About Curvestone

Curvestone is the compliance automation platform for regulated financial services — built by a team that's spent 8 years solving document intelligence problems for the most demanding industries.

Our story

From consultancy to compliance engine.

“The technology to solve this existed — but nobody had built it specifically for regulated industries. General-purpose AI tools don't understand audit trails, evidence requirements, or what the FCA expects. So we stopped consulting and started building.” — The founding team

Journey

Eight years in one sentence. Now in four.

2016

Founded as AI consultancy

Started building bespoke document intelligence solutions for some of the UK's largest financial institutions.

2019

Eight years of bespoke work

Across mortgages, insurance, banking, legal — we saw the same problem everywhere: compliance teams drowning in documents, checking what they could, hoping they caught the important issues.

2023

Pivoted to vertical platform

Stopped consulting. Started building a platform purpose-made for compliance operations in regulated financial services. New stack, new architecture, production-grade.

2026

25% of UK network compliance

Deployed across UK mortgage networks, lenders, and brokers. Financial Reporter Tech Provider of the Year — Finalist 2026.

What we believe

Four principles that decide every trade-off.

We build technology regulated firms have to trust with their most sensitive work. The principles below decide what we ship and what we refuse to.

Production over demo

If it doesn't work with real documents from real cases, it doesn't count. We test against production data. Every accuracy number we publish comes from real compliance checks on real case files.

Prove it first

We don't ask you to take our word for it. Our standard onboarding includes a pilot against your own cases. We publish our accuracy numbers because we've earned them.

Built for regulated industries

We don't bolt compliance onto a general-purpose AI tool. Every part of Curvestone is designed for the audit trails, evidence requirements, and regulatory scrutiny that regulated firms face daily.

Curving a stone

Curving a stone is one of the hardest things to do well — precision, patience, genuine skill. We chose the name because document intelligence for regulated compliance isn't a feature. It's a craft.

The people

Leadership.

Small team. Long backgrounds. Everyone here has shipped AI into regulated environments before.

Mitch Harper

CEO & Co-founder

Co-founder

CTO & Co-founder

Head of Compliance

Head of Engineering

Head of Sales

Recognition

Press, awards, and recognition.

2026

Finalist

Financial Reporter Tech Provider of the Year

2025

Sifted — 16th fastest UK/Ireland startup

Participant
FCA Innovation Sprint

Press

FT Adviser
Mortgage Solutions
Financial Reporter
The Intermediary
TechRadar
The Lawyer
AI Business

Join us

Come build with us.

15-person team working on a hard problem in a large, underserved market. Genuine equity, remote-friendly, real decision-making.

See Curvestone in action.

15-minute demo. Real compliance checks, real results — not a sanitised example.