-benefit DAOs and IRL communities across companies, non-profits, and public agencies.
CrowdSmart News
UniCask becomes the first DAO enhanced with AI Decision Support from CrowdSmart
SAN FRANCISCO and BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — CrowdSmart, Inc. and UniCask announced today that UniCask will be adding CrowdSmart’s AI-guided decision support software for DAOs to enable equitable and transparent decisions.
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disAbled Life Alliance partners with CrowdSmart, Inc to further it's commitment to ensure equitable access for all amputees
disAbled Life Alliance is partnering with Crowdsmart, Inc. Crowdsmart AI technology will enable members of the amputee community to contribute their ideas, engage with other community members’ ideas, and be a crucial component in accomplishing the objective of overcoming disparities in healthcare, insurance, access, and many other factors.
SOC 2 Certified
CrowdSmart has successfully completed the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II examination in recognition of its commitment to information security. Developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls) defines criteria for managing customer data based on five “trust service principles” — security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
A SOC 2 examination provides organizations with a report on an organization’s internal controls and how it protects customer data and sensitive information. It is the standard for data security among digital companies in the U.S. An independent auditor, Insight Assurance, conducted the detailed examination. Through this process, CrowdSmart demonstrated its adherence to data security, availability and confidentiality standards developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
With its SOC 2 recognition, CrowdSmart not only protects the safety of its customers’ data today but demonstrates that it has set the right standards in place for the future.
Our Executive Team

Amanda Reed
CEO
- 4x startup co-founder or early-stage executive with 2 IPOs
- Former head of long-horizon innovation, GIC (Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund)
- 15 yr Managing Director – Early-Stage VC; top decile returns

Kim Polese
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
- Led launch of Java at Sun Micro
- Cofounded and led Marimba, one of the world’s largest IoT platforms, through IPO and successful acquisition
- Co-founder/CEO SpikeSource
- Tech policy leader (Obama Advisory Board, TechNet, Silicon Valley Leadership Group)

Tom Kehler
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
- Technology pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and applications of Collective Intelligence and Reasoning
- Serial entrepreneur and CEO of Informative, Connect (IPO), and IntelliCorp (IPO)

Markus Guehrs
Co-Founder and CTO
- 20+ yrs scaling software systems from startup to IPO
- Director of Software Development, Alibris
- Software Architect, eGreetings.com

Jonathan Liao
COO
- Director, Data Analytics, 500 Startups
- Finance Associate, Stanford Management Company
- CFA charterholder

Danny Chai
VP, AI
- VP of Engineering, LogDNA
- Early employee at Facebook
- Patent author for Facebook Groups – grew it from 0 to 1B users
- 20+ yrs scaling software systems
- Stanford University, MS Computer Science, Concentration in AI

Dana LeVan
VP, Growth
- 4X Global CMO with 1 IPO
- Startup and Enterprise background, Pepsi, Molson-Coors, Micron in Brand and Digital
- 20-year Marketing & Communications Officer, maximizing market share, revenue, cash

Jarin Tabata
VP, Design
- Partner, SYPartners; alongside Keith Yamashita, Founder & Chairman
- Founding member of The Powerful Now, a joint venture between SYPartners, IDEO, and kyu
- 20 years experience in brand, behavior, and user experience design, heading design-led innovation initiatives with IBM, United Healthcare, Apple and NBC Universal

Jim Luthi
VP, Sales
- 4 x Head of Sales Leader
- 17+ years in Analytics space
- Analytics & Big Data Sales Leader at Oracle, MapR and three additional start-ups
Our Advisors

John Seely Brown
- Current role: CrowdSmart BOD
- Co-Chair, Deloitte’s Center for the Edge
- Previous notable roles:
Board Director, Amazon
Chief Scientist, Xerox
Director, Xerox PARC

Toby Redshaw
- Current role: CEO, Verus Advisory
- Previous notable roles:
SVP Enterprise Innovation, Verizon
Global CIO, American Express
Global CIO, Aviva

JJ Snow
- Recently retired: Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, AFWERX Innovation Wing, USAF
- Previous notable roles:
Donovan Group Innovation Officer, SOCOM

Ashby Monk
- Current role: Executive Director, Global Projects Center, Stanford University
- Notable publications:
“The Technologized Investor: Innovation through Reorientation”, 2020.
“Reframing Finance: New Models of Long-Term Investment Management”, 2017.
“The New Frontier Investors”, 2016.

Mark Steyvers
- Current role: Faculty, UC Irvine
- Notable publications:
“Inferring Latent Learning Factors in Large-Scale Cognitive Training Data.” 2020
“Making a wiser crowd: Benefits of individual metacognitive control on crowd performance.” 2018

Scott Page
- Current role: Faculty, University of Michigan
- Notable books:
“The Model Thinker”, 2018
“The Diversity Bonus”, 2017
“The Difference”, 2007