Redesign the work before you automate it.

I step into businesses at the point where they have to change how they work, as a fractional executive, or as the person leading the change as a consultant.

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Two ways to work with me. Start with the gap you need to close.

If the gap is a person

Fractional executive

Senior leadership in the seat before you can justify, or find, the full-time hire. I sit on your leadership team, own the outcomes that come with the role, and answer to your CEO or board for them.

Fractional CEO

For founder-led companies at a turning point.

Founders stepping back, companies between CEOs, or a business changing shape. I run the business alongside the founders and board, set the operating rhythm, and build the leadership team that takes over.

Fractional CPO

For companies whose product function hasn’t caught up with the business.

A product strategy tied to commercial outcomes, a roadmap the board can read, and the team and practices to deliver it. When the role is ready for a permanent CPO, I help you hire them.

I’ve done thisCPO and then CEO at Pladia, holding both roles through its global launch. Product leadership at AgriDigital and Walmart’s Store No. 8.

If the gap is how the business works

Transformation consultant

A defined program to change how your business works, led by someone who has run one from the inside. Product-led or AI-led, starting with a discovery phase.

Project to product

Moving a delivery organisation onto a product operating model: long-lived teams, roadmaps tied to outcomes, and funding that follows the product.

New revenue and efficiency

Finding where the redesigned work frees up cost and capacity, and where what the business already knows can become a new revenue stream, with the offer, pricing and launch to match.

AI in the work

Bringing AI into the work rather than bolting it on top, with the controls and oversight a board can stand behind.

I’ve done thisTransformation programs for TAB, EndeavourX and CommBank as a consultant at Brainmates. And Rembient, my own product company, is built and run agentically, not just AI in the product.

Plenty of businesses need both, because a transformation with nobody accountable for it tends to stall halfway. I do either, or one after the other.

Find the signal. Fix the work. Then automate.

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Find the signal

Hard numbers on process, time and cost, read alongside how frontline staff, managers and executives each experience the same work. The gap between those views is usually where the value is.
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Redesign the work

Fix the data, workflows, the team shape and the operating rhythms first, so you’re not automating an inefficient system.
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Then automate, with oversight

Bring AI in where it can safely help, design human-agent coordination carefully to augment with trusted guardrails and accountability.

How it works

Usually two to three days a week. At the start we agree what success looks like. For fractional work I’ll hand over to a permanent hire I help you find, or to a leader grown inside the business. For consulting engagements, I’ll define the program, lead the change across people, process, and systems, and put the ongoing operating rhythms in place.

Why Saccata

Most organisations already know where their work breaks. The signal sits with the people doing the work, often too faint to reach leadership. I help find it, measure it, and make it loud enough to act on.

The name comes from Thopha saccata, the double drummer, Australia’s largest cicada. It spends years underground, then uses two drum-like chambers to turn a faint signal into a call you can hear kilometres away.

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Tell me what’s changing in your business and what you’ve tried.

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