Hi, I'm Shams. I love building products.

For close to a decade I've been turning raw data into intelligence that people can act on, across finance, data security and business.

I started at Barclays, building omnichannel banking applications across customer systems and payments. At Concentric AI, I helped lay the groundwork for every data pipeline, ingesting terabytes of data a day, and helped grow it into a platform that flagged active breaches and data residency issues in under 120 milliseconds.

Finance has always pulled at me. So with my closest friends, I set out to build the research platform we wished we had for our own investing. That became KnowYourCompany.ai, which I'm proud to lead as CEO.

The biggest lesson from building it: value alone doesn't sell. It has to be easy to use, easy to verify and easy to understand. Everything else is decoration.

These days I spend most of my time thinking about where AI will actually create value, and where all of this is heading.

Alongside KnowYourCompany.ai, I work as a Fractional Head of AI: 5 to 15 hours a week, helping seed to Series A teams ship AI they can trust.

If you're hiring for something like this, or you're doing similar work yourself and want to compare notes, book time with me directly.