Cynch AI
Simon Wilkinson is a seasoned engineering leader with extensive experience in software development and engineering management. Currently serving as Head of Engineering at Cynch AI since March 2023, Simon previously held the position of Distinguished Software Engineer at Valo Health from September 2019 to March 2023. Prior roles include Director of Engineering and Senior Computer Scientist at Numerate, Inc. from May 2011 to September 2019, and a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe from October 2009 to May 2011. Early career experience includes positions as a Software Engineer at GCHQ (UK) and Lead Software Engineer at Avanta (UK). Simon's educational background includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from The University of Manchester and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.
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Cynch AI
Most financial decisions are made without expertise, analysis, or data. Meanwhile, the most successful people and companies have access to expensive consultants with deep financial expertise. Our vision is to level the playing field. We’re combining reasoning, machine learning, and generative AI to capture financial expertise and make it available to everyone. We’re initially focused on small businesses, helping them to achieve better outcomes for their owners, their employees, and their communities. How do you combine reasoning, machine learning, and generative AI? For us, this is the most interesting and challenging problem in AI today. Accounting is a “goldilocks” domain for tackling these problems — it’s sufficiently constrained to be tractable but sufficiently complex to require something new. Accountants will tell you that accounting is all about rules, judgement, and understanding your client — reasoning, learning, and generative AI. We are a seasoned team that is excited to take on a big technical challenge with a big impact. We care about the ethical implications of our work and are excited to work with others that do too.