About VismayAI

A quiet software company. An opinionated one.

We build local-first AI tools for regulated industries — financial services, law, insurance, mortgage, healthcare. We don't do hype. We're allergic to it, actually.


Portrait of Prashant Sahni. Prashant Sahni · 2025
Founder

Why I built this.

I spent eight years at Fidelity in retail wealth operations. Every week, I'd watch reps struggle to answer a customer in 60 seconds while a 2,000-page compliance manual sat unsearchable on a shared drive. Some guessed. Some misrouted. Some misadvised — and we'd find out three weeks later in a complaint, or three months later in an arbitration filing.

Verdict is the tool I wished I'd had. Built for the 60-second decision window. Runs entirely on your network because in regulated industries, that's the only thing that's actually allowed.

— Prashant SahniFounder, VismayAI · ex-Fidelity

Operating principles

What we believe.

Five short sentences we'll defend in any room.

01

Cloud AI doesn't belong in compliance-bound workflows.

And we don't think it ever will. The economics, the data flow, and the regulatory posture all point the other way.

02

Citations or it didn't happen.

If the model can't show its work, it's a guess. We don't ship guesses to people whose names go on filings.

03

Boring is a feature.

We've turned down two opportunities to add a "summarize my emails" view. Focus is the product.

Company

The shape of us.

Small, profitable, no rush. We'd rather build the right thing for 40 firms than the wrong thing for 4,000.

Snapshot · April 2026
Founded
2024
Headquartered
Boston
Team
9 people
Funding
Bootstrapped
Pilots in market
11
Customer data sent to cloud
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If you're in compliance, ops, or risk at a regulated firm, we'd love to hear what you're wrestling with — pilot or no pilot.

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