Diligence-grade data review, built on evidence
POVA was built to take diligence and audit analytics past dashboards, sampling, and rule checks. One platform, five reviews: Operational & Financial, Process & Efficiency, Cyber, Data Access, and Document & Data Conformance. Each turns a target's exported data into ranked findings a reviewer can tie to source, rather than a black-box list of anomalies no one can act on.
Roy Daya
Roy Daya is an AI and DeepTech entrepreneur who has spent over two decades helping organizations get reliable answers out of their data. His career spans fraud investigations, industrial safety systems, audit analytics, and AI strategy consulting across dozens of countries. He holds a Kellogg MBA and continues to pursue PhD-level research in AI agents and expert systems, computer vision for industrial safety, and applied linguistics, across both academic institutions and private organizations.
He founded his first technology company, Digital-Clay, in 2003. In 2012, he launched AppliedML, an AI consulting and product company specializing in computer vision for industrial safety and operational analytics. In 2022, he founded POVA AI to apply the same evidence-first method to due diligence and business auditing. He served as Chairman of a Mensa regional chapter and is a member of the Prometheus Society.
AI systems → operational truth → audit evidenceFrom industrial AI to diligence and audit work
Founder & CEO · POVA AI Ltd
Deep data review of exported operational data, identifying where controls, behavior, and outcomes diverge.
Founder & CEO · AppliedML
AI consulting and product company turning existing security cameras into real-time safety and process sensors. Over 50 industrial solutions running on-site with no internet required. ISO 27001 and ISO 45001 certified. Deployed across manufacturing, logistics, financial services, pharma, and many other industries, covering computer vision safety, behavioral analysis, process monitoring, fraud analytics, and DeepTech consulting.
Founder & CEO · Digital-Clay
Technology company behind a no-code platform for building advanced analytical line-of-business applications and specialized business-silo solutions. Deployed across hundreds of business verticals for a diverse international customer base, with work spanning advertising, media, real estate, and financial services.
Education, research, and societies
The research, academic, and society affiliations behind how POVA works.
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University — business administration and strategy.
AI Agents and Expert Systems
Research into the design and behavior of autonomous AI agent architectures and knowledge-based expert systems.
Computer Vision for Industrial Safety
Research into the real-world impact and reliability of CV-based safety monitoring in manufacturing and industrial environments.
Applied Linguistics
Research in applied linguistics exploring the intersection of language, communication, and technology.
Former Chairman — Mensa Regional Chapter
Led a regional chapter of Mensa, the international high-IQ society.
Member — Prometheus Society
Member of the Prometheus Society, a high-IQ organization for individuals scoring at or above the 99.997th percentile.
Selected features
Interview: Founder of AppliedML
On launching an AI company and solving real-world problems with machine learning.
AI Guru and Technology Entrepreneur
Interview on AI, industrial safety, and edge-deployable solutions.
Podcast guest profile
Topics include AI, data auditing, fraud analytics, and DeepTech entrepreneurship.
More interviews and the POVA FAQ video are on the homepage press section.