Business systems you own, run on Australian soil
We design, build, host and secure the applications and infrastructure your business depends on — then stay to run them.
LiftHub: one owned platform replaced eight subscriptions and 90% of the cost
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Read the articleCritical systems, built and run by one accountable team
Most businesses run on software they rent and infrastructure they can't see. We build the other kind: applications, integrations and websites owned outright by the company that pays for them, hosted in Sydney, Melbourne or Auckland, behind our own firewall, monitored around the clock. A fixed price to build it and a fixed monthly fee to run it, with the same engineers on both. If you leave, everything goes with you.
Six things we do
Most engagements start with one and add the systems around it. One team is accountable for all of it — build, hosting, security and support.
Systems built around the work
Line-of-business applications that replace rented software with one platform you own. Svelte, Rust and PostgreSQL, deployed to infrastructure we run.
ApplicationsFast, watched, and in Australia
Oracle Cloud regions in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, delivered through a global edge. Patched, backed up and monitored by the people who built what runs on it.
InfrastructureAutomated attacks, automated defence
A web application firewall on every property, continuous scanning, AI-assisted log monitoring, penetration testing and defence in depth. Logged, auditable, explained in plain English.
SecurityOne record of the truth
Integrations with Xero, Microsoft 365, Salesforce and whatever else you run. Migrations with a tested cutover. Reporting that updates itself instead of being re-keyed.
Data & IntegrationWebsites run like the systems they are
Marketing sites and ecommerce on WordPress, Astro or Payload — built once, then hosted, patched, monitored and kept fast on our infrastructure.
WebsitesPatched, monitored and backed up for you
Around-the-clock monitoring, maintenance and support for systems we built and systems we didn't. One fixed monthly fee, month to month after onboarding.
Managed ServicesSystems in production
Platforms, applications and websites for Australian businesses, and what changed after they went live.
Brand, website and portal for Australia’s home elevator market
A complete brand redesign, website rebuild and comparison portal — connecting home elevator buyers with suppliers across Australia through one consultation-led platform.
A crewing marketplace for Australia’s live events industry
A Next.js web platform and native mobile app connecting audiovisual technicians with production companies — smart filtering, endorsements and messaging, end to end.
A digital overhaul for one of Australia’s fastest-growing firms
A complete website overhaul and process automation for one of Australia’s top 55 fastest-growing businesses — a digital presence that finally matches the firm.
One of Australia’s top 55 fastest-growing businesses.
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An immersive, animated website for a leading Australian LMS
A fully custom website with sophisticated animations and bespoke graphics — visual storytelling that makes a complex LMS product immediately legible.
Visual storytelling for a complex product.
Read the case studyFour stages, the same team throughout
The sequence is identical for a marketing site and a company-wide platform. Only the length of each stage changes.
Discover
We map the system you have, the one you need, and what the gap costs. Usually a fortnight, always a written recommendation you can take elsewhere.
Design
Data model, architecture, then interface — in that order. You see and approve the design before anything is built.
Build
Fixed price, fixed timeline, working software every fortnight. Deployed to production infrastructure from the first sprint, not the last.
Operate
Monitoring, patching, backups and support from the engineers who built it. Month to month after onboarding; you own everything either way.
What we've measured
Security research, benchmarks and the economics of owning software, from our own hosting and our own clients.
ASD Essentials: what replaces the Essential Eight
On 15 October 2026 the ASD published the Essentials, the successor to the Essential Eight. What changed, what stays, and what a 20-person business should take from it.
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Why we choose Podman over Docker
We benchmarked Podman against Docker on our own hosting workload; here's why Podman won, and where Docker beat it.
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36 seconds of obscurity
We put a server online that served nothing but a blank page and logged every request for 54 days. 3,270 probes later, what it means for anyone who runs a website.
Read the articleWhat it runs on
What owners ask before they call
Where does our data live, and who can get at it?
Sydney, Melbourne or Auckland, on Oracle Cloud regions we administer, behind our web application firewall. Backups stay in the same country. Access is limited to named engineers and logged. If a client contract or regulator asks where your data is and who can reach it, the answer is one sentence.
What does "you own it" actually mean?
The code repository, the database, the cloud accounts, the domain and the CMS are all registered to your company. You can hand them to another provider, or an in-house team, at any time; we document everything so the handover is clean. We'd rather keep clients with service than with contracts.
What does it cost?
Builds are fixed-price: we scope the work, give you a number and a timeline, and hold to both. Running costs are a fixed monthly fee per environment, covering hosting, security, monitoring, patching, backups and fixes. The first conversation and the written recommendation that follows are free.
How do you handle security?
In layers. Every property sits behind our web application firewall; traffic is inspected in under half a millisecond and every blocked request is logged. We scan continuously, monitor logs with AI assistance for patterns a person would miss, test with penetration testing, and assume any single control can fail. When something does happen you get a plain-English account of what, why and what changed.
Can you take over systems you didn't build?
Yes. We start by documenting what you have, then migrate with a tested cutover plan and run it from there. Most takeovers complete inside a fortnight without visitor-facing downtime. If something is genuinely unsupportable, we'll say so and quote what fixing it would take.
Tell us what the system has to do
We'll reply within one business day with the smallest sensible first step, in writing — whether or not it involves us.