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<div class="mark">Nikhil Sood<span>.</span></div>
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<a href="#gate">Gate</a>
<a href="#evidence">Evidence</a>
<a href="#index">Index</a>
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<div class="eyebrow"><span class="dot"></span> Available for engagements, Q3 2026</div>
<h1>I build AI that knows when to <em>refuse</em>.</h1>
<p class="lede">
Hospitals, EU fintech, AML. Seven years shipping systems into places where a
confident wrong answer costs more than no answer at all. Every claim
<strong>cites its source or gets struck</strong>.
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<a class="btn" href="#gate">Check if I'm a fit</a>
<a class="btn btn-ghost" href="#index">See all 49 services</a>
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<div class="ev-tag">HMC · 2025 · 8 months</div>
<h3>Radiology AI, Hamad Medical</h3>
<p>AI diagnostic assistant embedded in a live hospital radiology lab, in the clinical path rather than beside it.</p>
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<h3>Multi-agent credit rating</h3>
<p>Five cooperating agents drafting rating reports behind a citation gate. The direct ancestor of Sentinel.</p>
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<dt>Analyst time</dt><dd>70% cut</dd>
<dt>Volume</dt><dd>250 to 1,250/yr</dd>
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<h3>Fraud and KYC ML</h3>
<p>Detection across 50+ countries under EU AML5, FATF and OFAC. Fifteen production models on one MLflow pipeline.</p>
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<dt>Precision</dt><dd>96%</dd>
<dt>False pos.</dt><dd>23% lower</dd>
<dt>Deploy</dt><dd>2wk to 3d</dd>
<dt>Audits</dt><dd>No findings</dd>
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<h3>Eval-gated agent platform</h3>
<p>Fourteen agents, five paying customers, six evaluators per run. Sentinel refuses to draft an AML narrative it cannot cite.</p>
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<dt>Hallucination</dt><dd>0.5 to 0.95</dd>
<dt>PII detect</dt><dd>0.7 to 1.0</dd>
<dt>Tests</dt><dd>1,200+</dd>
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