(--) Company
About Alex
Alex is built by The AI Shop Inc., an AI consultancy and product company. We give mid-market companies a decision system whose judgment compounds — sharper about their business with every call.
We started Alex because we kept seeing the same problem: growing companies making high-stakes calls without a system to debate them, record them, or learn from them. Not because the talent doesn’t exist — but because mid-market companies sit in a gap. They’ve outgrown gut feel, they haven’t yet hired a full leadership team, and the reasoning behind each call disappears the moment it’s made. Alex closes that gap.
Inside Alex, an executive committee — CFO, COO, Head of Legal, CHRO — argues each major call from every angle, reconciles to one authoritative recommendation, and carries the reasoning into its institutional memory. The longer you use Alex, the sharper it gets about your business specifically — because the facts and reasoning from every deliberation are carried into the next.
(01) The Team
Who’s behind Alex

Ekow Duker
Co-Founder & CEO
Former Chief Analytics Officer at Barclays Africa and COO at Absa Capital Private Equity. Co-founder of Zindi, Africa's largest data science platform. INSEAD MBA. Published novelist and a long-standing observer of how organisations make decisions under pressure — the problem Alex was built to solve.

Sachin Mohan
Co-Founder & CTO
Leads Alex's technical architecture, including the institutional memory infrastructure and the executive-committee framework that let Alex argue out decisions and remember the reasoning. Background in enterprise software engineering and AI systems design.

Enoch Essien
Software Developer & AI Engineer
Builds and refines the AI systems that let Alex's executive committee debate and decide, with a focus on the agent frameworks and reasoning pipelines at Alex's core. Contributes across the full stack, from data ingestion to the conversational interfaces executives interact with daily.
(02) Strategic Advisor
Dr Peter Crow, PhD CMInstD

Dr Peter Crow is an internationally-respected board director, advisor, educator, and creator of the Boardcraft philosophy, devoted to helping boards around the world govern with impact. He holds a doctorate in corporate governance and strategy, and is a chartered director.
He has served on the boards of private and PE-controlled companies, family businesses, and community agencies; advised boards, chairs, institutional investors and governments; and contributed to the fortunes of a wide range of enterprises across five continents.
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