Fixed price.
Local. Experienced.
Not a consultancy.

Security, cloud, and AI products for Australian state and federal government. Scoped to specific problems, priced before we start, built by the people you will talk to.

Where agencies usually start

Most agencies come to us with
one of three problems.

If your situation fits one of these, the right starting point is usually clear. If it cuts across more than one, or none of them quite fits, tell us and we will point you in the right direction.

Compliance and Essential 8

You have an E8 obligation, an accreditation coming up, or a perimeter that needs to be ISM-aligned.

Essential 8 controls are written broadly, and applying one to an environment that already exists rarely has a single clean answer. But the scope is knowable: at ML1 or ML2 the controls map to concrete configuration we deploy and test in your environment, and an accreditation-ready landing zone is bounded work, not a multiyear programme. These can be fixed-priced.

Typically: corporate IT teams inside smaller agencies, and teams-within-departments running their own stack.
Legacy apps and modernisation

You have applications that can't lift and shift, and auth that predates MFA.

A line-of-business app that won't land in cloud as-is. Login that only speaks SAML. Something critical with no MFA support and no vendor to call. The work is figuring out what is actually movable, then moving it without breaking the thing people depend on.

Typically: agencies carrying long-lived internal systems, and teams inheriting an estate no one has modernised.
Data across boundaries and AI

You move data across silos that were never meant to connect, or you have an AI question that vendor SaaS can't answer.

Files, scripts, SSH, and API calls across network boundaries that grew separately. Or an AI question where the classification level makes cloud SaaS off the table. The hard part is doing it under controls you can prove on both sides of the boundary.

Typically: federal and state/territory police, regulators handling sensitive holdings, organisations with multiple classifications, software vendors who need Australian presence.
Why Headland

Not the Big 4. Not on panels.
That's the point.

We work directly with state and federal agencies on specific, scoped problems. We are not interested in large transformation programmes or strategy documents with a long tail. We turn away the wrong work. It keeps engagements tight and outcomes real. Full procurement detail →

01
You talk to engineers

The person who picks up the phone built the thing you're asking about. Not an account manager. Not a delivery lead. The engineer.

02
Fixed price, published

Every engagement has a known price before it starts. Published on the product page. No time and materials, no change orders, no surprises on the invoice.

03
We win when you do

Small team, close engagement. Our reputation depends on your outcome, not on a multi-year contract that runs regardless of results.

We are not on Commonwealth or state government panels.

This is a real constraint for some agencies. Direct procurement via quote or Standing Offer Engagement is the path that works for us. We are transparent about this and will work through procurement options with any agency that contacts us.

Products

Eight products. Each one a specific problem,
a published price, and senior engineers.

Each product includes architecture deep dives that show exactly how the work is done. Browse the full list below, or start from the problem you have.

Why prices are published before you call.

Every product has a pre-built, opinionated option. The hard work is already done, so the price is already known. The more your environment shapes the work, the more we scope before we fix the number.

Deploy Our defaults, deployed.
Fixed price, self-select.
Complete The whole job, owned by us.
One fixed price.
Assured Scoped to your environment.
From $X, after a fixed assessment.

24 architecture deep dives across all products. Browse the full architecture hub →

Tell us what you're working on.

An E8 obligation, an AI question, a legacy app that needs to land in the cloud, or a cross-boundary data problem. We respond within a business day.