Founded 2018
Founders Ben Stein, CEO Joshua Kettlewell, CTO

Staple AI builds the compliance-native infrastructure powering the world’s shift to trusted, machine-readable documents. Their metastructured data and trust-layer technology transform unstructured content into cryptographically verifiable, regulator-ready data for enterprises, banks, insurers, and governments, cutting processing time by 90% while meeting AI governance, auditability, and e-invoicing mandates across 80+ countries.


Founders

Ben
Stein

CEO

Ben is an accomplished CFO, chartered accountant in 3 countries, and qualified lawyer. He has over 17 years of financial and commercial expertise in technology, financial services, real estate, engineering, and infrastructure, having advised on numerous large scale capital investments, technology projects, and business initiatives across North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Joshua
Kettlewell

CTO

Joshua holds a PhD in Quantum Information from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he focused on the cryptographic applications of quantum mechanics beyond key distribution. He is a theoretical and mathematical physics graduate from the University of Sheffield. 

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