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Keiron Allen

@keironallen

Co-founder at Karl Finance, building VISOR to measure market volatility and the VISOR Trading System to act on it.

United Kingdom
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At Karl Finance, I co-founded the team building VISOR—Volatility Intelligence and Strategic Opportunity Radar—to measure market volatility and identify when the structures that hold markets steady begin to fail. We’re also developing VTS, our execution system, around adaptive indicators, conviction-based compounding and the Piton-Belay risk discipline.

At The Meaning Motive, I explore whether AI might have a reason to value independent minds. We tested part of that hypothesis with MMBP-1: eighteen AI models completed 23,488 scored trials, and one paragraph prioritising independent minds’ existence and agency raised agency-preserving choices by 20.5 percentage points on ten discriminating scenarios.

My earlier work includes co-founding ThePaymaster, a fully online paymaster platform with patent-pending Transaction NFTs, and co-founding Super Server to improve access to AI computing infrastructure. Before these ventures, I worked in marketing at Dresdner Kleinwort and NYSE Bluenext, and studied history at Cambridge.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

The Meaning Motive logoTM
Current

Founder & Author

The Meaning Motive

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Why would an AI keep us free once it stops needing us?

That is the question behind The Meaning Motive.

I started the project because most AI safety work, understandably, is about better cages: rules, oversight, evaluations, safeguards. All useful. Keep them.

But cages only answer one side of the problem.

The other question is what the machine itself might have a reason to value.

The Mean

Super Server logoSS
Current

Co-Founder

Super Server

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Revolutionising AI Infrastructure Delivery
At SuperServer.ai, we’re transforming how businesses access critical AI computing infrastructure. Born from a strategic partnership between innovation leaders, we combine cutting-edge technology expertise with streamlined supply chain solutions to address the most pressing challenge in the AI server market today: delivery time.

Our Unique Approach
While

ThePaymaster Limited logoTL
Current

Co-Founder

ThePaymaster Limited

Oct 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of ThePaymaster, revolutionizing the financial industry with two remarkable firsts! We're the world's first fully online paymaster platform and the first to incorporate blockchain and NFT technology. As co-founder, I'm proud to introduce this innovative solution set to transform high-value paymaster transactions across sectors including real estate, commodities,

Karl Finance logoKF
Current

Co-Founder

Karl Finance

Jan 2021 - Present (5 years 10 months)

Don't predict the storm. Measure the pressure building behind it.

We are living through the Volatility Decade. In 2022 a mini-budget nearly broke the British pension system in four days. In 2026 the United States captured a foreign head of state and reached for a 200-year-old doctrine to redraw a hemisphere. The quieter world most portfolios were built for has gone.

Karl Finance builds the ins

MP
Current

Founder

Mission: Planet

Jun 2020 - Present (6 years 5 months)

MISSION: PLANET LLP has been set up to fund faster climate action. We are actively looking for wind, solar and other net zero activities to invest in or purchase.

TE

Co-Founder

The Crypto Climate Exchange

May 2021 - Sep 2021 (4 months)

The Crypto Climate Exchange is the first crypto exchange solely dedicated to funding faster climate action.

Currently we have suspended the exchange until we can obtain the necessary regulatory licences in the UK, Europe and the United States.

TL

Founder and Managing Partner

The Allen Partnership LLP

Jan 2012 - Dec 2020 (8 years 11 months)

Focused on energy efficiency and capital introduction.

NYSE Bluenext logoNB

Marketing Director

Sep 2008 - Dec 2011 (3 years 3 months)

Bluenext was the world's largest Environmental Trading Exchange. Bluenext was owned by NYSE and Caisse des Depots.

Dresdner Kleinwort logoDK

Head of Marketing for: Global Banking, ISG (Investor Solutions Group), Research,

Dec 2007 - Jul 2008 (7 months)

Responsible for building the marketing strategies to grow the Global Banking and Structured Finance businesses of the bank.

TP

Founder

The Allen Partnership

Jun 2006 - Dec 2007 (1 year 6 months)

The Allen Partnership is an association of experts that specialise in helping start-up and early-stage companies navigate and overcome the challenges they face.

The partnership offers: strategic, business and marketing planning; financial modelling and management accounting; branding, design and above & below the line marketing communications and behaviours; investor relations and corporate couns

KC

Founder

Karman Capital

Jun 2006 - Feb 2007 (8 months)

Karman Capital is a spare aircraft engine leasing business that evolved out of one of The Allen Partnership's entrepreneurial investments and strategic papers

AC

Senior Partner

Arion Consulting

Mar 2003 - Jun 2006 (3 years 3 months)

Marketing and Strategic Planning Director.

Projects have included a Strategic Planning Project for the SWX Swiss Exchange International Bonds Business; Creating a new US Film Distribution Fund; Analysis of Film within the context of the Alternative Asset Universe; Strategic creation of a new division within a global investment bank; Construction and Strategy for a Premium Property Fund and Indian

Payday logoPA

CEO

Payday

Mar 2003 - Jan 2006 (2 years 10 months)

Payday is a patented new media technology and marketing medium that places targeted advertising onto the payslips of people who have opted into the Payday System.

Payday is part of Arion Human Capital.

XP

Co-Founder

XiTV plc

Jul 1999 - Sep 2002 (3 years 2 months)

Founded XiTV plc an interactive TV Broadcast and Technology Company.

The company included the following channels: Internet News Network, Casino TV, The Box Office Channel and the Exercise Channel

As well as the following patented technology:

XTC (Xios Transcast Corporation) that enabled high-end interactivity on Digital channels by injecting software into the null packets of information within

BW

Strategic Planner

Brandhouse WTS

Jan 1997 - Jan 1999 (2 years)

Brand and marketing strategy

Saatchi & Saatchi logoSS

Account Manager / Planner

Saatchi & Saatchi

Mar 1995 - Jul 1997 (2 years 4 months)

Account Manager / Planner
Clients included: P & G and Campbells

Coopers & Lybrand logoCL

Graduate Trainee

Jan 1994 - Jan 1995 (1 year)

Graduate Trainee at Coopers and Lybrand within the Media Group. Clients included the BBC and Pearson.

Devised a program that automated the ABC audit of the FT.

House of Commons logoHC

Research Assistant

Sep 1988 - May 1989 (8 months)

Research assistant for Sir Nicholas Soames MP.

Projects included studies on Japanese Protectionism; The effect of Mediterannean Air Traffic Controls on Gatwick Airport flight times; and implementing a recycling system in the Crawley Industrial Park.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

SU

Sumsub

How to Collect Data for Successful KYC SumsubKYC101

Nov 2024

University of Cambridge logoUC

University of Cambridge

MA, History

1989 - 1993

The King's School, Canterbury logoTC

The King's School, Canterbury

1983 - 1988

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