Selling Shovels in an AI Gold Rush
While everyone else is digging for digital gold, a handful of companies are quietly selling the shovels, pickaxes, and hard hats. I’m talking about the regulatory technology, or ‘RegTech’, sector. These are the firms that provide the essential, if unglamorous, infrastructure that makes AI governance possible. They aren’t building the flashy AI, they are building the guardrails to stop it from driving off a cliff.
Think of companies like Information Services Group, which helps businesses untangle the knots of AI governance. Or Verint Systems, which specialises in making those mysterious algorithms explainable, a task that sounds both impossible and increasingly mandatory. Then there’s Informatica, which focuses on data management, ensuring the information fed into AI systems meets the standards regulators will demand. Without clean, traceable data, your fancy AI is just a black box of potential liabilities. These companies are providing the plumbing for the regulated AI economy, and plumbing is a very good business to be in.
