We’ve had founders come to us wanting to build “an AI that trades forex for you while you sleep.” It’s an understandable pitch; it sounds like the product everyone wants.
Ask a broker operating in MENA or Africa where their deposits are actually coming from these days, and crypto is near the top of the list more often than not.
We’ve walked into more than a few broker operations that were, functionally, running on a patchwork of Excel sheets, a legacy CRM plugin from years ago, and manual KYC checks
We’ve watched the prop firm space go from a forex-broker side project to a genuine, fast-growing category in just a few years, and we’ve also watched a fair number of
We get asked about the Marshall Islands more than almost any other jurisdiction, usually by founders who’ve heard it’s “fast and cheap” and want to know if that’s too good
We’ve had brokers come to us frustrated after months of publishing content with barely any movement in rankings, convinced their SEO agency was doing something wrong. Often, nobody was doing
We’ve sat in enough of these pitch conversations to notice the moment an investor’s attention shifts — and it’s rarely during the exciting parts. It’s not the branding, the platform
We’ve had brokers ask us to review a CRM setup they were “pretty sure” was secure, and more often than we’d like, the honest answer was: mostly, but not quite.
The first time a founder told us they wanted to be live in 7 days, our instinct was to slow the conversation down before it went any further. Not because
The first question we get from almost every founder considering ADGM is some version of: “Is this actually a real regulator, or just a fancy free zone with a website?”
