About

A small Swiss team with one question

What does AI at work do to the people who use it every day? We built Custodian to answer it with measurements, not with surveillance.

Why we started

Organisations roll out AI assistants faster than they can see the effect on their people. Surveys arrive late and describe averages. Monitoring tools describe individuals, which nobody should accept.

Custodian takes a third route. It reads the conversations that people already have with AI assistants, removes who said what, and gives each person a mirror of their own trends. The organisation gets group figures it can act on, and nothing that points at a person.

2026FoundedSwitzerland
3FoundersResearch, engineering, product
166Mental statesFrom a published model of the mind
8BOpen modelApertus, runs on one machine
How we work

Four commitments

Built in Switzerland

A Swiss company under Swiss law, built for organisations in Switzerland and Europe.

Built on published research

The 3D Mind Model of Thornton and Tamir: 166 states on three axes. An open model, Apertus, from the Swiss AI Initiative.

Privacy first

De-identified before storage. Figures for HR only over five or more people. Export and erasure built in for every participant.

Measured, and honest about it

Results on held-out data, with their limits, on the How it works page.

Want to know more?

Read how the model works and what we measured, or write to us.