About
Intelligence for serious operators
Vellum Intelligence serves clients navigating regulatory, policy, and compliance complexity across digital regulation, financial regulation, and cross-border environments.
Who we are
A human-led intelligence operation, scaled by AI.
Vellum is a human-led AI system. Our production workflow is AI-native — which is what lets us cover 174 ecosystems and coordinate briefs around client-selected coverage at a fraction of the cost of equivalent internal or advisory capacity — but every brief is reviewed and signed off by a named editor before it reaches the client. The AI scales the work. The judgement is ours.
We produce structured intelligence for decision-makers who need a clearer view of what is changing, why it matters, and what may need attention next. Our work is designed to be useful to professionals whose time is limited and whose decisions carry real legal, commercial, strategic, or reputational consequences.
What we believe
Discipline matters
In fast-moving policy and regulatory environments, the problem is rarely lack of information. It is lack of clarity.
Vellum is built on a simple view: intelligence should be precise, transparent about uncertainty, and directly relevant to the decisions ahead.
The aim is not to provide more information. It is to provide better judgement.
That means:
- No headline aggregation disguised as analysis
- No overclaiming beyond the evidence
- No false certainty where the picture is still forming
- No unnecessary complexity in the writing
Editorial standard
Editorial independence is non-negotiable
Commercial incentives do not determine analytical framing, topic selection, or evidentiary standards.
We are careful about conflicts, disciplined in sourcing, and clear about the limits of what can be known at a given moment.
Client confidentiality is treated as an absolute commitment. If a conflict of interest would affect the integrity of our analysis, we decline or scope around it.
The people behind Vellum
Founder & co-founder.
A pairing of regulatory and platform-governance depth with the operational discipline of senior management consulting.
Hakim Charles
Founder
Hakim built Vellum after senior public policy roles at X Corp/xAI and Meta, and other intelligence firms, where he led government and regulatory engagement across European and MENA markets. He set up Vellum to bring the same level of analytical discipline he expected internally at platforms — to the in-house counsel, policy leads, and advisory firms now navigating the same regulatory landscape from the other side.
Meryem Benkirane
Co-Founder
Meryem brings over a decade of management consulting and engineering experience to Vellum, having led large-scale transformation and portfolio programmes for blue-chip clients across energy, healthcare, retail, and transport at leading international consultancies. She holds an MBA from IAE Paris–Sorbonne and an engineering degree from ENSEEIHT.
What makes Vellum distinctive