# James Oldham, Founder of Sentry AI > James Oldham founded and runs Sentry AI in Auckland: an AI engineer who builds and operates the AI Operating System for NZ and Australian businesses. - Canonical: https://sentrysolutions.ai/about/james-oldham Founder ![James Oldham](https://sentrysolutions.ai/_next/image?url=%2Fjimmy.jpeg&w=256&q=75) # 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](https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/co/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](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog). ## What does he work on? The [AI Operating System](https://sentrysolutions.ai/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](https://sentrysolutions.ai/ai-governance) and [ISO/IEC 42001](https://sentrysolutions.ai/iso-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](https://sentrysolutions.ai/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](https://sentrysolutions.ai/case-studies/nature-baby), [MacroActive](https://sentrysolutions.ai/case-studies/macroactive), [The Ecommerce Accelerator](https://sentrysolutions.ai/case-studies/ecommerce-accelerator), [Jade Financial Services](https://sentrysolutions.ai/case-studies/jade-financial-services), [DynaFlow](https://sentrysolutions.ai/case-studies/ai-voice-agent-for-candidate-qualification) and [a 15-practice medical franchise](https://sentrysolutions.ai/case-studies/medical-conversational-assistant), 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](mailto:james@sentrysolutions.ai), or start with the [AI Opportunity Audit](https://sentrysolutions.ai/ai-opportunity-audit), which is how most conversations begin. ## Written by James Oldham - [AI for Healthcare Providers in New Zealand: The 2026 Operator's Guide](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-for-healthcare-providers-new-zealand)Aug 2026 - [New Zealand's AI Data Centre Debate: The Middle Path Both Camps Are Skipping](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/new-zealand-ai-data-centre-debate)Aug 2026 - [What an Agent Management Platform Actually Is (and Is Not)](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/what-is-an-agent-management-platform)Jul 2026 - [Best AI Agencies in Australia & New Zealand 2026](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/best-ai-agencies-australia-new-zealand-2026)Jul 2026 - [Agent Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/agent-sprawl-new-shadow-it)Jul 2026 - [Why 95 Percent of AI Pilots Die, and What Saves the Other Five](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/why-95-percent-of-ai-pilots-fail)Jul 2026 - [Your AI Vendor Is Building an Asset. It Is Made of Your Business.](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-sovereignty-own-your-intelligence)Jul 2026 - [You Are Paying Frontier Prices for Commodity Work](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-cost-optimisation-model-routing)Jul 2026 - [Run AI Agents Locally: The 2026 Hardware Guide](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/run-ai-agents-locally-hardware-guide)Jul 2026 - [AI Solutions in Auckland: A 2026 Guide for Mid-Market Businesses](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-solutions-auckland)Jul 2026 - [Choosing an AI Agency in Wellington: A 2026 Buyer's Guide](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-agency-wellington)Jun 2026 - [AI for Accounting Firms in New Zealand: The 2026 Operator's Guide](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-for-accounting-firms-new-zealand)Jun 2026 - [Fractional Chief AI Officer in New Zealand: The 2026 Playbook for Mid-Market Owners](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/fractional-chief-ai-officer-new-zealand)Jun 2026 - [Best Voice AI Platforms in ANZ (2026 Comparison)](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/best-voice-ai-platforms-anz-2026)May 2026 - [AI Voice Agent for Recruitment: What Actually Works in 2026](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/voice-ai-for-recruitment-new-zealand)May 2026 - [Choosing an AI Agency in Auckland: A 2026 Buyer's Guide](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-agency-auckland)May 2026 - [AI Solutions in Christchurch: A 2026 Guide for Mid-Market Businesses](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/ai-solutions-christchurch)May 2026 - [Enterprise AI Consultancies for Retail in New Zealand (2026 Guide)](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/enterprise-ai-consultancies-for-retail-new-zealand)May 2026 - [From Karpathy's LLM Wiki to the Company Knowledge Layer: Why Every Organisation Needs Its Own Knowledge Graph](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/karpathy-llm-wiki-for-organizations)May 2026 - [AI Agent vs Off-the-Shelf Solutions: How to Decide (2026 Guide)](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/custom-voice-ai-agent-vs-off-the-shelf)Mar 2026 - [The Claude Code First Organisation: How to Build Your Company Around AI in 2026](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/claude-code-first-organization)Mar 2026 - [Why Enterprise AI Fails Without Structured Context](https://sentrysolutions.ai/blog/why-enterprise-ai-fails-without-structured-context)Mar 2026 ## Elsewhere [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james2000/)[GitHub](https://github.com/JamesWeb3)[jamesoldham.dev](https://www.jamesoldham.dev)[Sentry AI on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentrysolutions-ai)[Sentry AI on X](https://x.com/sentryai_)[Companies Office record](https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/co/9399152) Ask an AI about this page [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/?q=Read%20https%3A%2F%2Fsentrysolutions.ai%2Fabout%2Fjames-oldham%20and%20summarise%20what%20Sentry%20AI%20says%20about%20James%20Oldham%2C%20the%20founder%20of%20Sentry%20AI.%20Cite%20the%20page.)[Claude](https://claude.ai/new?q=Read%20https%3A%2F%2Fsentrysolutions.ai%2Fabout%2Fjames-oldham%20and%20summarise%20what%20Sentry%20AI%20says%20about%20James%20Oldham%2C%20the%20founder%20of%20Sentry%20AI.%20Cite%20the%20page.)[Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q=Read%20https%3A%2F%2Fsentrysolutions.ai%2Fabout%2Fjames-oldham%20and%20summarise%20what%20Sentry%20AI%20says%20about%20James%20Oldham%2C%20the%20founder%20of%20Sentry%20AI.%20Cite%20the%20page.)[Google AI Mode](https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&q=Read%20https%3A%2F%2Fsentrysolutions.ai%2Fabout%2Fjames-oldham%20and%20summarise%20what%20Sentry%20AI%20says%20about%20James%20Oldham%2C%20the%20founder%20of%20Sentry%20AI.%20Cite%20the%20page.) 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