Urgent work starves strategy. We give teams AI agents they can trust — governed operations that deliver today and protect what matters tomorrow.
Led by Andy Woolterton — two decades in enterprise architecture and AI strategy. Building governed agent systems for insurance and professional services.
Proof in the real world
AFTER-IMAGE (CREATIVE VENTURE)
Built a luxury photography brand from zero using NullProof's own framework. Multi-Clock Work handled strategy, governance, and back-office operations — freeing the founder to focus on client-facing creative work. Live, taking commissions.
Visit After-Image →PORTFOLIO EXPOSURE RADAR (INSURANCE)
Continuous intelligence for emerging risk. 13 source workflows monitoring regulatory, litigation, scientific, and market signals. Cross-referenced against client portfolios with automated scoring and agent-driven escalation.
See the signal architecture →NullProof Studio (internal pilot)
Built the operating system that runs this studio. One human, governed AI agents, 90 days from zero to production. 68% reduction in decision latency, >95% compliance rate.
See the operating model →What we build
GOVERNED AGENT SYSTEMS
AI agents that operate under explicit trust boundaries. Durable event queues, belief graphs, hallucination detection, three-stage validation with supervisor arbitration. The governance isn't bolted on — it's the architecture.
See the operating model →INSURANCE & RISK INFRASTRUCTURE
Signal monitoring across regulatory, litigation, scientific, and market sources. Claims processing with FNOL routing. Portfolio exposure scoring. Built for brokers and underwriters who need to know what changed overnight.
Portfolio Exposure Radar →OPEN-SOURCE TOOLING
en-quire: an MCP server for governed markdown and YAML editing. Section-level addressing, RBAC, git-native approval workflows, full-text search. Works in any language. On npm and Docker Hub.
GitHub → nullproof-studio/en-quireFrameworks you can study. Engagements you can commission. A platform you can run.
AI orchestration without vendor chaos.
MCP-native client that keeps Notion, Claude, OpenAI, and local models in one continuous state—swap providers without losing the thread.
Governance protocols for teams managing competing priorities.
Multi-Clock Work, Bandit Scoring, strategic outcomes mapping, and AI delegation guardrails—documented as runnable field guides.
START READING →Embedded systems design for your team.
4-12 week architecture sprints: prioritisation models, AI governance protocols and context workflows tailored to how your organisation actually works.
SEE ENGAGEMENT TYPES →Published thinking
Field notes from building agent systems in production. Not theory — operational decisions, trade-offs, and what we learned.
Published agentic AI stack architectures — five-layer, seven-layer, and nine-layer frameworks in common circulation, alongside Microsoft's own agentic AI roadmap reviewed as of April 2026 — cover compute, models, orchestration, tooling, and observability. None include trust as a named layer. Agents can hold wallets, execute payments, and submit documents - they just can't prove who they are. This paper examines why the identity layer is missing from agent runtimes, how existing standards (W3C DIDs, Verifiable Credentials) can fill the gap, and why the window to build it openly is now.
Read →Every governance framework in use today embeds trust assumptions calibrated on decades of human behaviour. Agents break those assumptions. This paper argues that trust management - the explicit identification, assessment, and governance of trust signals - needs to become a discipline in its own right, with registers, scoring, thresholds, and continuous monitoring, paralleling how organisations already manage risk.
Read →Agents that manage documentation need more than file access — they need structure, governance, and the ability to edit precisely without reading everything. en-quire gives them that: section-level editing, searchable document structure, and git-native approval workflows, all without imposing a schema on your markdown.
Read →In a 14-week single-studio pilot, decision latency fell by roughly 68% and no projects went unreviewed. Three integrated frameworks for managing AI-augmented creative work.
Read →Founder, Designer, and Chief Architect. Two decades in enterprise architecture, AI strategy, and creative systems design. Creator of the Multi-Clock Work framework for managing creative operations across time horizons.