John Utley

John founded Sophizo on a single observation: the companies that win with AI are not the ones with the biggest budgets. They are the ones with the right architecture underneath.

That conviction came from inside the operating room. Eleven-plus years in financial services. Engineering roles at IBM and HCL Software. A fintech SaaS journey from $3M to $75M ARR through IPO. Co-founding an SEC-approved BTC and ETH algorithmic hedge fund built on 14,000-plus hours of technical analysis study.

AI was never a trend to chase. It was the operating layer that made every system compound. Sophizo brings that same discipline to growth-stage revenue motions: rigorous, fractional, and built to transfer.