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Can't afford to get it wrong? We'll help you use AI to get it right.

Manual compliance leaves gaps. AI closes them. We find where it fits and build it.

Bring us your problem.

Trusted by governments, regulators, non-profits and enterprises.

  • Land Registry
  • NSW Government
  • Fair Trading NSW
  • Marine Stewardship Council
  • LECC
  • Justice Health NSW
  • Simmonds Lumber
  • Burda International
  • Victoria SES
  • National Archives
  • NSW Multicultural Health
  • Transport NSW
  • Office of Local Government
  • WEST Marine
  • PanPacific
  • Health Centre for Genetics Education
  • Department for Transport
  • UK Government
  • DWP
  • NSW Government Digital
  • Mission Australia
  • NHS
  • Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission
  • REMPEC
  • NSW Office of the Children's Guardian
  • NSW Department of Customer Service

The hard problems we solve

AI agents that earn their place

We help you find where AI agents genuinely help — then build them grounded in your own data, with answers and actions you can trust.

A system of record that can't be wrong

Registers, registries, authoritative records. Auditable, versioned, defensible.

A business process that actually works

Case management, eForms, workflow, CRM, integrations — tools the people doing the job actually want to use.

Modernise without breaking what works

Agentic content editing, content governance, and best-of-breed visual editing on an ultra-secure headless core — converged, not traded off.

Where we come in

Advise

Discovery · AI Readiness · Due Diligence · Fractional CTO · Procurement · Assurance. We help you decide what to build — even when the answer is don't.

Build

Registers & records · Business applications · Public platforms · Onyx AI integration · Headless CMS · Integrations.

Operate

Cyber Essentials–certified hosting, security, accessibility audits, and ongoing partnership for the long run.

Featured service

Onyx — open-source AI search

Onyx is an open-source AI search platform — 17,000+ GitHub stars, run in production by the likes of Netflix, Thales and UC San Diego. We help you deploy, customise and run it across your own connected data: private, self-hostable, and tuned to get the most out of it — without sending anything to a vendor.

Explore what's possible.

Twenty years of delivery

Registers, business applications, public platforms, AI — across governments, regulators, and enterprises.

AI a regulator can trust
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AI / knowledge

AI a regulator can trust

We helped a government oversight agency use AI on its own data — grounded, computed, and correct enough to defend.

NSW Swimming Pool Register
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Register

NSW Swimming Pool Register

Statutory register serving 128 local councils — registration, inspection, certification, audit. Built for NSW Building Commission.

UK DWP Low-Code eForms & Workflow
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Business application

UK DWP Low-Code eForms & Workflow

Low-code forms and workflow platform for the UK Department for Work and Pensions — fast iteration, accessible by default.

Marine Stewardship Council
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Public platform

Marine Stewardship Council

Legacy CMS modernisation and ongoing support for the global sustainability standards body — high availability, multilingual, accessible.

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Why it matters who builds it.

20+ years

Two decades shipping software for governments, regulators, and enterprises.

Open source by default

We build on open foundations so you keep ownership of what we build.

Cyber Essentials certified

Independently certified security practices, suitable for regulated workloads.

UK & AU citizens, security-cleared

Every engineer is a UK or AU citizen who has held government security clearance — onshore and data-sovereign.

Our average client stays seven years. 

Not because they're locked in. Because the software keeps delivering.

20+

Years Experience

128

Councils Served

2M+

Citizens Helped

99%

Uptime SLA

7 yrs

Average client relationship

Insights

Did we just make the fastest Plone site?

We rebuilt pretagov.com and went looking for a faster Plone site — and couldn't find one. Here's how headless, SSG on a CDN, a clean decoupling, and Hydra's in-page editing got us to 91/94 on PageSpeed Insights, plus an honest question.

The Future of Content: Visual Headless CMS

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage and deliver content is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional Content Management Systems (CMS) that once ruled the web are now being challenged by a new, more flexible and efficient breed: Headless CMS. However many who use Headless CMS often complain they are harder to use and give less control over the the layout of the content. This evolution marks the advent of the next generation, Visual headless CMS, designed to meet the complex needs of modern digital experiences while retaining all the benefits of a Headless CMS

Headless CMS for Research: Publishing at the Pace of Discovery

Research institutions handle vast amounts of information, including research papers, datasets, and institutional updates. Managing and disseminating this content efficiently is…

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Let's talk about what you're building.

Whether you're scoping a register, modernising a legacy platform, or integrating Onyx for your team — we'd be glad to hear what you're working on.

Explore what's possible.
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