Fearless and Independent
The Retort provides a rigorous “counter-punch” to mainstream narratives by exposing false AI and biotech claims, economic distortions, dark money, geopolitical shifts, and the collision of emerging tech with global societies.
Fearless and Independent
The Retort provides a rigorous “counter-punch” to mainstream narratives by exposing false AI and biotech claims, economic distortions, dark money, geopolitical shifts, and the collision of emerging tech with global societies.
Forensic and Data-backed
We audit and report through forensic investigations, expert columns, and deep dives, using data science to track anomalies and hidden trails.
Forensic and Data-backed
We audit and report through forensic investigations, expert columns, and deep dives, using data science to track anomalies and hidden trails.
Exposing Deceptions
We reveal how the fusion of Big Tech and institutional authority is being steered, financed, and co-opted at the expense of public transparency and genuine progress.
Exposing Deceptions
We reveal how the fusion of Big Tech and institutional authority is being steered, financed, and co-opted at the expense of public transparency and genuine progress.
For Change Makers
Through our podcasts, meetups, and exclusive events, we host a collective of world-class academics, leading thinkers, investigative journalists, and radical business pioneers.
For Change Makers
Through our podcasts, meetups, and exclusive events, we host a collective of world-class academics, leading thinkers, investigative journalists, and radical business pioneers.
The Retort is an intelligence network for those who look beyond memes and clichés to find real-world knowledge and strategic clarity.
Tim El-Sheikh
Named one of the world’s top 100 voices shaping the future of AI, Tim El-Sheikh is a biomedical scientist and former professional athlete turned serial deep-tech entrepreneur. Since 2002, he has been at the frontier of human-machine intelligence, emerging as one of the pioneering AI founders during the rise of London’s Silicon Roundabout.
Tim El-Sheikh
Named one of the world’s top 100 voices shaping the future of AI, Tim El-Sheikh is a biomedical scientist and former professional athlete turned serial deep-tech entrepreneur. Since 2002, he has been at the frontier of human-machine intelligence, emerging as one of the pioneering AI founders during the rise of London’s Silicon Roundabout.
Tim founded multiple tech and social enterprises, and he is currently focusing on his human-machine intelligence ventures, advising government agencies, and campaigning for digital equality, consumer rights, copyright, privacy rights and human rights.
Tim’s career is defined by his ability of tracking what others ignore. Since 2012, while at Google Campus London, he has been a vocal advocate against the systemic spread of online misinformation, warning of the rise of deepfakes and the erosion of “ethical priorities” in the tech sector long before they became mainstream headlines.
Tim launched The Retort, alongside his podcast The CEO Retort, to serve as the missing platform for independent intelligence where forensic reporting and expert interrogation replace hype and spin.
After a decade of charlatans, we must confront the issues we all face, no matter who we are or where we are, without hype, nonsense, or pulling any punches.
It’s time we act together.
