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Nir Laznik Wants AI to Watch the AI
After one startup crossed continents and closed, the information systems engineer returned with a quieter proposition: in finance, the most useful AI may be the one checking everyone else’s work.
Sedric Wants Banks to Stop Sampling Risk - and Start Catching It Live
Financial firms still inspect a sliver of what their people, partners and bots tell customers. Sedric is betting that an independent AI control layer can review the whole stream - and turn compliance from a queue into a live operating system.
Morgan & Morgan, P.A.
It spends more on advertising than most firms bill in a year, recovered $25 billion for clients, and put its own name on a promise: for the people, not the powerful. Inside America's largest personal injury firm.
SmartCustomer
SmartCustomer (formerly Sitejabber) is a San Francisco reviews platform that helps buyers spot trustworthy online businesses and helps businesses collect, manage, and surface authentic customer reviews. Born in 2007 out of a National Science Foundation grant to fight online fraud, it has grown into a two-sided marketplace of trust - said to have helped 200M+ buyers and gathered more than 25M reviews across 140K+ businesses - and now positions verified reviews as fuel for AEO/GEO visibility in AI answer engines like ChatGPT.
Michael Lai
Michael Lai is the CEO and co-founder of Sitejabber, a consumer review platform that has served more than 100 million shoppers and collected over 10 million reviews, and of SmartCustomer, an unbiased brand discovery tool launched in 2025. A Stanford computer scientist and Harvard MBA, he started Sitejabber in 2007 after a co-founder couldn't tell whether an online medical-equipment seller was a scam. His work sits at the intersection of consumer trust, transparency, and the messy fight against fake reviews and AI-generated content.