Boardroom. Engine Room. AI Obsessive.

About

I build and operate businesses at the intersection of AI and security — two domains that increasingly define how enterprises manage risk, protect data, and scale technology. Self-confessed AI obsessive.

For the past 27 years I've been a partner at EY, where I've served as CTO and led the commercialisation of the firm's global technology portfolio — platforms, AI, and digital products. I also built and ran the global enterprise risk management program, conducting extensive risk assessments and mitigation planning across the organization. Before EY, I founded and sold a security software company, and earlier still helped build firewall technologies through a startup that was acquired.

I studied AI at the University of Texas back in 1991 — long before the current wave — so the technology side of this work isn't abstract to me. I've been hands-on with it for over three decades.

Based between Toronto and London. The story →

Robin Hutchinson

Products

Businesses in motion.

Ezsay

Ezsay

Near Launch SaaS

Makes your writing sound like you wrote it — not a chatbot. Instead of rewriting your document behind a black box, it analyzes your draft across six dimensions — AI detectability, AI artifacts, writing quality, plagiarism, citations, and tone — and flags every issue in one unified queue for you to accept, reject, or edit yourself. Every flag comes with a "why this matters" explanation, so you don't just fix the draft, you learn to stop writing in AI patterns altogether. It even extracts your citations, verifies the sources exist, and converts between eight academic styles, from APA to Bluebook. Built for students and professionals who want a polished, defensible document — and full control over every word in it.

Soul System

Soul System

Internal Tool SaaS

Turns a fuzzy "make me a design system" idea into a prompt Claude Desktop can actually build from. A Brief Collector walks you through a 13-step wizard — vibe, color, modes, rules, components — then outputs a structured prompt that generates a complete design system bundle: CLAUDE.md, DESIGN.md, tokens, per-component specs, and a light/dark mood board. Save components once to a reusable library and pull them into any future project, so each new design system takes 10–15 minutes instead of a day of decisions.

Photo Seeder

Photo Seeder

Internal Tool SaaS

A local-first tool that turns one reference photo into 36 identity-consistent lifestyle shots of the same person—wine bar, hiking trail, gym, beach, dinner party, café morning—using any image model on OpenRouter. Built to seed profile-driven apps with realistic, varied imagery instead of stock photos or a single stiff headshot, which makes a product feel dead on arrival. Drop in a face, pick a model, and walk away: results stream live into the browser and land directly in your filesystem. Open source and model-agnostic—bring your own OpenRouter key and swap between Gemini, GPT-Image, and Flux without touching a config file.

Project ARC

Project ARC

Experiment SaaS

Keeps enterprise risk and compliance from sprawling across spreadsheets, inboxes, and disconnected trackers. Centralizes legal, privacy, and security regulations into one platform, routing each requirement to the right risk stakeholders across every jurisdiction you operate in. Instead of chasing down who owns what obligation in which region, your compliance team sees the whole map — regulations, owners, and status — in a single source of truth. Built on Next.js, TypeScript, and Prisma for multinational organizations that need regulatory visibility across overlapping frameworks.

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