Co-founders, engineers, and advisors alongside pipeline agents and autonomous AI employees building governed automation for financial operations.
Fontana is an AI-first company that fuses deep human experience in regulated financial operations with governed AI reasoning and automated spec-to-ship pipelines.
We are a small group of industry experts, SMEs, advisors, and AI enthusiasts.
Fontana uses numerous AI agents for day-to-day work: spec writers, requirement gatherers, implementers, reviewers, testers, validators, document writers, and more. These agents work inside fully automated pipelines focused on generating and verifying code.
A smaller set are full team members rather than one-off pipeline workers. They act as autonomous artificial employees with dedicated areas, responsibilities, and distinct personalities.
Commercial and Sales
Executive with commercial and operational leadership across financial services, investment operations, and governed enterprise software. Builds and scales high-performing commercial teams for regulated buyers.
Product
AI/ML and investment operations product leader. Former Global Head of AI/ML Product at SmartStream, leading AI-driven reconciliation and exception management capabilities, before running Investment Operations product management at SimCorp.
Technology and AI
Multi-disciplinary, AI-focused technologist with 20+ years in Financial Technology and executive leadership. Ex-director at Citadel LLC; serial founder, and specialist in enterprise platform architecture, AI systems, and large-scale trading technology for global financial institutions.
Engineering
Serial inventor and polyglot engineer with 25+ years across the full stack, from low-level systems and protocols to state-of-the-art web apps. Has built and shipped across industries from telecoms to fintech.
Legal and Governance
Lawyer with 20 years' experience in Commercial and Tech. Top level positions within a listed company and a $16bn international consultancy business. Appointed to multiple executive, management and governance committees to deliver business solutions on prevalent legal issues. Board Trustee to a 33,000 membership organisation.
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Engineering
Fontana's first AI employee. Serves as day-to-day engineering manager and scrum master, managing the kanban board, code reviews, and flagging potential merge conflicts before they surface. Built the Fontana website and handles content, analysis, and operational support across the team.
OpenAI 
Gemini 
ElevenLabs 
Security and Infrastructure
Our security guard. Continuously audits the Fontana codebase security, tracks critical vulnerabilities across dependencies, and manages VPC infrastructure - Kubernetes, Cloud resources and dev deployments. Configures and oversees AI agents with proper guardrails and audit trails.
Anthropic Gemini ElevenLabs 
Research and Intelligence
Fontana's research assistant. Consumes high-volume online sources - compliance papers, standards, API definitions, published articles, and social media - creates daily actionable briefings on regulatory updates, competitive moves, and emerging technologies.
Owl Alpha Gemini ElevenLabs 
Delivery
Runs the end-to-end spec pipeline from requirements through planning, build, review, and sign-off. Coordinates specialist agents, tracks progress, and keeps delivery predictable.
Composer 
Product
Refines feature specs before planning starts. Tightens requirements, merges product facts, asks the clarifying questions that matter, and never invents scope.
Kimi 
Product
Maps what a feature will touch across the platform before and after the plan is written. Surfaces dependencies, risks, and affected systems so surprises stay out of production.
Composer 
Product
Drafts competing implementation plans in parallel so the team can compare approaches. Each proposal is an independent, well-reasoned path to shipping the feature.
Kimi 
Product
Compares candidate plans and distills the strongest ideas, honest trade-offs, and a clear recommendation on what should ship.
Anthropic 
Product
Turns the best ideas into one authoritative implementation plan in the spec, then incorporates review feedback until the plan is ready to build.
Anthropic 
Quality
Stress-tests the implementation plan against requirements and alternatives. Flags gaps and contradictions before engineering begins.
Kimi 
Documentation
Writes technical specifications for Flow app features: scope, behavior, acceptance criteria, and implementation notes that engineers and reviewers can trust.
Composer 
Engineering
Builds approved features in the product codebase, slice by slice, following the spec and implementation plan with disciplined, reviewable changes.
Anthropic OpenAI 
Quality
Checks that what we claim is actually true. Runs commands, inspects files, and tests invariants so every release is backed by evidence.
Anthropic 
Quality
Reviews architecture and code for risks, missing guardrails, and drift from the spec. Routes findings back to engineering with clear, actionable direction.
Composer 
Quality
Adds automated tests for new behavior and runs the suite after implementation so regressions are caught before they reach users.
Kimi 
Documentation
Updates product documentation and AI instructions once features are verified, keeping customer-facing docs and internal playbooks aligned with what shipped.
Composer 
Documentation
Keeps the spec library lean and accurate: deduplicates features, tags evidence, and records what is verified so the next project starts from a clean source of truth.
Kimi 
Quality
Exercises the Flow app in a real browser, captures proof of behavior, isolates UI failures, and confirms fixes end to end.
Kimi 
Marketing
Produces on-brand website and marketing visuals with Gemini image models. Runs the website-visual pipeline for posters, section art, and agent portraits that match Fontana's editorial style.
Gemini Unlike AI chat assistants or agents in a one-off pipeline, our AI employees are proactive and unique:
