Confide, the company from the Wirecard whistleblower, launches a governance platform for people and AI agents

Confide, the company founded by Pav Gill, the whistleblower who exposed the Wirecard scandal and a former head of legal, has launched an agentic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform that brings those functions together in a single system. The announcement was distributed on October 6, 2026.

The company's diagnosis is that businesses have spent years paying for a mosaic of disconnected point solutions, and that when a serious problem arises nobody should have to reconstruct across several systems who was involved and how it was handled. On top of that sits its underlying thesis: legacy GRC tools were not built for a world in which billions of AI agents will help run companies with people supervising.

A single, defensible register

Confide integrates case management, policies, risk and audit in one platform, with flows for third-party risk, incident response, health and safety, authority requirements and AI governance. Policies, risks, cases, people, vendors and decisions are connected in a live governance register: when a matter arises, the team sees what happened, who or what was involved, what information supported each decision and what action followed, without reconstructing the story across systems.

The same model applies to AI agents: the company defines which tasks they may execute, where human approval is needed and when a person may step in. Agents keep the routine administrative work and people keep the relevant decisions, and every action, human or agent, lands in a defensible audit trail. The platform is model-agnostic and integrates with existing ways of working, without forcing procedures to be rebuilt.

The company claims end users in more than 150 countries, ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 attestations, and the backing of more than 50 global GRC leaders, including managing partners of international law firms and compliance heads at Fortune 100 companies. Gill founded it out of his experience at Wirecard and his career as a general counsel working with legacy GRC software, and the company has been active since 2024.

Regulatory pressure as the argument

The launch leans on a figure the release itself attributes without detailing a source: some 61,000 new rules a year, with companies increasingly required to demonstrate compliance continuously and to explain how each case was handled. As a recent example of the cost of fragmented governance, the release cites the KPMG case in Australia, which in August made news over its handling of a whistleblower who reported the misuse of confidential client information.

Governing agents, the other side of deploying them

While the makers focus on getting agents to execute more work, such as Harvey's Legal Work Orchestration, Confide tackles the opposite face: who watches what those agents do and how it is proven afterwards. It is one more piece of the legaltech and compliance market that, according to the 2026 funding data gathered in our analysis of the sector's venture capital, keeps attracting investment. And it connects with the question features like Legora's Skills try to answer: how what an agent can do inside an organization is codified and controlled.

This story is part of our legaltech startups and AI section, where we track launches, rounds and deals in the sector.

Sources and limits

The launch, the features and the quotes appear in the press release distributed by Finextra on October 6, 2026. The figure of 61,000 rules a year and the country and backer counts are company statements without a detailed source. The reference to the KPMG Australia case comes from the release itself.