Paul Taylor

Advisor | 5x Chief Marketing Officer | AI & Automation | FinTech & Financial Services | Startup to Enterprise

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Interim CMO - Advisor/Investor
Jan 2026
meet DWIGHT is underpinned by the DWIGHT Studio - our own proprietary integration & automation engine, combining deterministic Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Agentic AI & governance into one platform. We offer a managed service, where meet DWIGHT builds, operates and maintains D.W.I.G.H.T.s (Digital Worker Bots) for clients. You just pay us a monthly wage for him. D.W.I.G.H.T. works 24/7, has a 100% attendance record, does the job of up to 12 people but at a fraction of a full time persons wage. We also provide the DWIGHT Studio as a Platform-As-A-Service (DIY) option, underpinned by a Success Plan which serves as a fall-back for clients who either get stuck or dont have time to complete their own Digital Worker Bot builds within the platform. DWIGHT Studio is a x-platform integration and automation platform with drag & drop build functionality. The Studio enables integrations between your own technology stack and 3rd party or even legacy applications. API or no API? No problem! Either way, you can integrate between the various technologies. The Studio enables you to automate complex tasks everywhere and offers multimodal process recording (where you can record an action and this builds the workflow in the DWIGHT Studio). Trustworthy, enterprise-grade Digital Worker Bots that do not go rogue or hallucinate + do not give you an AI token cost heart attack! ISO 27001 Compliant.
Fractional CMO - Investor
Nov 2025
OpenDialog is the multi-agent AI platform transforming how insurers, brokers and MGAs convert, serve and retain customers. Instead of generic chatbots or fragmented automation, OpenDialog deploys specialised AI Agents - each trained on insurance journeys, intent patterns and regulatory expectations - to intervene exactly where digital journeys break. Selma boosts quote-to-bind conversion by reducing drop-off at the most complex moments. Jamie resolves policy questions instantly with compliant, contextual answers that handle customer enquiries without compromise. Rhea re-engages dormant customers, lifting renewals and remarketing outcomes. Together, these agents create an intelligent layer across the entire lifecycle - turning abandoned quotes into bound premiums, policy queries into satisfaction, and missed renewals into predictable revenue. For insurers facing pressure on digital acquisition costs, operational efficiency, and Customer outcomes, OpenDialog delivers measurable impact .. fast. This is AI built for insurance. Not experiments. Not pilots. Real agents delivering real results across the moments that matter most. Discover more at opendialog.ai.
Advisor/Investor
Nov 2025
The cost of treating pressure ulcers in the UK alone exceeds £2.6 billion annually, representing around 4% of total NHS spend. Every year, over 700,000 people suffer from pressure ulcers. The Sensore platform brings a new standard of intelligent pressure monitoring to the care sector - combining breakthrough materials science with human-centred design to help carers act earlier, prevent harm, and protect dignity. Across the UK’s care ecosystem - the issue of pressure ulcers persists as one of the most preventable yet costly healthcare failures. The physical pain, infection risk, and loss of dignity are profound - but so too are the financial consequences. For care providers, this is more than a clinical issue - it’s a reputational and regulatory challenge. Patients deserve better. Families expect better. The Care Quality Commission demands better - and technology now makes ‘better’ achievable. Sensores continuous pressure mapping brings predictive, data-driven prevention into everyday care. Smart fabric sensing delivers real-time high-resolution pressure data across the seated interface. AI risk models identify harmful load patterns early, personalised to each individual user. Smart alerts guide optimal repositioning, relieving workload and improving care quality. Clinical dashboards provide visibility, governance evidence and therefore assurance for managers, commissioners, and regulators. We’re working with leading care providers and preparing for medical device certification as we scale towards launch.
Investor/Advisor
Aug 2025
Jam 7 is building AMP, the Growth Operating System for the Generative AI Era. Scale strategy, expertise and execution without adding headcount. Built around a Marketing Brain, Chief Growth Agent and Specialist Growth Agents, AMP helps organisations capture knowledge, improve decision-making and execute continuously across the growth function. Unlike traditional agencies, consultants and point AI tools, AMP combines strategic thinking, domain expertise and execution within a single agentic platform that learns and improves over time. AMP was born from real-world delivery, not theory. Developed through years of helping B2B technology companies solve growth challenges, the platform transforms proven expertise into software. Today, Jam 7 helps ambitious B2B technology companies build an always-on growth capability across positioning, messaging, demand generation, content, search visibility and revenue growth. The future of growth is not more tools. It’s a smarter operating system.
Investor/Advisor
Jul 2023
Launched in 2023, SSImple is a SaaS platform that will fundamentally change the way SSIs are stored, shared, and enriched across the global financial services industry. SSImples platform facilitates compliance with expected FMSB and FCA requirements driven by T+1 settlement. SSImple is relevant to all market participants, including custodians and prime brokers, buy-side and outsourcer firms, broker-dealers, and third-party service providers.
Experience · 8 entries
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Investments (5)
Founder (1)
2026
Interim CMO - Advisor/Investor
Jan 2026
meet DWIGHT is underpinned by the DWIGHT Studio - our own proprietary integration & automation engine, combining deterministic Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Agentic AI & governance into one platform. We offer a managed service, where meet DWIGHT builds, operates and maintains D.W.I.G.H.T.s (Digital Worker Bots) for clients. You just pay us a monthly wage for him. D.W.I.G.H.T. works 24/7, has a 100% attendance record, does the job of up to 12 people but at a fraction of a full time persons wage. We also provide the DWIGHT Studio as a Platform-As-A-Service (DIY) option, underpinned by a Success Plan which serves as a fall-back for clients who either get stuck or dont have time to complete their own Digital Worker Bot builds within the platform. DWIGHT Studio is a x-platform integration and automation platform with drag & drop build functionality. The Studio enables integrations between your own technology stack and 3rd party or even legacy applications. API or no API? No problem! Either way, you can integrate between the various technologies. The Studio enables you to automate complex tasks everywhere and offers multimodal process recording (where you can record an action and this builds the workflow in the DWIGHT Studio). Trustworthy, enterprise-grade Digital Worker Bots that do not go rogue or hallucinate + do not give you an AI token cost heart attack! ISO 27001 Compliant.
2025
Fractional CMO - Investor
Nov 2025
OpenDialog is the multi-agent AI platform transforming how insurers, brokers and MGAs convert, serve and retain customers. Instead of generic chatbots or fragmented automation, OpenDialog deploys specialised AI Agents - each trained on insurance journeys, intent patterns and regulatory expectations - to intervene exactly where digital journeys break. Selma boosts quote-to-bind conversion by reducing drop-off at the most complex moments. Jamie resolves policy questions instantly with compliant, contextual answers that handle customer enquiries without compromise. Rhea re-engages dormant customers, lifting renewals and remarketing outcomes. Together, these agents create an intelligent layer across the entire lifecycle - turning abandoned quotes into bound premiums, policy queries into satisfaction, and missed renewals into predictable revenue. For insurers facing pressure on digital acquisition costs, operational efficiency, and Customer outcomes, OpenDialog delivers measurable impact .. fast. This is AI built for insurance. Not experiments. Not pilots. Real agents delivering real results across the moments that matter most. Discover more at opendialog.ai.
Advisor/Investor
Nov 2025
The cost of treating pressure ulcers in the UK alone exceeds £2.6 billion annually, representing around 4% of total NHS spend. Every year, over 700,000 people suffer from pressure ulcers. The Sensore platform brings a new standard of intelligent pressure monitoring to the care sector - combining breakthrough materials science with human-centred design to help carers act earlier, prevent harm, and protect dignity. Across the UK’s care ecosystem - the issue of pressure ulcers persists as one of the most preventable yet costly healthcare failures. The physical pain, infection risk, and loss of dignity are profound - but so too are the financial consequences. For care providers, this is more than a clinical issue - it’s a reputational and regulatory challenge. Patients deserve better. Families expect better. The Care Quality Commission demands better - and technology now makes ‘better’ achievable. Sensores continuous pressure mapping brings predictive, data-driven prevention into everyday care. Smart fabric sensing delivers real-time high-resolution pressure data across the seated interface. AI risk models identify harmful load patterns early, personalised to each individual user. Smart alerts guide optimal repositioning, relieving workload and improving care quality. Clinical dashboards provide visibility, governance evidence and therefore assurance for managers, commissioners, and regulators. We’re working with leading care providers and preparing for medical device certification as we scale towards launch.
Founder
Nov 2025
Hyphenated was built for the in-between moments - when a business is evolving, but the strategy, story, or structure hasn’t caught up yet. We help B2B leaders make sense of what’s next: sharper positioning, clearer messaging, smarter marketing moves. Most executives bring one skill to the table, we bring five and know how to combine them. The hyphen isn’t filler. It’s the force that connects strategy to execution, vision to reality, ambition to achievement. No fluff, no decks that gather dust. Just practical, impactful thinking that gets traction fast. Fractional strategy. Focused outcomes. Built to move.
Investor/Advisor
Aug 2025
Jam 7 is building AMP, the Growth Operating System for the Generative AI Era. Scale strategy, expertise and execution without adding headcount. Built around a Marketing Brain, Chief Growth Agent and Specialist Growth Agents, AMP helps organisations capture knowledge, improve decision-making and execute continuously across the growth function. Unlike traditional agencies, consultants and point AI tools, AMP combines strategic thinking, domain expertise and execution within a single agentic platform that learns and improves over time. AMP was born from real-world delivery, not theory. Developed through years of helping B2B technology companies solve growth challenges, the platform transforms proven expertise into software. Today, Jam 7 helps ambitious B2B technology companies build an always-on growth capability across positioning, messaging, demand generation, content, search visibility and revenue growth. The future of growth is not more tools. It’s a smarter operating system.
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