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04 / RECEIPTS

Stuck, then shipped.

A few real builds — where the founder was stuck, what we shipped, and what it did. The ones under NDA lose their names; the facts don't change.

ENTERPRISE SaaS · BUILD PARTNERLIVE
$3Mfirst-year revenue
  • STUCKA 20-year enterprise operator with a rare skillset and no way to turn a career's worth of judgement into software.
  • SHIPPEDThe whole product from zero — team, multiple enterprise sales, compliance track — made simple enough to be mandated across an organisation.
  • RESULTOver $3M in its first year, built for roughly $150k — against the $2–3M, three-to-four-year quote it replaced.
VETERINARY SaaS · RESCUELIVE
27major changes, shipped overnight
  • STUCKA mobile vet nailed the product thinking, then watched two builders burn two years and ~$30k — stalled at 80%, never able to name what was wrong.
  • SHIPPEDWe kept their design thinking and rebuilt from the ground up — live and solid in weeks, for a fraction of the spend.
  • RESULTA change that used to take a month now ships overnight — 27 major changes actioned, tested and released in a single night.
EDUCATION ANALYTICS · THE 99% TRAPIN BUILD
2 daysvs the 2-year version
  • STUCKAn ex-COO, off a university venture that failed chasing 99% custom accuracy over two years.
  • SHIPPEDThe opposite discipline: the 95% that ships in days, not the 99% that never arrives.
  • RESULTA data-science trap, called out by a data scientist — and the discipline that keeps every build we run fast.
SPORTS AI · THE HONEST CALLPAUSED — ON PURPOSE
  • THE IDEAA coach with deep domain knowledge and genuinely clever tech — auto-analyse a swimmer's stroke straight from video.
  • THE CATCHThe make-or-break happens on the fringes — the instant a hand breaks the water — exactly where the footage and the models fail worst.
  • THE CALLSo we paused it, and said so. We'll tell you when something isn't ready before we'll take your money to fake it.
09 / SHIPPED

Products that made it out the door.

Nexlytics home page
PRODUCT 01 — DATA & ANALYTICS
Nexlytics

A custom analytics pipeline integrating with Microsoft APIs — from raw tenant data to a frontend people actually open.

MICROSOFT API PIPELINE DEPLOYED PYTHON BACKEND MULTI-TENANT SSO CUSTOM FRONTEND
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MobiPet home page
PRODUCT 02 — MARKETPLACE
MobiPet

A two-sided marketplace connecting pet owners with mobile vets — search, book and manage visits without the clinic waiting room.

TWO-SIDED MARKETPLACE BOOKING & SCHEDULING SMS NOTIFICATIONS ROW-LEVEL SECURITY REACT + SUPABASE
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Method8 home page
PRODUCT 03 — ENTERPRISE SAAS
Method8

An enterprise platform for running operating-model assessments and live workshops — in production with global mining companies across three languages.

MULTI-TENANT LIVE WORKSHOP ENGINE EN / FR / ES RAILS API + REACT AZURE CI/CD
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Mockingbird home page
PRODUCT 04 — MARKETING INTELLIGENCE
Mockingbird

Competitive ad intelligence for SaaS founders — mine the Meta ads already winning in your niche and generate on-pattern creative.

META ADS OAUTH AD PATTERN MINING AI CREATIVE GENERATION MULTI-WORKSPACE SUPABASE BACKEND
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Campus Scorecard home page
PRODUCT 05 — BENCHMARKING
Campus Scorecard

A performance scorecard for universities — 48 metrics across 3 dimensions, scored against peer percentiles with a regulatory compliance map.

48-METRIC FRAMEWORK PEER PERCENTILE SCORING REGULATORY MATRIX POSTGRES SCORING RPCS
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Onwards Analytics home page
PRODUCT 06 — BI & AUTOMATION
Onwards Analytics

A BI & analytics company serving enterprise reporting teams — and the proving ground for the rest of the portfolio, run day to day on its own AI-agent back office.

BACKEND AUTOMATION SUPPORT AUTOMATION AGENTIC BACK OFFICE INBOX → TICKET PIPELINE OPS DASHBOARD + DAILY REPORTS
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STRAIGHT FROM THE FEED

Ryan, in public.

He writes about this work most weeks — the honest version, not the brochure. The same judgment you'd get on a call, in the open. (Placeholder posts — swap for Ryan's real ones before launch.)

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10 / TRACK RECORD

Enterprise pedigree, pointed at your startup.

The team cut its teeth delivering for some of the largest companies in the country. You don't get enterprise pace, enterprise price or enterprise process — you get that same engineering judgment aimed at a six-week build. These logos prove we can operate at the top; the six weeks prove we'll do it for you.

BHP South32 Woodside Energy Rio Tinto JPMorgan Chase UBS KPMG Main Roads Western Australia Liontown Resources Orexplore Imvelo Perth Airport Murdoch University
SAME ENGINEERING JUDGMENT · SIX-WEEK BUILD · NO ENTERPRISE OVERHEAD