You lead.
We build.
Company31 designs and builds AI‑powered solutions with Australian small businesses and not‑for‑profits. Working software, not another strategy deck.
You already have the leaders.
Project managers, change managers, operations leads: small organisations already have the people who lead. What they lack is a partner who builds. We sit beside your team, take what you can imagine, and make it real.
Every good plan needs an accomplice.
One bench, two sides.
Bring the problem. We bring the making.
“Reporting eats our weekends.”
A tool that drafts the board pack from your own numbers.
“Volunteers ask the same fifty questions.”
An assistant trained on your playbook that answers them well.
“Our data lives in nine spreadsheets.”
One view of the organisation the whole team trusts.
Everything Company31 builds is documented and handed over. You own it. Your team can run it without us.
Software is not the destination.
Every technology project reaches the same fork. Two roads, one investment.
The software arrives and the week stays the same. More licences, more logins, and the work itself untouched.
Dead endThe tool is only the vehicle. What matters is what your team stops doing, starts doing, and can suddenly do.
Keeps goingSame investment, different destination. That is why every build starts with one question: what will your organisation do differently once this exists?
The lab is open.
We build in public at c31labs: thirty‑two public repositories of small tools, honest commits, and working code you can read before you ever call us.
Open the lab ↗What hangs on the wall.
Every build draws on six disciplines.
See clearly. Choose well. Change once.
Understand before deciding.
Decide before building.
Change the work, not just the tools.
Questions owners and boards ask us
What does Company31 actually do?
Company31 designs and builds AI‑powered solutions with Australian small businesses and not‑for‑profits. That means working software: automation, assistants, data and reporting tools, built beside your team and handed over so you own and run them.
Who does Company31 work with?
Small businesses and not‑for‑profits across Australia, and the project managers, change managers and operations leads inside them. You bring deep knowledge of your organisation. Company31 brings twenty‑five years of building across banking, government, automotive and media.
Do we need technical staff to work with you?
No. Most organisations we work with have no developers at all. Company31 does the building, explains everything in plain language, and documents each tool so your team can run it without us.
How is Company31 different from a consultancy?
Consultancies advise; Company31 builds. There is no strategy deck and no handover to a separate delivery team, because the person you talk to is the person who builds. We work in the open at github.com/c31labs, so you can read our code before you ever call us.
We have bought new software before and nothing changed. Why would this be different?
Installing technology is not the same as changing how you work, and Company31 treats the second as the goal. A build starts only once we can name what your team will stop doing, start doing, or do faster because of it. If we cannot name that, we will say so and save you the money.
How do we start?
Book a half hour conversation. It costs nothing, there is no pitch, and you leave with an honest view of whether your idea is buildable. If it is, Company31 starts with the smallest piece of work that proves it.
Bring us something to build.
Half an hour costs nothing and usually ends with a sketch. No pitch, no obligation.