Struan.ai

Struan provides fully managed AI employees that automate back-office processes and execute compliance-heavy workflows for organisations operating in regulated and process-intensive environments. The business was founded to address the growing gap between operational workload and available human capacity, particularly in sectors where accuracy, auditability and consistency are critical.

Many organisations rely on fragmented manual processes to support activities such as customer onboarding, compliance checks, reporting, finance operations, marketing operations and sales administration. As these organisations scale, the volume and complexity of this work often increases faster than teams can grow, leading to delays, rising costs, inconsistent execution and increased operational risk.

Struan exists to take ownership of this work as a managed service, rather than providing software for clients to run themselves. Struan’s AI employees are deployed to run defined processes end to end within a client’s existing systems and controls. This includes back-office process automation and the autonomous execution of workflows that are repetitive, time-consuming and compliance-led. Each AI employee is designed to deliver consistent, repeatable outcomes, with clear governance and oversight, and is deployed, monitored and managed by Struan on an ongoing basis. Clients include financial services businesses and other compliance-led industries where operational reliability and data integrity are non-negotiable.

Outcomes delivered by Struan include faster turnaround times, improved data quality, reduced operational bottlenecks and clearer visibility across core processes. This allows organisations to scale operations, reduce risk and increase throughput without the cost, complexity or overhead of hiring, managing or building internal automation capability.

Struan was created to address a recurring problem seen across regulated and process-heavy organisations: operational workload increasing faster than teams can scale, particularly in areas where accuracy, auditability and consistency are critical.

The insight behind Struan emerged while building PlacingTrades, an AI-first trading automation business operating in a highly regulated and execution-sensitive environment. Running PlacingTrades exposed the limits of traditional operating models. Adding headcount, outsourcing work or relying on disconnected software tools increased cost and complexity without delivering reliable execution. To operate safely at scale, the business required a different approach to ownership and control of day-to-day operations.

In response, an internal operating model was developed based on an agentic, hierarchical structure. AI employees were assigned ownership of defined functions, operating within clear rules, approval gates and escalation paths. This allowed core back-office and compliance-led workflows to be executed consistently without dependence on manual intervention or individual knowledge. It became clear that this operating model was not unique to a trading platform, but applicable across many organisations facing similar operational pressures.

Struan was formed to apply this approach more broadly as a managed service, rather than as software clients would need to configure and run themselves. Today, Struan provides fully managed AI employees that automate back-office processes and execute compliance-heavy workflows for financial services businesses and other compliance-led industries. The company focuses on dependable, auditable execution across functions such as marketing operations, sales administration, customer support, finance operations, reporting and regulatory processes. Struan has grown by applying the same principles proven internally: clear ownership, controlled execution and measurable outcomes.

Patrick Byrne
CEO & Co-Founder

Patrick Byrne is the CEO and Co-Founder of Struan. He has over 25 years’ experience working with technology-led organisations to design, build and scale sustainable growth models across marketing, operations and technology.

Throughout his career, Patrick has worked with thousands of technology companies, ranging from pre-revenue startups to publicly listed organisations with trillion-dollar market capitalisations. A consistent theme across this work has been helping leadership teams remove operational friction, improve execution, and scale growth without losing control of complexity.

Patrick previously founded and scaled Pursuit Marketing and YourShortlist, growing the businesses to a combined $24 million in annual revenue and employing more than 400 people across the UK and Europe. He also led the creation of $4.8 billion per year in verified sales pipeline for global technology clients including Google, Microsoft, Sage, Oracle and IBM.

His experience spans commercial strategy, go-to-market execution and operational design, with a strong focus on turning complex, people-heavy processes into scalable systems. At Struan, Patrick is responsible for overall strategy and ensuring the company’s managed AI employee model delivers measurable operational outcomes for financial services businesses and other compliance-led organisations.

Evan Morgan
CTO & Co-Founder

Evan Morgan is the CTO and Co-Founder of Struan and has over 25 years’ experience leading engineering, platform and transformation initiatives in large-scale digital and technology-led organisations.

Across his career, Evan has been responsible for building and operating technology platforms that support millions of users, with a particular focus on reliability, performance and operational scalability. He has worked in senior technology leadership roles across a range of high-growth and established businesses, supporting organisations through periods of significant technical, commercial and organisational change.

Evan was formerly CTO at Rated People, where he led a full platform rebuild of the UK’s largest trades marketplace. During his tenure, he transformed the technology estate and operating model, contributing to the business moving from a £5 million EBITDA loss to breakeven within 18 months. He has also led multi-disciplinary engineering teams at DMGT, Wowcher and Local World Media, delivering consumer-facing platforms at national scale.

His expertise lies in translating complex, human-led workflows into automated, measurable systems that can operate reliably under real-world conditions. At Struan, Evan leads all technical architecture and platform design, ensuring the company’s AI employee model delivers consistent execution, operational resilience and scalability for financial services businesses and other compliance-led organisations.