About
Auditable AI for Regulated Industries
Founded on 26+ years of enterprise experience across the US, Australia, and China.
What we do
DATAP.AI is an AI intelligence platform designed for industries where governance, auditability, and compliance are not optional. We unify data, analytics, AI, and customer intelligence into a single auditable stack — replacing fragmented tools with one platform that regulated organisations can trust.
The problem
Fragmented data
Critical data scattered across systems with no single source of truth.
No AI governance
AI adoption growing but no audit trail or decision transparency.
Auditability gap
Regulated industries require traceability. Most AI tools treat it as an afterthought.
Disconnected customer intelligence
CRM, analytics, and AI operate in separate silos.
The layer
One layer on the data stack you already run. Four things it delivers.
01
Open storage you own
Solves: Engine lock-in
One copy on Apache Iceberg in your own cloud storage, readable by any engine.
02
Self-building pipelines
Solves: Slow, hand-written ETL
Models and tests generated from the source schema, in dbt, in your environment.
03
Governance that travels
Solves: Audit trail stops at the engine
Column-level lineage and personal-data flags held in your own tables, across engines.
04
AI that inherits it
Solves: Ungoverned AI access
Models you choose, running where you choose, gated by the data’s classification.
Live verticals
Target industries
Our team
Founder-led. Engineers, data scientists and AI agents behind the layer.
Donny Zhao
Founder, CEO & Chief Architect
20+ years of ETL, data integration, and cloud digital transformation. Designed and built the modern data stacks at CMC Markets and ASX end-to-end. Multi-certified database, big-data and ML engineer.
Community
The founding team has contributed to the Australian data and AI community for 4+ years:
Sydney Data & AI Meetup
480+ members. In-person sessions on data engineering, AI architecture, and practical ML.
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Data & AI WeChat Community
320+ members. Chinese-language knowledge sharing on data engineering and cloud architecture.
Mission: Enable organisations to deploy auditable, intelligent AI systems safely in regulated environments. No black boxes.