Max Church

Max Church is Co-Founder and CTO at Gravy, a Y Combinator-backed AI agent that automates personal finances by moving money, trading stocks, and filing taxes on behalf of users.
Max studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield and went on to become Lead AI Engineer at Moonpig, a leading consumer eCommerce platform with over 12 million active users.
Max brings rare depth in applied AI to the fintech space, having presented AI strategy to hundreds of stakeholders at Moonpig and shipped production AI systems at consumer scale.
Gravy is part of the prestigious Y Combinator P26 batch, and Max co-founded the company alongside Ali Tabba, a repeat founder whose previous venture KiranaKart became Indian unicorn Zepto.
Gravy connects to users' banks, investments, and email to automate complex financial tasks in the background, positioning itself at the frontier of the agentic AI revolution in personal finance.