The wrong thing, built well
Heads down delivering a thing the business has half outgrown, because the idea was never tested. We ask what it is really for, reshape it, and build that instead.
Independent transformation delivery. Australia and New Zealand
Your transformation is too important to drift.
Company31 is the senior team you bring in when a technology programme has to land. We make sure you are building the right thing, get it moving, even the stalled ones, and stand up the governance that keeps it honest. Independent, tied to no vendor, nothing to resell.
What we do
Three practices. One standard.
We make sure it is the right thing, then we land it: product and delivery, governance, and applied AI, led by one senior team across the whole job. Tied to no vendor, so the call is always what lands your programme, never what earns a commission. Do all three well and a transformation that sticks is what you are left with.
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Product & Delivery
Shape it right, then land it.
- The idea pressure-tested and the deliverable reshaped to what will actually land
- Programmes then run end to end, or recovered when they have stalled
- Stage-gates, release and cutover you can put in front of a board
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PMO & Governance
Keep it honest, with one view of the truth.
- A PMO stood up from scratch, or an existing one made to work
- RAID, portfolio controls and independent delivery assurance
- One board-grade view of whether the programme will actually land
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Applied AI
Make it pay, with adoption that sticks.
- AI adoption that reaches the floor, Copilot and beyond
- Guardrails and governance for regulated, sensitive work
- Practical tools, prototyped first in our own Company31 Labs
What we’re called in to do
The week it stops feeling on track.
No two programmes fail the same way, but the shape rhymes. These are the situations we are called into most, and what we do about them.
The programme that won’t land
Months in, the spend is up and the date keeps moving. We find why it is stuck, agree the smallest path to live, and get it moving again.
The governance gap
Plenty of activity, plenty of status decks, and still no honest answer to whether it will land. We build the one view that tells the truth.
Held to the standard behind two decades of enterprise delivery for banks, carmakers and government.
The record
Numbers a board remembers.
Two decades of delivery leaves a paper trail. These are the results behind the founder’s name, and the standard every Company31 engagement is held to.
A$7.5M
Transformation portfolio governed at the peak body for NSW business, reporting to the CEO and board, leading a team of 21.
A$700K
Annual savings recovered from a stalled platform rollout, by retiring licences nobody used and finishing the job properly.
30%
Cut from programme cycle time on a national migration for one of the world’s biggest carmakers. A banking rollout went live six months early.
We answer to your outcome. Not a vendor’s quota.
We hold no reseller agreements and take no commissions. We pick the tools and the path that land your programme, then run them with you. The only result we are paid for is yours.
How we work
Assess. Deliver. Embed.
One senior team across the whole job, so nothing is lost in the handover from advice to delivery. Every engagement is scoped in stages, each with its own go or stop point.
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Assess
See it clearly
We read where the programme really is, whether it is even the right thing to build, and where it leaks time, money or confidence, then agree the smallest move that gets it landing. Sometimes that means doing less, or building something different.
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Deliver
Get it moving
We run the delivery ourselves: the plan, the governance, the hard calls. Vendor-neutral, so every decision is made for your programme, not someone’s margin.
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Embed
Make it stick
We stay until it holds: your people trained on the real work, adoption measured, and the before-and-after on one honest page before we hand over.
Past go live, then handed over.
Founded by Manuel Re
Built on two decades of enterprise delivery.
Manuel is Company31’s founder. For two decades he has governed and recovered technology programmes for global enterprises: VP Product Innovation and Delivery at Eidosmedia, then Head of Product Engineering and Innovation at the Australian Computer Society, and later General Manager, Digital Experience and Innovation at Business NSW. He governed portfolios worth tens of millions for the organisations below, and recovered the ones that had stalled. PRINCE2 Practitioner.
Two decades shaping products and running the platforms beneath them taught him what vendors promise and what actually lands. He built Company31 to put that judgement on your side of the table, with the seniority of an enterprise product and delivery lead and none of the overhead.
Company31 Labs
Where we prototype. Free to start.
Our R&D centre. The delivery and AI tools we build for our own work, then share with you. Each one free to start, each one earning its place.
Insights
Notes from the work.
Field notes on delivery, governance and applied AI, drawn from the programmes themselves, not the framework deck. A new one most weeks.
Change & Adoption
Embracing Change: The Framework Is Not the Point
Seventy percent of transformations miss their objectives, and the figure barely moves. The failure is almost never technical. Name the friction, then pick the framework that fits it.
Applied AIThe Automation Arbitrage Mistake
Eight in ten enterprises cut staff in their AI pilots. None of the cuts correlated with higher returns. The firms that won used AI to amplify people, not replace them.
DeliveryAccountable, but not in control
What grinds delivery leads down is not volume. It is the gap between what you are accountable for and what you actually control. Naming it is the first move that is fully yours.
Bring the situation, not the brief.
A sentence, a voice note, a paragraph. We answer honestly on whether it is a fit.