Harish Kumar, founder of Quantamix Solutions

Founder profile

Harish Kumar

AI Solutions Lead & Forward Deployment Engineer · Founder, Quantamix Solutions B.V.

I spent eighteen years proving that risk models did what they claimed, inside banks where a regulator would eventually ask. I now build AI systems and hold them to the same standard.

years across risk and AI
22years across risk and AI
European patent applications
3European patent applications
production AI systems shipped
10production AI systems shipped
live knowledge graphs deployed
94live knowledge graphs deployed
Book a briefingRead the researchGitHubUithoorn, North Holland, Netherlands

Where the instinct came from

Market risk, model validation and capital calculation at the Reserve Bank of India, De Nederlandsche Bank, ING, EY, Rabobank and ASN Bank. FRTB, IRRBB, IFRS9, A-IRB and EBA stress testing, under ECB and DNB supervision. You learn quickly there that a model nobody can explain is a model nobody can use, however good the backtest looks.

What I build now

Ten systems in production. A governance SDK on PyPI and the VS Code Marketplace. GraphRAG copywriting running inside Amazon Ring. A document-intelligence platform in Frankfurt that keeps its data in the EU. A seven-agent CRM delivered under contract in Italy. The common thread is a knowledge graph underneath, and a record of how each answer was reached.

Why I publish it

Three European patent applications and four papers, with the benchmarks written down: constrained F1 of 0.756 against an ungoverned baseline of 0.328 on MultiGov-30. The claim is deliberately narrow — that a governed graph of agents beats an ungoverned one, by this much, on this benchmark. Anyone can check it, which is the point.

Research

Papers, patents, and the numbers behind them

Three European patent applications and four papers on graph-based AI governance. Each one states what was measured, on which benchmark, against what baseline — so the claim can be checked rather than taken on trust.

  1. 01

    TAMR+

    2026

    Trust-Aware Multi-Signal Document Retrieval with Graph-Based Compliance Scoring

    Method
    Knowledge graph and Cypher GraphRAG with prize-collecting Steiner tree activation, HashGNN and MinHash
    Result
    TRACE 0.74 at three hops over 3,538 entities; vector-only retrieval measured 38.8% below the full pipeline (p<0.05)
    Filing
    EPO EP26162901.8 — filed 6 March 2026 · IPC G06F16/36, G06N5/02, G06Q10/06
  2. 02

    CogniGraph

    2026

    Governed Graph-of-Agents Reasoning over Knowledge-Graph Topologies with Semantic SHACL Validation

    Method
    Graph-of-agents with PCST activation at O(|V*|·R), a semantic SHACL gate and adversarial validation
    Result
    MultiGov-30 constrained F1 of 0.756 against an ungoverned baseline of 0.328 — a 130% improvement — at 99.4% governance accuracy
    Filing
    EPO divisional EP26166054.2 — 15 claims, filed 19 March 2026; parent is TAMR+
  3. 03

    PSE

    2026

    Predictive Subgraph Generation, Confidence-Gated Graph Write-Back and Structured Reasoning

    Method
    Predictive and generative subgraph reasoning with confidence calibration and cross-session augmentation
    Result
    Cross-session knowledge-graph augmentation without model retraining; STG grammar G=(Σv, Σe, R)
    Filing
    EPO EP26167849.4 — priority to TAMR+; Rule 58 EPC pending
    Under review — NeurIPS 2026 / ICLR 2027 / ICRA 2027
  4. 04

    PCT

    2026

    Production Lessons toward the PCT Open Standard: Batch-Mode Cryptographic Commitment

    Method
    Merkle-style batch sealing with constraint-version-in-leaf-hash and graph-native proof
    Result
    Three OPSF specification proposals
    Filing
    OPSF open standard
    Reference implementationOPSF open standard
  5. 05

    DRACE

    2027

    DRACE — the development-domain governance analogue of TRACE

    Method
    Five pillars covering dependency, reasoning, audit, constraint and evidence; per-session governance scoring
    Result
    CogniGraph Claim 10
    Filing
    Covered by EP26166054.2, Claims 10–12
    In preparation — ICSE 2027 / ASE 2026

Full filing detail sits on the patent notice page.

Experience

Two acts, twenty-two years

Act one built the regulatory instinct: eighteen years where an unexplainable model was an unusable one. Act two applies it to systems that have to answer the same question about themselves.

    • Best-practice framework for identifying and validating high-impact AI use cases, held distinct from existing automation work
    • Process inventory and use-case cataloguing across the accounting and controllership functions
    • Governance and auditability of AI decisions — the binding requirement, ahead of any productivity claim
    • Communication strategy and champion enablement across functional areas
    AI adoption strategyControllershipSOXModel riskGovernance design

Products

Ten systems in production

Each one shipped, with the scale and the stack stated. Where a figure comes from a client engagement rather than an instrumented measurement, the wording says so.

GraQle SDK

GA · Production/Stable

AI dev-intelligence + governance SDK

Turns any codebase into a governed knowledge graph so AI agents reason over architecture instead of re-reading files each session.

Scale
PyPI + VS Code Marketplace · 55 modules / 511 files · 94 graphs on one machine
Value
−53% to −88% AI token cost · ~$224k (Yr1) to ~$371k (Yr2) at 40 developers
Region
eu-north-1 / us-east-1
Python 3.10–3.13FastAPITyper CLInetworkxpydantic v2Neo4j 5+Sigstore Rekor

TraceGov.ai

GA · Tier-3 enterprise

AI governance / audit trail

The documents and documentation path for governance and audit trails — the enforcement layer for written evidence.

Scale
Serverless Lambda with an Athena EU query path
Value
EU AI Act documentation-path alignment
Region
eu-central-1 / eu-north-1
PythonTypeScriptAWS LambdaAthena

FrictionMelt

Production

AI adoption intelligence (SaaS)

Captures AI-tool usage, maps it to a 95-friction / 8-layer taxonomy, and runs cascade-propagation analysis with forecasting and causal inference.

Scale
217 Lambda handlers · 43 domains · 898 modules
Value
ROI and cost-model engine with cascade impact in euros
Region
eu-north-1 (Stockholm)
Node.js 20TypeScript 5.3React 19Vite 7BedrockNeo4jDynamoDBEventBridge

CopyNexus / Ring CopyForge

Production at Amazon Ring

GenAI marketing (GraphRAG)

AI copywriting and campaign optimisation grounded in a brand knowledge graph, with agentic usage-rights automation.

Scale
22-person creative team · 3,500+ files · 16 Python Lambdas
Value
50% content-creation efficiency · 2,500+ assets automated
Region
eu-north-1
Python 3.11/3.14AWS SAMNeptuneDynamoDBNext.js 16React 19Tailwind 4

CrawlQ Athena EU

Production (Frankfurt)

Regulated document intelligence

GDPR and EU-AI-Act-aligned document intelligence with confidence-gated human review and a tamper-evident audit trail.

Scale
~29 container Lambdas · 6 EU DynamoDB tables · seven-year retention
Value
~$61/month at 100K events · p95 under 500ms target
Region
eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
PythonNeo4j 5.15LangChain 0.2Lambda (container/ECR)S3 AES-256

Studio CrawlQ.ai (Brandio)

Production

Brand-intelligence AI (SaaS)

Extracts a brand into a reusable brand-memory knowledge graph once, then generates against it.

Scale
463 Python files · monolith plus 13 microservices
Value
87% token savings on the published calculation
Region
eu-west-1 (Ireland)
Python 3.11TypeScript 5.5Next.js 14.2Step FunctionsCloudFormationStripe

GNIE

Plugin v0.1.0

Graph-native local inference

A GraQle plugin that lets a local model on Ollama approach cloud-model accuracy by routing through the graph.

Scale
Knowledge graph of ~2,514 nodes · 17 local models
Value
93% versus 63% accuracy on qwen2.5:3b, at zero inference cost
Region
Local / offline
Python 3.9+OllamanumpyGraphRouter

Yacatè REXS-CRM

Delivered

Vertical CRM + AI

A CRM with a seven-agent AI reasoning layer for real-estate and hospitality investment advisory, delivered under contract in Italy.

Scale
7 agents · 8 processes · Neo4j Aura EU
Value
40–60% reduction in report production time
Region
eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
GraQle v0.76Neo4j Aura EUNext.jssentence-transformersHaiku/Sonnet routing

CogniGraph / CrawlQ

GA

AI market-intelligence + graph

The CrawlQ-brand distribution of the graph substrate, with a market-intelligence surface on top.

Scale
CogniGraph Python package v0.14.0 · Next.js studio on Amplify
Value
Shares the GraQle token economics
Region
EU
PythonTypeScriptNext.jsAmplifyLambdaNeptune

Public position

On the EU AI Act audit trail

Between May and June 2026 I ran a public working thread on what an EU AI Act audit trail actually has to contain. It was not a marketing campaign. Senior practitioners disagreed with me in the open, several of them corrected me, and the resulting pillar page names eleven contributors because the argument was theirs as much as mine.

Aligned, never compliant

No product is “EU AI Act compliant”. Compliance is a determination a regulator makes about a deployed system in context. A substrate can be aligned with named articles, and that is the strongest honest claim available.

Proof precedes permission — but proof is not permission

The substrate proves a replayable path. It does not gate or authorise an action. Conflating the two turns an evidence layer into an execution control, which is a different product with different failure modes.

Two enforcement paths, one substrate

GraQle governs the reasoning path through code; TraceGov governs the documentation path through written evidence. Same vocabulary and IP, two enforcement surfaces — not one merged package and not two unrelated products.

Observability is not proof of responsibility

Articles 14 and 26 ask who was accountable, not merely what happened. Seeing a system is not the same as binding a decision to a person, and that gap is a genuinely open problem.

In scope for the work: Articles 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 25 and 50. Explicitly out of scope: Articles 5, 53, 55 and Annex VII.

The full argument, with every contributor named, is on the EU AI Act audit-trail stack pillar.

Capability

What I actually work in

Grouped by domain rather than listed flat, because the combination is the point — the risk column is why the AI column is governable.

AI engineering

Retrieval-augmented generationGraphRAGKnowledge-graph designMulti-agent orchestrationModel Context ProtocolPrompt and context engineeringEmbeddings and vector searchModel routing and cost controlEvaluation harnessesGuardrailsLocal inference (Ollama)

Machine learning

Time-series forecastingARIMA + XGBoost ensemblesCausal inference (DoWhy, CausalML)Monte Carlo simulationBayesian networksIsolation-forest anomaly detectionSHAP interpretabilityCalibrationDrift detection

Cloud and platform

AWS BedrockAWS NeptuneLambdaDynamoDBAthenaStep FunctionsAmplifyCognitoAzure OpenAIGoogle CloudBigQueryLookerNeo4j / AuraPinecone

Engineering

PythonTypeScriptFastAPINext.jsReactServerless microservicesSingle-table DynamoDBDockerAWS SAMCloudFormationCI/CDOIDC trusted publishingSigstore signing

Risk and regulation

FRTBIRRBBIFRS9A-IRBCRR / EBAECB stress testingEconomic capitalModel validationModel risk (SR 11-7)COREP / FINREPEU AI ActGDPRSOXNIST AI RMF

Education & credentials

Where the formal grounding came from

Education

  • MSc Risk Management — Honours

    Duisenberg School of Finance

    2010 — 2011

  • MSc Financial Risk Management

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    2010 — 2011

  • Masters

    Public administration and policy

    2002 — 2004

Certifications

  • FRMFinancial Risk Manager — GARP
  • PMPProject Management Professional
  • GCPGoogle Cloud Professional Data Engineer
  • AzureSolutions Architect Expert
  • CSMCertified Scrum Master
  • CAIIBIndian Institute of Banking & Finance

Questions

Frequently asked

The questions people actually arrive with, answered plainly.

Who is Harish Kumar?

Harish Kumar is the founder of Quantamix Solutions B.V. in the Netherlands and works as an AI Solutions Lead and Forward Deployment Engineer. He has twenty-two years of experience across two fields: eighteen years of quantitative and regulatory risk inside tier-1 banks and two central banks, and the generative AI transformation work that followed. He holds three European patent applications and has published four papers on graph-based AI governance.

What does Harish Kumar do?

He builds AI systems that can prove what they did. That means knowledge-graph substrates, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration and the audit trail underneath them — deployed into regulated environments where an unexplainable decision is an unusable one. He has shipped ten production systems, including a governance SDK on PyPI and the VS Code Marketplace, GraphRAG copywriting inside Amazon Ring, and an EU-resident document-intelligence platform running in Frankfurt.

What is Harish Kumar’s background in banking and risk?

He spent eighteen years in market risk, model validation and regulatory capital. That covers the Reserve Bank of India, De Nederlandsche Bank, ING, EY, Rabobank and ASN Bank, working on FRTB, IRRBB, IFRS9, A-IRB, CRR and EBA stress testing under ECB and DNB supervision. At Rabobank he owned the IFRS9 calculation engine across a loan portfolio above €400 billion.

What research and patents has Harish Kumar published?

Three European patent applications — EP26162901.8 (TAMR+), EP26166054.2 (CogniGraph, a divisional with fifteen claims) and EP26167849.4 (PSE) — plus papers on SSRN and Zenodo. The headline published result is a constrained F1 of 0.756 on the MultiGov-30 benchmark against an ungoverned baseline of 0.328, at 99.4% governance accuracy.

Does Harish Kumar work on EU AI Act compliance?

He works on the audit-trail and governance substrate that EU AI Act obligations rest on, across Articles 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 25 and 50. The careful wording matters: no product is “EU AI Act compliant”, because compliance is a determination a regulator makes about a deployed system in its context. A substrate can be aligned with named articles, and that is the strongest honest claim available.

How do I contact Harish Kumar?

By email at harish.kumar@quantamixsolutions.com, or by booking a diagnostic briefing through the Quantamix Solutions website. He is based in Uithoorn, North Holland, and works with organisations across the Netherlands and the wider EU. The published work is on Zenodo and SSRN, and the code is on GitHub.

What technologies does Harish Kumar work with?

Python and TypeScript day to day; AWS Bedrock, Neptune, Lambda, DynamoDB and Athena on the cloud side; Neo4j and Neo4j Aura for graph work; Azure OpenAI, Google Cloud, BigQuery and Looker across the other two clouds; Next.js and React on the front end. On the AI side: GraphRAG, retrieval-augmented generation, the Model Context Protocol, multi-agent orchestration, embeddings and model routing.

Working on governed AI in a regulated setting?

That is the whole of what I do. If the audit trail is the part keeping the project from shipping, it is worth a conversation.