No readiness check
Builds start without testing data, ownership or a defined outcome.
AI implementation platform · Built in the Caribbean
From AI idea
to a governed, working system
in 21 days.
Five specialist agents. Five human approval gates. Built in the Caribbean, deployable anywhere. Say the goal in plain language; get back a tested, governed prototype and a Decision Pack you own. We are raising a £2M seed round and forming pilot Cohort One.
The implementation gap
Pilots die at the governance review,
not in the model.
95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots deliver no measurable return (MIT Project NANDA, “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025”). The gap isn't ambition — it's governed implementation. We build the bridge.
Governance comes last
Privacy and oversight get bolted on after the demo — exactly where procurement stops the project.
Small markets pay twice
Caribbean institutions rarely have in-house AI teams and rely on long, costly outside engagements.
The solution
One implementation engine.
Useful in the real world.
01 / Platform
CARI Forge
A real need goes in, in the owner’s words — no AI team, no technical spec. Five agents build on each other’s work, a named person approves every gate, and out comes a Decision Pack the client owns.
See the engine →02 / Cohort One
First pilots
Cohort One is forming: 3–5 governed pilots, each shipped in 21 days and published as a case study. Proof, in public.
Join Cohort One →Not advice. Not a chatbot. A plan a bank, a ministry or a buyer can trust.
The platform
Five agents. Five gates.
One engine.
Five core agents run the pipeline, each building on the last, with a Council of AI Reviewers arguing every gate before a named human signs it. Two more work alongside them: Partner takes the approved build to the buyer’s own infrastructure, and Impact measures the change it makes.
Domain-agnostic by design.
One engine, any industry — the Caribbean is our proving ground, not our ceiling.
One engine, any industry — the Caribbean is our proving ground, not our ceiling.
CARIFORGEimplementation engine
01DiscoveryEvidence-tied problem
02ReadinessScores data to rules
03WorkflowHumans stay in charge
04ControlsPrivacy, fairness, security
05BuildsBuilds + tests the MVP
+PartnerHands off to buyer
+ImpactMeasures outcomes
How it works · the 21-day build
Need in.
Useful system out.
A named human approves every step, and the system cannot skip one. Each gate is approved, returned or stopped with a written reason. Once the build gate is passed, Partner hands the approved build to the buyer’s own integrator or cloud partners with a deployment runbook, so the buyer runs the system, not us. Impact sets KPIs with year 1, 3 and 5 targets.
Discovery
Finds the real problem; every claim tied to evidence
Readiness
Scores data, process, people, tech and rules
Workflow
Maps who does what, and where humans stay in charge
Controls
Checks privacy, fairness and security
Builds
Scopes, builds and tests the 21-day MVP
What ships
The Decision Pack: problem brief · readiness score · workflow · governance review · working prototype · full audit trail — and the client owns all of it.
First deployments
Two use cases.
One platform, proven.
Two sectors on one core: health resilience and creative commerce — deliberately different, to prove one governed platform can serve very different needs without being rebuilt. Our first letter of intent is from a Trinidad fashion designer, in creative commerce.
01 / Health resilience
Mirror
Our first use case applies the CARI Forge engine to health resilience — a governed, human-in-the-loop system built around a real community need.
02 / Creative commerce
TAG Caribbean
Our second use case applies the engine to creative commerce — governed AI that helps Caribbean creators and businesses turn cultural value into everyday economic opportunity.
Different sectors, one governed platform — evidence that new use cases deploy without rebuilding the core.
Defensibility
Building the Caribbean
intelligence graph.
Business Operational, customer and service problems worth solving
People Everyday needs and lived experience kept in the design
Partners Local expertise, data and implementation capacity
The opportunity
AI budgets are surging.
Implementation is the bottleneck.
Worldwide AI services spend, 2026 (Gartner).
~2,000 Caribbean institutions × ~£75k a year — a bottom-up working assumption, not booked revenue.
30 licensed organisations, ~1% of SAM — a target to be tested with Cohort One.
Two revenue doors, one buying trigger. Businesses buy efficiency; banks, ministries and public services buy trusted, accountable delivery. Honest sizing: SAM and SOM are bottom-up working assumptions, to be tested with Cohort One — targets, not bookings. The full model is in the investor deck.
Business value and human value move together.
Why now · why us
The window is
open now.
Why now
- Spend is surging. Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending to grow 49.5% in 2026.
- Agents are deployable. Orchestration has moved past demos into systems that run real workflows.
- The budget is committed; the pilots fail. 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots deliver no measurable return. The bottleneck has moved from models to governed implementation — the layer we own.
- Accountability is mandatory. Buyers need traceability, human oversight and clear ownership before they sign — and the EU AI Act and equivalent rules are making that a requirement.
Fast like a tool, accountable like a consultancy
- Consultancies deliver, but in months and at a cost base built for bigger markets. We ship governed systems in 21 days.
- AI assistants give advice with no orchestration, approvals or audit trail.
- Agent frameworks need engineering teams; governance is build-your-own.
- Workshops build readiness but rarely ship a working system.
- Our Caribbean intelligence graph compounds. Every build makes the next cheaper and smarter — and it can’t be bought off the shelf.
- A rare founder pairing. Enterprise AI governance meets award-winning, human-centred design.
Business model
Land with a pilot.
Expand to a licence. Scale through partners.
One implementation engine, three revenue lines. Margin expands with every build as licences outgrow pilots.
Pilot builds
Fixed fee, fixed scope. Low-risk entry for the buyer and near-term revenue for us.
Land · Cohort OnePlatform licence
Recurring access to agents, blueprints and governance patterns. White-label for institutions.
Expand · annual licencePartner enablement
Delivery partners run the engine for their own clients; we take a platform fee.
Scale · without headcountTeam Convergency
People, agents and
human futures.
Nigel Guy
Co-Founder · Technical Lead · Chief AI, Data & Governance Officer
- Technical co-founder: architected and built the CARI Forge platform
- Enterprise transformation leader in AI, GenAI and data strategy
- Brings delivery assurance, AI risk and responsible-AI governance to complex AI initiatives
Karen Palmer
Co-Founder · Creative Director & Artist · Storyteller from the Future
- Award-winning TED speaker known as the “Storyteller from the Future,” exploring AI, surveillance, prediction and identity
- Creator of pioneering AI-driven works — Consensus Gentium and Ascended Intelligence — showcased at SXSW and on international stages, with work for the Royal Opera House and BFI
- Brings inclusive, human-centred design to how CARI Forge builds useful, trusted systems for business and communities
CARI Forge agents
Specialist AI agents
Five core agents — discovery, readiness, workflow, controls and builds — plus partner (deployment handoff) and impact, turn a priority into a structured, decision-ready process.
Human team
People stay accountable
Business owners, delivery partners, domain experts and people affected by the service shape decisions, approve key gates and keep the work grounded in real life.
Where we are
Built, live,
and honest about it.
No inflated traction, no vanity metrics. We are pre-revenue. Here is the actual state of play, and what the seed round unlocks.
v1.0 live
The full five-agent pipeline is live at cariforge.com/888: 32/32 production checks pass, including stage-skip and cross-tenant attacks, and 8/8 required security threat tests. Agents run on scripted test data today; live model calls switch on before Cohort One.
Letter of intent
A Trinidad fashion designer signed a letter of intent for a paid pilot on 9 September 2026 — our first design partner, in creative commerce.
Cohort One
3–5 governed pilots via Future Caribbean, founder networks and the diaspora — each one published as a case study.
Live & earning
Live model runs, 18 pilots delivered, 7 licensed organisations and £0.42M ARR — targets, not bookings.
We’re raising a £2M seed round. “Can it be built?” is already answered. This round answers what’s left: will institutions pay, and can it scale beyond the founders? It funds our first engineering hires, go-to-market and Cohort One delivery over 18 months — winning the Caribbean first, then taking the engine to other emerging markets.
Due diligence
Straight
answers.
Is it agentic — or a wrapper?+
An orchestrated multi-agent workflow with governance gates and retrieval over a proprietary knowledge graph — not a single prompt on top of a general model. We'll walk any technical reviewer through the architecture.
What ships in 21 days?+
A governed, prototype-ready proof of concept for a business or community need: problem brief, readiness score, workflow map, governance review, working prototype and decision pack.
How does it relate to Future Caribbean?+
Future Caribbean is a partner initiative that convenes communities and incubates ideas for the region. The roles are complementary: Future Caribbean surfaces the needs; CARI Forge implements them.
How does CARI Forge keep people at the centre?+
Every workflow is designed around a real need, human approval points and the lived experience of the people expected to use or be affected by the system.
Where is revenue today?+
CARI Forge is pre-revenue. The v1.0 platform is live and our first customer has signed a letter of intent for a paid pilot. Agents run on scripted test data today; live model calls switch on before Cohort One. Market and revenue figures on this site are targets, not bookings. The deck includes the full model.
What are you raising, and what does it fund?+
A £2M seed round, modelled over 18 months: 50% platform and engineering, 19% go-to-market and partnerships, 14% Cohort One and delivery, 8% legal, compliance and G&A, 9% contingency. Instrument and terms on request.
For early partners
Not an investor?
Bring us a problem.
Cohort One has 3–5 pilot slots for businesses and public services. Bring one real workflow or service need — we'll do a 2-minute walk-through of the engine on a problem you choose, and if it's buildable in 21 days, you'll know within one conversation.
Join the forge
Build the engine
with us.
The Caribbean shouldn't wait for AI to be built somewhere else. We built the engine — help us put it to work. Next step: a 2-minute walk-through, on a problem you choose. We reply within one business day.
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