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Software for Adelaide businesses, proven before it is built.

We work with businesses across Australia, Adelaide included. The cheapest version of a bad idea is the one you find out about in a fortnight, so that is usually where we would rather start.

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Tell us what you are trying to do.

We reply within one business day. If the idea needs testing before it needs building, we will say so.

Or call +61 419 107 150

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  • A working prototype in days, not a slide deck and not a quarter of meetings about it.
  • A site that loads quickly, works on a phone, and you can edit without calling us.
  • On a plane to watch real people use the thing for the first time.
  • Trusted partners for cybersecurity, marketing and hosting, so a good idea gets secured, launched and kept online.
Across Australia

Cheap to find out, wherever you happen to be.

We are based in Melbourne and work with clients around the country. The point of starting small is that being wrong costs a fortnight rather than a quarter, and that holds from anywhere.

Wherever you are

Adelaide is no harder to work with than anywhere else. The only thing distance really changes is how much gets written down, and more written down has never been a bad outcome.

A decision, not a demo

The prototype is not the deliverable. The deliverable is a decision you can defend afterwards, whether that is build it, change it, or stop.

There when they first use it

Putting a prototype in front of real users, and the workshop where you decide what happens next, are both better done in a room. We come across for those.

Services

Every step, from idea to production.

The whole journey is open to Adelaide businesses, from working out where AI helps to a system your team runs, and what each step involves is set out below. These two are the quickest ways to find out whether the rest are worth spending money on.

Step 1 · Orient

Training in AI use

For companies that want to leverage AI but do not know where to start.

Where AI genuinely helps, where it confidently makes things up, and how to build a working habit around both. Run on your own tasks. It pairs well with prototyping, because the teams that get the most out of AI are the ones willing to throw work away.

  • A plain-English grounding for everyone involved
  • A shortlist of use cases worth trying in your business
  • Working prompts and workflows for real tasks
  • Ground rules for data, confidentiality, and review
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Step 1 · Orient

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership part-time: strategy, architecture, hiring.

Sometimes the problem was never a software problem, and what is missing is someone senior enough to say so out loud. A few days a month on strategy, architecture, hiring and vendor decisions, written down with the reasoning attached so it survives our leaving.

  • A technical strategy tied to the business plan
  • Architecture decisions written down and justified
  • Hiring: role definition, screening, technical interviews
  • A regular, honest view of delivery risk
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Step 2 · Prove

Prototyping with AI

Test an idea in days with a working prototype, before committing to a build.

Where we would rather start. Something thin and real in days, aimed squarely at the assumption most likely to be wrong, and thrown away on purpose if the answer comes back no. The deliverable is a decision you can defend afterwards, not a demo.

  • A working prototype real people can try, not a slide deck
  • The riskiest assumption tested first
  • An honest read on whether the idea is worth building
  • A prototype that is thrown away on purpose, or a clear path to production
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Turn fuzzy ideas into clear, buildable specs before code.

What follows a prototype that came back yes. Interviews with the people doing the work, then a specification precise enough that the thing gets built once, with acceptance criteria. It is also the only fair basis for comparing quotes, which is worth having whether or not we are one of them.

  • Stakeholder interviews and a written brief
  • User flows and clear acceptance criteria
  • API and data contracts where relevant
  • A scope that can be estimated and challenged
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Custom applications engineered in Python and Go, prototype to production.

Worth doing once the question of whether to build has an answer. Python or Go, shaped around how you work, delivered in increments you can use rather than as a percentage complete. Documented, tested and handed over so your own team can take it on afterwards.

  • A working application, not a demo
  • Clean, documented, testable code you own
  • Deployment and monitoring set up from day one
  • A handover you can actually pick up
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Modern sites shipped fast with AI-accelerated workflows.

A fast, accessible site shipped in weeks rather than quarters, with AI on the drafting and us on the judgement. The front door of a business should not be the thing you find yourself apologising for. Hosting, forms and analytics wired up, and content you can edit afterwards without calling us. Our marketing partners can help send people through that front door.

  • A fast, accessible, responsive site
  • Content you can edit without calling us
  • Analytics and forms wired up
  • Hosting and deployment sorted
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A Saleor and Hugo storefront you own outright, with nobody taking a cut of every sale.

Saleor on infrastructure you own, with a Hugo storefront generated as static files. The same logic applies here as to everything else on this page: prove the case first. If platform fees are not yet a real line item and your catalogue is simple, we will say so, and you should stay where you are. When the case is proven, our hosting partners run the infrastructure and our marketing partners help with the launch.

  • Saleor running on infrastructure you control, not a tenant on someone else's
  • A Hugo storefront that serves as static files and does not fall over on your biggest day
  • Catalogue, customers and orders in a database you can query, export and back up yourself
  • Payments, tax, shipping and fulfilment wired to the providers you already use
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Step 5 · Secure

Security automation

Security insight and processes automated across every system you run, not only the delivery pipeline.

Scanning, patching, hardened builds and access reviews moved into the pipeline, with backups you have tested. This one tends to arrive uninvited, usually in the week a customer or an insurer asks a question the business cannot currently answer. Past the pipeline, it means pulling your SaaS, cloud and identity data together so the questions have answers, with our cybersecurity partners available for a formal assessment.

  • Security data from your SaaS apps, cloud accounts and identity provider pulled together in one place
  • The few findings worth acting on, rather than a dashboard of everything
  • On- and offboarding automated, so access starts on day one and ends on the last
  • Dependency, secret and container scanning and hardened builds in your pipeline
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Hands-on upskilling across the modern web stack.

Hands-on days on the modern web stack, run against your own codebase: TypeScript, React, testing, accessibility, deployment. For teams that would rather learn to ship this themselves than keep buying it a project at a time.

  • Sessions built around your codebase
  • Exercises you keep afterwards
  • Written notes and reference material
  • Follow-up time for questions once it lands
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When the AI-built prototype breaks in production, we stabilise it, refactor it, and make it maintainable.

When a prototype makes the jump to production without anybody deciding that it should. Stabilise first, then an honest assessment of what is worth keeping, then the tests and structure that stop every change being a gamble. A different conversation from building something new.

  • The immediate failures diagnosed and fixed
  • A blunt assessment of what to keep and what to rewrite
  • Tests, structure, and dependency hygiene
  • A codebase you can change without fear
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Malware removed, the way in closed, and the site hardened so it does not happen twice.

Cleaned, the entry point closed, and hardened so the next script finds nothing. Mostly WordPress, Joomla and TYPO3, since that is what the automated attacks are written for. Fixing the symptoms without finding the way in buys a fortnight, and we would rather not sell you a fortnight. Where the hosting itself was the gap, our hosting partners can close it.

  • The site cleaned and serving what it is supposed to serve
  • The entry point found and closed, not just the symptoms removed
  • Backdoors, injected pages and rogue accounts cleared out
  • Updates, backups and monitoring set up so it does not recur
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Most of the money wasted on software is spent before anyone notices it is being wasted. An idea gets debated for two quarters because nobody has seen it. A build gets approved because the alternative was another meeting about it. The genuinely expensive question, whether this is worth building at all, is somehow the one that gets asked last.

Prototyping with AI moves that question to the front. Something thin and real, built in days, aimed squarely at the assumption most likely to be wrong, and thrown away on purpose if the answer comes back no. Website development runs on a similar clock: a fast, accessible site shipped in weeks rather than quarters, because the front door of a business should not be the thing you find yourself apologising for.

Suppose it comes back yes. Then it is worth building properly, which means writing the requirements down so it gets built once, and building it around how you actually work. Suppose instead that the question was never really about software, in which case someone senior on call is worth more than any build. Either way, two things tend to arrive later: evidence for whoever is asking about security, and a team that would rather run this themselves, which is AI use and the modern web. And if a prototype has already made the jump to production without anyone deciding that it should, that is a different conversation.

Two arrive without being asked for. A hacked site is almost never personal, just a script that found one unpatched plugin, though the cleanup still has to find the way in or you have only bought a fortnight. And self-hosted ecommerce on Saleor and Hugo deserves exactly the treatment everything else on this page gets: work out whether the platform fees justify it before anybody writes any code.

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