Architect

Architect Financial Technologies Inc. (architect.xyz / architect.co) is a Chicago-based financial technology company that, through its subsidiaries, provides institutional trading technology, US electronic brokerage services, and a global perpetual futures exchange. Its regulated entities include Architect Securities LLC, a FINRA-registered introducing broker-dealer for SEC-regulated securities and security derivatives; Architect Financial Derivatives LLC, an NFA-registered independent introducing broker for CFTC-regulated derivatives (NFA #0556853); and Architect Bermuda Ltd., regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, which operates the AX exchange.

AX, launched in November 2025, is described in company materials as the financial industry's first centralized exchange for perpetual futures on traditional asset classes, offering contracts on foreign currencies, interest rates, single stocks, stock indexes, metals and other commodities. Access is currently limited to institutional clients in eligible jurisdictions, with a waitlist for sophisticated individual traders. Alongside the exchange, Architect offers multi-asset brokerage for US-regulated equities, equity options, futures and options on futures, with APIs, SDKs in Rust, Python and JavaScript, paper trading, execution algorithms and customizable dashboards. The company's public GitHub organization hosts related open-source components, including a Python client library (architect-py), read-only mirrors of the architect-sdk and architect-api Rust crates, and an exchange SDK.

A third-party organizational listing describes the company as having 1-10 employees with an office in Chicago and lists leadership including founder and CEO Brett Harrison, a chief business officer, chief financial officer, head of engineering, heads of operations, legal/regulatory compliance, design and marketing.