Gavin Slater

I'm Gavin Slater, and I build AI systems by understanding how they work from scratch.

Before diving into AI, I spent 30 years in risk management at major banks like Barclays and Deutsche Bank, leading transformations for 300+ person teams. As a Chief Operating Officer for Risk Management I have always been at the interface between risk managers and the crucial infrastructure required to support their decisions, both business operating models as well as technology.

My deep interest in technology started with ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers, coding in Basic and machine code. More recently I reconnected with this passion, building an 8-bit computer from logic gates on a breadboard. That project taught me something crucial: to build intelligent systems, you need to understand first principles. How electricity works. Every AND gate. Every register. Every clock cycle.

Now I'm applying that same approach to AI—building production systems that manage real operations, combining deep technical knowledge with business acumen that only comes from decades of risk management.