Private Equity · Healthcare · Insurance · Financial Services

AI that performs
when the stakes are real.

Depend.AI helps investors and operators in regulated industries build AI that withstands scrutiny.
From strategy through to production systems.

Why Depend.AI

AI systems don't reveal themselves in design. They reveal themselves in production, under load, under scrutiny. That knowledge comes from building, not advising. We do both.

[ Principal Specification ]
Saurabh Johri, PhD
Founder & Principal, Depend.AI

Built and deployed healthcare AI systems serving payors, providers, and patients at scale, under the regulatory and clinical constraints that most AI projects never face. Peer-reviewed publications, patents in medical AI, and laboratory leadership. From engineering architecture to board-level AI strategy.

Advice backed by engineering. Engineering guided by strategy.

Depend.AI operates across two connected tracks: AI due diligence and strategy for investors navigating regulated markets, and AI engineering for operators who need it built.

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Advisory Track

AI Due Diligence & Strategy

For PE/VC funds and their portfolio companies, we assess whether the AI in a business is real: technically sound, commercially credible, and defensible under regulatory scrutiny. Across buy-side and sell-side transactions, and post-investment.

  • Buy-side & sell-side AI due diligence
  • AI Readiness Assessment
  • AI governance architecture review
  • Board-level AI strategy
  • Fund-level AI posture & portfolio oversight
02
Engineering Track

AI Engineering

For CTOs in regulated sectors. We design and build production-grade AI systems, including agentic AI, from architecture through deployment, with safety, auditability, and regulatory readiness built in.

  • AI system architecture
  • Agentic AI design & deployment
  • Production deployment for regulated environments
  • AI safety & auditability frameworks
  • Governance-ready pipeline design

Selected engagements

AI Strategy & Agentic AI Workforce Design

Architected the AI strategy for a leading home insurer, defining the path from legacy platform to an agentic AI-first operating model, spanning capability design, platform architecture, and a deployment approach built for scale.

AI Due Diligence: Buy-Side & Sell-Side

Buy-side and sell-side technology and AI due diligence across healthcare AI transactions for PE funds. Assessing platform architecture, data governance, accountability and audit-readiness, technical team capability, and the robustness of AI strategy ahead of investment and exit decisions.

AI Platform Re-Architecture

Re-architected the core AI platform for a European health technology company, integrating established clinical AI models with modern generative AI capabilities. Rebuilt the semantic layer to sharpen reasoning, improve measurable performance, and establish a technically differentiated position, demonstrable to investors and clinicians alike.

Build AI your organisation can depend on.

Depend.AI works with investors and operators where the quality of AI advice materially affects the outcome. If that's your situation, get in touch.

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