Systems
The trading, operations and reporting core of an energy or finance business. Built new, rebuilt, or merged after an acquisition. Agent controls for trading systems, for the firms putting AI to work on them. By the people who built it at Shell, Centrica and Limejump.
What the core does
Books that stay right
A trade that breaks a rule cannot be saved. The system refuses it and says why. A trader, a script and an agent meet the same rules.
Three layers of P&L
Fast for the trader. Human for the desk head. Accurate for finance and the regulator. One source.
Any past date
Positions and P&L as they stood on any past date. A correction keeps the original beside it.
Regulatory reporting falls out as a by-product. EMIR and REMIT filings come from the same data as the P&L.
Who it is for
A new desk. An energy desk, a hedge fund or a trading house opening a market. An optimiser or a utility building its first book. The core has to work on the first trading day.
A modernisation. A stack that no longer ties out. Or one that cannot yet let an agent or an algorithm write to it safely.
A stack inherited in an acquisition. A trading system nobody on your side built. It has to be merged, or run, without stopping the desk.
Agent controls for trading systems
For the head of AI security or platform security at a trading firm or fund.
The shift. AI agents now act on research and trading systems. They write code, change algorithms, amend books and draft filings. On energy desks, at hedge funds and at quant firms alike.
Who wins and who loses. The firms that win let agents work at full speed, because every action is checked before it lands. The firms that lose find out what an agent changed when the regulator, the auditor or the P&L asks.
Where you end up. Agents work on your algorithms and your books, and nothing enters the record that breaks your rules. When a third party asks what happened, the answer is a record, not an investigation.
What you get
The admissibility layer, above identity and sandboxing. Identity says who the agent is. A sandbox says where it may run. Admissibility says whether its proposed action meets the firm's written rules, the person's authority and the evidence in hand. Only then does it become a business fact.
Change control for agent-written changes. To algorithms and to books. A change is proposed, checked against the rules and recorded before it goes live. The same path whether a person or an agent wrote it.
The evidence record. Every decision, allowed or refused, leaves a record. A third party can check it without access to your systems.
How it is delivered
A diagnostic first. Where agents already act on your systems, what checks each action today, and what record it leaves. Written down, with the gaps named.
Then an embedded programme. We work inside your platform and security team. The controls go in, workflow by workflow, with Morpholog as the core. Your team owns them when we leave.
We built the trading core behind six commodity desks at Shell, trade processing at Centrica and the exchange automation at Limejump. And a terabyte-scale sensor data platform, cut by 87 percent with no downtime.
Work
Shell. Real-time position and P&L across six commodity desks: power, gas, LNG, carbon and coal. Spreadsheets replaced by one platform with one data lineage. EMIR and REMIT filings generated from system data. Still running.
Centrica. Trade processing at hundreds of thousands of data points a minute. Real-time analytics across trading, risk and settlement for one of Britain's largest desks.
Limejump. Day-ahead trading automation on EPEX SPOT and Nord Pool for the whole floor. Exchange integration built from scratch, in production, with live settlement.
Capture Energy. Two production bills recomputed from the client's own records, to test a proposed billing platform before it was built.
A sensor data platform. A terabyte-scale production database measured live, cut by 87 percent with no downtime, and the cloud bill halved. The cost model left as reviewed code.
How we work
Directly. We lead the build with your team, from the first design decision to the last cut-over. Or we deliver a defined outcome at a fixed price, written down first.
Inside your consultancy's programme. You hold the client. We bring the trading knowledge and the core.
Where software writes to the books, the core runs on Morpholog, our open-source AI security and compliance core.
Contact us first
If you are building the desk that agents and algorithms will work on, talk to us first.
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