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The digital foundation
your business actually owns.

Domain, email, website, security and backups — designed as one system, registered in your name, and documented well enough that you could hand the whole thing to someone else tomorrow.

Month to month, no lock-in. Australian entity, Australian hosting.

Four layers of a business’s digital setup — data, security, website and email — stacked into a single foundation

Credentials held by the practitioner

  • TOGAF 10 CertifiedThe Open Group’s enterprise architecture framework
  • AWS CertifiedSolution design aligned to the Well-Architected Framework

What we set up

Four things, arranged so they hold each other up

Sold separately these are commodities — a registrar will rent you email for five dollars a month. The value is not in the parts. It is in them being chosen together, configured to match how the business runs, and written down.

A domain name at the centre with mail and DNS records connected to it, all registered under one owner

Domain and email that behave

Most small-business email trouble is not an email problem. It is a DNS problem, built in on the day somebody registered the domain in a hurry and pointed the records wherever was quickest.

  • Your domain registered in your name, with the registrar account under your control
  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured, so your mail reaches the inbox instead of the spam folder
  • Mailboxes, aliases and forwarding arranged around how the business actually works

The result is boring, which is the entire point. Mail arrives, mail sends, and nobody has to think about it again.

A website resting on its own hosting, with the account key held beside it rather than by an agency

A website you can edit and keep

A website is only an asset if you can change it and take it with you. A surprising number of small businesses find out, years in, that they can do neither.

  • Built for your business rather than adapted from a template with your logo dropped in
  • Hosted in Australia, on infrastructure in your account — not resold to you through ours
  • A plain editor for the things that change: hours, prices, people, photographs

If you leave, you take the domain, the hosting, the content and the credentials with you. That is agreed in writing before any work starts.

A protective layer under the whole setup, with backup copies stacked beside it and a tested restore path

Security, backups, and a written handover

The subscription web agencies you will be comparing us against sell a firewall and nightly backups as the reason to move up to the middle package. Those are not features. They are the floor, and charging for the floor is how the category ended up where it is.

  • Multi-factor authentication on every account, and a password manager that belongs to you
  • Automated backups with a restore that has actually been performed, not merely scheduled
  • A handover document listing every account, what it does, and who controls it

The day you change providers, sell the business, or need to recover an account, that document is the difference between an afternoon and a fortnight.

How we work

We look at the business before we look at the website.

Enterprise architecture is, stripped of the vocabulary, the practice of understanding how an organisation works and then designing the systems to match — rather than buying software and reshaping the organisation around it. That is a useful thing to do for a company of five as well as a company of five thousand. It has simply never been affordable at this end of the market.

TOGAF 10 certified
Enterprise architecture practised at large-organisation scale, applied to a business of five people.
You own every account
Domain, hosting, email, analytics — registered in your name and handed over with credentials and documentation.
Month to month
No twelve-month minimum. Leave when you like and take everything you arrived with.
Senior-led, no junior bench
You deal with the person doing the work. That is a real constraint on how many clients we take, and we would rather say so.
A system topology resolved into ordered layers, with every integration point deliberately placed

The other half of the practice

Architecture and cloud work, for organisations that need it

The same practitioner also takes enterprise engagements: target-state architecture, cloud strategy and migration assessment, modernisation and cost work. If you have arrived here from that direction, the detail is on its own page.

ARCHITECTURE & CLOUD

Before you ask

The questions we get asked first

Tell us what you have, and what is annoying you about it.

A short conversation is usually enough to say whether there is anything worth doing. If there is not, we will tell you that.