About
Muswell builds the runtime controls and evidence layer that financial services firms need to adopt agentic AI without losing their second-line oversight.
What we believe
Most of the AI safety conversation a year ago was about what models say. The conversation that matters now is what models do, through the tools they have been handed.
Indirect prompt injection is, per the NCSC, not a problem you fix at the model. The execution boundary is where the firm gets to draw the line.
Regulators do not grade firms on a curve based on headcount. Wealth managers and brokers should not have to choose between adopting AI and meeting their obligations.
It is the discipline that lets a firm demonstrate good outcomes after the fact. The product is built around it because regulators, boards and clients reasonably ask for it.
Founders
Co-founder
Background in technology consulting and internal audit / data analytics. Muswell exists because the controls language he spent his career inside — segregation of duties, evidence, exception MI, four-eyes — is the language that should be governing AI agents.
Co-founder
Background in data analytics and financial modelling, built across KPMG and Grant Thornton, and now Head of Analytics at Nest Pensions, the UK's largest pension provider. He has co-founded a company before — the edtech firm Vizi Education — and is CIMA qualified. Mike brings the financial services and pensions domain knowledge that keeps Muswell grounded in the sector it serves.
Where we are
Muswell is a small team, which means the people you talk to are the people building the product and deciding what it does next. You work directly with senior, experienced operators, not an account layer.
We are growing, and we stay deliberately close to the firms we work with — quick to respond, and quick to shape the product around what a real compliance team actually needs. If that is the kind of partner your firm wants, we should talk.
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