Castlepoint Systems | opportunities outside of its native Australia

Castlepoint Systems provides software solutions to a wide range of companies and government entities, enabling them to comply with regulations surrounding privacy, secrecy and records management. By empowering organisations to find, manage and audit digital information from a single interface - no matter where it is stored - organisations are able to easily apply security and compliance processes to all their digital records.  

We spoke to Rachael Greaves, co-founder and CEO, about Castlepoint’s information governance and compliance service and the growth opportunities outside of its native Australia.  

What does your company do? 

We are an artificial intelligence company, we are a cybersecurity company, we are a regtech and we're a fintech. We fall across a few domains because we're kind of a horizontal solution. 

Our software reads everything in the whole network. So it registers every document and email and database row and chat message and web page and ticket, and it registers all of this digital data in its own database. We then index it all and we read it and then Castlepoint uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence (AI) to understand what it's all about.  

We then go even further to work out what regulatory rules apply to that information based on its classification. We track all the events on that data, too, and we alert if something happens that shouldn't and then show what rules apply to that content. 

We want to change the way the world manages information because if you do it badly, you can end up with really adverse outcomes and really catastrophic outcomes for individuals. We've started solving that problem in Australia and New Zealand, which is good, but now we want to solve that problem everywhere. 

Where are your global operations? 

We started in Canberra which is the seat of government in Australia. We’re coming up to around 40 people, of which 35 are in Australia.  

As the CEO and co-founder, I'm in the UK almost full time. I do go back and forth a little bit, but I'm essentially based here full time. The CTO, the other co-founder, he's here about half the time in the UK. We've got a business development manager based here in the UK as well as a technology business analyst and my executive assistant. 

The fact that the UK is one of the world's leading centres for professional services is important for us. We've been able to make really significant traction, which has been good, and it further enforces that we've made the right choice making the UK our global centre of operations