
Building and Advising.
jsdf, LLC is operated by Jason Shah
My name is Jason Shah. I am mixing my time between building products and evaluating companies to acquire.
I spent 14 years as the CTO of Mediafly, an enterprise sales SaaS, as we grew from 9 to 250 employees, and led a team of 100 product, engineering, designers, and contractors there.
We conducted 8 acquisitions during my time, and I was intimately involved in many parts of the acquisition cycle.
I've also helped my wife acquire three healthcare practices with real estate over the same time.
I am a Chicago-area native, and live in Lakeview with my wife and two kids.
If you want to reach me, please feel free to contact me, or put time on my calendar!

My thesis
Over 2024, I've realized that the scale of impact that LLMs will have is going to dramatically alter the way products and companies are built. What used to take 20 people will now take less than a handful. As a result, the value of technology companies will increasingly be defined by distribution or data advantages, not technology advantages.
My investment focus is as follows:
- That is generating $750K-2M in seller discretionary earnings (SDE) or net income
- Which has a team of employees or contractors in place across key positions
- That needs strong technical, customer, and/or marketing leadership to achieve the next level of success
- Where the owner is seeking to transition management of the business
Products and explorations
My collection of products and businesses. Some are revenue-generating, others are nothing more than a landing page. Ordered loosely on the date of launch x importance to me.

Spelling Test resources are a collection of resources that are focused on spelling and phonics. They are available for download at Teachers Pay Teachers. Included are Spelling Test Papers, and more are being developed.

ChicagoPoliceReport.com lets you easily order a copy of your police report from the Chicago Police Department.
Additional interesting sites
- A review of dictionary.dental.
- Forever Dental, the source of inspiration.
- Jason's personal website. Mostly older material.