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About A1 and Bjak

  • Bjak: largest online insurance aggregator in Southeast Asia, expanding into a finance super app
    • Operating in four Asian markets, launching into the UK by end of year
  • A1: new company founded by Bjak’s founder this year, focused entirely on AI applications
    • Building a productivity app coordinating messages, emails, and calendars
    • App can reply to emails, move items, and send reminders with user permission
  • Current team of eight engineers, distributed across China, US, Switzerland, and Japan
  • No UK brand presence yet; seeking agency support for UK hiring
Hiring Scope and Timeline
  • Original brief: 15 UK engineering hires
  • Target: 15 hires by end of year, timeline is tight but flexible
  • Still exploring and interviewing recruitment agencies; no decisions made yet
  • Prioritizing contingency-based model given they are new to the market
Key Roles and Fit
  • Core needs: GenAI, agentic systems, AI infrastructure, LLM applications
  • Also posted a Director of AI Science role (research-focused)
  • Deeprec and Trust in Soda flagged as strong fit
    • Deeprec covers frontier research, GenAI, agentic AI, speech/voice, AI infrastructure
    • Trust in Soda covers AI engineering with a fintech/financial services bias
    • Broadgate covers financial crime, risk, legal, and compliance
Commercial and Process
  • Candy to review the deck and placement list internally before proceeding
  • Will send Deeprec their standard service agreement template after review
  • Decision criteria: track record, capability overview, and rate
  • Onboarding likely straightforward; will set up a Lark group once