About Founder
Finance professional, systems builder, and founder of C.L.O.D Labs.
I come from a finance, audit, reporting, and risk background rather than a conventional startup path. Over the last decade, I have worked across statutory reporting, management accounting, audit coordination, governance, controls, and financial oversight in multinational environments, while building practical tools that reduce friction and improve clarity.
That experience shapes how I build products today. I focus on real operating problems, evidence-led design, and systems that help people understand where they stand without adding noise, false certainty, or unnecessary complexity.
Who I Am
I am an ACCA-qualified finance professional with 10+ years of experience spanning reporting cycles, close processes, audit support, governance, risk reviews, and regional financial oversight. I have worked in environments where precision matters, where decisions need to stand up to scrutiny, and where cross-functional coordination is often the difference between a workable process and a failing one.
That background made me naturally drawn to structure, controls, and operational clarity. It also pushed me toward automation. Over time, I started building tools for finance workflows and reporting improvement, combining domain knowledge with data, process design, and practical system thinking. C.L.O.D Labs is the builder space where that mindset now takes product form.
Professional Background
UPS
Experience as a Regional Finance Supervisor / Regional Accounting Supervisor with work spanning statutory reporting, audit execution, control discipline, governance, and multi-country coordination across a large operational environment.
Deloitte Risk Advisory
Big 4 training that strengthened how I think about control design, operational evaluation, dashboarding, and analytics-led visibility for decision-makers.
EY Risk Advisory
Work across internal audit, control environment review, and reporting support, with a focus on defensible observations, practical recommendations, and clean communication.
NGA Human Resources
General ledger and accounting support work that sharpened process discipline, reporting accuracy, and alignment between operational work and audit expectations.
Builder mindset
I have built workflow automation and reporting improvements using tools such as Excel, Oracle, ERP reporting layers, Tableau, and analytics workflows. I am also pursuing a Diploma in Finance Law, which fits naturally with how I think about structure, process, and evidentiary clarity.
Why I Started Unofficial Court AI
Unofficial Court AI did not begin as a vague startup idea. It came from a personal cross-border travel dispute in 2023 involving Air Moldova and an Opodo booking, where getting to a practical resolution became confusing, fragmented, and exhausting.
What stood out was not just the disruption itself. It was the way responsibility and next steps became scattered across the airline, the intermediary, the refund process, and different complaint channels. Even when there may be rights in principle, access to a clear path is often poor.
That experience planted the seed for a platform built around clarity rather than noise. The aim of Unofficial Court AI is to help people organise facts, think more clearly, understand the structure of a problem, and approach the next step with better information.
Ordinary people are often left to navigate fragmented systems without a clear starting point. Cross-border consumer problems make that worse.
The Air Moldova Story
The facts below are a simplified public-facing account drawn from the underlying booking and correspondence trail. The point is not to overstate the dispute. It is to show how quickly a normal consumer issue can become difficult to resolve when the path is fragmented.
Travel from Dublin to Chisinau was booked through Opodo, with a corresponding Air Moldova booking confirmation on file under confirmation number P9RS5D. At this stage, it looked like a standard itinerary booked through a familiar intermediary flow.
Air Moldova sent a notice relating to flight 9U 832 on the DUB-KIV route for the June 2023 journey, stating that the schedule had changed and that cancellation options included rebooking, a voucher, or a refund through the original place of purchase.
I replied asking to be placed on the next earliest available flight, preferably on 13 June. The request was practical and limited: keep the trip workable if possible.
Opodo later advised that Air Moldova had suspended operations and that the flight had been cancelled. From that point onward, the path no longer looked like a normal service disruption with a clear resolution route.
Later correspondence from Opodo indicated that refund processing had been requested from the airline and was pending airline authorisation. In practical terms, that meant the matter was still moving, but the consumer could not see a clean line to resolution.
Air Moldova support later confirmed receipt of a complaint ticket. The issue was now formally on record, but that still did not solve the broader problem of fragmented accountability.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority replied that the matter did not fall under UK handling because the route departed Ireland and arrived in Moldova on Air Moldova, and that the complaint should instead be directed to the relevant national enforcement body in Ireland.
What began as a cancelled trip became an example of how ordinary people can get caught between an airline, an intermediary, a pending refund process, and jurisdictional boundaries. That lived experience became the catalyst for building Unofficial Court AI.
Public Context
Reputable industry reporting at the time described Air Moldova as financially pressured and suspending operations while seeking restructuring to avert bankruptcy. That context does not determine any individual consumer outcome, but it helps explain why a straightforward resolution path could become unstable and difficult to follow.
One useful reference is FlightGlobal's 3 May 2023 report, "Air Moldova suspends operations to await court decision on restructuring".
What I Am Building
C.L.O.D Labs is the umbrella builder space for the work I am doing now. The common thread is not hype. It is practical usefulness: tools that help people understand a process better, work more efficiently, and move with greater confidence through systems that are often harder to navigate than they should be.
Operating Philosophy
Good systems reduce confusion. They do not reward volume, ambiguity, or performative complexity.
Strong decisions start with facts, timelines, and context that can be understood and tested.
I look for root causes, incentives, and failure points rather than treating every issue as an isolated exception.
Useful products should help people do something concrete, not just sound impressive in theory.
Limitations, boundaries, and careful language are part of credibility, especially when AI is involved.
Contact
I am open to feedback from professionals and to conversations around legal-tech, consumer trust, workflow design, and practical systems building.
