/ Softwired — Brisbane

Transformations that land

Going live is the easy 80%. The last 20% — people actually changing how they work — is where the return is won or lost, and where most programs stall. That's the part we do. Senior project managers, BAs, change and Atlassian specialists in one team, embedded with yours until your number moves.

Brought in on programs that can't afford to fail.
Softwired consultants in a client delivery workshop
/ 01 What we do

Adoption is where the business case gets paid back. It's also where most transformations stall. That's the ground we work.

Six disciplines, one senior team, built from your people and ours. We shape the team and the plan around the number you bought, not a methodology we sell to everyone. The messy, business-critical programs are the ones we like best.

Behind them, a 20-year network of specialists: solution architects and developers, Microsoft Dynamics, process and enterprise architecture, machine learning. On call when a program needs more than we carry in-house. We may receive referral fees or other benefits from our partners.

/ 02 Selected work

Work in sectors where the wrong release breaks trust, not just systems.

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How Metagenics launched D2C in 6 months — on time, on budget

Metagenics, a 40-year-old supplements brand, launched a new direct-to-consumer channel on Shopify Plus in six months. Re-platform, 280+ regulated label artworks migrated, zero stock-outs, on budget.

On time
Delivery
0% variation
Budget

We rebuilt our website without touching the tools

Softwired rebuilt softwired.com.au without operating a single tool by hand. Design, copy, CMS, and integrations ran through an LLM, guided by prompts, skills, and agents working to acceptance criteria. A case study in our own delivery method, run on ourselves first.

0
Tools operated by hand
~130
Design tokens

Project PACE — optimising the track, not just the trains

In 2012, Aurizon Network commissioned a tool to optimise what the industry had left alone: rail-infrastructure maintenance. The maths got published. The vendor went on to be acquired by Sandvik. The lesson: novel optimisation is a technology, adoption and commercial problem, all at once.

2,670 km
Network in scope
8.1%
Modelled capacity uplift
"The way we conquered scope creep was disciplined project management and internal communications. We treated it as a business transformation — not just an e-commerce one — and ran it through an agile framework."
Suzie Young, Head of Digital ANZ, MetagenicsSuzie Young — Head of Digital ANZ, Metagenics
/ 03 Where we've worked

The patterns transfer. The specifics don't.

Mining and resources, financial services, retail and consumer health, education. Sectors where downtime costs millions, compliance isn't optional, and the wrong release breaks trust, not just systems.

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Mining & resources

Asset-heavy operations where downtime runs into the millions and safety is non-negotiable.

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Financial services

Compliance-bound programs where the audit trail matters as much as the release.

/ 03

Retail & consumer health

Regulated products and D2C channels that can't carry a stock-out or a bad launch.

/ 04

Education

Stretched teams modernising core systems without breaking what already works.

/ 04 Insights

Long-form from the field: delivery, change, and the second-order effects of AI.

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28% stat with declining bar chart — why AI projects fail

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