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James Oldham

James Oldham

Founder of Sentry AI, an AI consultancy and platform company in Auckland, New Zealand. An AI engineer who builds and runs the AI Operating System for businesses across New Zealand and Australia, and who writes the blog.

Who is James Oldham?

James Oldham is the founder of Sentry AI and the sole director of Sentry AI Solutions Limited, the New Zealand company behind it. He founded the company in 2025 and incorporated it on 20 January 2026 in Auckland, where it is registered (Companies Office record 9399152, NZBN 9429053388131).

He is an AI engineer. Before Sentry AI he built custom AI solutions for large enterprise teams, including the NBA. He owns and runs the company, does the engineering, and writes most of what is on the blog.

What does he work on?

The AI Operating System: the skills, context and role design installed over the Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini organisation a business already pays for, with the agent management layer that registers, monitors and governs what runs on it.

AI governance and ISO/IEC 42001 readiness, written and delivered as an operator taking the company through its own ISO 27001, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 programme rather than as a certification body. Private LLM infrastructure for businesses whose data has to stay on their own hardware or in their own region. And voice AI agents that answer and make calls in production.

Where has that work run?

In the businesses named on this site: an organic baby brand, MacroActive, The Ecommerce Accelerator, Jade Financial Services, DynaFlow and a 15-practice medical franchise, across New Zealand and Australia.

Is this the Sentry AI in Sunnyvale, or Sentry.io?

No. James Oldham is not associated with Sentry (sentry.io), the error monitoring company, nor with the company in Sunnyvale, California that also trades as Sentry AI. Sentry AI Solutions Limited is a New Zealand company with one website, sentrysolutions.ai. Some data brokers have merged the two records; the Companies Office entry above is the record that settles it.

How do I reach him?

Email james@sentrysolutions.ai, or start with the AI Opportunity Audit, which is how most conversations begin.

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