Jims Young (Mengqi Yang), Chief Executive Officer of Anyway, a product brand of CENETRIUM INC, served as a judging panel member at UK AI Agent Hack Ep4 x OpenClaw, a week-long hackathon held at Imperial College London from March 1 to March 7, 2026. The event brought together student and developer teams building multi-agent systems for infrastructure, digital health, social interaction, and financial automation.Young was invited to evaluate participating teams on technical execution, product quality, real-world applicability, and long-term impact. His participation reflected his experience in AI infrastructure, financial systems, and the operational challenges involved in deploying agentic software in production environments.

The opening conference for the event featured keynote and fireside discussions involving Peter Steinberger, Founder of OpenClaw, and Thomas Wolf, Co-Founder of Hugging Face, as well as panels with partners from Ada Ventures, EWOR, and Fabric Ventures, and a conversation with Simon Squibb. Against this backdrop, Young contributed industry judgment on the readiness of AI agent systems for real-world deployment.

During the event, Young emphasized a recurring issue facing AI agent development: the gap between prototype performance and production deployment. Based on his work in AI infrastructure and prior experience in financial product development and venture investment, he noted that successful deployment depends not only on model capability, but also on system visibility, cost control, debugging, and reliable execution.

“What I saw were teams building sophisticated prototypes but then encountering challenges when moving toward production,” Young said. “Building a demonstration is different from operating an agent reliably at scale while managing costs and coordinating measurable outcomes.”

Several featured projects illustrated the increasing focus on production-oriented systems. ContentPilot integrated Anyway’s observability tooling to improve visibility into agent performance and expenditure, tracing LLM calls across workflows so developers could inspect usage, latency, and execution paths across complex pipelines. In digital health, KrumpPhysio presented a physiotherapy coaching agent designed to analyze user movement and provide training feedback through real-time analysis and session-based interaction. Other featured applications included WAR ROOM, a crisis-response simulation platform using multiple AI advisors to support complex decision-making, and WhoWins, a real-time debate platform that uses AI to analyze live discussions and generate structured reports on argument strength.

Young’s role on the judging panel is consistent with his work as CEO of Anyway, where he focuses on infrastructure that enables AI agents to move from prototype to production. His work includes systems for observability, cost tracking, and monetization for LLM-based and agentic applications.

Prior to Anyway, Young helped build Airwallex’s company card business from 0 to 1, gaining experience in financial infrastructure and scalable product operations. He later worked in venture investment, where he evaluated emerging AI systems and observed the operational barriers that affect the real-world deployment of autonomous software.

About Jims Young
Jims Young (Mengqi Yang) is CEO of Anyway, focusing on production-grade AI agent infrastructure—including observability, cost tracking, and monetization systems for LLM and agentic applications. He brings prior experience in financial infrastructure, product scaling, and AI-focused venture investment.

About Anyway
Anyway develops infrastructure for AI agents, with a focus on helping developers monitor system behavior, track cost, and monetize agent outcomes in production settings.