Dissei / About us
Dissei is an AI-native finance firm.
We believe AI fundamentally changes the economics of building a finance firm and access to credit. That is why Dissei exists: AI-native lending reaches companies the old cost structure could not.
How we workThe firm
Finance, research
and engineering.
Dissei forms a joint venture with each lending partner: a shared lending business where the partner originates and underwrites with specialist judgement, and Dissei puts capital and capacity behind their expertise. Dissei provides flexible capital and an operating platform that works like a full analyst team behind every joint venture. Dissei makes every credit decision, and once approved the joint venture deploys the capital.
Real lending creates a proprietary record of financial judgement that cannot be scraped or crowdsourced. Our edge is know-how. We build new methods from first principles, combining deep domain expertise in finance with research, to create high-quality data. Rights-cleared, anonymised records from eligible activity may improve Dissei’s financial reasoning systems, and better systems sharpen underwriting, monitoring and operations. From the same rights-cleared work we also provide financial reasoning environments, evaluations and training data to model builders and financial institutions.
Data complex enough to teach today’s frontier models financial judgment is not solved by hiring experts or renting annotators. It is a research and engineering problem, and we treat it with the same rigor as work on training algorithms and model architectures. The expertise is in-house, from our own lending practice, and the methods are new, built from first principles with research. We are not an expert network or a data marketplace.
Our thesis
The next generation of finance companies will be data companies.
If you want to read more about our vision — why we build the firm this way and where it goes — it is one page long.
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Building or evaluating models for finance, or looking to build a lending business with Dissei? Pick the door that fits.
Models, evals, platform
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Explore lendingA small team working across lending, software and AI.
We hire by introduction or from shipped work.
How we hire
Short application. A real project. Then a paid week working inside the team.
We test extensively. The project shows how you think; the week shows how you work with the team. An offer follows the week. No cover letters.
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One application is enough. We consider it for every open role and find the best fit, so there is no need to apply twice. If other roles interest you, say so in the note. We read every application; expect a reply within a week.