Decision infrastructure for regulated financial advisors.
The conviction behind Teranode is short: one model is a guess; five models with preserved dissent and a structured record is a decision. The conviction behind why now is shorter: regulated advisors need a documented basis they can put on file, and AI tools as currently shipped give them an answer, not a record.
Teranode is software and not itself a registered investment adviser. The Council produces structured reasoning artifacts, not advice. Every output must be reviewed by a qualified person before any action is taken. Compliance remains the firm's responsibility.
Built by someone who lived the gap.
Dan Zimon. Fourteen years in institutional finance: analyst and trader at Millennium, then a capital-markets generalist portfolio manager at MS Discovery, LLC. Then he moved into the wealth channel and advised clients directly. Series 7, Series 66, and insurance licensed.
The same problem kept showing up on both sides of that career: decisions attributed to individual judgment, with the actual reasoning opaque, unpreserved, and impossible to put on file. Advising clients made it concrete. The answer always got captured. The reasoning behind it didn't. AI only made that faster. Teranode is the tool built to close it.
Why decision infrastructure.
Regulated advisors live inside a documentation requirement most software ignores. Every recommendation needs reasoning that survives a supervisory review; every dissenting view inside the firm needs to be preserved on the record; every artifact needs to be timestamped and signed. Existing AI assistants give advisors an answer. They do not give advisors a record.
The Council turns the answer-shaped output into a record-shaped one: five cross-vendor reasoning roles running in parallel, a Chairman synthesizing with the dissent preserved and named, a structured decision record at the end. The artifact survives the conversation; the reasoning survives the review.
How we earn the trust.
The product is built for a buyer who is paid to be skeptical, so the posture is deliberate. Teranode is software, not an adviser, and every output is a reasoning artifact for a qualified person to review, not advice, and never a substitute for the firm's own supervision. The models behind each Council role are documented and validated head-to-head, so the reasoning isn't a black box; the protocol is on /methodology. The Council's prompts and synthesis logic stay server-side; the decision record is yours to keep and file.
What Teranode produces is the documented basis an advisor can use to support fiduciary review, books-and-records, and supervisory workflows. It is a record you can show. It does not (and is not meant to) make the firm's compliance determinations for it.
See it, or reach us.
See it work: run the Council on your own scenario from the homepage (no signup, about twenty seconds) or look at the decision record an advisor would actually file. Direct line to the founder: founders@teranode.ai.
Investor inquiries route through /investors; vendor due-diligence through /trust or /security.
Teranode is software and not a registered investment adviser. Outputs are generated by AI models and must be reviewed by a qualified person before any action is taken. Compliance remains the firm's responsibility.