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My name is Clement Utuk, Co-Founder and CEO of Kednus, an AI-native intelligence and compliance platform for regulated institutional finance — starting with digital assets and built to extend across other high-stakes data domains. He founded the company after his own experience with crypto fraud, turning that firsthand insight into a mission to give institutions sharper, more defensible tools for navigating financial risk and regulatory complexity.

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7h ago

Building AI products for regulated industries is "move fast and break things" officially dead?

CEO of Kednus here, we're building AI-native intelligence & compliance tooling, so I live in the tension between shipping fast and answering 200-question security reviews.

 

Here's what I keep running into: enterprise and regulated buyers (finance, healthcare, gov) LOVE the AI demo, then the procurement process asks where your SOC 2 is, how you isolate tenant data, and whether a human reviews model outputs before they trigger decisions.

 

honest one for the founders here (+ updates on the open-source YC data platform) 👇

how do you actually check if your idea's been done before? like - gpt it, google it, ask friends, dig through YC's directory, or just.. cross fingers and build?

asking because i built ExploreYC trying to fix exactly that... through semantic search on over 8.6k startups, but genuinely curious what people reach for before a tool. what's your move?

Improving the Interactive Map of YC Start-Ups

a lot of startups on the map.. and that is only a square of SF.. insane

talk about improving your network - just go to SF ;D

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