About Actorsy

WE BELIEVE YOUR FACE IS YOURS.

Not a dataset. Not a training asset. Not a resource to be harvested at machine speed without your knowledge, your consent, or your cut. Yours. And we built a marketplace to make sure you get paid every time it's used.

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The Team

BUILT BY PEOPLE
WHO KNOW BOTH SIDES.

We come from entertainment, production, AI filmmaking, and enterprise technology. We have sat on both sides of the casting table. We know what fair looks like. We built it.

Ben Thompson
Co-Founder · CEO

Commercial lead and architect of the Actorsy model. Media, licensing, and brand strategy background spanning entertainment, transactional, and IP commercialisation. Conceived the consent-first marketplace structure, commission model, and regulatory positioning.

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Edmond Yang
Co-Founder · AI Director

Interdisciplinary AI director and creative technologist, Oslo-based. Gold, Project Odyssey Season 2 for Best Narrative. Over 86 million viewers on his CCTV-commissioned AI short film. Collaboration with Academy Award-nominated director Nils Gaup. Named "AI guru" by the New York Post. Co-founder of NERVELAB generative studio.

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Giulio Musi
CCO & President of Global Partnerships

10+ years as advertising and film production executive. Managed several agencies representing Academy and Emmy winning directors, and the pan-European service production network Europa Films. MD of Chimney AI-Studio a prominent Gen-AI production company. Specialising in strategic business partnerships, new business development with strong focus on AI.

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Dennis Yeung
Head of Production

20+ years in VFX and production. Founded PostProduction Office, which held over 60% market share across Greater China. COO at Digital Domain, managing 600+ staff across five territories. VFX Supervisor on MEG2, The Battle at Lake Changjin, and Wong Kar-wai's Blossom Shanghai. Three-time Hong Kong Film Award nominee.

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Lee Debnam
Co-Founder · CTO

Technology leader with an academic background in AI and 20+ years building enterprise-grade digital systems. Former Technical Programme Lead at BT, leading pan-European teams. Delivered AXA's real-time claims platform, BT's Global Product Pipeline, and ITV's Dancing on Ice companion app. Leads all platform architecture and build at Actorsy.

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Why We Exist

THE PROBLEM
IS SIMPLE.

AI can now generate a human face, voice, and performance with the same ease with which it generates a landscape or a logo.

That is a technological fact. What it is not, what it has never been and will never be, is permission. For years AI production has operated in a grey zone: likenesses used without consent, talent bypassed, payments never made, contracts never signed.

It is catching up. SAG-AFTRA, the EU AI Act, the NO FAKES Act, California AB 2602, insurance underwriters and regulators on every continent are converging on the same conclusion: you cannot use a person's likeness in AI production without their explicit, documented, revocable consent. Actorsy exists because the industry needed compliant infrastructure before it needed another argument about whether consent matters. We built the platform.

£0
cost to talent to join & start earning
100%
of licences documented, scoped & auditable
Consent
explicit, scoped & revocable — always
Join Actorsy

YOUR LIKENESS.
YOUR RULES.

Upload once. Get discovered. Get cast. Get paid. Your face, your voice, your performance, licensed on your terms, every time.