About

Independent technical AI Assurance, for helping organisations deploy AI securely, reliably and with confidence.

David Sully

CEO and co-founder

David leads Advai’s strategy and growth, with a focus on enterprise AI adoption, assurance, governance and business risk. Before co-founding Advai, he spent 12 years as a UK Government diplomat working across defence and security, multilateral negotiations and international affairs.

Chris Jefferson

CTO and co-founder

Chris leads Advai’s technology development, specialising in AI security and assurance, testing and robust AI systems. He brings extensive experience across technology and financial services, including financial risk, regulation and compliance, alongside research into artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Damian Ruck

Chief research scientist and co-founder

Damian leads Advai’s research into AI safety and security, developing approaches to AI evaluation and assurance. He has an extensive research background in machine learning and computational social science and holds a PhD in Complex Systems from the University of Bristol.

Cutting Edge AI

Cutting Edge AI

Advai operates at the frontier of AI testing and evaluation.

Our lab is home to scientists constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible - developing new techniques to test, stress, and understand AI systems. This research feeds directly into our platform and our work with customers. It's how we stay ahead

Our Values

Our Values

Provide the technology that unlocks the potenial of AI 

01

Belief in AI

AI will change the world for the better. We help organisations overcome the major barrier to realising its potential.

Belief in AI

AI will change the world for the better. We help organisations overcome the major barrier to realising its potential.

02

Independence

We don't sell AI solutions that compete with yours. Testing and monitoring is our only business - that's how we stay objective.

Independence

We don't sell AI solutions that compete with yours. Testing and monitoring is our only business - that's how we stay objective.

03

Tailored

Generic tests don't work. Every AI application is different, and so is every organisation. Testing should reflect that.

Tailored

Generic tests don't work. Every AI application is different, and so is every organisation. Testing should reflect that.