Headline

Building the intelligence layer for Indian equities | AI-native, India-deep research every analyst can trust and verify | Founder & CEO, KnowYourCompany.ai | Fractional Head of AI

About

Every AI app on Indian markets has the same problem. None of them own the data they answer from. 5,000+ listed companies. Thousands of BSE and NSE filings a day. 200-page annual reports, restatements, name changes, and KPIs buried in charts. The data exists, but not in a form an analyst or an AI agent can cite, backtest or audit. That's the layer we built. KnowYourCompany.ai is the data and intelligence infrastructure for Indian listed companies: 1. Data. Audited, point-in-time fundamentals, KPIs and events. 2M+ documents and 4.5B tokens across the top 2,000 names, indexed daily. Ind-AS-aware extraction, as-reported vs restated, and every number linked to its filing page. Corrections are logged, never overwritten. 2. Harness. A regression suite and golden question set built from real analyst queries, run on every model release. A 10-step workflow at 95% per-step reliability ends up right about 60% of the time. At 99%, about 90%. The harness closes that gap. 3. Agents and platform. Valuation, earnings, KPI and filing-change agents, grounded in our data and scored by the harness. Use them in our platform, or headless through API, Excel, email and WhatsApp, inside the tools your team already uses. Funds, AMC AI teams, quant desks, brokers and app builders use KYC to power their own research and products. Together our users research over ₹10,000 crore of AUM. Why me: I've spent my career building systems that make sense of messy data at scale, at IBM Security, Barclays and Concentric AI (US patent). In finance I learned that an answer you can't verify is worthless. So we made verification the product. Small, technical team. Mumbai and Bangalore. → Follow for notes on AI infrastructure for Indian markets → DM "DATA" for a sample dataset or API access → DM "DEMO" to see your coverage universe tracked automatically. → I also work with 2 founders at a time as a fractional Head of AI, taking RAG, evals and agents from demo to production. DM "BUILD"

Location

Bangalore Urban

AI stack

claude code

geminicli

langchain

langsmith

Figma Make

OpenRouter

Work experience

Looking out for a fresh start at Can be yours 😅, Oct 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Looking to utilise my experience across the length & breadth of technology, product & sales

Cofounder at KnowYourCompany.ai, Jan 2025 - Sep 2026 · 1 y 8 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Building the AI-native equity research platform that eliminates 70% of manual workflow for analysts. The Problem We Solve : After interviewing 100+ equity analysts, we discovered the bottleneck isn't data access, it's the cognitive overhead of monitoring dozens of sources for material changes. Traditional tools automate individual tasks but leave analysts playing "air traffic controller" across 6-8 platforms. Our Approach : Agentic AI that continuously tracks coverage universes, automatically surfaces conviction-quality signals, and bridges the gap from hypothesis to conviction. Source-linked, verifiable insights built for institutional-grade accuracy without institutional overhead. Early Traction : → 4 analysts/firms in beta/design partnership → 1800 data points processed across NSE/BSE filings, earnings transcripts & financial statements → 70% average time savings reported by early users → Building with co-founder Pushkar Jain (ex-Rippling, Udaan, IIITA) Mission: Democratize institutional-quality research intelligence for analysts at firms of every size.

Software Engineer at Concentric AI, Aug 2020 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Built production-grade AI systems processing 500M+ events daily, transforming unstructured data into essential security intelligence for enterprise customers. Key Achievements : → Architected scalable data processing pipelines from 0 to 1, now core product infrastructure → Led application development across full stack serving 32 enterprise customers → Collaborated with ML/AI teams on feature engineering and model deployment → Managed on-call rotations and incident response for mission-critical systems Insight Gained: Learned how to build AI systems that enterprise customers trust, emphasis on explainability, source attribution, and accuracy over "black box" approaches. These principles now inform knowyourcompany.ai's design philosophy.

Software Developer at Barclays Corporate Banking, Aug 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Built financial services applications and gained deep understanding of investment banking workflows, regulatory requirements, and enterprise software deployment in highly regulated environments. Key Contributions : → Introduced security measures against cross-site scripting for the entire MCA applications. → Collaborated with traders, analysts, and relationship managers to understand workflow pain points → Navigated financial services compliance, security, and audit requirements Insight Gained : Observed firsthand how financial professionals struggle with fragmented tooling and manual data workflows, the problem that inspired knowyourcompany.ai. Understood that financial decision-makers prioritize accuracy and source attribution over speed alone.

Intern at IBM, Jun 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Foundation-building role in enterprise software development, systems architecture, and working with large-scale data infrastructure. Key Learnings: → Developed discipline around software engineering best practices, testing, and production operations → Exposure to enterprise sales cycles, client management, and delivering for Fortune 500 companies This role established the technical foundation that enabled everything that followed, understanding how to build systems that scale, maintain reliability, and serve enterprise customers.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Higher Secondary Education, Science (PCM), R.N.Podar

Public links

github: https://github.com/sam-codeFella

shams-rizvi.com: https://shams-rizvi.com/