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For the innovators shaping the future of finance

Fintechs, SaaS and ERP providers, banks, and resellers shape how AI shows up in finance and procurement. Software only succeeds when teams are empowered to use it. Register your organisation's commitment to building technology responsibly, driving true adoption, and bringing people along on the journey.

Fintechs & SaaS providers

The companies building the tools finance teams use every day

If your product touches invoice processing, reconciliation, reporting, payments or procurement, the design choices you make shape how AI actually lands on finance teams, whether it augments the people using it or quietly sets out to replace them. That choice usually gets made at the product-roadmap stage, long before any customer sees it.

Membership is a public commitment to building augmentation-first, not a marketing badge. It sits alongside your competitors as shared, independent territory, the same way an industry standards body works in other sectors.

In practice that means being able to point to a signed framework when a prospect asks how your AI features actually affect their headcount plans, rather than answering that question from scratch every time.

Banks & financial institutions

For banks building or embedding AI into finance products

Banks and payment providers often sit in two places at once: an employer of their own finance function, and a technology provider embedding AI into products used by other finance teams. Both matter, and both are welcome.

A bank's lending, payments or treasury products increasingly carry AI features that affect how other companies' finance teams work day to day, which puts the bank on the technology side of this question whether or not it thinks of itself as a technology company.

If your finance team is the focus, see Employers. If it's the products and services you build for others, this is the track for you. Many banks will reasonably belong to both, and there's no penalty for registering under both tracks.

Resellers & technology vendors

For the partners, resellers and authors in the wider ecosystem

Implementation partners, resellers, and anyone authoring or distributing AI tools used in finance and procurement workflows shape adoption just as much as the original builder does. How a system is configured and rolled out at each customer often matters more to the people using it than how it was originally coded.

This membership track is for that wider ecosystem, not just the company that wrote the first line of code, because the framework's commitments, augment before replace, retrain before redundancy, are decisions made at implementation as much as at design.

Why this matters for vendors specifically

The commercial case is straightforward: buyers are already asking this question, just not always out loud.

Procurement is already screening for this

Finance leaders evaluating new tools increasingly ask what happens to their team once it's live. A signed framework answers that before the sales call does.

User adoption improves when trust is higher

Finance teams that trust a tool isn't quietly built to replace them tend to adopt it faster and push back on it less.

Independent, so it's actually credible

A framework you wrote about your own product is marketing. A framework an independent body assesses your product against is a credential.

A measurable edge in a crowded market

When every vendor claims to be "responsible AI," an independently assessed credential is what actually differentiates the claim from the marketing copy.

Why signing up strengthens your position

Human Led Finance is new, so we won't claim results of our own yet. But the evidence from comparable, established accreditation schemes is strong, and consistent.

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of Cyber Essentials certified organisations say certification increases their market competitiveness, and it's increasingly used as a requirement to bid for work.
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say certification increases customer confidence in their product or service.
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say an independent standard helped them align with customer and supply-chain requirements.
Science Based Targets initiative

These figures describe other, established accreditation schemes, not Human Led Finance itself. We reference them because a growing number of buyers now expect suppliers to hold a recognised, independently assessed standard, not just a claim on a website.

Why we signed up

"The pace of change in this landscape right now is faster than anything we've seen before, and it's easy for a vendor to end up building features because they're technically possible, not because they're what a finance team actually needs. We signed up to Human Led Finance because we wanted an external framework to check ourselves against, not just our own product roadmap. It keeps us honest about what we're actually optimising for."

CEO ยท Fintainium Inc

How membership works

One sequence, from registering today through to a certification your sales team can actually point to.

Your path as a Technology Partner

The same sequence applies whether you're a two-person implementation partner or a listed bank.

1

Register your organisation as a supporting member.

2

Sign the Technology partner Human Led Framework.

3

Appear on the approved technology partner list.

4

Undergo an optional Tech partner assessment against the framework's five pillars.

5

Receive Certified Tech partner status, and the badge to deploy on your website, social channels and even job adverts.

Register as a Technology Partner

Takes about a minute. A member of the founding team will follow up.

Technology Partner membership

For fintechs, SaaS and ERP providers, banks, resellers and technology vendors.

Enter your organisation name.

Enter your first name.

Enter your last name.

Enter your role.

Enter a valid work email address.

A member of the founding team will follow up to talk through the framework and founding Technology Partner terms.

Thanks, that's been registered

Further information on our framework and certification process will be sent to you in due course.

What registering gets you

  • A place on the founding Technology Partner list, visible when the movement launches publicly.
  • Input into how the Technology Partner assessment criteria actually get written.
  • A public answer, ready before your buyers ask the question themselves.
  • A direct path to Certified Technology Partner status once assessments open.