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You see it before you pay for it.
We build a working first version at our own cost. You run it in your real business, with your real team, before you commit the real money. Like it, we proceed. Don't, you walk away clean.
See it before you pay for it·An Aeterna Systems business
Custom software,
without the gamble.
We build a working first version at our own cost. You run it in your real business, with your real team, before you commit the real money.
You brief us. We build it. You decide after you've used it.
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Sit down
You talk it through.
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We shape it
A sealed brief, at the table.
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You walk out
With it taking form.
·Find your trade
Which one are you?
Pick the one that's yours. We'll show you your own week — and the working software that answers it.
Not on the list? The Sit-Down fits any operator — the trade just changes the screen.
01Why owners choose us
The gamble, removed.
We don't sell. We state.
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Weeks, not quarters.
Not wireframes. Not mockups. Real, clickable, working software in your hands within weeks of our first conversation — and we start refining the moment you've touched it.
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Operators, not just builders.
We've run the whole arc ourselves — building it, shipping it, growing businesses around it. We sit through the commercial conversation at the same table as the technical one.
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Digital Intelligence, done practically.
We're highly proficient with Digital Intelligence — what others call AI — advising on it and building it into your workflows where it does real work. Woven in where it earns its place, never bolted on for the sake of it.
02What we build
The software your business actually runs on.
We're a custom rapid development studio. The thing your team uses every day — the process eating your week, the quote, the booking, the systems that won't talk — calibrated to your stakes, shipped in weeks, not quarters.
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Replace the spreadsheet chaos
The process eating your week — the double-entry, the handover that lives in one person's head — turned into one tool that just does it.
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Quoting & sales flows
From a phone call to a signed quote in minutes — scope, terms, and signature, all in your operator's pocket.
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Booking & scheduling
Self-serve booking, reminders, no-show handling — the back of house your customers never see but always feel.
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Tools that finally talk
The systems you already pay for, talking to each other instead of through you. Enter it once, it lands everywhere it should.
Not template sites, not off-the-shelf reskins — we build the custom thing, whatever the size
·Calibrated to your stakes
Three shapes of engagement. The stakes set the depth: the more that rides on it, the deeper we build. We talk numbers in person.
Single team
Focused
One workflow, one team. The thing eating five hours of someone's week. Built, walked, in your hands.
Whole operation
Operating layer
Back-of-house, multi-role, multi-touch. The system that ties your operators together — internal tools, dashboards, the screens your people run the day from.
On the record
Regulated edge
Audit, signed records, lineage you can defend. The work where someone may later ask who decided what, and when.
03The cadence
Weeks, not months. Working software.
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The Sit-Down
90 min · Refundable deposit
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First review
7 days · Your team
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Second draft & review
7 days · Our cost
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Sign-off & Launch
90 min · Sign-off
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90 days on us
Post go-live
The deposit
$2,500, or 10% of the build, whichever is greater. Fully refundable. It holds your seat and keeps both sides moving to time — it goes toward the build if you proceed, and comes back in full if you use your review windows and decide not to.
·One story, start to finish
What it looks like from the table.
No client names — the roster stays in confidence. This is a sketch: the shape of a Sit-Down, walked all the way through.
·A Sit-Down, start to finish
Anika & Theo — a 38-seat natural wine bar, Marrickville
A Friday in full swing. The Riesling everyone was ordering ran out at eight and nobody had logged the last bottle. Two tabs walked at close. The roster was a photo of a whiteboard in the group chat, and the reorder for Monday was a best guess made at midnight.
04The invitation
Ninety minutes. Then a working artefact.
We sit down with a handful of operators each week. The deposit is refundable; the artefact is yours either way.
Refundable deposit · Sealed artefact · No sales call