GoodAI
GoodAI builds AI-powered products for human flourishing. Our focus is on areas where AI can make a genuine difference to people's lives — wellbeing, sustainability, and the everyday challenges that matter most but receive the least attention from technology.
We don't build AI for its own sake. We start with a real problem, ground the solution in evidence, and let AI deliver it at the moment it's actually useful.
Our first product. An emotional wellbeing companion for people who reach for food, cigarettes, or alcohol when something deeper is unmet. SoYi meets you at the moment of impulse, helps you understand what's actually driving it, and guides you toward what you genuinely need. Warm, non-judgmental, grounded in mindfulness and Daoist wisdom.
Fionaa — loan processing agent
An AI agent for automating loan processing workflows. See a simulated run of Fionaa in action.
Building an AI demo can be fast, but putting it reliably into production takes far longer, with no guarantee of success at the end — a rate of failure that far exceeds traditional software engineering projects.
The stats back this up. McKinsey found 88% of companies use AI somewhere, but only 23% are scaling AI agents in even one function. Gartner expects 40%+ of agent projects to be cancelled by 2027. And it's rarely the tech that kills them. It's picking the wrong problem, patchy data, no governance, and costs that creep upwards.
Our co-founder Steve has lived this. He built a quick prototype for an AI Engineering bootcamp he was taking, based on a real lending problem he'd met in financial services. It worked fine for the course. It also skipped most of what makes enterprise deployment hard. So this summer he rebuilt it properly, using the lessons from past projects learned putting AI into production at a Fintech Unicorn. The result is Fionaa. It's not a product we sell. It's how we show what GoodAI can do.
The problem is this: underwriters lose hours to routine checks on business loan applications. Chasing documents, verifying the company, reading policy, cross-checking numbers. Many of those applications never convert into a loan origination, and slow decisions push good applicants to a faster lender.
Here's what Fionaa does with each application, in the order a good underwriter would:
The underwriter gets one tidy summary with the evidence attached, and makes the call. Fionaa does the heavy lifting, but with trust and auditability built in.
A case study published by a major UK retail bank took this kind of review from around an hour pre-automation to about two minutes, post-automation.
Fionaa runs on simulated data (see the simulated run). Steve is writing a 6-part series on taking agentic AI from prototype to production; part 1 is on Medium (or read it on LinkedIn if you don't have Medium access).
If you've got a slow, rules-heavy process eating your team's week, we'd love to talk about it.
Yi Goodman is a quantitative analyst turned founder, based in London. With a background in financial modelling and a long-standing interest in health and behavioural science, she brings analytical rigour to the science of behaviour change. She is the creator of the Yi Method — a philosophy grounded in mindfulness and Daoist wisdom — and the primary designer and developer of SoYi, the product's first user.
Steve Goodman is an AI engineering leader with deep experience taking machine learning systems from proof-of-concept to production. He has led data science teams at scale, built generative AI applications for enterprise clients, and most recently led AI governance and enablement at a major financial institution. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School. At GoodAI, Steve leads the technical and AI strategy.