Vetted. Trusted. On the journey with you.

The Top 10
I stake my name on.

The products, and the people behind them.

Every vendor pitches you a demo. Most of it is noise. I spent ten years working with C-levels in global fintech, separating the tools that move revenue from the ones that just look busy, and I vet the people behind every product as hard as the product itself: the founders, the history, how they show up when something breaks at 3am. Only what survives takes one of ten seats. Pick wrong and you burn budget, months, and credibility with your board. Pick from my Top 10 and you don't.

See What Made the Cut
10yrs
Working with C-levels in global fintech
~15%
Revenue growth, year on year, nine years straight
$1B
The fintech that acquired Autochartist, a deal built on that growth
C-suite
A decade-deep network of founders, CEOs and the people who sign
The Stance

Everyone is selling you something. I stake my name instead.

My network took ten years of showing up and delivering to build: founders, CEOs and the people who sign. One bad recommendation would burn it overnight. That's why my shelf holds ten seats, not fifty. The list is short because my name is on every line of it.

I sat through the demos. I pulled apart the pricing line by line. I tested every claim against operators who'd know, and I vetted the people as hard as the products: who built it, how long they've carried it, how they show up when it breaks. Almost everything got rejected. What survived is the Top 10, and when I bring one of them to your table, my reputation arrives with it.

That's the entire business model.

What "vetted" means here

  • I. Run and tested by me, not read about in a deck
  • II. Pricing pulled apart line by line before you ever see it
  • III. Claims checked against operators who'd know
  • IV. Almost everything rejected. The shortlist is short on purpose.
  • V. Consultative to the end: diagnosis before recommendation, and I stay in the room after signature
The Top 10

Top 10 that made the cut.

Every filled seat earns its place the same way: it grows revenue, protects revenue, or frees the capacity to chase it. I compounded ~15% growth for nine straight years, so I know exactly what moves a P&L and what just looks busy. Nobody buys a seat on this list. Products earn it, and the people behind them earn it too, because I've known most of them for a decade. That's what a recommendation from this list is worth.

01
Business Intelligence

The Business Brain

  • Dashboards describe. They don't decide.
  • 86% say data volume makes decisions harder. (Oracle, 14,000 execs)
  • 77% rarely question the data they rely on.
  • Finds the one constraint choking growth. Hands you the fix.
  • Founder scaled a platform to 400K users in 24 months.
  • BI adoption stuck at 25% for two decades. (Gartner/BARC)
  • The verdict still gets outsourced to a meeting.
  • Learns how your company actually runs.
  • One engagement. Brutal clarity.
  • Skip it and you sharpen the wrong lever, quarter after quarter.
The Business Brain
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02
AI for Business Growth

AI Transformation

  • 95% of GenAI deployments show no profit impact. (MIT)
  • Only 21% of firms have redesigned the work. (McKinsey)
  • In two years, half your competitors out-cost and out-pace you.
  • Led by an operator behind 40+ businesses across 20 industries.
  • Sit this out and you're not waiting.
  • Adoption isn't the gap. Redesign is.
  • Because they rebuilt around AI. Not bolted it on.
  • Rebuilt his own companies AI-first, first.
  • Rewires sales, marketing, support, reporting, decisions.
  • You're competing against the version of your industry that didn't.
AI Transformation
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03
AI for Teams & Executives

Executive AI Agents

  • Not chatbots. Your first AI hire.
  • CEO Advisor: pressure-tests every decision before you commit.
  • SEO Advisor: outthinks agencies charging 10x more.
  • Custom agents for any seat you need filled.
  • Roughly 5% of a specialist hire's monthly cost. (Cooper Fitch)
  • Only 16% of Copilot pilots reach production. (Gartner)
  • 77% say generic AI tools just added workload. (Upwork)
  • Onboard in days. Never drop a thread. Sharper every day.
  • Same agents running the founder's own companies.
  • Wait on headcount and your competitors already hired theirs.
Executive AI Agents
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04
Broker Risk & Infrastructure, With an Edge

One Set of Eyes on Your Whole Stack

  • One outage cost brokers roughly 1% of revenue. (Finance Magnates)
  • An hour of downtime: $300K+ for mid-size firms. (ITIC)
  • Vendor guidance that isn't quietly selling you something else.
  • Four platform integrations. Go-live under 48 hours.
  • 24/7 monitoring. 15-minute incident SLA.
  • Vendor by vendor, nobody owns how it fits.
  • Client trust doesn't come back.
  • Institutional-grade risk and infrastructure, brokerage-focused.
  • Exposure controls, order-flow analysis, independent audits.
  • Keep them split and the gap is where the damage happens.
One Set of Eyes on Your Whole Stack
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05
Broker Infrastructure

Infrastructure That Thinks Like a Dealing Desk

  • Built by dealing-desk veterans, not developers guessing.
  • 5ms of latency costs 1% of flow, 10ms costs 10%. (TABB Group)
  • Most plugin vendors never sat a desk. Yours has.
  • Server-level infrastructure for MT4, MT5, cTrader, DXtrade.
  • Execution controls, margin enforcement, swap and bonus management.
  • Prop tooling, synthetic indices, NOP limits.
  • Platform-native. Zero added latency.
  • Shelf doesn't cover it? They build beyond it.
  • Bespoke plugins, fixed-priced before a line is written.
  • Stay generic and every edge case is a ticket you wait days for.
Plugins That Think Like a Dealing Desk
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06
Prop Firm Risk & Infrastructure, With an Edge

Real Risk Management for Prop Firms

  • Dashboards show positions, not schemes.
  • This engine catches it before the payout, not after.
  • 1 in 7 prop firms worldwide shut down, 2024 to 2025. (VeritasChain)
  • The real move: acquire the platform outright. Own the edge.
  • Every program leaks the same way: rules versus what traders do.
  • Misses group passing, cross-account hedging, latency arbitrage.
  • A payout is cash from your operating revenue, not sim money.
  • Full challenge and funded-stage rule enforcement.
  • Every payout stopped is margin recovered.
  • Or keep finding the abuse after the money's gone.
Real Risk Management for Prop Firms
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07
Payments & Stablecoin Rails

Money In, Money Out. Best Rates. No Excuses.

  • Europe: no card network, no chargebacks, 40-85% cheaper.
  • India rails: payment success jumped from 25% to 65%.
  • False declines cost 1-2% of revenue. (Oxford Economics)
  • One termination puts you on Mastercard's MATCH list for five years.
  • Declined. Declined. Declined. Funding your competitor by Monday.
  • Clients forgive a bad trade. Never a stuck withdrawal.
  • Most PSPs react to declines. This removes them structurally.
  • Fiat and crypto pay-ins across Africa, Australia, the EU.
  • Same-day OTC settlement. De-banked? Dedicated EU/UK accounts.
  • Stitch PSPs together and every failed deposit costs a client.
Money In, Money Out. Best Rates. No Excuses.
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08
Prime of Prime DMA Broker

Liquidity That Completely Changes the Game

  • Tier 1 bank and non-bank feeds. Full STP, around the clock.
  • One LP's rejection rate: 3% to 60% in a month. (XTX Markets)
  • Best Prime of Prime, Finance Magnates London, this year.
  • NFP hits. Now you meet your real liquidity provider.
  • It widens to a canyon and rejects your fills.
  • One LP, opaque pricing, a bridge nobody owns. A countdown.
  • Multi-asset liquidity: FX, metals, indices, commodities.
  • This desk's own retail flow keeps pricing steady when others panic.
  • Regulated in three major jurisdictions. Real balance sheet.
  • Lean on one LP's mood and the next spike prices your book for you.
Liquidity That Completely Changes the Game
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09
Licensing, Acquisitions & Regulatory Counsel

Get Licensed. Or Buy One.

  • 45% of first-time applications fail, up from 27%. (FCA)
  • Starts with counsel: do you even need a licence, and where.
  • Comprehensive coverage: UK, Australia, Cyprus, South Africa, Singapore, UAE, Vanuatu, St Lucia, Mauritius, Cayman Islands, Seychelles, Comoros, and more.
  • One advisor, whole picture. Not scattered answers per market.
  • Two doors: build the license, or acquire one already licensed.
  • Acquisition: due diligence in weeks, not an 18-month wait.
  • "And where are you licensed?" Then silence.
  • A region opens. The application outlives the opportunity.
  • Same advisor handles contracts, structuring, disputes, mid-deal.
  • Stay in the grey zone and one regulator letter unwinds everything.
Get Licensed. Or Buy One.
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10
Engagement for Effective Revenue Growth

Own Every Client Conversation

  • 41% of off-channel breaches involved director grade or above. (FCA)
  • $2B+ in SEC fines since 2021 for off-channel messaging.
  • One compliant inbox: WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram.
  • 72% higher open rates than email.
  • The deal-closing conversation is on someone's personal WhatsApp.
  • Untracked. Unauditable. Gone when that rep resigns.
  • Not a problem a policy memo fixes.
  • Automated re-engagement for deposits that slipped.
  • Official Meta tech partner. Already running at names you'd know.
  • Keep it personal and the relationship is one step from gone.
Own Every Client Conversation
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Every seat on this list has already survived my vetting. The only question left is which one goes to work for your business.

30-Minute Diagnostic
Who This Is For

Any company serious about winning.
Especially the ones who move fast because they can't afford not to.

Any Industry

Founders and leadership teams

The Business Brain, AI Transformation and Executive AI Agents don't care what you sell. They care that you have revenue, ambition, and a constraint you haven't found yet. If your board meetings run on opinion instead of clarity, that's the problem I solve.

Individual Executives

One executive, one AI hire

You don't need a board mandate to move. Executive AI Agents are hired one seat at a time: a CEO with an advisor that pressure-tests every call, a marketing lead with an SEO brain that outthinks the agency. If you carry the number personally, this one is yours.

Home Turf

Brokers, prop firms and trading platforms

This is home. I know your P&L, your sales floor, your churn curve and your risk book, because I spent ten years building growth for the companies that supply you. Engagement, risk, infrastructure, plugins: most of this list was built for exactly this floor.

How I Work

No pitch deck. A diagnosis.

1.

We talk. Thirty minutes.

You tell me where it actually hurts: growth, conversion, operations, clarity. I tell you straight, on the same call, whether I have your answer. If I don't, I say so on the spot, and you've still spent thirty minutes with someone who knows your market cold. No follow-up email trying to keep the deal alive.

✓ Straight answers on the call itself
2.

First the audit. Then the answer.

A short, sharp audit of how you handle the problem today, not a sales deck dressed up as discovery. You keep the findings whether we go further or not. I'd rather lose the deal than recommend into the dark, because a bad recommendation costs me more than it costs you.

✓ You keep the findings, deal or no deal
3.

I open the right door. And walk through it with you.

Senior people, not sales reps. Terms that make sense because I've negotiated both sides of this exact table. And I don't disappear after signature: I'm in the demo with you, an insider's eye across the legal process, deep in the onboarding until it runs, and still on the journey with you years later.

✓ Still on the journey years later

Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch. If I can't help, I'll tell you inside the first ten.

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Track Record

You've probably shaken my hand already.

I'm Bazil De Bruyn. Baz, to an industry that's shaken my hand for a decade. For nearly ten years I was the commercial engine at Autochartist: roughly 15% revenue growth, every single year, nine years straight, trusted directly by ownership with no layers in between. That growth played a direct role in the company's acquisition by oneZero Financial Systems, a billion-dollar fintech and the largest technology provider in the space, where I served as Director of Business Development.

Since then: SVP of Partner Solutions in stablecoin payments, and a career spent evaluating platforms, pricing and vendor claims for a living. I've sat close enough to legal, finance, marketing, product and growth, not as a spectator but as the one making the pieces fit, to know when a pitch will survive contact and a product will thrive with your actual business, and when it's just a good deck.

Every deal across that decade was won the same way: diagnose first, recommend second, stay in the room after signature. Elevate Edge is that judgment, working for you.

Bazil De Bruyn
  • —Seven years driving the growth, then the acquisition by a $1B fintech
  • —Director of Business Development, oneZero Financial Systems
  • —SVP Partner Solutions, stablecoin payments
  • —Enterprise sales, consultative from first call to close
  • —A C-level network across global trading, ten years deep
  • —The vetting already done. The shortlist already made.
In Their Words

Don't take mine for it.

Enterprise value sales in B2B fintech is challenging: long cycles, technical buyers, multi-year contracts and senior stakeholders across the globe. Bazil thrives in exactly that environment. He took the time to genuinely understand what a prospective client was trying to solve, and then built a compelling case around their specific context. He had a regular cadence of closing large deals.

Grant AnsellCEO, Smoke Customer Intelligence · managed Bazil directly at Autochartist

His consistency was key in helping maintain a 15% annual growth rate in a mature, highly competitive market. Highly capable of mapping out multi-phase enterprise deals and engaging professionally with senior decision-makers, always backed by thorough preparation.

Rob HortonManaged Bazil directly at Autochartist

The most tenacious sales person you'll ever meet. Never takes no for an answer. Process driven, meticulous.

Ilan AzbelFounder & CEO, Autochartist · managed Bazil directly

Working with Bazil across both Autochartist and oneZero Financial Systems was one of the more genuinely positive professional relationships I have experienced in this industry. I was conducting a rigorous, research-driven evaluation of competing platforms at the time, and Bazil supported that process with exceptional responsiveness, product knowledge, and a level of personal investment that is rare in a vendor relationship. He is someone who genuinely invests in the people he works with, and that makes all the difference.

Maged Abidou, PhD, FRMHead of Product Innovation, GTN Group · client across Autochartist & oneZero

In a world where people often go quiet after the contract is signed, Bazil was the opposite. Proactive, attentive, and genuinely invested in making sure the solutions we had implemented were delivering real value. He set the bar for what great client relationship management looks like.

Andrew QuineCOO, SaaS & FinTech scale-ups · client at oneZero Financial Systems

Having worked with Bazil for almost a decade in various roles, I found him an excellent collaborator. He is persuasive, communicative, competent and thorough, and of impeccable character. In other words, what a top executive should be. I would have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone.

Christos AgathocleousInstaforex · client for almost a decade
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The Next Move

Thirty minutes. Your hardest problem.
My straight answer.

If one of the ten solves it, you'll know exactly how, and I'll be beside you from first demo through onboarding and beyond. If none of them do, I'll tell you that too. This isn't a pitch, it's a door. Walk through it once and you'll know within thirty minutes whether I'm worth keeping in the room.

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