James MacLeod — Head Curator
Former maritime collections manager; MA in public history. Sets exhibition policy, signs publisher statements, and liaises with Nova Scotia archives for loan agreements.
Institutional history
Curators of monetary memory
ForexWithAI Heritage Desk Ltd. opened in 2019 on Halifax’s Lower Water Street to give Canadians a calm place to study foreign-exchange archives — and to scrutinize artificial-intelligence hype with the same rigour museums apply to forged artefacts.
Why Halifax, why 2019
Atlantic Canada has long been a hinge between sterling commerce and North American settlement markets. By 2019, social feeds overflowed with screenshots of algorithmic dashboards promising effortless currency gains, while university special collections sat undervisited. James MacLeod, then collections manager at a regional maritime museum, convened archivists and economic historians to propose a different venue: a chart room where the primary artefact is the document, not the demo account.
Provincial incorporation followed under the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies. We chose the name ForexWithAI not to advertise automation but to flag our dual mandate — foreign-exchange heritage plus critical reading of AI literature. The acronym-friendly brand draws journalists; the fine print on every placard sends them back to primary sources.
Our team
Staff titles mirror museum practice rather than finance hierarchy. We employ no traders, no commission sales agents, and no software engineers building execution bots.
Dr. Amélie Fortin — Senior Archivist
Trained at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Maintains finding aids, redaction protocols, and digitization standards for fragile rate bulletins.
Rohan Mehta — Bibliography Auditor
Information-science background; catalogues machine-learning papers on currency topics, tagging reproducibility and dataset licensing flags for FXWA-007.
Eleanor Shaw — Public Programmes Docent
Leads classroom sessions and waterfront walking extensions. Former high-school history teacher; designs worksheets aligned with Nova Scotia curriculum outcomes.
Design philosophy
The chart room deliberately evokes nineteenth-century observatories: brass fittings, parchment tones, wide horizontal sightlines. Labels use museum typography — small caps, accession numbers — so visitors subconsciously adopt slower reading habits. We reject dashboard aesthetics that mimic trading terminals because such interfaces imply action where we offer contemplation.
Every exhibit module passes a three-question gate before installation: (1) Can we show at least one primary document? (2) Does the narrative separate historical description from predictive language? (3) Would a regulator recognize our role as educational? Failure on any question sends the proposal back to the drafting table.
Governance and independence
ForexWithAI Heritage Desk Ltd. accepts revenue from admission fees, consultation bookings, and institutional grants for public programming. We do not accept payment for order flow, affiliate links, data-feed sponsorships, or placement of broker advertisements. Our board minutes — summarized annually in the legal notice — document recusal policies when a director’s academic affiliation overlaps with bibliography entries under review.
Corporate registration: Nova Scotia Registry number 3349287. Business Number 334928761RC0001. GST/HST registration 334928761RT0001. Registered office at 1675 Lower Water Street, Halifax, NS B3J 1S3.
Looking forward
Planned 2026 additions include a travelling panel on Indigenous trade wampum records (in partnership with Mi’kmaw archivists) and a revised FXWA-007 binder tracking federated-learning claims in macroeconomics. We will not expand into software distribution or live data terminals. Growth means deeper shelves, not louder predictions.
Regulatory notice. ForexWithAI is a heritage reading desk dedicated to the historical and archival study of foreign-exchange markets and to the critical retrospective analysis of academic claims about artificial-intelligence applications to currency research. We are not registered with the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), or any provincial securities regulator as a dealer, adviser, or investment fund manager. We do not provide real-time quotes, trading signals, broker referrals, leveraged products, MetaTrader expert advisors, or any form of currency-trading service. Foreign-exchange trading involves significant risk and is, in Canada, available only through CIRO-registered dealers; we are not such a dealer. Historical exchange-rate episodes presented as exhibition material are offered for educational and archival purposes only; they do not forecast future currency movements.