My name is Jonathan Jones. I’m a 52-year-old father of eight, a U.S. Army veteran, and the founder of Liana Banyan Corporation — a cooperative commerce platform with sixteen charitable initiatives designed to be self-funding and sustainable. I’m not a billionaire. I’m not famous. Who I am really doesn’t matter, only what I’m trying to do. I’m just someone who wants what SHOULD be good to ACTUALLY be GOOD. The systems we have aren’t protecting or helping people well enough, and arguably are part of the problem. So I’ve designed different ones.

One of those sixteen initiatives is called Defense Klaus. And I need someone who actually knows what they’re doing to lead it.

That’s you.

You’ve spent 30 years in this work. You run the National Domestic Violence Hotline — the voice on the other end when someone is hiding in a closet, whispering into their phone, terrified.

You’ve testified before Congress. You’ve trained thousands of advocates. You’ve built the infrastructure that catches people when they fall.

And you’ve lived it yourself. Your memoir tells the story that statistics can’t — what it actually feels like, and what it takes to survive, and what comes after.

I read about you and thought: She’s not theorizing. She knows.

Liana Banyan is a cooperative platform in which three commercial divisions — .com, .biz, .net — drive sustained funding for the .org charitable initiatives. All the time, by design, sustainable beyond our lifetimes because of the infrastructure we build that operates far beyond us.

The economic principle is simple: Cost + 20%. Creators keep 80%+ of every transaction. The 20% funds operations, and 100% of charitable funds go directly to the people doing the work.

Within that platform, we have sixteen initiatives — everything from meal delivery (Let’s Make Dinner) to music licensing (JukeBox) to microloans (VSL). Each one is designed to benefit those who need it most and be sustainably charitable: communities fund them, communities run them, communities benefit.

Defense Klaus is the protection initiative. Named for a character who represents vigilance and safety, it’s meant to be the system that:

• Helps people recognize danger before it escalates
• Provides escape routes and safe passage
• Connects survivors to resources, housing, legal help
• Wraps community around people so they don’t face it alone

We’re also adding accountability documentation — told to friendly, helpful, understanding members who have been there. It’s crucial to get it all documented, as quickly and easily as possible for the comfort of the victim.

We have something called the Rally Group on every page of our platform — a Railroad Crossing Signal icon that’s always visible, always available. Click it, and help arrives. No judgment. No hesitation.

“We’d rather check on you 100 times for nothing than miss the one time you need us.”

That’s the philosophy. But philosophy isn’t enough. I need someone who can make it real.

Most of our initiatives have a Crown — one leader who guides one domain. Defense Klaus is different.

It starts with a physical, personal, wearable wrist bangle that converts for self-defense and evidence collection — costs less than $6 and enrolls anyone with an email (that is NEVER contacted) for access to the Defense Klaus Legal Defense Fund for shared resources, guidance, and immediate help.

But the bigger picture is this: protection isn’t one person’s job. It’s a network. Every country needs someone. Every community needs someone who knows the local resources, the local dangers, the local culture.

So instead of a Crown, Defense Klaus has a Shield Table — a council of Knights, one for every country, protecting their own.

You would be the First Seat.

Not because you outrank the other Knights — but because someone has to break ties, someone has to represent Defense Klaus on the Steering Committee, and someone has to set the standard for what a Shield Knight is.

I can’t think of anyone better to set that standard than someone who’s lived it, studied it, testified about it, and built the national infrastructure that responds to it.

I’m also reaching out to Robert Kaiser in the United Kingdom.

Robert is a PhD researcher in criminology who’s spent three decades studying violence against women. His book, “Never a Victim,” is a 530-page guide built from survivor testimony and perpetrator analysis. But what caught my attention is his framework: Escalation Pattern Analysis — the ability to predict when intimate partner violence will turn lethal.

We’ve been good at responding to crisis. We’ve been bad at seeing it coming. His research changes that.

I see the two of you as complementary:

• You built the system that catches people in crisis
• He built the framework that sees it coming
• Together, you could build something even better

He would be the First Shield Knight for the United Kingdom — your partner at the Table, your equal in every way except the First Seat tie-breaker role, which would be yours. Together, you’d vet the Knights who come after. Together, you’d build the network that covers every country.

You wouldn’t be leading an isolated project — you’d be part of an ecosystem of hundreds that lead thousands to benefit millions. Check out the structure and connections at Cephas.LianaBanyan.com/The300.

Every initiative in Liana Banyan operates as a council. The Shield Table is Defense Klaus’s council — a Knight for every country, protecting their own. As the Table grows, it elects its own representative to the Board of Directors. In the early days, that representative would likely be you.

I’m asking you to take something I’ve built and make it work.

I’m a helicopter pilot, not a domestic violence expert. I know enough to know I don’t know enough. I’ve built the infrastructure — the economics, the platform, the network architecture. But the actual protection work? The training, the protocols, the standards for who gets to be a Shield Knight?

That’s your expertise. Not mine.

If you think this model is sound, it’s validated. If you think it’s flawed, I want to know why — so I can fix it. And if you think it could work but needs someone who actually understands protection to shape it — that’s exactly what I’m offering.