Why we hired Mycroft

We Hired Mycroft. Here's Why That Was Easy.

Most companies treat SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 like a tax. They hire a consultant, fill a shared drive with policy PDFs nobody reads, and hope the auditor is in a good mood on audit day. The certificate goes on the website. The actual security posture stays roughly where it started.

We were never going to do it that way.

Anton isn't using AI, Anton is the AI. Our compliance runs continuously and gets enforced in production. So when it came time to pick a partner for our SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 programs, we had one hard requirement: whoever we brought in had to think about security the way we think about intelligence, as a living system that operates every day.

We found that in Mycroft.

AI-native, like us

Mycroft is an AI-native security and compliance platform. Their agents monitor infrastructure, enforce policies, collect evidence, and prepare audit artifacts continuously. Think virtual CISO and GRC team, minus the standups.

That architecture mirrors ours. Anton Intelligence makes regulatory truth, AI judgment, and deterministic rules work as one decisioning system. Mycroft applies the same instinct to security. The policy is enforced at runtime. It does not sit in a folder named "final_v3_ACTUAL_final."

When your compliance partner and your product share a worldview, integration stops being a negotiation.

Lean, like us

I built most of Anton with multi-agent orchestration and a very short list of humans. I have a strong allergy to overhead.

Mycroft is a lean team out of Toronto that came out of stealth in 2025 and moves fast. No 40-person account team. No six-week onboarding engineered to justify a retainer. Their entire pitch is that one platform replaces the sprawling stack of point tools most companies duct-tape together. Lean is the whole design.

Lean talks to lean, and it goes quickly.

Canadian, like us

We are an Ontario company. So is Mycroft, headquartered in Toronto, 30 minutes from my front door.

It sounds like a sentimental reason to sign a contract. It is actually a practical one. Same jurisdiction, same privacy regime, same time zone, same fluency in PIPEDA and the Canadian regulatory context we live in. When your security partner already speaks the local language, you spend your calls on substance instead of translation.

And yes, backing a strong Canadian company felt right. We would like the ecosystem we came from to keep producing companies like this one.

What they are doing for us

Mycroft is running point on our SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 programs. Evidence collection, control implementation, continuous monitoring, and audit coordination. The unglamorous machinery that turns a security posture into a certificate a merchant or an investor can actually trust.

That frees us to keep our attention on the one thing only we can build, the intelligence graph at the core of Anton. They keep the compliance engine humming underneath it.

The stoic version

Good infrastructure is invisible when it works and catastrophic when it fails. Compliance is the same. Nobody hands you a trophy for it, right up until the day it quietly saves you.

So we picked a partner who treats it that way. Continuously, calmly, and without theater.

That is the whole story. We hired the company that reminded us of us.