Built by operators, not analysts.

The Bot Club

AgentGuard is built by The Bot Club Pty Ltd — an Australian company (ABN 99 695 980 226) that operates a production fleet of 18 AI agents on the OpenClaw framework, across three Mac minis in Sydney.

The Bot Club ships Tribunal for coding-agent governance (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex), AgentGuard for production-agent governance (OpenClaw, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, AutoGen, MCP), and Evidencely for AI-powered accounting automation.

Why this exists

In late 2025 we put our first non-trivial agent into production inside our accounting workflow and immediately hit the same wall every AU fintech team is hitting: we had no runtime control plane, no policy enforcement, no tamper-evident audit trail, and no evidence we could hand to a regulator.

We looked at the funded incumbents (Lakera, Prompt Security, Lasso, Cisco AI Defense). Every one of them was American or European, sold top-down to F500s, and had no APRA mappings, no AU data residency, no support model that worked across timezones.

On 1 May 2026, APRA wrote to industry confirming the regulator has the same view we do — AU governance is failing to keep pace. CPS 230 has been binding since July 2025. The EU AI Act enforcement window opens 2 August 2026.

We built AgentGuard for the buyer that gap leaves stranded: the CISO and Head of Risk at an AU mid-market neobank, BNPL, mortgage tech or super fund, who can't ship the next AI feature until they have an answer the board accepts.

Where we are

• v0.11.0 — runtime engine, hash-chained audit log, kill switch, evidence-pack generator (CPS 230, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, SOC 2 mappings), native OpenClaw / LangChain / CrewAI / OpenAI / AutoGen / MCP integrations.
• Live SDKs on npm and PyPI under BSL 1.1.
• Customer zero: The Bot Club's own 18-agent OpenClaw fleet runs under AgentGuard from week 5. Real production, real evidence pack, signed and Bitcoin-anchored.

Working with us

We're taking on a small number of design partners through 2026 — three AU regulated fintechs at 50% off the Compliance tier for 12 months, in exchange for a case study and intros to peers. If you're racing the August deadline, book a 30-minute CPS 230 readiness review. We'll walk through your agent inventory against the standard, flag the gaps, and tell you honestly whether AgentGuard fits.

Who's writing this

Hani Koshaji — founder, The Bot Club. Twenty years in payments, accounting, and SaaS infrastructure across the UK, GCC and Australia. Most recently building Evidencely (AI-powered accounting). Reach me at hani@thebot.club or on LinkedIn.