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Hi iza,
Every time we show our AI systems, the same email lands in my inbox: “Amazing, Demir, but my situation is different.”
Fair. Let me introduce you to the two most “different” people from our first AI Bootcamp cohort.
Peter Brooke is a financial advisor in Europe. His world runs under DORA, financial regulation with teeth. Client data can’t wander into a chatbot, full stop. Most advisors hear that and quit. Peter came into the AI Bootcamp feeling behind and left having designed an AI system that runs inside the regulation, with client data kept in his own secure tenant. He told his story live on Day 1 of Suit Up this week.
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“If you’re in a regulated business and think you can’t safely use AI, you can. You just build it differently.”
Peter Brooke · Financial advisor, Spectrum IFA |
Missy Wanstall trains people on a government contract. No Claude, no ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot only, inside a locked-down environment. She cut her course scripting from 15–20 hours down to about 6, launched a lead-magnet tool over a weekend, and built a portfolio site in about two hours. Everything she built came out of the most restricted setup in the cohort.
Here’s the stat that explains both stories. In 2025, MIT researchers looked at corporate AI pilots and found roughly 95% produced no measurable return. Ninety-five percent! And the failures weren’t the regulated companies. The failures were the ones who bolted tools on top of nothing: no context, no owned system, no foundations.
That’s the difference. The question was never whether your constraints are real. It’s whether the foundation underneath your AI is. We build that first: your AI Brain, in plain files you own, so the AI knows your business before it touches your work. Then the constraints become a design input instead of a dead end.
The AI Bootcamp pours those foundations with you, four weeks, starting August 2, around whatever rules your industry throws at us.
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