Company31 is a senior advisory practice for small and mid-sized businesses across Australia and New Zealand, metro and regional. We help you get more from the tools you already pay for: Dynamics 365, HubSpot, Zoho, Shopify, and the sensible bits of AI. Led by Manuel Re, with twenty years at the enterprise end of the market put to work for the side of town that normally cannot afford it.
If you run a business with five to two hundred people (a shop, a workshop, a practice, a farm gate, a fleet, a service) and you suspect your systems are costing you more time than they save, this practice is for you. The aim is simple: fewer screens, fewer workarounds, fewer surprise bills, better days.
Dynamics 365 Business Central, HubSpot, Zoho, Shopify. Set up so the stock matches the till, the CRM matches the inbox, and the report matches the reality on the ground. No seven-figure rebuilds. No jargon that hides the work.
Read moreOne honest dashboard beats ten half-built ones. We tidy the data behind the till, the workshop, the paddock, or the practice, and build the small set of reports that actually change what you do on a Monday morning.
Read moreCopilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, with sensible automations underneath. We show your team the three or four things AI actually does well for a small business, skip the rest, and leave you with workflows that save hours a week, not pitches that save none.
Read moreNot slogans. How decisions get made when the quote is tight, the season is short, and the phone is ringing.
A plan is not a deliverable.
If it cannot be explained simply, it is not yet understood.
Sustainable pace beats sprinting to burnout. You have a business to run.
Scope, sequence, and standards. The rest, we respond to.
Decisions earn their place through data, not volume.
One working thing this month beats three half-built things next year.
No big-firm margins on small-business work. The quote is the quote.
Most small businesses have no idea what the open internet already knows about them. Spoofable email. Forgotten subdomains. TLS issued by a provider they stopped using years ago. Our free Cyber Check runs a passive external assessment against any domain you own and returns a plain-English grade with the exact fixes, in the browser. Nothing installed. Nothing sent anywhere. Findings map to the ACSC Essential Eight (AU) and the NZ Privacy Act 2020 breach-notification expectations, so the report doubles as evidence for your insurer or auditor.
The old "we are too small to be a target" defence no longer works, and the old "small-business exemption" is on its way out. Since late 2024, Australia's amended Privacy Act carries civil penalties up to the greater of $50 million, three times the benefit obtained, or 30 percent of adjusted turnover. The Cyber Security Act 2024 added mandatory ransomware payment reporting. Across the Tasman, the NZ Privacy Act 2020 already requires breach notification within a practicable window, and failure to notify is a criminal offence. We keep current with all of it.
Notifiable Data Breaches, "reasonable steps" to secure personal information, and the 2024 amendments that lifted penalties and narrowed the small-business carve-out. We help you build the evidence that you took the steps, before you need it.
The practical baseline regulators and cyber insurers measure you against. Patching, MFA, macros, admin privileges, application control, hardening, backups. We get small businesses to Maturity Level 1 without pretending it has to be a six-figure programme.
Mandatory breach notification to the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals as soon as practicable. IPP 3A transparency obligations from 1 May 2026. CERT NZ Critical Controls as a plain-English working checklist. We work in both jurisdictions.
Twenty years leading programmes on SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, NetSuite, and custom platforms, for banks, carmakers, retailers, and not-for-profits. We mention it so you know the advice you are getting is the same advice those programmes received. Then we get back to the work in front of us, which is usually a lot smaller and a lot more useful.
“The best delivery leaders are not the loudest in the room. They are the steadiest.”
From Zen and the Art of Project Management, forthcoming.
Describe the situation in your own words. A sentence, a voice note, a paragraph. We will tell you honestly whether this practice is the right fit and, if not, point you to someone who is. No sales call. No follow-up sequence.
