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 finance professionals need an artifact they can put on file, and AI tools as currently shipped do not produce one.
Teranode is software and not itself a registered investment adviser. The Council produces structural reasoning artifacts, not advice. Outputs must be reviewed by a qualified person before any action is taken.
The founder.
Dan Zimon. 14 years institutional finance — energy/utility hedge funds, multi-strategy platforms, discretionary portfolio management. Series 7 (5/2025), Series 66 (8/2025), SIE (11/2024).
The instinct to build something like Teranode was sharpened by years of watching single-source decisions get attributed to individual judgement when the actual reasoning was opaque, unpreserved, and unfileable. The work since 2024 has been earning and maintaining the securities licenses that govern advisory practice — Series 7, Series 66, SIE — and building Teranode as decision infrastructure.
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 tamper-evident. Existing AI assistants give advisors an answer. They do not give advisors a record.
The Council is the answer-shaped output upgraded into a record-shaped output: five independent reasoning roles running in parallel, a Chairman synthesizing with preserved dissent, a structured decision record at the end. The artifact survives the conversation; the conversation survives the audit.
What we are building toward.
The 12-month roadmap is roughly: ship v1.5 sufficiency loop and Council Audit v1 (done); calibrate confidence against outcome-tracked decisions (v1.6); onboard the first paying RIA design partners; ship the substantiation file for /methodology; expand the decision-record schema to integrate with compliance archives (advisor CRMs, Holistiplan, RightCapital).
The product version of the brand promise is durable: preserved reasoning, preserved dissent, preserved artifact — not just the recommendation that won.
Hiring.
The team math at pre-seed is leaner than typical because the founder ships ~80% of the code with Claude (Anthropic) as a development collaborator. Two FTE hires planned post-funding: a CTO (production engineering and security ownership) and a Director of Distribution (RIA channel sales). Three specialized advisors (compliance, distribution, technical architecture) are scoped fractional. Hiring opens post-funding; if the work interests you regardless, founders@teranode.ai.
Contact.
Direct: founders@teranode.ai. Investor inquiries are routed through /investors. Vendor due-diligence requests through /trust or /security.