I'm Sanjay. I started my career in corporate tax at Arthur Andersen, where my clients included startups and venture capital firms. Back then there was no SEIS – only EIS – and I spent my time helping clients structure their businesses, making successful EIS applications and fundraises, and putting in place new structures for clients making investments and leveraged buyouts.
After a decade in corporate finance and ventures in the media and entertainment sector, I set up on my own. When SEIS launched in 2012, I founded the UK's first SEIS fund. Since then, I've sat on every side of the table: as the fund deploying investment, as the adviser helping founders get investor-ready, and as a founder raising myself.
In all that time, I've never had an advance assurance application I submitted not sail through first time.
I built Seisly because most early-stage founders can't justify a full advisory engagement for what is, in many cases, a form-filling exercise. They either pay for advice they don't yet need, or skip the step and risk the HMRC rejection that follows. Seisly solves the first case and prevents the second. For founders whose situation is more complex, we refer to specialist advisers in our network who are set up for that kind of work.
Seisly takes everything I've learned from over two decades of EIS and SEIS applications and puts it into an AI that I and my expert colleagues have trained. The AI drafts your application. Our Express Review option adds human review by me or my colleagues before submission. For more complex cases, we refer to specialist advisers in our network who can give you proper advisory support. If we think anything needs more work, we'll tell you exactly what to fix. You get the same quality that used to cost thousands, for a fraction of the price.
If you have questions, find me on LinkedIn.