About Us

Back in 2004, we were IT consultants working with mining companies across Australia. One day a clients asked us to do something that seemed straightforward but turned out to be revolutionary.

“Can you connect our SAP HR system and learning management system to our physical access control system?” they asked. “We need to include approvals for site time, flights, meals, and accommodations.”

As we dove into this integration project, we had a realization — despite our customer having half a dozen security guards at every gate and sophisticated physical ID badge systems, other companies must have a similar challenge.

They had no reliable way to ensure that everyone walking through their gates had the right approvals and required training.

Physical ID badges were treated like magic keys – show the badge, get access. But what if someone’s safety certification had expired? What if they hadn’t completed mandatory training? What if their site approval had been revoked?
The consequences were staggering. We’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, not to mention the safety and security risks that kept executives awake at night.

What started as a straightforward integration had revealed something much bigger: a fundamental gap in how organizations manage access to their most critical assets – their people, facilities, and operations. The HR teams were drowning in paperwork. The EHS teams were playing compliance roulette. Security teams were essentially flying blind, relying on outdated systems that couldn’t talk to each other. We knew we could build something better.

Instead of just completing that integration project and moving on, we made a decision that would define our company’s future. We found seed funding, cleared out a garage, and set out to solve this problem not just for one client, but for every organization struggling with the same challenge.
We didn’t just want to build software – we wanted to build a bridge between systems that had never been designed to work together.

From day one in that garage, we made a choice that would define who we are: we prioritized building solutions that delivered tangible results over everything else.