About Attestr
Built by a former bank director who saw the compliance gap firsthand — and decided to close it with cryptography instead of paperwork.
The Problem We Lived
Fraud operations at large financial institutions generate thousands of decisions every day. Each one needs to be defensible — traceable, tamper-proof, and ready for examination at a moment's notice.
In practice, that means teams scrambling through spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected case management tools whenever a regulator asks questions. Evidence is scattered. Audit trails are reconstructed after the fact. And the people who made the decisions are left hoping their documentation holds up.
We know because we were those people.
Origin Story
Attestr was founded by a former director at one of Canada's largest banks, where he led fraud strategy and operations across consumer and commercial banking. After years of watching compliance teams spend more time proving their work than doing it, the idea became clear:
What if every fraud decision created its own cryptographic proof — automatically, at the moment it happened?
Not a PDF export. Not a case note. A hash-chained, digitally signed, independently verifiable record that no one — not even Attestr — can alter after the fact.
That idea became the Attestr protocol: a cryptographic compliance layer that sits alongside your existing fraud stack and seals every decision into a tamper-proof ledger.
What We Believe
Compliance should be a byproduct of good systems, not extra work. If your team has to manually document decisions for auditors, something is broken. Attestr generates proof as a side effect of the decision itself.
Examiners shouldn't have to trust the vendor. Our verification engine is open source. Regulators and auditors can independently verify any evidence packet without an Attestr account, API key, or internet connection.
Cryptography beats bureaucracy. A SHA-256 hash chain is a stronger guarantee than a manager's signature on a cover sheet. We replace trust assumptions with mathematical proof.
Zero vendor lock-in is non-negotiable. Your evidence packets are yours. The verification engine is MIT licensed. If Attestr disappears tomorrow, your records remain valid and verifiable forever.
The Company
Attestr is built by PowerPlay Systems Inc., headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We're a small, focused team obsessed with one thing: making fraud compliance effortless and provable.
We're not trying to replace your fraud detection tools. We're the layer that makes their output audit-ready — the compliance infrastructure that should have existed from the start.
Whether you're a fintech looking to solve compliance, a bank exploring modern audit infrastructure, or a regulator curious about cryptographic evidence — we'd love to talk.
PowerPlay Systems Inc. · Toronto, ON, Canada · hello@attestr.io