Appointed to the AI Forge Furnace Cohort 5 judging panel.
Rami Saadi, CEO of Technical Methods Limited, was appointed to the AI Forge Furnace Cohort 5 judging panel. The panel selected 25 AI-led ventures to advance to the AI Forge Core Programme.
AI Forge runs a structured early-stage programme for AI ventures across the United Kingdom and beyond. The Furnace is the selection stage. Founders pitch a panel of senior operators and investors who evaluate the venture on commercial logic, team capability, and the path to product-market fit. The 25 selected ventures progress to the Core Programme.
The judging work was undertaken across the Cohort 5 selection cycle. Each venture received structured review against the criteria the programme had set: the problem being solved, the team behind it, the route to scale, and the honesty of the founder's read on the market.
The appointment was made in the CEO's personal capacity, with Technical Methods Limited and TM International Group named as the corporate affiliations alongside the founder roles in Borderless Impact Advisors and REVIVE Iwan Ventures.
AI applied to the operating economy is not theoretical for the firm. REVIVE is the in-house frontier-AI venture launched by Technical Methods Limited and Iwan Ventures, targeting existing-building retrofit at scale. Sitting on the Furnace panel placed the CEO inside the early-stage AI venture conversation at the point where commercial discipline either gets installed or gets postponed.
The judging work is, in our reading, the most useful kind of recognition. It requires the judge to read 25 ventures against a single bar, in conditions that are deliberately tight on time and short on slides. It is the discipline the operator-partner model runs on, applied to the founder cohort one stage up the chain.
AI Forge is an early-stage venture programme focused on AI-led businesses. The Core Programme is the firm's signature multi-month engagement, sitting after the Furnace selection. The cohorts are run annually, with each cohort selected from a wider applicant pool through the Furnace panel.
The acknowledged corporate affiliations recorded against this appointment are Technical Methods Limited, TM International Group, Borderless Impact Advisors, and REVIVE Iwan Ventures.