Founder. Operator. Builder. Banker.

I build bold shit.

Ten years building CoBuy into a category.
Now I build AI-driven businesses. Three people, the work of twenty.

My work
Matt Holmes

Receipts

CoBuy 3,500+ co-buyers & co-owners

CoBuy

  • 10 yrspioneering a category
  • 3,500+co-buyers & co-owners
  • $63M+closed real estate
  • $150M+mortgages for lenders
  • 6 revenue lines, each taken from zero to one.
  • $60K+ partner revenue per transaction: mortgage, brokerage, title, legal.
  • 5 editions of the national report on co-buying & co-owning.
CoBuy
Banking €7bn debt originated

Banking

  • €7bndebt originated
  • 12xP&L in a year
  • 35+central banks & sovereign wealth funds
  • RBS 2008-12 · Santander 2012-14 · UniCredit 2014-15. Started at Goldman Sachs, New York, in 2006, then Jefferies, London.
  • Debt capital markets, then sales & trading for official institutions.
  • FSA Authorized during my UK banking career.
Career
AI 4.5× shipping velocity

AI

  • 4.5×shipping velocity in 6 months
  • 90%+off customer response times
  • 3people running CoBuy
  • 60+business systems built
  • 210-route website rebuilt and migrated with zero downtime. 12,683 links audited.
  • 137 AI agents deployed across 190 prospects. Caught 19 misclassifications the initial checks missed.
  • Revenue-generating CoBuy products. Paid client software. Built with AI under my product and architecture leadership.
  • Separate agents build, verify and audit. I direct delivery and make the release decisions.
How I run AI
Leadership 5 continents teams hired & led

Leadership

  • 5continents: teams hired & led
  • 200+professionals trained & certified
  • 4continents: angel investors
  • $150Kgrant won & delivered early
  • Hired & led design, engineering, QA, security, operations and a partner network. 15+ engineers over CoBuy’s history.
  • Built the CoBuy-certified™ network from zero: 200+ B2B professionals sourced, vetted, trained, certified.
  • Ran a 180+ applicant search for a technical co-founder.
  • Angel investors who double as an advisory board.
  • At RBS, kept the central-bank desk running as a team of 2 after 5 colleagues left.
People
Recognition NYT, WSJ, Forbes, TIME in the press

Recognition

10+ industry firsts

Grants & recognition

  • Algorand Foundation$150K blockchain development grant. Every milestone delivered early.
  • Innovate Housing SF1 of 10 innovators invited by Fannie Mae and UC Berkeley Terner Center.
  • Ivory PrizeNominated, unsolicited, for housing affordability, 2026.

Speaking & education

  • Decipher, DubaiSpeaker at Algorand’s global conference, on digitizing real-world assets.
  • UW Foster School of BusinessGuest lecturer to MBA students on startups and entrepreneurship.
  • MasterZTaught in the Algorand Foundation’s blockchain programme.
  • 10AcademyGuest lecturer to blockchain students on tokenization and real-world applications.
  • Terran CollectiveCo-operative buying session for an online audience of 300+.
  • 50+ education eventsAcross 4 states. The Oakland and San Francisco series sold out.
Talks, grants & recognition

Selected work

What I’ve built.

All work
How I run AI AI isn’t magic. It’s orchestration. One person signs. Nobody grades their own work.

Working with me

“Matthew is hard working and very passionate about his work, building very strong relationships with his clients…”
Rob MandersScotiabank EuropeManaged me · RBS, Santander
“His intelligence was immediately apparent in every strategy discussion and problem-solving session we had.”
Tim HedbergCEO, Motivo MediaReported to me · CoBuy
“He fosters a culture of growth and collaboration, making him an exceptional leader and mentor.”
Samuel RalakEngineeringReported to me · CoBuy
All voices

Fluent in

Finance

Banking Capital markets Credit Lending

Product

Product design Engineering AI Blockchain

Commercial

Research Go-to-market Distribution Monetization

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