About · VismayAI

Built by people
who understood the job.

VismayAI is a small Boston team led by a former Fidelity advisor. Verdict is what we wished we'd had — the tool that would have saved a thousand misroutes, eight minutes at a time.

Prashant Sahni, founder
Letter from the founder

A note from Boston.

I joined Fidelity in 2020. Series 7, Series 66, on the advisor desk. By 2023 I was watching senior colleagues lose clients to "let me put you on hold while I check" — even when the answer had been written down, internally, four years before.

Cloud AI was a non-starter — the documents weren't allowed to leave. The on-prem options were retrieval theater dressed up as chatbot UI. So I left and built Verdict.

If that's the world you live in too, I'd love to put it in front of your team.

— Prashant Sahni, Boston · 2026

Snapshot

VismayAI by the numbers.

Founded
2024

Boston, MA · single-product, single-mind

Pilot firms
8

Across 6 regulated industries · 2026

Team
7

Including 2 former practitioners · advisor + claims

Capital
Seed

Closed Q3 2025 · runway through 2027

Principles

Four things we won't compromise on.

01

On their hardware

If the data can't legally leave the building, neither can the model. No exceptions, no loopholes.

02

Cite or stay silent

Every claim names a source paragraph. If the model can't cite, it doesn't ship the answer.

03

Build the corpus

Every accepted decision becomes searchable institutional memory. The longer you run, the smarter it gets.

04

Practitioners over founders

Built by people who've actually held the phone. Not engineers theorizing about regulated work.

The team

Small. Practitioner-heavy.

Prashant Sahni
Founder · Series 7, 66 · ex-Fidelity
Anika Reyes
Head of Engineering · ex-Palantir
Marcus Chen
Compliance Lead · ex-CNA Insurance
Priya Shah
Customer Success · ex-Ramp

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