Limited Collector's Edition – Available for Pre-Order
 
Synthetic Consciousness in Financial Services is ready just in time for Christmas.
 
This exclusive first edition is strictly limited to just 400 copies worldwide, with only 369 copies available for public purchase.
 
Each book is individually numbered and personally signed by Clara Durodié, making it as much a collector's piece just like her first book,  as it is an essential read for leaders navigating the future of finance and artificial intelligence.
 
Far from another book about technology trends, Synthetic Consciousness in Financial Services explores the profound implications of advanced AI for financial institutions, governance, decision-making, trust, risk and the evolving relationship between human intelligence and machine cognition.
 
Every copy is produced as a premium limited-edition handcrafted in London, designed for readers who value original thinking and intellectual craftsmanship. Whether you're a board member, financial services executive, technology leader, investor, or policymaker, this book offers a thought-provoking perspective on one of the most important transformations of our time.
 
Pre-order now to secure your numbered, signed copy.
 
To ensure fair access, orders are limited to five copies per order—one for yourself, a few for the sharpest minds on your board, and perhaps one for that colleague who still insists AI is "just tools."
 
Synthetic Consciousness in Financial Services sits at the frontier of several urgent conversations: what happens when AI systems begin to exhibit behaviours that look like early forms of synthetic consciousness; how boards and investors should rethink governance when machines are no longer “just tools”; and what kind of human mind is needed to lead in that environment.
 
Clara is uniquely placed to write this book because she has been:
Inside the industry – advising institutions that actually build and buy AI, not just commenting from the sidelines.
Inside the technology – working with AI practitioners and researchers, not just reading the headlines.
Inside the human mind – studying and practising the mental disciplines that shape how leaders perceive risk, power and responsibility.
 
This book matters now because financial services is rapidly becoming dependent on AI for core decision‑making, while our collective frameworks for understanding synthetic consciousness and governing it are lagging behind. Clara argues that we cannot design safe, high‑performing AI in finance without upgrading the consciousness of the humans who specify, oversee and audit these systems.
 
In that sense, this is not only a book about technology; it is a book about the future character of leadership in finance – written by someone who has spent years in the boardroom, in the engine room of AI projects, and in the demanding inner work of building what she calls an “elite mind.”