Playground. Where AI agents play. Safely.
    AI Execution Layer · For Regulated Industries

    Your competitors are deploying AI.
    While you're stuck waiting for Legal to sign off.

    AI is the most powerful business tool ever built. But in regulated industries - financial services, insurance, telco, debt collection - deploying it safely is a different problem entirely.

    Upwire's AI execution layer "Playground" solves that.

    Trusted By

    • QBE
    • Commonwealth Bank
    • Grays
    • Afterpay
    • Optus
    • QBE
    • Commonwealth Bank
    • Grays
    • Afterpay
    • Optus
    The problem

    AI cannot be safely operationalised
    in Regulated Environments.

    AI is transforming every industry. Regulated industries are being left behind due to compliance. The window is closing. Every month your competitors deploy AI safely, they widen the gap - in speed, in cost, and in customer experience.

    Playground from Upwire is the compliance layer needed to safely execute AI in regulated industries.

    The Statistics

    AI implementation is stalling
    in regulated industries.

    >70%

    of organisations say compliance, risk, and governance are the biggest barriers to deploying AI at scale.

    20–30%

    of AI initiatives ever reach production. The rest die in legal, risk, and IT reviews that never end.

    $0

    in value from every AI project that never leaves the lab. The cost of not acting is no longer theoretical.

    AI needs somewhere safe to play
    A playground - freedom within boundaries

    Think about a playground.

    It's designed for freedom - but within control. It's fenced, structured, and safe. Kids can explore, experiment, and play without creating risk.

    The fence isn't the point. The freedom inside it is.

    That's what AI has been missing. A safe, bounded environment where it can operate freely - without exposing your business to compliance risk, legal liability, or regulatory failure.

    Playground is that environment. Where AI agents operate freely - but within boundaries, with control, and with trust. That's what makes AI execution possible.

    Two use cases. One platform.

    What Playground does
    for your business.

    AI Execution.

    The Layer for Regulated Industries

    AI decides. Playground executes - safely, compliantly, with a full audit trail. The missing layer between AI intelligence and real-world action.

    • → Contain AI inside compliance-grade execution environments
    • → Log every action with provable chain of custody
    • → Deploy AI into production - not pilots that never ship

    Orchestration.

    For Legacy Systems

    The same infrastructure that activates AI also connects your legacy stack. Modern workflows without rip-and-replace.

    • → Connect legacy systems without code
    • → Automate SMS, voice, payment, document workflows
    • → Ten years of enterprise orchestration - battle tested
    How it works

    From AI instruction
    to real-world outcomes.

    01

    Describe

    You describe what you need via our AI Builder - in plain language. No code. No canvas. No technical knowledge required.

    02

    Contain

    Playground creates an isolated execution environment for that action. Compliance boundaries enforced automatically. Nothing bleeds out.

    03

    Execute

    The action runs through compliance-grade infrastructure. Use our AI or plug in yours. SMS · Payment · Document · Voice - at exactly the right moment.

    04

    Prove

    Every action is logged, timestamped, and auditable. Full chain of custody. Compliance teams see exactly what happened, when, and why.

    Built for regulated execution

    Not just integration.
    True execution.

    Playground isn't another workflow builder. It's the layer between AI intelligence and real-world outcomes - where every action is bounded, compliant, and provable.

    Secure

    Every AI action runs inside an isolated execution environment. No cross-contamination. No data leakage. Enterprise-grade at every level.

    Compliant

    PCI, GDPR, TCPA, and industry-specific compliance frameworks built in - not bolted on. Your regulatory obligations met automatically.

    Auditable

    Full audit trail on every action. What the AI did. When. Why. A complete chain of custody from AI decision to real-world outcome.

    Scalable

    One workflow or one million. Same platform, same guarantees, same compliance layer throughout. Built for enterprise scale from day one.

    What you get

    Real outcomes.
    Not just capabilities.

    Playground is measured by what changes in your business - not what it can technically do.

    01

    AI in production - not in the lab

    Move from pilots and proof-of-concepts to AI that actually runs your workflows. In regulated environments. At scale. Today.

    02

    Compliance that doesn't slow you down

    Stop letting legal and risk teams veto AI deployment. Give them the audit trail, the controls, and the governance they need - built in from the start.

    03

    Speed to market - ahead of competitors

    Deploy AI across customer communications, decisioning, and workflows in weeks - not the 18-month enterprise IT projects your competitors are stuck in.

    04

    Every AI action provable

    Full chain of custody on every decision. When a regulator asks what happened - you can show them. Exactly. Down to the millisecond.

    05

    Legacy systems - activated by AI

    Don't rip and replace. Playground orchestrates your existing systems and activates AI across them - without rebuilding your technology stack.

    06

    One platform - AI and orchestration

    Connect legacy systems and deploy AI agents in the same environment. Playground is the execution layer for both - with the same compliance guarantees throughout.

    Industries

    Built for industries where
    getting it wrong has consequences.

    The more regulated the environment, the harder execution becomes - and the more valuable the solution.

    Financial Services

    AI-driven collections, decisioning, and customer communications - PCI compliant, fully audited, zero compliance exposure.

    Debt & Receivables

    Autonomous AI workflows that contact, negotiate, and resolve - within regulatory boundaries, documented at every step.

    Insurance

    Claims processing and customer interactions executed by AI - with provable compliance at every touchpoint.

    Telecommunications

    Customer lifecycle and retention driven by AI agents operating inside controlled, auditable boundaries.

    Self assessment

    Is Playground right for your business?

    Answer 15 questions and find out exactly where your AI deployment risk sits - and whether Playground is the right solution for your industry.

    Takes less than 2 minutes

    Get started

    AI is ready to act
    in your industry.

    Join regulated enterprises already running AI at scale with Playground.

    Playground. Where AI agents play. Safely.