Tony Daggett
Founder of ARDInsights. The twenty years before it were spent building and running data and model systems inside banks, funds, and an AI startup.
I've sat on both sides of this work. I've built the plumbing it depends on, and I've watched well-built systems fail through the one question nobody asked. That second experience turned out to be the valuable one.
At Fidelity I built default-probability models and the risk infrastructure that watched $70–120B in trading exposures. At Semanteon Capital I designed systematic trading strategies, ran them with live capital, and built the data platform they sat on.
At Commsafe AI I built NLP and LLM systems that flagged high-risk communications in real time; the work generated $3.1M in funding.
ARDInsights started in 2022 as an advisory practice. In 2026 it became the whole job: bringing that caliber of system to businesses that could never have bought it before. I answer for the work: I set the scope, direct the build, and check everything before it goes out.
Career history
| ARDInsights LLC | Founder & Principal | 2022–present |
|---|---|---|
| Commsafe AI | Principal Data Scientist | 2021–2024 |
| Semanteon Capital | Senior Data Scientist & Portfolio Manager | 2015–2021 |
| Fidelity Investments | Counterparty Credit Risk & Quantitative Research | 2007–2015 |