Forest Admin
Ops orchestration layer for fintechs where humans and AI agents run compliance workflows on your own data, MCP native, bring your own LLM, SOC 2 certified with full audit trails.
Forest Admin is the ops orchestration layer for fintechs and regulated businesses, where human teams and AI agents run compliance and business operations together on the same data and workflows, with full audit and compliance. Having started as an admin panel builder, it now sits on top of a company's existing databases, supplier portals, and APIs, unifying them into one ops workspace without migrating data or rebuilding the stack, and it never stores or replicates that data because the admin API runs on the customer's own servers and stays invisible to Forest Admin's servers. Forest Workflows let teams build multi step processes directly on top of their data, from KYC and KYB onboarding to AML monitoring and investigations, fraud management, payment operations, and refund approvals, with clear stages, embedded approvals, validation steps that review sensitive actions before execution, and automatic routing to an approver's Inbox. Within a workflow, AI agents handle the high volume routine such as triage, pattern detection, initial risk scoring, anomaly flagging, and checklist pre fill, while analysts pick up pre loaded cases and make the decisions that matter, and both humans and AI agents have explicit roles with every action logged. Forest Admin is MCP native, supports bring your own LLM so teams configure their own model provider, is SOC 2 certified and GDPR compliant with enforced 2FA, IP whitelisting, and granular role based access, and produces a full audit trail on every action, whether human or AI. Customers include Qonto, Spendesk, Swan, Belvo, Qashio, Roundtable, and Empathy.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.forestadmin.com
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Funding status
Series A. Forest Admin Inc., based in San Francisco, California; founded by Sandro Munda, with Crunchbase listing Maxence Bruyas as CEO and Xavier Gastaud as CFO. Over eight years the company evolved from an admin panel builder into an ops orchestration layer now running inside 500 plus regulated finance companies across Europe, Latam, and the US.
Company status
private
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Integrations
Sits on top of your existing stack and connects any database, any supplier portal, and any API, plus your own AI models and MCP servers, with a Connector Library that lets editors browse and request official MCP implementations from vendors such as Slack and Stripe directly in the Workflow Editor.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Capability coverage
10.5 / 14 capabilities · 75%
| Integrations & Tool CallingConnects any database, supplier portal, and API plus your own AI models and MCP servers, with a Connector Library for official MCP implementations such as Slack and Stripe (forestadmin.com/for-partners, forestadmin.com AML blog). | Full |
|---|---|
| Workflow OrchestrationThe ops orchestration layer builds multi step, cross department Forest Workflows with embedded approvals and automation across KYC, AML, fraud, and payments (forestadmin.com/features/workflow-automation, forestadmin.com AML blog). | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGAgents operate on your live records and support OCR based data extraction and risk scoring; grounding is via your own data rather than a documented RAG store (forestadmin.com/blog introducing Forest Admin AI). | Partial |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsValidation steps review sensitive actions before execution, work routes to an approver's Inbox, and humans make the calls that matter with explicit human and AI roles (forestadmin.com/features/workflow-automation, forestadmin.com AML blog). | Full |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceSOC 2 certified, GDPR compliant, enforced 2FA, IP whitelisting, granular role based access, and data that never leaves your infrastructure (rocketreach.co profile, crunchbase.com, forestadmin.com/blog). | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityA full audit trail on every action whether human or AI, with every external call logged to the case record and a traceable decision trail (forestadmin.com AML blog, rocketreach.co profile). | Full |
| Memory & State PersistenceCase and record state persist in your own database and workflow state carries across steps; not a distinct agent memory (forestadmin.com/features/workflow-automation). | Partial |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyThe data plane runs in your own infrastructure and data never leaves it, with the admin API on your servers and invisible to Forest Admin's servers (rocketreach.co profile, crunchbase.com). | Full |
| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / PacksA Connector Library plus documented fintech workflow patterns for KYC, AML, and fraud; not a general agent template marketplace (forestadmin.com/for-partners, forestadmin.com AML blog). | Partial |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageEvent and workflow driven execution with routing to Inbox and a Forest Assist sidebar that acts on help desk conversations in real time (forestadmin.com/features/workflow-automation, forestadmin.com/blog introducing our new logo). | Partial |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingBring your own LLM with a configurable provider and model, shown with an ai-proxy setup, plus MCP server support (forestadmin.com/blog new bring your own LLM). | Full |
| APIs / SDKs / MCP ExtensibilityMCP native with MCP tasks and custom actions, an SDK including the ai-proxy and createAgent packages, and APIs (forestadmin.com/blog new bring your own LLM, forestadmin.com AML blog). | Full |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationValidation steps and human verification of AI outputs plus audit trails; not a formal agent evaluation suite (forestadmin.com/blog introducing Forest Admin AI). | Partial |
| Browser / Computer-useConnects to supplier portals via API and MCP rather than documented browser or computer use (forestadmin.com/for-partners). | Unable to verify |
Pricing
Open core. Open source agent SDK components can be self hosted, with cloud and enterprise tiers sold through a demo and sales motion; published tier figures were not retrieved this session.
Open core: open source SDK for self hosting plus paid cloud and enterprise tiers.
Included quota
Open source SDK is free to self host; managed tiers are quoted.
Cost watchouts
The data plane runs in your own infrastructure, so hosting and compute are your cost; enterprise pricing scales with seats and usage.
Variable cost rationale
Because the data plane runs in your own infrastructure, compute is your own cost, and managed tiers scale with seats and workflow usage, though the open source path caps external spend.
Overage / add-ons
Managed tiers scale with seats and usage.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
Open source SDK to self host; book a demo for cloud and enterprise.
Lowest paid plan
Not retrieved.
Key ambiguities
The open source model is clear, but published cloud and enterprise tier figures were not retrieved.
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