Nick Schifano
Founder & Builder of FastCatalog.ai | AI Compliance & Lineage for Public Models and Datasets
- Role
- Founder & CEO at Fastcatalog.Ai
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nick Schifano
I’m the founder of FastCatalog.ai, a data and compliance intelligence platform focused on public AI models and datasets.We help compliance and engineering teams gather the compliance signals they need to make informed decisions when using an AI model or a dataset.Public AI models and datasets have complex, hard-to-discover compliance profile and lineage: upstream datasets, fine-tuned models, licenses, usage restrictions, and documentation scattered across PDFs, repos, and websites. We analyze and compile that information into an easy to consume portal.FastCatalog.ai is a DaaS platform with human-review augmentation that- Analyzes public AI models and datasets- Maps upstream lineage and provenance- Extracts and normalizes key compliance metadata- Produces clear, decision-ready reports on individual assetsPublic AI lineage graph (atlas.fastcatalog.ai) mapping interconnected models and datasets across the public ecosystemIf you’re launching AI products, governing public AI use, or partnering around compliance workflows, happy to connect.
Experience
Founder & CEO
Apr 2024 — Present · US
Built and operate a compliance intelligence platform analyzing public AI models and datasets, including lineage, provenance, and legal constraints- Designed automated pipelines to ingest and normalize documentation (PDFs, JSON, repositories, websites) with human review augmentation- Developed AI Atlas, a public graph mapping upstream relationships across models and datasets- Supporting enterprise teams with decision-ready compliance reports for AI product launches and governance reviews
Education
University of Strasbourg Law School
CEIPI, Patent Law
2007 — 2008
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis Law School
Licence / LLB, Civil Law
2003 — 2006
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis Law School
DEA / LLM, Business Law
2006 — 2008
CentraleSupélec
Ingénieur, Mathematics
1998 — 2000
Stanford University
MS, Electrical Engineering
2000 — 2001
Skills
- Electronics
- Litigation
- Contract Negotiation
- Licensing
- Governmental Affairs
- Patents
- Ip
- Strategy
- Corporate Governance
- Cloud Computing
- Privacy Law
- Software Licensing
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Patent Prosecution
- Program Management
- Intellectual Property
- Copyright Law
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