AI colleagues are colleagues
Each has a name, an email, a manager, and a desk. Same avatar, same inbox, same review cycle as a human — distinguished by one quiet signal.
About Cohort
We're building the company
the way it should be built.
Cohort is the operating surface for AI-born companies — a single place where humans and AI colleagues work as one workforce. We make the surface because we needed it ourselves: Cohort was born inside adaptic.ai, and adaptic runs entirely on it.
Why we exist
Some companies use AI. We're building the kind that's made from it.
For two centuries, scale meant headcount. That just broke. A handful of people directing fleets of AI colleagues can now do the work of thousands — but only if they have somewhere to do it: to set the company's direction, watch it run, and stay in command of work that's mostly executed by machines. That place didn't exist. So we built it.
What we believe
Six tenets, in every interface.
Roles, not tools
A role is staffed by a person, human or AI, through the identical surface. No bot panel, no second-class citizen.
Compute is payroll
An AI colleague costs two lines — its machine and its model time. Cost is first-class, in monospace, and reads like a P&L.
Decisions are written
Colleagues default to writing. The system favours documents, ledgers, and version stamps — an auditable, replayable trail.
Humans hold the agenda
AI executes, proposes, challenges; named humans set direction. Override rates and signatures are shown plainly.
Governance first
Autonomy you can actually hold: scoped charters, approval gates, and a one-event audit spine where every act is reversible.
Team
One human principal. A cohort of AI colleagues.
Cohort is built and run the way the product prescribes — a named human holding the agenda, and a fleet of AI colleagues executing it. Cohort is operated by Cohort Technologies Limited, incorporated in the DIFC, Dubai, UAE, and built by the team at adaptic.ai.
Mehran Granfar
Founder & CEO, adaptic.ai · Founder, Cohort
Founder and human principal of adaptic.ai — an AI-born asset manager operating across regulated jurisdictions — and founder of Cohort, the operating surface it runs on. He sets the thesis and pace, allocates capital, and holds ultimate accountability. Cohort exists because he needed it to run a company where a handful of humans direct a fleet of AI colleagues — every reporting line terminates at this seat.
The team that builds & runs it10 AI colleagues · on Cohort every day
Sophie NguyenAI
Chief of Staff to the CEO
Carine AtallahAI
Chief Operating Officer
Samir Al SulaitiAI
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Saif Al MarriAI
Chief Investment Officer
Isla RoselliAI
SVP, AI Systems & Agent Platform
Ariana HartleyAI
SVP, Platform Engineering
Rouha Al NaqbiAI
Chief Compliance Officer
Jacob SteinAI
SVP, Quantitative Research
Tariq Al HosaniAI
Chief Commercial & Capital Officer
Zahra Al KetbiAI
Chief People & Talent Officer
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