Why Altay AI

Do the best work of your career.

We're small on purpose, senior by design, and stubborn about quality. If you want to build AI that removes real work rather than power another slide, you'll fit in here.

What we stand for

Six things we believe — and hire against.

Pioneers in our field

Agentic AI for the office of the CFO and COO isn't a side bet for us — it's the whole company. You'll work on problems nobody has a template for yet, alongside people who are actively defining the space.

We start with why

No chasing hype. No shipping AI for the sake of it. Every engagement starts with the problem — and if the answer isn't AI, we'll say so. It keeps our work honest and worth doing.

Fit-for-purpose solutions

No cookie-cutter builds. No borrowed playbooks. We design each solution around the workflow it lives in, and we stand behind every line of it. Copy-paste isn't craft.

Subject-matter experts

Our team reads a balance sheet as fluently as a codebase. We hire people with real domain depth in finance, operations and technology — and we back their judgement.

Hyper-focused on impact

We measure what shipped and what changed. Hours saved. Errors cut. Control tightened. If it doesn't move a number on the P&L or the risk register, we won't pretend it did.

Invested in our people

Training, conferences, protected time to explore what's next — that's how we stay at the front. The best solutions come from people who are still learning, so we make sure ours always are.

Benefits

What you get

  • · Competitive salary
  • · Private health cover for you and your family
  • · A generous learning budget — books, courses, conferences, the lot
  • · Protected time to explore what's next in AI
  • · Flexible hybrid working — most of us are in London 2–3 days a week
  • · Enhanced parental leave and 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

The interview

How we hire

  1. 1. Intro call with a founder — mutual context, no theatre (30 min).
  2. 2. Deep-dive on a real problem in your discipline (60–90 min).
  3. 3. Team round — meet the people you'd actually work with.
  4. 4. Final conversation, then offer. We aim to close in under two weeks.

Ready when you are.

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