About ProSyft
Reliable and secure AI should be available to everyone.
We started ProSyft in May 2024 to build the opposite: AI that runs inside your own environment, shows its evidence and can be built upon by the people who use it.
Most of the AI that reaches regulated finance is built by companies whose business model is collecting data, and it arrives as a point solution that nobody inside the institution can inspect or extend.
- Founded
- May 2024
- Based across
- London, Dubai and India
- Team
- 12 people
- In production
- 1 year +
Our difference
Big tech builds AI to collect data. We build it so you keep yours.
Big tech
Builds AI to collect data.
ProSyft
Builds AI to give people sovereignty over their data.
Big tech
Builds point solutions for single problems, or chases general intelligence.
ProSyft
Builds AI that clients can extend and build on.
Big tech
Builds its own stack and keeps the control.
ProSyft
Builds its own stack so the control can be handed to the client.
How we think about the models
Large language models are very good copies of how people reason and decide. They are not more than that, and we do not build as if they were.
A model trained on language inherits every shortcut and every gap in the text it learned from, so it will sometimes be confidently wrong. We design around that rather than hoping it goes away. Evidence is selected and logged outside the model, every claim is checked against its source, and the final decision stays with a named person. The model does the reading and the drafting, and the judgement stays with people.
How we operate
Four principles we build by
Customer first, competitor second.
Every product decision starts with what a risk team, compliance officer or model risk committee actually needs in production. Features that demo well but cannot be signed off are worse than useless.
Governed from day one, not governed later.
Regulated clients cannot wait six months for a workflow to go live, and governance is not a layer we bolt on afterwards. Sovereign deployment, auditable lineage and line-by-line verification are all true from the first run.
Build for ownership.
The platform is composable and model agnostic. Clients extend it, customise it, choose the model that runs inside their tenant and switch it when they want to. We are not building a black box and we are not holding the keys.
Honest about what AI can and cannot do.
Language models on their own will not get regulated finance where it needs to go. Hallucination containment is an engineering commitment built into how the system selects and verifies evidence, not a tagline.
The team
An experienced team that has sat on both sides of this problem.
We are an experienced, deliberately mixed team working across London, Dubai and India, with backgrounds spanning Standard Chartered, Société Générale, NASA and Microsoft. Between us we have built deep tech and run regulated businesses, which is why the platform looks the way it does. ProSyft is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner.
Dr. Daniel O'Connor
CEO & Founder
Daniel’s background is in quantum computing and generative AI, with time at NASA in Silicon Valley and Standard Chartered before founding ProSyft in May 2024. Having built many deep tech solutions, he understands the business, compliance and IT barriers to AI adoption in financial services.
Spencer John
Chief Operating Officer
A senior executive with more than 25 years of global experience across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, specialising in transformational programme delivery. Spencer operates through dual headquarters in London and Dubai, delivering complex initiatives for international firms.
Vishal Mishra
Chief Product Officer
Vishal is CEO and Founder of SITG, previously co-founded Cronycle and Right Relevance, and spent 11 years at Microsoft, where he led the build of Azure security. He brings deep expertise in applying AI and machine learning to data at scale to solve complex problems across domains.
Richard Hill
Head of Origination
Richard has a career of more than 30 years in international banking for large European banks. He was most recently Managing Director and Head of Global Loan Sales at Société Générale, running primary and secondary markets sales, and before that ran the EMEA and APAC syndications business at WestLB.
Antonio Separovic
Executive Advisor
A prominent fintech entrepreneur and co-founder of Oradian, a leading fintech serving more than 70 banks and financial institutions across 12 countries, with a proven track record of scaling technology-driven businesses in financial services.
Get in touch
Work with us.
We are growing the team, and we are always happy to talk to institutions who want to see this running on their own data. Either way, get in touch.