About Speculo
Cyber security is complicated enough. Your tools shouldn't make it worse.
We're a Wellington-based team building the risk intelligence platform we always wished existed. One place to assess, prioritise, report, and get funded.
Our story
We started with a shared dream.
The idea that started Speculo was straightforward: government agencies shouldn't have to repeat the same risk assessments over and over again. Every agency running its own process, storing evidence in silos, starting from scratch each time. That repetition was costing public money and leaving gaps that shared intelligence could have closed. We believed agencies could collaborate, share their risk work safely, and build something better together.
We're still working towards that. And we've come to understand the problem isn't unique to government. Any organisation doing serious cyber risk work runs into the same friction: fragmented processes, siloed data, and conversations that don't convert into funded decisions. We've been in cyber and risk for a long time. We know what it takes to help organisations stop treating security as a compliance exercise and start treating it as a genuine strategic discipline.
Speculo is built for the people doing different jobs inside organisations: the analyst running the assessment, the CISO building the business case, the board member trying to understand what's at stake. One platform, one shared picture of risk, and the tools to turn that picture into clear decisions.
How we work
What we believe
Make hard things simple
Good security decisions shouldn't require a PhD. We strip complexity away and give you the information you actually need, in plain language your board can act on.
Spend budgets wisely
Most security teams are under-resourced. Every dollar and every hour should go to the controls that reduce your real exposure the most. We're built to make that call clearer.
Built in NZ, for NZ
100% New Zealand-owned and operated. We understand NZISM, MCSS, and the realities of NZ government and enterprise security teams because we've worked in them.
Proof over claims
We don't talk about being 'world-class.' We show you the numbers: time saved, risk reduced, funding secured. Trust us because the evidence stacks up, not because we said so.
The team
The people behind it

Christopher Hawksworth
Founder

Tom Britton
Co-Founder

Edwin Ashdown
CTO

Daniel Todd
Sales

Helene Mortensen
Communications

Joel Chu
Developer

Frances Go
Developer

David Potter
Developer
Speculo is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and is 100% NZ-owned. We're not a branch of a global company trying to localise a foreign product. We're a NZ team, solving a NZ problem, with deep experience in the frameworks and environments you actually work in.
See what Speculo can do for your team.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough. No pitch, no procurement process. Just a look at whether it fits.