Mike Hamata

I spent 13 years inside a major Canadian brokerage, most recently managing risk and credit. The work was the unglamorous core of a regulated financial system: deciding what to let through and what to stop, knowing what breaks before it does, and protecting the people on the other side of every account.

Now I build AI products. Not demos: agents that do real operational work, shipped end-to-end. A voice agent that runs a dental front desk. A research engine that reads filings and writes the analysis. A coaching app. A product-management simulation you can play in your browser.

The throughline is judgment. Thirteen years on a risk desk teaches you to ask what a system does on its worst day, not its average one, and to keep the customer at the center of every call. That's the lens I bring to building AI, and it's the part most engineers haven't lived.