Our Story
Ten years of doing the work first.
Kaminski Daley came to software from the field. Years deep in architecture, administration, and expediting, she learned how complex systems actually operate from the inside out.
Her creative work runs just as deep. She paints, draws, makes jewelry by hand, and writes and publishes her own fiction. That instinct shapes every product she builds.
Her background in architecture and expediting gave her a sharp eye for structure, process, and precision. As a New York City Department of Buildings Class 1 Filing Representative, she prepared regulatory submissions where a single incorrect field means a rejected filing. She understands how projects are planned, how timelines are managed, and how to bring order to complex moving parts — skills that translate directly into software development.
“The creative part of me is natural. Everything I touch, I approach with the mindset of how can this be better, how can this feel right, how can this actually serve the person using it.”
The idea for TipLedger was born on a late night at work. As a payroll manager in the restaurant industry, Kaminski found herself buried in tip sheets — flipping through spreadsheet after spreadsheet, cross-referencing numbers manually, night after night. She didn't just want a solution. She needed one.
What makes TipLedger different from every other tip software on the market is exactly that — it was built by someone who has sat at that desk. Not a developer who heard about the problem. Someone who lived it. TipLedger is intentionally simple: no bank connections, no third-party exposure, no complicated integrations. Just a clean, internal desktop and mobile tool that does exactly what a restaurant manager needs — fast, accurate, and private.
K.J.A & Z.J.O LLC exists because Kaminski saw a pattern everywhere she worked: smart, hardworking people underserved by systems that weren't built for them. So she decided to build the systems herself.
Today that means five ventures across publishing, apparel, art, and business software — each one built the same way: from the inside, by someone who needed it to exist.