70M+
identities secured
0
downtime on every go live
600+
authentications per second
8+
years in regulated production
Identity was only the beginning.
For decades, enterprises trusted software that followed instructions. Now software can decide, pursue objectives and act independently, across identity, delivery and autonomy. One company, one discipline, applied at each layer.
Trusted Identity
We design, migrate and operate Ping Identity and Keycloak for tier one banks, with zero downtime as standard, not a premium.
Trusted Delivery
Our AI Led SDLC brings the speed of AI assisted engineering under the discipline regulated environments demand, traceable from requirement to release.
Built around trust.
Three connected capabilities, applied across identity, delivery and autonomy. Each is a place a regulated enterprise can start, today.
Most enterprises do not buy autonomy. They buy outcomes.
Autonomy only matters when it reduces cost, improves speed, strengthens resilience or unlocks new digital business models. We connect the technology agenda to business outcomes.
A platform you own
White box delivery and source code handover. Run it yourself, or let the team that built it operate it.
Zero downtime modernisation
Migrate and run critical identity platforms without a single business interruption.
Faster software delivery
Capture the productivity of AI assisted engineering without losing control, traceable from requirement to release.
Audit ready AI
Evidence for regulators by default, a tamper evident record of what your AI did and why.
Lower fraud exposure
Govern customer facing AI decisions before they execute, with risk aware step up where it matters.
Faster onboarding
Reduce customer friction while raising assurance, with identity journeys tuned for conversion and fraud reduction.
We govern what we operate.
Most firms selling AI governance have never run a regulated system in production. We have, and we still do. We operate the identity control planes that tier one banks depend on every minute of every day.
Icebreaker governs autonomous action through those same controls, because the people building it are the people who run them. We are not theorising about the risk of autonomy from the outside, we are extending systems we already operate, and are already accountable for, to contain it.
We solve trust problems before the industry agrees how.
Licensable accelerators, multi cloud active active, silent device login before WebAuthn, transaction signing, AffirmID, DevSecOps native identity through Midships Cube. Autonomy is the next instance of the same pattern. The problem is new. The instinct is not.
Silent device login
WebAuthn standard, later
Transaction signing
non repudiation
Multi cloud active active
market trusts one provider, later
Accelerators
delivery treated as repeatable, later
Midships Cube
local AIC development
AffirmID
caller verification
Icebreaker
AI governance category, now
Innovations above the line, the market and the standard catching up below.
The three trust layers are what we build. Guardian is how we run them.
Guardian is the operating layer beneath the whole company, and the clearest expression of we govern what we operate. Most managed services keep a platform alive for the people who run it. Guardian goes further, with dashboards that translate operational health and identity activity into terms each audience understands, so the IT team and the business each see what matters to them. A platform only its operators can read is a platform the business cannot trust. We run this today on platforms that handle more than 600 authentications per second, each journey making nine to ten API calls.
Guardian is a choice, not a dependency. We hand over the source code and make your team able to run the platform themselves. Guardian exists for the clients who would rather the people who built and govern the system also operate it, so their team is freed for higher value work. One is the absence of lock in. The other is the deliberate choice to keep the operator.
This is also where the company deepens. Guardian begins as managed services for identity, becomes managed autonomous operations as we run Icebreaker and govern agents continuously, and in time becomes enterprise trust operations. It grows in value and sophistication, not in headcount.
Andre Durand
Midships, one of our highly focused, extremely technical implementation partners. Very competent, very focused.
Alfonoso Tambunan
Their accelerator and knowledge of containerised architectures gave us the confidence to choose them, a decision well made.
Joe Standen
Midships helped us migrate our ForgeRock stack from legacy VMs onto Kubernetes, a fundamental change for our team, and we were well supported throughout.
Trusted by tier one banks and regulated enterprises.
Asia Pacific · Australia · New Zealand · the UK · the Middle East
Independence is the foundation of trust.
Our advice is shaped by customer outcomes, not by licence targets or partner incentives. We recommend what is right for the customer, even when it earns us less. Our partnerships matter. Our independence is non negotiable.
Common questions about Midships
What does Midships do?
Midships is the trust company for the autonomous era. We help regulated enterprises trust their identities, their software and their autonomous agents, through three layers: Trusted Identity, Trusted Delivery and Trusted Autonomy. We design, migrate and operate the identity platforms that tier one banks run in production, and we govern the AI agents that act on top of them.
What is Icebreaker?
Icebreaker is Midships’ patent pending runtime governance product for autonomous AI. Every agent action is assessed against an approved business purpose before it executes, allow, block, modify or escalate, in real time, with a full audit trail. It enforces through your existing enterprise IAM controls, with no replatforming and no API changes.
What is zero downtime delivery and why does it matter?
Zero downtime means IAM upgrades, migrations and go lives run without any interruption to live identity services. For regulated enterprises, an IAM outage affects customers, transactions and regulators simultaneously. Midships uses blue/green deployments, canary releases, rolling updates and rehearsed cutovers as standard, it is how we work on every engagement, not an optional extra.
What is AI Led SDLC?
AI Led SDLC is deterministic automation of well understood engineering workloads, where AI instantiates approved patterns from a validated requirement rather than freely designing software. It captures the productivity of AI assisted delivery without surrendering the auditability, traceability and control regulators require. It is available today as a scoped engagement, beginning with Keycloak journeys.
Which platforms and regions does Midships cover?
Midships specialises in Ping Identity and Keycloak, with active active multi cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP and more. We operate across Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, the UK and the Middle East, working with tier one banks, insurers and telecommunications operators including BDO Unibank, Prudential, HKJC, Westpac and Bank Jago.
How is Midships different from other AI governance vendors?
We govern what we operate. Most firms selling AI governance have never run a regulated system in production, we run the identity control planes that tier one banks depend on every day, and Icebreaker extends those same controls to autonomous agents. Our advice is independent: shaped by customer outcomes, not by licence targets or partner incentives.