About Us

Engineering Trust in AI

Founded in 2021, Formic AI was born out of a necessity to solve AI unreliability.

At Formic AI, we believe that high-stakes professional work should never rely on faith. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized content generation, they remain fundamentally unsafe for regulated industries due to their "black box" nature and propensity for hallucination. We don't just build AI; we build the Governance Layer that makes AI safe for the real world.

Headquartered in Toronto, Formic AI is a sovereign Canadian developer.

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel J Escott

Daniel Escott is an Ontario-licensed lawyer and a recognized leader in the field of AI regulation and governance. Daniel serves as a PhD Candidate at York University and a Research Fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Risk & Regulation Lab (AIRRL). His work focuses on the regulation and use of AI in Canada's justice system. He wrote Canada's federal court rules on the use of AI for judges in 2023.

Chief Technology Officer

Varun Ranganathan

Varun Ranganathan is the technical architect behind the Boreal framework and the patented Boreal architecture. He is a specialist in neuro-symbolic AI, focusing on creating systems that are both computationally efficient and mathematically deterministic. Varun published six peer-reviewed papers in top-tier AI conferences and journals, including NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), WWWJ (World Wide Web Journal), and ECML (European Conference on Machine Learning) before completing his masters in Link Prediction over Knowledge Graph Embeddings in 2021.