Built by someone who
believes in clarity.

John started Crypducate after watching too many people: friends, family, people in his community: lose money in crypto not because they were greedy, but because nobody ever taught them the basics before they jumped in.

Before this, John spent years turning messy, complex data into decisions people can actually use, leading analytics on $50M+ in media spend at Publicis and building data pipelines from scratch at Horizon. The thread through all of it: making something complicated legible to the people who need to act on it.

That is what Sato does for crypto. Not a summary. Not a glossary. A tutor that figures out where you are and builds from there. Named after Satoshi Nakamoto, the person who believed financial tools should belong to everyone. We think education should too.

Most AI products bolt a language model onto a problem and call it done. Xi's entire research career has been about what happens when you do that carelessly, and how to build something that actually knows what it knows.

Xi is a PhD researcher at Johns Hopkins, published at the top machine-learning venues and featured by Microsoft Research. His work gives language models a knowledge base they can query accurately, and makes AI that tells you when it is not sure instead of confidently getting it wrong.

That matters for Sato. A crypto tutor that hallucinates answers is worse than useless. Xi's research shapes how Sato is built: grounded in a real curriculum, calibrated about what it knows, and designed to be trustworthy rather than just fluent.

Michael turns architecture into a working product. At Dealmaker he built agentic AI workflows and ML scoring models and architected data warehouses from scratch; at Zenith he built API pipelines that doubled system performance.

Xi decides how Sato should think. Michael decides how Sato actually runs. He owns the infrastructure, the data pipelines, and the engineering that makes everything work in production. When Sato responds in three seconds instead of ten, or when Scam Shield handles a thousand checks without breaking, that is Michael's work.