For founder-led businesses of 20 or more people

If your business has outgrown the way it runs, we can help.

We spend a short, focused stretch inside your business, show you where AI makes the biggest difference, then do the work with your team. Your best people get their time back, and your margins show it.

Start with the audit Is this you?

$250k

Revenue unlocked in month 1

4 wks

Concept to working build

1,300 hrs

A year back to expert work

Where should you start? 4 questions.

1 / 5

How many people in the business?

Prefer to just book? Open the calendar

Sound familiar?

If this is you, we can help.

These are the businesses we work with every week. Growing, making money, and stretched in the same places.

You're still the centre of everything.

Every decision runs through you, and you are already flat out.

How we help

We map how the business really runs and move the work off your desk, so decisions stop waiting on you.

Your best people are buried in admin.

Skilled people spend hours on work they think they have to do.

How we help

We hand that work to AI and systems that run properly, so your experts get back to expert work.

Your systems don't talk to each other.

Data gets keyed in twice and nobody owns the gaps between the tools.

How we help

We connect them, or build the 1 portal that replaces them.

Your team is already using AI, quietly.

Data sits in silos and people use AI to plug the gaps. You can't see where client data is going.

How we help

We give you visibility, the controls to use AI safely, and the records to show how it is used when the Privacy Act changes start on 10 December 2026.

You know AI matters. You don't know where to start.

Too many tools, too much noise, no clear first step.

How we help

We give you one costed plan, ranked by what each change is worth to the business.

You've had the advice. Nothing changed.

The report is in a drawer because nobody had time to act on it.

How we help

We don't stop at the plan. An operator does the work with your team, from 1 day a week.

How we work

How we help: map, recommend, do.

3 steps, over up to 3 months to start, from 1 day a week inside your business.

Map

We sit with you and your key people and map how the business really runs: workflows, systems, where data moves and where it stalls. What used to take months of workshops and whiteboards now takes a few conversations.

A clear view of where your time and margin really go.

Recommend

You get a clear picture of the problems and the opportunities, ranked by what each is worth. Typically that is 5 systems that do not talk to each other, admin swallowing your experts, and decisions sitting with one person.

You know what to do first, and what it is worth.

Do

This is where we are different. Most businesses never act on recommendations, because their best people are already flat out. So we own the doing.

Build what's missing, such as 1 portal replacing 5 disconnected systems.
Roll out AI properly across the team, so your best people get far more done without working longer.
Embed an operator: someone who understands both the technology and how a business runs, and who stays until the change sticks.

We don't stop at the advice. We stay until it sticks.

Ways in

4 ways in. Start where it suits.

Start small and prove it, or bring us in to do the work.

Start here

Revenue Unlock Audit

$3,500 ex GST

A fast diagnostic and a costed roadmap. Know where the time goes, what each change is worth, and what to do first.

See the audit

For the leadership team

Fractional AIO

Monthly retainer

Regular time with Josh or Dirk for you and your leadership team. Advisory-level help on where AI fits and what to do next.

See the fractional AIO

The core engagement

Embedded engagement

From 1 day a week

Map, recommend and start doing. An operator inside your business from 1 day a week, doing the work nobody inside has time to own.

See the embedded engagement

When you need more

Build or ongoing operator

Scoped per job

The custom build, or an operator who stays on once the first changes have stuck.

See how we build

Included from day one

Know where AI is making decisions in your business before the law makes you.

Every embedded engagement comes with Howll Govern: HighSign and the Howll MCP. You get value immediately, and you can show how AI is used in your business when the Privacy Act's automated decision-making rules start on 10 December 2026. You can also take it on its own.

See Howll Govern

When your data has to stay put

If your data can't leave the building, it doesn't have to.

For businesses that cannot put their data into public AI tools, we offer a fully private, sovereign deployment.

See Howll Sovereign

What happens when we help

Real outcomes. Real businesses.

Mining & Resources

“We had a key administrative role leaving the business. Howll mapped every process in weeks and built the plan that kept us running.”

Zero disruption on a critical role exit

Professional Services

“A task that took our team 60 minutes now takes 3 minutes. The annual time saving is 1,300 hours. That opened up $250,000 in revenue we were not capturing.”

60 min to 3 min · $250k unlocked

Construction & Trades

“The site surveying workflow went from 4 hours to 1 hour per site. That is 2 to 3 times the revenue from the same team.”

4 hrs to 1 hr per site · 2-3x revenue

Hear it from Josh

What you feed the model is the part that makes your business valuable.

90 seconds on why the data you hand to an AI is the most valuable thing your business owns, and why it should stay yours.

What changes

Help that does the work, not just the talking.

You already know where the business needs to go. We take ownership of the work nobody inside has time to own, and we stay until it sticks.

Your experts get back to expert work.

Your experts should be doing expert work, not admin they think they have to do. Your best people do far more, without feeling like they are working harder.

You lead the change, with backup.

The moment you tell your team to use AI, they think you are replacing them. Bring in someone to lead the change with you. Your best people will leave the moment they see what's possible somewhere else. Give them a reason to stay.

You get there faster than a senior hire.

A senior hire costs $180K or more and takes 6 months to understand your business. We are delivering in weeks.

Sound like you? Let's talk.

30 minutes. No pitch deck. Tell us what is going on and we will tell you where we would start.

Book a call

“I've never sat with an owner and not found something to improve.” Josh Horneman