Software services for the long run
We help governments, regulators, and enterprises shape, build, and run software that holds up under real-world pressure. End-to-end, or wherever you need a senior partner alongside your team.
How we help
Advise
Discovery · AI Readiness · Due Diligence · Fractional CTO · Procurement · Assurance. Independent advice before you commit.
Learn more about AdviseBuild
Engineering — registers, business applications, public platforms, and AI integration. Auditable, accessible, defensible. See the offerings below.
Learn more about BuildOperate
Cyber Essentials–certified hosting, security, accessibility audits, and ongoing partnership. Software that has to keep working — and keep being right.
Learn more about OperateWhat we build
Some examples of what we build — four kinds of work plus the hosting and accessibility partnership that sits underneath them. This isn't an exhaustive menu. If you've got software your organisation can't afford to get wrong and it doesn't fit one of these neatly, the same trust bar still applies — bring us the brief and we'll figure out where it sits.
Registers & records
Authoritative records you can defend at audit, in court, or in front of a regulator. Versioned, accessible, citizen-facing. Land, working-with-children, swimming-pool, licence registers.
Learn more about Registers & recordsBusiness applications
Case management, workflows, eForms, CRMs, integrations into the systems your team already uses. Includes Vaultmatix secure file sharing for sensitive documents.
Learn more about Business applicationsPublic-facing platforms
High-availability, accessible, multilingual platforms — the public face of the organisations behind them. Headless CMS migration, multilingual sites, UK & NSW Government Design Systems.
Learn more about Public-facing platformsAI integration & search
Citation-grounded, governed, your-data-stays-yours. AI you can defend to your board and your auditors. Onyx integration, conversational search, RAG implementations.
Learn more about AI integration & searchHosting & operation
Cyber Essentials–certified hosting, monitoring, security patching, and the partnership for software that has to keep working. UK data sovereignty, 18 years in production.
Learn more about Hosting & operationAccessibility
WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA audits, remediation, and accessibility-first builds for organisations whose compliance obligations are statutory rather than aspirational.
Learn more about AccessibilityNot on this list? Tell us what you're trying to ship — most of our engagements start with a brief and a conversation, not a category.
Selected work
Justice Health NSW prison portal
A controlled-access subsite inside the Justice Health platform — token-based URLs, IP-bounded delivery, custom theme — built to reach a population that needs health information without exposure.
REMPEC: Mediterranean marine pollution response
Long-running hosting and support for the UN-affiliated Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean, based in Malta.
See moreNSW Multicultural Health Communication Service: main platform
Multilingual public-facing platform for NSW Health's translation publishing service — Elasticsearch-powered search across content in 60+ languages, single source of truth across translations.
NSW Crime Commission
Long-running CMS-managed public website for an independent NSW investigative agency. PretaGov has hosted, maintained and evolved the site since 2017.
Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC)
Long-running partnership with the NSW oversight body for police misconduct — hosting, Plone CMS upgrades, and the 2022 rebuild onto the NSW Customer Service design system.
How we engage
Fixed-price, time-and-materials, or staff augmentation — we shape the engagement to your timeline, budget, and how much of your team you want involved. End-to-end or alongside an in-house lead.



