Who we are

We have carried the
responsibility ourselves.

We are designers, engineers and strategists. We are also people who have served in defence, intelligence, policing and emergency services. We build the sovereign capability we wish we had had, for the people who carry that responsibility today.

Why we do it

A simpler, safer,
more connected world.

At heart we are idealists. We are here to help the organisations that keep people safe to evolve, grow and do their best work, and to make the systems they rely on a pleasure to use, not a burden to endure.

Make things better

Everyone we work with brings a perspective that makes the outcome better. You bring yours, we bring ours, and the result is stronger for it.

Meet the hardest challenges

We are at our best where the stakes are high and the margin for error is small. Those are the challenges we exist to help you meet.

Design things people want to use

We go further than making things easier. We design tools your people reach for instinctively, not ones they have to be told to use.

Work alongside good people

You are the expert in your mission. We are the experts in building for it. The best outcomes come from doing it together.

How we work

Align. Discover. Define.

A simple three-phase rhythm that keeps us pointed at your goals and lowers your risk at every step.

01

Align

We agree on your goals, your scope and what success looks like, along with any constraints you are working within, so everything we do is measurable and achievable.

02

Discover

We lean on research and evidence to understand your people and your opportunity, closing the gaps in what is known before anything is built.

03

Define

We shape the solution around your priorities and your people, so what we deliver is something they genuinely want to use, built for the world they use it in.

What we value

RITCH.

Five values underpin how we engage with you on every piece of work.

Respect

For each other, for you, for our partners and for the world around us.

Integrity

The cornerstone of everything we do, and never up for negotiation.

Trust

We trust each other, and we work hard to be worthy of yours.

Communication

Every challenge can be met with clear, honest communication.

Honesty

What we both give and expect, in everything we take on.

Sovereignty

Built in Australia. Cleared in Australia. Controlled by Australia.

Designed from the ground up for sovereign operations, hosted on your infrastructure and Australian-owned end to end. Your soil, your control.

Security clearance
AGSVA cleared

Personnel hold active clearances to operate within Australian government security frameworks.

Industry membership
DISP member

Defence Industry Security Program member and recognised defence industry supplier.

Intellectual property
Australian owned

All IP Australian-owned. Provisional patent covering the sovereign architecture.

Jurisdiction
Sovereign

Australian registered and controlled, answerable only to Australian law.

Where our name comes from

In 1984, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard introduced the BB84 protocol, the moment secure key exchange first rested on the laws of physics, and on the ability to detect compromise, rather than secrecy alone. It is the inspiration behind our name, and a beginning.

Let us help you
meet the challenge.

Tell us what you are working on. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, and how.

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