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Communify
John Wise's Communify powers AI-driven insights for 7 of Barron's top 10 online brokers, transforming market data into compliant, auditable narratives.
Communify
Communify operates from Los Angeles and New York with additional offices in Tampa, London, Sydney, Boulder, El Segundo, and two locations in India. The firm was founded by Chairman and CEO John Wise, though its founding year and the origin of its initial backing remain undisclosed. Its c-suite combines product and financial operations leadership through Chief Product Officer Yaela Shamberg, and CFO and President of Global Sales Operations Fiona Francois. The firm's core asset is a financial AI, digital, and data solutions platform distributing intelligence through four product pillars: Intelligent Media, Intelligent Investor, Intelligent Advisor, and Intelligent Manager. The flagship MIND AI technology delivers modular capabilities — Signals for real-time alerts, Stories for auto-generated narratives, Scores for single-actionable ratings, Intelligent Dialogues for guided compliant workflows, Intelligent Chat for firm-specific conversational AI, and Autonomous Decision Agents for executing outcomes. Its largest clients are traditional wealth platforms; 7 of Barron's Best Online Brokers and the top 5 platforms rated by Stockbrokers.com use Communify. The firm processes over 5.9 billion daily data requests and has delivered over 240 million quotes and more than 26 million charts. The firm fields a disclosed leadership team of at least 23 professionals. Its international footprint includes dedicated regional presidents: Will Bailey leads APAC and strategy, Mark Trousdale runs European operations and growth, Becky Warner oversees Europe operations, and Michelle Bishop and Jennie Wang split North American responsibilities by client tier. In 2025, Communify won the WealthTech Americas Data Provider of the Year award and the WealthTech European Award for Innovative Use of AI, cited for its MIND AI suite and compliant content at scale. It was also named WealthTech Provider of the Year by Wealth & Finance International. Communify's structural distinctiveness lies in pairing a massive, permissioned financial Knowledge Base with a suite of deterministic, rather than open-ended generative, AI capabilities. This architecture ensures every insight — whether an automated portfolio narrative or a client risk score — is auditable and traceable to source data, solving the core compliance tension that limits AI adoption inside regulated broker-dealers and wealth managers.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
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AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Los Angeles
Corporate office
8687 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Additional offices
New York, NY, United States · Tampa, FL, United States · London, United Kingdom · Sydney, Australia · Boulder, CO, United States · Noida, India · El Segundo, CA, United States · Kolkata, India
Principals
John Wise
Chairman & CEO
Yaela Shamberg
Chief Product Officer
Fiona Francois
CFO, President of Global Sales Operations
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How does Communify's MIND AI differ from general-purpose generative AI in wealth management?
MIND AI operates on a deterministic architecture grounded in Communify's curated Knowledge Base and a client's own proprietary data, rather than relying on open-ended large language models. This means every output — a Stock Story, a Macro Score, or an Intelligent Dialogue — can be traced back to its source. The design enables firms in regulated environments to deploy AI for client-facing workflows without the hallucination and audit-defensibility risks typical of generic chatbots.
Who are Communify's largest clients?
The firm does not name individual clients on its website but quantifies its market penetration by citing independent industry rankings: 7 of the top 10 online brokerages recognized by Barron's use its platform, as do all of the top 5 trading platforms identified by Stockbrokers.com.
What is the Communify Knowledge Base?
It is a structured repository of financial data and relationships that underpins all of the firm's AI applications. Rather than querying the open internet, MIND AI draws on this curated base to generate market stories, power chatbots, and score securities. The firm states it can also integrate a client’s own secure, proprietary data into this framework to deliver institutionally specific, compliant intelligence.
Is Communify a single-family office or a wealth manager?
Communify is neither. It is a financial technology and AI solutions provider whose software is embedded inside wealth management firms, broker-dealers, and asset managers. Its own marketing categorizes its offering into four toolkits: Intelligent Media (for market-facing firms), Intelligent Investor (for self-directed investors), Intelligent Advisor (for financial advisors), and Intelligent Manager (for asset managers).
What does Communify's global operational footprint look like?
The firm lists eight office locations spanning two headquarters in Los Angeles and New York, plus Tampa, London, Sydney, Boulder, El Segundo, and two offices in India (Noida and Kolkata). Regional leadership includes a President of APAC and a President of Europe, reflecting active business lines in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
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