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RoTrust.ai

Behavioural risk & compliance infrastructure for brokers, banks, NBFCs and investment apps

Founded Aug 2026Pre-funding FintechEnterprise Software

The founders

Smit BailwalSB
Ex-Adobe Systems, KPMG, Cognizant

The company

What they're building

RoTrust.ai is building behavioural risk and compliance infrastructure — a guardrail-and-nudge layer that sits between financial institutions and their customers. It pairs a Guardrail Engine for pre-transaction checks across regulatory, institution-set and customer-set rules with a Nudge Engine offering 50+ lifecycle triggers, churn-risk scoring and effectiveness measurement against holdouts.

Why now

Brokers, banks, NBFCs and investment apps are under mounting pressure to prove customer-protection and vulnerability safeguards, not just tick regulatory boxes. With SEBI rule packs shipping and FCA, ESMA and FINRA engine-ready, RoTrust is aiming at the widening gap between what regulators expect and what most platforms can enforce in real time.

The backstory

The company was founded by Smit Bailwal in August 2026 to treat customer protection as infrastructure rather than an afterthought — encoding regulator, institution and customer constraints into one three-tier authority model. Beyond that, details on the founding story remain thin at this early stage.

Why this team

As a solo-founded, pre-funding company, RoTrust's credibility rests on the specificity of its product thinking: vulnerability gating of commercial messages against live financial state, no PII custody by running in the client environment, and DiscipleTrader Pro personal-limit contracts. The founding team is clearly building for how regulators actually think.

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