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Custom software.
Embedded talent.

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We’re founders, engineers, designers and product people who’ve spent years building software and businesses of our own. Now we’re bringing that experience together to help mid-market businesses turn complex problems into thoughtfully designed, well-built software, whether we’re building it for you or alongside your team.

Nik LeighNikFounder / Product Person Ali DihawAliEngineer & System Architect Xavier Van DillewijnXavierLawyer / Engineer Muhammad DzulfiqorDzulUI/UX & Product +Want to join? Careers

When access no longer outweighs ownership.

More organisations are choosing to build software that fits the way they actually work. We take it from idea to design, build to launch — and stay for whatever comes after, if you’ll have us.

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Designed and built by the same team.

Product strategy/System architecture
Brand and identity/Design systems
Interface design/Front-end engineering
Discovery and research/Data and integrations
Prototypes/Production code

Three ways to work together.

You describe the outcome. We own everything between here and there, then hand you the keys.

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Build it for me

Named engineers in your standups and your Slack. Running in three weeks, not nine months.

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Give me a team

Time inside your operation. You get a costed plan for a fixed fee, and it's yours to build with anyone.

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Just think it through

From first conversation to something that’s yours.

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The first conversation

Forty-five minutes on what you're building and what's in the way.

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Two weeks with your team

Time with the people who do the work, learning how it really runs.

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The plan

What we'll build, what we won't, and what it takes.

An idea imagined on one side and written as code on the other
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Design and build

Something real every week. It takes shape in front of you.

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Yours to keep

Code, documentation and keys. We stay on if you want us.

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Work we’ve built and mostly operated.

Real CreatorView

Real Creator Live

Project management tool for real estate media businesses.

2023 — present
Service SubscriberView

Service Subscriber Live

Allowing anyone to launch a service business in under 20 minutes.

2025 — present
Good Wedding DaysView

Good Wedding Days Developing

Complex operational tool for wedding planners to plan and run great weddings.

2026 — present

Whether it’s an internal tool to streamline how your business runs, or an external commercial product, we’d love to talk. Start a conversation

The Thinkers/Builders team

What your team looks like.

A small group assembled for your work specifically, drawn from our studios across Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.

Tell us what you’re dreaming to build.

Send us a few basic details and we’ll schedule a call.

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