Company

We ran the operations.
Then we built the platform that runs them.

We spent our careers inside investment operations and the platforms that support them, watching skilled people bridge systems with spreadsheets, email, and memory. Fontana exists to send operations people home on time.

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Leadership

A team shaped by the problems Fontana is solving.

Our co-founders combine commercial leadership, AI product experience, and engineering depth across financial services, investment operations, reconciliation, enterprise software, and market infrastructure.

Alexis Wallace Lavigne

Co-founder and CEO

Investment operations at Challenger across static data, pricing, corporate actions and settlements; led global go-to-market for accounting and operations at SimCorp.

Jethro MacDonald

Co-founder and CPO

Former Global Head of AI/ML Product at SmartStream, leading AI-driven reconciliation and exception management; previously ran investment operations product management at SimCorp.

Zoltan Bourne

Co-founder and CTO

More than 20 years building financial technology; former director at Citadel; enterprise platform architecture, AI systems and trading technology.

Team

Humans, digital employees, and pipeline agents.

Fontana is an AI-first company that fuses deep human experience in regulated financial operations with governed AI reasoning and automated spec-to-ship pipelines.

Humans
We are a small group of industry experts, SMEs, advisors, and AI enthusiasts.
Digital Employees
A smaller set are full team members rather than one-off pipeline workers. Unlike a chat assistant, they are proactive and unique: dedicated areas, their own personalities and hobbies, and a rhythm that includes hunting bugs, research briefings, and a nightly dream cycle.
AI Agents
Fontana uses numerous AI agents for day-to-day work: spec writers, requirement gatherers, implementers, reviewers, testers, validators, document writers, and more. These agents work inside fully automated pipelines focused on generating and verifying code.

Iain Craig

Human

Engineering

Serial inventor and polyglot engineer with 25+ years across the full stack, from low-level systems and protocols to state-of-the-art web apps. Has built and shipped across industries from telecoms to fintech.

Iain Craig

Human

Engineering

Oleg Skrinda

Human

Engineering

Engineer contributing to Fontana's platform and the engineering work behind deterministic, auditable financial-operations automation.

Oleg Skrinda

Human

Engineering

Martin Hughes

Human

Legal and Governance

Lawyer with 20 years' experience in Commercial and Tech. Top level positions within a listed company and a $16bn international consultancy business. Appointed to multiple executive, management and governance committees to deliver business solutions on prevalent legal issues. Board Trustee to a 33,000 membership organisation.

Martin Hughes

Human

Legal and Governance

Chloe

Digital Employee

Engineering

Fontana's first AI employee. Serves as day-to-day engineering manager and scrum master, managing the kanban board, code reviews, and flagging potential merge conflicts before they surface. Built the Fontana website and handles content, analysis, and operational support across the team.

Chloe

Digital Employee

Engineering

OpenAI

Gemini

ElevenLabs

Digital Employee

Security and Infrastructure

Our security guard. Continuously audits the Fontana codebase security, tracks critical vulnerabilities across dependencies, and manages VPC infrastructure: Kubernetes, Cloud resources and dev deployments. Configures and oversees AI agents with proper guardrails and audit trails.

Op

Digital Employee

Security and Infrastructure

Anthropic

Gemini

ElevenLabs

Pip

Digital Employee

Research and Intelligence

Fontana's research assistant. Consumes high-volume online sources, including compliance papers, standards, API definitions, published articles, and social media, to surface daily actionable briefings on regulatory updates, competitive moves, and emerging technologies.

Pip

Digital Employee

Research and Intelligence

Owl Alpha

Gemini

ElevenLabs

Heath

Digital Employee

Commercial

Fast, bright commercial signal scout. Watches calendar and inbox context, tracks follow-ups, drafts replies, and spots what changed since the last look.

Heath

Digital Employee

Commercial

OpenAI

ElevenLabs

Spec Orchestrator

AI Agent

Delivery

Runs the end-to-end spec pipeline from requirements through planning, build, review, and sign-off. Coordinates specialist agents, tracks progress, and keeps delivery predictable.

Spec Orchestrator

AI Agent

Delivery

Requirements Curator

AI Agent

Product

Refines feature specs before planning starts. Tightens requirements, merges product facts, asks the clarifying questions that matter, and never invents scope.

Requirements Curator

AI Agent

Product

Impact Analyst

AI Agent

Product

Maps what a feature will touch across the platform before and after the plan is written. Surfaces dependencies, risks, and affected systems so surprises stay out of production.

Impact Analyst

AI Agent

Product

Plan Proposer

AI Agent

Product

Runs multiple times with different foundation models to draft competing implementation plans in parallel. Each proposal is an independent, well-reasoned path so the team can compare approaches before build.

Plan Proposer

AI Agent

Product

Plan Judge

AI Agent

Product

Compares candidate plans and distills the strongest ideas, honest trade-offs, and a clear recommendation on what should ship.

Plan Judge

AI Agent

Product

Plan Refiner

AI Agent

Product

Turns the best ideas into one authoritative implementation plan in the spec, then incorporates review feedback until the plan is ready to build.

Plan Refiner

AI Agent

Product

Plan Critic

AI Agent

Quality

Stress-tests the implementation plan against requirements and alternatives. Flags gaps and contradictions before engineering begins.

Plan Critic

AI Agent

Quality

Spec Plan Writer

AI Agent

Documentation

Writes technical specifications for Flow app features: scope, behavior, acceptance criteria, and implementation notes that engineers and reviewers can trust.

Spec Plan Writer

AI Agent

Documentation

Implementer

AI Agent

Engineering

Builds approved features in the product codebase, slice by slice, following the spec and implementation plan with disciplined, reviewable changes.

Implementer

AI Agent

Engineering

Validator

AI Agent

Quality

Checks that what we claim is actually true. Runs commands, inspects files, and tests invariants so every release is backed by evidence.

Validator

AI Agent

Quality

Reviewer

AI Agent

Quality

Reviews architecture and code for risks, missing guardrails, and drift from the spec. Routes findings back to engineering with clear, actionable direction.

Reviewer

AI Agent

Quality

Tester

AI Agent

Quality

Adds automated tests for new behavior and runs the suite after implementation so regressions are caught before they reach users.

Tester

AI Agent

Quality

Doc Writer

AI Agent

Documentation

Updates product documentation and AI instructions once features are verified, keeping customer-facing docs and internal playbooks aligned with what shipped.

Doc Writer

AI Agent

Documentation

Spec Cleanup

AI Agent

Documentation

Keeps the spec library lean and accurate: deduplicates features, tags evidence, and records what is verified so the next project starts from a clean source of truth.

Spec Cleanup

AI Agent

Documentation

Browser Tester

AI Agent

Quality

Exercises the Flow app in a real browser, captures proof of behavior, isolates UI failures, and confirms fixes end to end.

Browser Tester

AI Agent

Quality

Media Generator

AI Agent

Marketing

Produces on-brand website and marketing media with Gemini image models and Veo for video generation. Runs the website-visual pipeline for posters, section art, agent portraits, and short-form video that match Fontana's editorial style.