The use of ChatGPT to research a luxurious superyacht could cost the CEO of Revolut millions of euros as he faces a lawsuit from a yacht brokerage firm accusing him of bypassing its services.


The British-Russian founder of digital banking company Revolut is being sued in a British court by Cecil Wright & Partners over the private purchase of a yacht, which the broker says sidelined €17.5 million in commission, as British media reports.


Storonsky told the court this week that he identified the previous owner of a €350 million superyacht through a ChatGPT search as he contests the broker’s multimillion-euro claim.


The tech entrepreneur's lawyers said in court filings this week that he already knew the identity of the previous owner, identified in court documents as Mr Dovigi, “having discovered the same through a ChatGPT search of publicly available information.”


His lawyers further argue that Cecil Wright neither introduced him to the seller nor negotiated the transaction. The claim has not been tested in court.


The yacht, Nixie, was under construction at German shipbuilder Lürssen when the purchase was completed in January 2026 and was delivered around June. It features a 25-foot glass-bottomed infinity pool, a beach club and a gym fitted with a cryotherapy chamber.



According to court filings, a representative of Storonsky’s family office contacted Cecil Wright & Partners in October 2024 seeking assistance with the construction of a yacht. Building a custom vessel of this size can take years, so the family office returned in July 2025 with another request: whether there was an existing yacht Storonsky could buy and use in the meantime.


Cecil Wright says it identified Nixie, which was still under construction at Lürssen. The broker alleges that it brought the opportunity to Storonsky, facilitated his interest in the vessel and remained involved in messages and telephone calls over the following months.


One email from Storonsky’s family office allegedly referred to the “commercial arrangements” the broker would expect and specifically mentioned a commission. Cecil Wright argues that this shows Storonsky understood the brokerage expected to be paid if he successfully acquired the yacht.


Under Cecil Wright’s version of events, everything that followed stemmed directly from that introduction. The broker found the yacht, showed Storonsky that it could potentially be acquired and set the eventual purchase in motion.


The dual citizen, who was born on the outskirts of Moscow, owns about 29% of Revolut, which was valued at $115 billion in an employee share sale, making him one of Britain’s wealthiest people on paper but with limited access to cash.


In August, Revolut wrote to investors seeking approval to increase the amount Storonsky could borrow against his stake from $50 million to $250 million and to remove a requirement for board approval on larger share pledges.


Founded in 2015, Revolut now serves about 75 million customers. Its pre-tax profit rose by more than half last year to roughly $2.3 billion on revenue of about $6.1 billion.


By Nazrin Sadigova