CEO MONTHLY / NOVEMBER 2025 19 Nizar Assanie: The Founder Leading the World’s First “AI Hedge Fund in a Box” TruthSayer AI is redefining modern investing by merging hedge-fund-grade quant models with cutting-edge AI infrastructure and LLMs. Behind this transformation is founder Nizar Assanie, whose journey from serial entrepreneur to fintech innovator sits at the center of one of the most ambitious AI platforms in the retail investing market today. Named Most Influential CEO 2025 – Financial Technology (Canada), Nizar’s story exemplifies the pioneering mindset that built TruthSayer AI into a company that is transforming how retail investors invest their money using the power of AI. A Founder Motivated by a Technological Inflection Point The origins of TruthSayer AI trace back to a conversation between Nizar, CMO Nick Royle, and CRO Ivan Royle. The three had spent decades watching Google reshape information access—and were determined that the next 25 years of AI would not pass them by. “We didn’t want to sit on the sidelines again. We wanted to build something that drove the next wave, not observe it.” Their “Google moment” came in 2023, when they realized the AI revolution was enabling something previously impossible: retail investors could finally access hedgefund-grade Alpha. Finally, complex Machine Learning models common in quantitative finance and previously only available to wealthy clients of hedge funds could now be accessed by retail investors using the power of LLMs. That insight would become the core of TruthSayer AI and its mission. The Retail Alpha Gap: An $8 Trillion Problem Nizar was struck by one staggering insight: Gen Z and Millennials need 9% per year to retire comfortably, but the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 returns about 7.1% — a structural deficit that compounds into an $8T shortfall. This gap explains why so many younger investors lose money despite bull markets. “I’ve spent years talking with young investors who were doing everything right— saving, researching, trying new strategies—yet still falling short,” Nizar says. “It wasn’t a discipline problem. It was an access problem.” This access problem—access to institutional-grade models and signals—is exactly what TruthSayer AI set out to solve. A Career Built on Data, Decision-Making, and Innovation Nizar is no stranger to building companies. His career spans more than 20 years in quant fund management and data analytics. He has co-founded five companies and successfully exited two—including an 8-figure data analytics business. As Nizar tells it: “My background in data, AI, and quant helped me see one thing clearly: the average investor isn’t losing because they’re irrational — they’re losing because the tools they need never had an edge.” Three Proprietary Quant Engines Delivering Real Alpha TruthSayer AI is built on three production-tested models that leverage structured, machine learning and causal inference techniques. Each of the models has now been running for over a year and all three have a proven win rate north of 80% and Alpha in the 15% - 45% over the S&P 500 with a significantly lower Beta compared to most money managers out there. And these results are not theoretical—they represent actual trades placed in a live account. Turning AI/ML Into Actionable Alpha TruthSayer AI’s Dark Pools AI© model, for example, is based on Causal Average Treatment Effects (ATE) of specific footprints left by institutional investors in dark pools. Based on over 900,000 datapoints of institutional transactions in US stocks and subsequent price movements over 7 days, the positive expectancy of this strategy ranges from 0.55% - 0.81%. While this number does not seem large, it’s a statistical edge that translates to an annualized return of 16.4% - 24.2%. Nizar and his team have been able to take these ML models and build out a model-agnostic LLMaaS architecture that are tied to credible data sources. These RAG pipelines are built to eliminate hallucination — a critical requirement in financial markets when retail investors are asking questions of TruthSayer AI. As Nizar explains: “We built TruthSayer AI so it performs like a hedge fund, not like a content generator on YouTube showing you Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes chart patterns that don’t work.” An AI Company with Revenue Unlike other start-ups, the founders of TruthSayer AI have real skin in the game. They have invested over $650,000 of their own capital — taking TruthSayer AI from $0 in revenue in 2023 to an exit run rate of $2 million by the end of 2026. With a user base that is growing 7% weekly and 20% of their users using their app daily, Nizar is focussed on achieving profitability in 2026 – only three years after the founding of the company. It is for this reason that he has been named here the Most Influential CEO 2025 – Financial Technology (Canada). Contact: Nizar Assanie Company: TruthSayer AI Web Address: https://www. TruthSayer.com/
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