FIG. 0 · About

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.

Tony Daggett
Tony Daggett, founder and principal

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.

FIG. 1 · Career at a glance

Career history

ARDInsights LLCFounder & Principal2022–present
Commsafe AIPrincipal Data Scientist2021–2024
Semanteon CapitalSenior Data Scientist & Portfolio Manager2015–2021
Fidelity InvestmentsCounterparty Credit Risk & Quantitative Research2007–2015
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Sectors: banking, funds, AI
20 yrs
Data & model systems
Miami
Based · travels on-site