About Sentia
Practitioners, not theorists
Sentia was founded by finance and operating practitioners who were already using AI in their own work. We implement what we'd use ourselves, and we stay until the team runs it.
That background shapes how we work: commercial judgment first, tooling second, and a bias towards finishing what we start.
What we believe
Start from the work
We map how the work runs before we choose any tool. Most adoption problems are workflow problems.
Implementation, start to finish
We stay through pilot, build and rollout, and hand over something that works.
Governance is part of the design
Review gates, source traceability and approval steps are designed in from the start.
No fake scale
Partners do the work directly, and we limit the number of engagements at any time.
Partners
The partners
When you work with Sentia, you work directly with the partners rather than a junior team managed remotely. Decisions are faster and the advice comes from people who have done the work.
Lewis brings a background across private capital, investment banking, and operational improvement, with a strong focus on practical AI use in both financial and operating-business transformation. He previously worked at Bain Capital Credit and Houlihan Lokey, and has also advised through Partners in Performance on commercial diligence, strategy, and performance improvement engagements. More recently, he worked as a financial modelling expert helping train a leading AI lab's model to build financial models, giving him a direct view of where AI can improve finance workflows, and where human judgment still matters most.
Ken is a corporate finance and strategy adviser with experience across investment banking, capital raising, financial modelling, and operational strategy. He has advised on capital raising and strategic projects through Goliath Capital Consulting and Medlatec, and previously worked at Houlihan Lokey across M&A and restructuring. He has also worked as a financial modelling expert helping train a leading AI lab's model to build financial models, giving him direct exposure to how AI performs in real finance workflows. His broader operating experience across business systems, live operations, and data-led decision-making gives him a practical lens on how AI can be embedded into workflows to improve speed, quality, and execution.
Richard is a corporate finance adviser with experience across financing, M&A and corporate advisory. He started his career in investment banking at UBS and Deutsche Bank, before spending 18 years at ANZ advising through a transaction and commercial lens. Having assessed hundreds of businesses, he brings a deep commercial perspective to strategic and financing decisions. His focus today is on practical AI and automation that make operations more scalable, lower-friction, and less dependent on key individuals.
A broader bench
Beyond the partners, Sentia draws on an extended team. It includes operating executives with hands-on, multi-site transformation experience, among them current heads of AI transformation inside national operators, and AI-native product and engineering leads who have built and shipped financial products at scale. We bring them in where the engagement needs them.
How we engage
How we engage
Small, senior team
Fixed-scope assessments
Pilot-to-rollout implementation
Training programmes
Clients across Australia and internationally.
Bring us one workflow or one business unit.
We'll tell you where AI is worth applying, what it would take, and what we would do first.