Where trusted
AI gets built

Aligning capital, insight and integrity to help build and scale AI as an ally to humanity.

THE SHIFT

The intelligence behind AI decisions

The most important technology decisions of our lifetime are being made now. AI founders are navigating complexities that didn’t exist five years ago. Too many build in isolation, investors back ideas without enough insight and institutions struggle to find partners who truly understand what’s at stake.

AmaniLabs exists to change that.

We work where leadership, capital and principles meet, helping shape ventures that can scale with trust, resilience and long-term value.

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OUR METHOD

Capital with intent

AI is a socio-technical force reshaping work, decision-making and trust. It requires alignment between builders, backers and purpose.

  • Mindset

    How people think matters. We work with leaders who face complexity head-on, admit what they don’t know and commit to figuring it out together. That’s where breakthroughs happen.

  • Motivation

    Why you build shapes what you create. We partner with those who think in decades, not quarters and treat trust as a force multiplier, not a trade-off. That’s how impact and returns endure.

  • Money

    Who funds you matters. We connect founders and investors who share conviction about the long view and refuse to trade integrity for speed. That’s how lasting value gets built.

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Advised by leaders across finance, AI governance and behavioural science

  • Portrait of Ganna Pogrebna

    Ganna Pogrebna

    Behavioural Data Science Pioneer. Professor, David Trimble Chair in Leadership and Organisational Transformation, Queen’s University Belfast.

  • Portrait of Michael Mainelli

    Michael Mainelli

    Chair of Z/Yen & President of London Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Former Lord Mayor of London, 2023 to 2024.

  • Portrait of Nasser Alshaali

    Nasser Alshaali

    Chairman, HSBC Egypt. Previously CEO, Gulf Craft and CEO, DIFC.

  • Portrait of Ryan Carrier

    Ryan Carrier

    Founder of ForHumanity, AI governance expert.

WHAT YOU GET

The right capital, behind the right people,
building the right AI

  • Investors

    Sharpen your lens to identify ventures where integrity and returns reinforce each other. Our diligence goes beyond technical claims, assessing incentives, leadership and execution under pressure.

  • Founders

    Partner with capital that gets it: investors who back integrity, not just speed and who understand that alignment is the starting condition, not the end state.

  • Institutions

    Work with ventures building AI you can trust, deploy and scale with partners who understand risk, regulation and responsibility. This is collaboration built to last, not just to impress.

  • Our commitment

    We bring capital, judgement and principles together to help shape decisions that scale and endure.

Deborah has spent two decades identifying what financial models miss: the human element. Using the AMANI™ Protocol, she flagged Theranos, Greensill and OneCoin well before their collapse.

She founded AmaniLabs because the most consequential decisions about AI are being made right now and they demand the highest levels of foresight and integrity. AmaniLabs exists to help the right money back the right people building the right AI.

Deborah Webster

Deborah Webster

Founder & Chief Architect

Fellow at ForHumanity and author of Better Than Your Behaviour, she helps founders, investors and institutions direct capital towards the people and ventures moving AI in the right direction.

“What gets funded gets built. Who funds it shapes what it becomes.”

AmaniLabs aligns capital, character and capability so the right money backs the right people building the right AI.

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