Aveni

Edinburgh
Seeking investment

Aveni is revolutionising financial services with its award-winning AI FinTech solutions. Leveraging cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) technology, our advanced AI platform analyses documents and meetings, extracting actionable insights to drive operational excellence.

From automating client administration and compliance monitoring to enabling Consumer Duty management and adviser performance assessment, Aveni’s AI seamlessly integrates with your human expertise, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains across the entire business operating model.

Bridging the gap between generic AI offerings and the unique needs of the financial industry, Aveni’s purpose-built AI assistant is tailored to accelerate FS workflows. With a team of world-leading NLP scientists and engineers, Aveni empowers businesses to harness the transformative potential of AI to enable more streamlined operations and enhanced productivity.

Our Vision

Your human expertise enhanced with industry AI.

Our Mission

3x efficiency. Same quality. Same human touch.

Aveni Assist

Aveni Assist powers productivity for financial advisers by enabling them to get hours of admin done in just a few minutes. Our GPT-powered AI assistant delivers unprecedented support, joining client calls to automate reporting, CRM population, post-call briefings, and follow-up emails while ensuring compliance. With Aveni at your side, your organisation can accelerate adviser efficiency, focus on high[1]value activities, and rest easy knowing AI outputs are reliable, accurate, and compliant.

  • Instant CRM administration.  Administer your CRM within a minute of your client meeting finishing.
  • Auto-generated suitability report.  Aveni Assist can extract all the relevant information from across a lengthy advice call to create a comprehensive suitability report in your company’s tone and style.
  • Post-meeting briefing note.  Within a minute of completing a call, generate a detailed client email confirming key information and agreed upon actions.
  • Integrated. Seamless integration with MS Teams, Google Meet and Zoom, means Aveni Assist is quick to set-up and get started with.
  • Traceability. Understand where Aveni Assist has taken information from, with transparent and direct referencing back to the original call transcript.

Aveni Detect

Aveni Detect systematically monitors and analyses every call, acting as a Machine Line of Defence™ to identify and understand risks that matter to you. In addition to effective preventative control, and richer data analytics, we help you achieve greater productivity, agent performance and revenue growth, making QA processes significantly faster and scaling oversight from 1% to 100%.

  • Focus on priority calls with machine assessment. Insight from 100% of calls Manage Consumer Duty Data-driven assurance with Auto QA Identify any vulnerable customers across all calls End random sampling by letting our AI automatically surface the most urgent calls for your QA team to evaluate. We ensure human effort is only invested in assessing what’s most essential.
  • Data-driven assurance with Auto QA.  Achieve 100% coverage at a fraction of the cost by allowing Aveni Detect to automatically assess every call, significantly reducing the time to complete each human assessed case.
  • Identify any vulnerable customers across all calls.  We’ve embedded the FCA’s ‘Fair Treatment of Vulnerable Customers’ guidance into Aveni Detect. This enables you to identify vulnerability risks across all calls and get a true understanding of vulnerable customers, how their needs change over time, and their outcomes.
  • Manage Consumer Duty.  Simplify Consumer Duty management with a range of MI dashboards providing the regulator-ready data and evidence they expect.
  • Insight from 100% of calls.  Turn the customer voice into a new, rich source of data. Analysis from every call can power business decision making and automation.


Aveni.ai was founded in June 2018 when Dr Lexi Birch, one of the leading experts in NLP, was introduced to top financial industry executive, Joseph Twigg. The mission they developed together was clear: to deploy cutting edge AI practices in industry to solve real problems.

Following extensive research, they chose Financial Advice as their target market – an industry well known for its outdated processes, constant regulatory changes and underserved demand.

Since then, the team has grown, we’ve won Scotland’s leading startup competition – Scottish Edge – received recognition via the The Times Future of Fintech awards and Beauhurst’s Top 15 AI Startups, and secured £2.75M in funding in June 2022 to expand our team and make further enhancements to our platform. We’re proud to be part of Scotland’s vibrant startup ecosystem and the journey is just beginning…



Joseph Twigg – CEO

Joseph has 15 years’ experience in the Investment industry, most recently serving as the Global Head of Strategy and Business Management for the UK’s largest asset manager.

Dr Lexi Birch, Head of Aveni Labs ​

Dr Lexi Birch is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Ranked in the top 100 NLP Engineers globally, she is an expert in NLP and Neural Machine Translation (NMT).

 

Dr Barry Haddow, Head NLP

Dr Barry Haddow is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Ranked in the top 100 NLP Engineers globally, he is an expert in information extraction and machine translation.

 

Jamie Hunter, COO

Jamie brings 15 years’ experience in the investment industry, most recently serving as the Head of Commercial Finance for Standard Life Aberdeen.

Overview

  • Funding Stage Post-seed
  • Trading for 1-5 years
  • Employees 11-50
  • Sector Personal Finance
  • Valuation N/A

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