About

We built the compliance system we kept wishing existed.

A team from regulated finance, payments and blockchain, and the standards bodies now shaping how AI enters this industry.

Why we exist

A regulated deal deserves better than a guess.

On regulated crowdfunding platforms, compliance is slow, manual and quietly expensive. And every team now has AI that guesses, invents citations and leaves no trail. Neither is good enough for a regulated deal. We built Dacxi Verify to close the gap: cited, never invented; a record that holds up; a human signing off every decision.

What we believe
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Standards before features

We build to the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations now, not when the deadline forces it.

02

Cited, never invented

If it is not in the human-verified knowledge base, the assistant says so. It never fills a gap with a guess.

03

The human decides

Every output is a recommendation. A named person signs off, every time.

Our key people

Between us: decades in regulated finance, payments and blockchain, a world-first in cross-border settlement, and the chair of the task force writing AI governance standards for crowdfunding.

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Craig Smith-Gander

CEO & Chairman

A career in investment banking and capital markets. With Dacxi since the company was founded, when it began life as a blockchain business. He sets the governance and capital strategy for bringing AI into a regulated market.

Neera Patel

Neera Patel

Chief Product Officer · Chair, GECA AI Task Force

Twenty years and more in fintech and financial infrastructure. She led the world's first cross-border CBDC settlement at R3, with earlier roles at Worldpay and Visa. As chair of the GECA AI Governance Task Force, she is helping to optimise the use of AI in crowdfunding across the globe.

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Andy Field

Head of Partnerships · Steering Committee Lead, GECA · Director, UK Crowdfunding Association

Andy leads partnerships for Dacxi Verify, bringing more than twenty-five years across regulated finance and digital assets. He also leads the GECA steering committee and is a director of the UK Crowdfunding Association, connecting the platforms adopting AI-native compliance across the UK and Europe.

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Vicky Barker

Co-founder & VP Marketing · Steering Committee, GECA

Co-founder, and three years deep in building technology for regulated crowdfunding. A brand strategist and founder who now works at the front edge of AI-native marketing, she shapes how a compliance product earns the trust of the teams it serves.

Bruno G

Bruno G

Head of Engineering

With Dacxi's technology since 2018, from its blockchain foundations to today's AI systems. He builds the orchestration layer, the human-verified knowledge base and the audit trail, with data residency and "cited, never invented" enforced in the architecture itself.

Lawson Menezes

Lawson Menezes

Head of Compliance & Operations

A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with more than twelve years across FX and crypto compliance. He leads global licensing and the regulatory rigour behind the human-verified knowledge base.

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Evidence pack
Riverside Quarter
ECSPR_KB v1.3 · 4 findings
12 Jun 2026
Human sign-off · compliance officer