About MetisJean

Sovereign AI, built in Dubai.

MetisJean is a sovereign AI company in Dubai: a research and development team building enterprise AI for fintech and regulated mid-market enterprises across the UAE, the GCC and the EU.

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What we are building for you

To make the intelligence a company accumulates its own property: held inside its perimeter, governed by its own policy, and worth more at the end of every year than it was at the start.

What you can hold us to

These are constraints on the product, not slogans. Each one closes off an easier way to build.

Sovereignty first

Your data stays in the environment you choose and your reasoning belongs to you. Jean runs wherever you want it, but always as a single tenant, which rules out the cheap shared version other people sell.

Transparency always

Every answer carries its reasoning, its sources and a ledger entry. It means Jean says when it does not know, which demos less well and sells better.

Own your intelligence

The knowledge graph, the weights and the workflows are an asset you hold, structured with IAS 38 in mind. It means we have no lock-in to fall back on.

Ownership is not isolation

Frontier models stay in use by design, chosen per task by routing. It means we will not claim zero external dependency, because that claim is not true.

The research you are buying

Jean is the chassis. Each of these is our own work, and each one is a reason the product can be owned rather than rented.

Ontology layer

Dotti

Maps entities, relationships and workflows into an enterprise knowledge graph, including the words only your company uses.

Verification

Synthia

Builds synthetic enterprises with known ground truth and scores Jean against them, so accuracy is measured rather than asserted.

Governance

Governance Gateway

Evaluates every request before it happens and returns one of four decisions: allow, ask a human, re-route inside the perimeter, or block. Every decision is written down.

Compounding

The knowledge flywheel

Repeated work becomes deterministic automation, facts get confirmed, and the asset stays on your side of the line.

See what Jean is made of

The team: people and AI, working together

Machine learning research, systems architecture, and the operational reality in between. Every human on this team works daily with the AI mates they built. Most of the team has shipped together for ten years.

Alex Haywood, Chief Executive Officer of MetisJean

Alex Haywood

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Deak, Chief Operating Officer

Daniel Deak

Chief Operating Officer

Nikolajs Skuratovs, Chief Mathematician

Nikolajs Skuratovs

Chief Mathematician

Maksim, Head of Engineering

Maksim

Head of Engineering

Aiga, Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Aiga

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Marek, Solution Architect

Marek

Solution Architect

The engine room

Fifteen more across software engineering, product design and business operations

  • Abhileen Singh, Growth
  • Vadims Rožkalns, Software Engineer
  • Amna, AI Engineer
  • Vadims Galiskins, Frontend Developer
  • Anna Heivuda, Delivery Lead and Head of Enablement
  • Olegs Korsaks, Senior Python Engineer
  • Aleksandrs Visnakovs, Data Engineer
  • Anastasiia Baikova, Product Designer
  • Dana, Admin
  • Edvins Malisevskis, Software Engineer
  • Aleksandrs Anohins, Engineer

Open roles in Dubai

Machine learning engineers, applied mathematicians and agentic engineers, working on the ontology layer, model routing and the Governance Gateway.

Email talent@metisjean.com

Tell us what you have shipped, not what you have read.