Product & Technical Co-founder CPTO - AI Compliance Platform

The Opportunity

Compliance at U.S. RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth fintechs still runs largely on manual review — analysts reading marketing materials line by line, scanning communications for keywords, and reviewing trades and trade requests by hand. Across more than 25,000 firms, operational costs are significant, and regulatory exposure is even greater.

Global RegTech spend is projected to grow from roughly $12B to more than $66B over the next decade, with the US growing to $32B. The teams that ship credible, audit-ready platforms in the next 18 months will define the category. We intend to be one of them.

The Venture

The answer is not another rules engine. We are building an explainable AI platform that reasons like a senior compliance officer, cites firm policy and SEC/FINRA regulations for every decision, and produces audit-ready evidence on demand — across marketing, communications, trading, policy, audit, and filings.

The platform is designed to operate alongside the systems compliance teams already use, replacing manual review with explainable AI judgments that hold up to regulator scrutiny. The roadmap moves from marketing review into communications surveillance, policy and manuals, audit, and ultimately regulatory filings and enterprise integrations.

The Partnership

The CEO co-founder is in place. The customer thesis is validated, design partners are engaged, and the market work is complete. What remains is to bring on the technical co-founder — a partner who will own product and engineering with the same conviction, urgency, and ownership stake.

This is a co-founder role, not a CPTO hire. In return for that level of commitment, you receive founder-level equity, founder-level authority with co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy, a board or board-observer seat as appropriate to the cap table and stage, and a genuine partnership with the CEO on every material decision.

What you'll own

As Co-Founder & CPTO, you will write the first lines of production code, set the technical direction, and lead execution end-to-end.

• Architecture & Engineering Culture — Establish the core architecture, engineering culture, and security posture, including SOC 2 readiness, tenant isolation, encryption, and audit logging
• Product Build — Ship a marketing review prototype into production with a design partner early adopter, then deliver communications surveillance, trading oversight, audit-ready logs and reporting; release GA v1 covering all core modules except regulatory filings within 9 months, and expand into regulatory filings and enterprise integrations through 18 months
• AI/LLM Build — Own the training and constant evolution of the core AI/LLM model, delivering robust and highly reliable analysis
• Explainability & Reliability — Own the explainability laye