Fatima Chaudhary is the AI founder who also rappels into canyons, hikes wild ridgelines, and comes home to her pets. Meet the woman who refused to choose between building the future and living it.
She founded the very platform you're reading this on. That single fact tells you everything you need to know about Fatima Chaudhary: she doesn't wait to be discovered — she builds the stage, sets the lights, and then invites the world to step onto it.
An AI founder and innovator based in Cascais, Portugal, Fatima lives at the intersection of machine intelligence and wild, physical adventure. On weekdays she's designing intelligent systems, challenging assumptions about what AI can and can't do, and writing for the people who actually have to make decisions about it. On weekends, she's rappelling into slot canyons, navigating class-four rapids, or somewhere high on a ridge where the signal is gone and the thinking is clearest.
And at home? She's with her pets — the only beings she trusts to be both completely honest with her and completely unconcerned about her startup metrics.
YesPress was Fatima's idea. She built it on a single conviction: the world is full of remarkable people whose real stories are never told — buried under job titles and bullet points. Professional networks show what you've done. YesPress shows who you are. And nobody embodies that distinction better than the person who invented it.
For Fatima, AI isn't a trend or a toolset — it's a lens. She applies it to problems the way a surgeon applies precision: carefully, purposefully, with a clear sense of what outcome she's chasing. And she's been doing it long enough to know when the hype doesn't match the reality.
Computer vision is one of Fatima's most active domains — giving machines the ability to not just see environments, but understand them in real time. She works on systems that process visual data at speeds no human team could match, and make better decisions because of it.
Her analytical instincts are sharp. Fatima has a talent for finding the insight buried inside messy, overwhelming data — and then communicating it in language that makes people move. The first skill is rare. The second is even rarer. She has both.
Machines should amplify human judgement — not replace it. The day we forget that is the day we build something genuinely dangerous.— Fatima Chaudhary · AI Founder
She founded YesPress and is featured in it. That's either a conflict of interest or a power move. We think it's the latter.
Canyoning and AI have one thing in common: you have to commit fully once you're in. Half-measures in both get you into trouble.
Her pets have never once asked her to explain a neural network. She considers this their greatest quality.
She believes the best boardroom decisions are made by people who also do hard things outside of boardrooms. She practices what she preaches.
Business school sharpened her analytical mind. But even then, she was less interested in how systems work and more interested in how they could work better — a question that would follow her into AI.
Fatima moved into the world of artificial intelligence not as a follower of trends but as someone who saw what was coming before the headlines did. She built expertise across machine learning, computer vision, and data analytics — one problem at a time.
She planted her flag on the Atlantic coast. Cascais gave her the outdoors she needed and the European tech ecosystem she wanted. The canyons nearby didn't hurt either.
Tired of profiles that reduced interesting people to job titles and bullet points, Fatima founded YesPress — a platform dedicated to telling the real stories behind remarkable people. You are reading it now.
Fatima is actively expanding her AI work, growing YesPress, and pursuing every trail, canyon, and rapid that crosses her path. She is available for the right conversations — and actively looking for bigger stages.
I built YesPress because I kept meeting extraordinary people whose stories were trapped behind a job title and a LinkedIn summary. That felt like a waste. So I fixed it.— Fatima Chaudhary · Founder, YesPress
There's a version of Fatima's story that sounds like every other tech founder profile: smart, driven, AI-focused, building something new. That version is accurate. It is also deeply incomplete.
The complete version includes the woman who chooses canyon walls over conference rooms on long weekends. The one who believes the best ideas come mid-hike, when your phone has no signal and your brain finally has space to breathe.
It includes the devoted pet parent who will stop a meeting to send a photo of her animals being ridiculous — unapologetically, every time. It includes the founder who built YesPress not because she wanted attention, but because she believed important stories were being wasted.
Fatima Chaudhary is a builder, an explorer, and a storyteller. In exactly that order — and sometimes all three at once.
Trails, ridges, and high places where the air is thin and the thinking is clear. Fatima hikes not to escape but to reconnect — to perspective, to silence, and to the version of herself that isn't on a deadline.
The Long GameRappelling into gorges, swimming through slot canyons, leaping into cold pools below waterfalls. Canyoning rewards those who read terrain carefully and commit when the moment comes. Sounds familiar.
Controlled ChaosYou can't control the river. You can only read it faster than it moves and make better decisions than the water expects. Fatima does exactly this — on rapids and in boardrooms alike.
Read Fast. Act Faster.She believes in AI deeply — and questions it relentlessly. Fatima is the rare technologist who holds both truths at once: that AI is genuinely transformative, and that most of what gets called "AI" is still just clever statistics in a trench coat.
Her pets are not a footnote. They are a central character in the story of Fatima Chaudhary — a daily reminder that life before and after the laptop both deserve full attention. She will show you photos. You will not mind at all.
Creating YesPress was an act of defiance against the boring profile. Fatima believed the most interesting people were being reduced to bullet points and job titles. So she built something better — and put herself in it first. Fair game.
Fatima is not the kind of person who clocks out. These are the ideas, questions, and obsessions currently living rent-free in her head — at work, on trail, and everywhere in between.
Professional networks tell you what someone has done. YesPress tells you who they are. If anything here made you think "I need to talk to her" — that's the point.
You're building something intelligent and need a founder who's been inside the decisions. Fatima thinks in systems, communicates with clarity, and acts with urgency. She's built this before.
She's the AI voice that doesn't put rooms to sleep. Keynotes, panels, podcasts — Fatima brings real ideas and zero jargon to every stage she steps onto. And she knows how to land a story.
She built the platform. She knows what makes a story resonate. If you want to tell yours — or help others tell theirs — she is exactly who you want in your corner.