Unclear starting point
Not sure where to begin or what comes first.
Xelleron Technology Discovery
Scale the business.
Not the payroll.
Discovery Workshop $2,500 Initial clarity and alignment
Strategy and Options Discovery $5,000 Decision support before investment
All of the above plus a Prioritised Board-ready Roadmap $10,000 Confident execution planning
We work with founders, boards, and executive teams to unlock growth without necessarily increasing headcount by redesigning how work gets done through technology.
If your organisation has 10+ staff and growth is being constrained by time, process, or complexity, this is where technology can help.
The challenge is not awareness
Boards and executive teams hear constant noise about AI, automation, and "digital transformation". The real challenge is not awareness, it is knowing what to do next.
Past attempts stalled
You tried before and want to get it right this time.
Capability gap
Not enough senior technology capability in-house.
Vendor fatigue
Tired of pitches, hype, and biased advice.
Second opinion
You want independent, outcomes-first guidance.
Outcome focus
You want business outcomes, not a technology project.
We guide you with a seasoned team of technology leaders focused on practical, high-return outcomes.
What makes Xelleron different
Experience over experimentation
Our consultants have spent most of their professional lives designing, building, and implementing technology inside real businesses.
We have seen many successes ... and many mistakes.
Our advice is grounded in what works, always judged by outcomes, not by a particular method or technology.
Value over hype
We use AI extensively where it makes us more productive and helps us go deeper, faster. But AI is only one tool.
We stay value-focused and recommend the simplest approach that delivers the outcome - AI or not. If AI does not clearly deliver appropriate value, we are very comfortable talking clients out of it.
Outcomes over complexity
We improve your business' productivity by turning complex, technical requirements into simple tech solutions your team wants to use. Clients love how easy we are to work with and how closely our solutions match their real-world processes.
As both an ICT consultancy and a custom software studio, we can estimate custom builds upfront to help you prioritise your tech roadmap, then deliver either bespoke software or integrate cheaper, off-the-shelf software products - whichever is the simplest way to achieve your outcomes.
Where can technology create value
Some common areas where there are opportunities for technology to create value are:
Time pressure
Leadership and staff time is being consumed.
Manual load
Manual work, duplication, or re-keying exists.
Training overhead
Processes require a lot of training to operate well.
Capability gaps
Existing solutions are missing key capability.
Risk exposure
Risk, inconsistency, or error is easily introduced.
From working with your team, we pinpoint opportunities where technology can unlock meaningful return.
Technology Discovery with Xelleron
Onboarding: 1-2 obligation-free calls
For teams that are keen to explore further, we start with 1-2 obligation-free calls to determine fit and clarify the path forward.
Outcome clarity
During the calls, you clarify the outcomes you want to achieve.
Best-fit option
During the calls, we assess which discovery options from the table below (if any) are suitable.
Go / no-go decision
During the calls, together we make a clear go/no-go decision on whether to proceed.
Discovery options (selected after onboarding)
Once onboarding confirms fit, choose the discovery option that best matches your decision needs and timeline.
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Value guarantee
Discovery Workshop |
Most popular
Strategy & Options |
Prioritised Roadmap |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Best suited for | Initial clarity and alignment | Decision support before investment | Confident execution planning |
| Typical client size | 10+ staff | 10-50 staff | 30+ staff |
| Fee (ex GST) | $2,500 | $5,000 | $10,000 |
| Executive workshops | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Workshop preparation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live visual facilitation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Consensus & prioritisation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identified opportunity areas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Order-of-Magnitude Cost Savings Estimates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Written summary report | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Technology options outlined | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prioritised roadmap | — | — | ✓ |
| Prioritised by business value & KPIs | — | — | ✓ |
| Prioritised by likelihood of success | — | — | ✓ |
| Order-of-magnitude cost estimates | — | — | ✓ |
| Order-of-magnitude delivery timeframes | — | — | ✓ |
| Dependencies & sequencing identified | — | — | ✓ |
| Outcome | Clear understanding of where leverage exists | Confident decision-making | Board-ready roadmap |
Discovery Workshop Value Guarantee: Applies only to the Discovery Workshop ($2,500) option. If we cannot identify credible cost-saving opportunities worth at least 2x the workshop fee (based on the information available during the engagement), we will refund the Discovery Workshop fee.
Our consultants
Xelleron Consulting is led by senior practitioners who have spent most of their professional lives designing, building, and implementing technology in real organisations. Our consultants bring deep technical judgment, commercial awareness, and practical experience rather than theory or vendor-driven advice.
Calum McGonigle
Principal Consultant
Calum is an experienced technology consultant and delivery lead with a strong track record in designing and implementing practical systems that improve how organisations operate.
Calum specialises in:
- Translating complex business requirements into workable technical solutions
- Process automation
- CRMs
- AI automation
- Designing systems that scale without increasing operational burden
- Working closely with executive stakeholders to align technology decisions with commercial outcomes
Calum brings a calm, structured approach to problem-solving and is known for delivering solutions that are robust, maintainable, and fit for purpose.
"Calum is easy to work with, knowledgeable, and provides genuine value." Excerpt from a full client testimonial - Aaron Roberts, Managing Director, MAP Lawyers. Read the full testimonial
Dr Stefan Slomka
Founder & Consulting Director
Stefan a co-founders of Xelleron and has spent his career working at the intersection of technology, strategy, and applied problem-solving.
Stefan brings:
- Deep experience in custom software development and systems architecture
- AI and Machine learning PhD
- A strong understanding of how organisations use and misuse technology
- The ability to cut through complexity and focus on where technology creates real leverage
Stefan works closely with founders, boards, and executive teams to ensure technology initiatives are commercially grounded, defensible, and aligned with long-term business objectives.
"Stefan helped us navigate a critical transition, select the right development partner, and build the internal capability needed to scale our SaaS business with confidence." Kirsty McCann, Managing Director at Team Management Systems
Alastair Cranswick
Principal Consultant
Ex-Big-4 management consultant combining data science with skills in organisational communication and change management.
Alastair is known for:
- Experienced workshop facilitator, specialising in achieving consensus with the human-centric design approach.
- Expert in structured decision-making and risk management approaches used by large consulting firms.
- Thought leader on the opportunities and risks of AI.
Alastair brings a disciplined, hands-on perspective that ensures recommendations are practical, implementable, and resilient over time.
"Al Cranswick was part of a 3-person team of specialists that comprehensively reviewed our marketing, sales, customer on-boarding and partnership operations, providing the evidence-based insights we had been seeking for years." Stephen Gook, Head of Marketing at Teachers Union Health Fund
Mark Jeacocke
Solution Architect
Mark is a co-founder of Xelleron and has over 25 years of experience in technology. He was a co-founder, senior developer and architect for Avand before its sale to TechnologyOne in 2007. There he was instrumental in developing their leading document and information management system, which was used widely throughout local government. He also built a lane management system for VicRoads, which was used on their M1 and M80 upgrade projects.
Mark is known for:
- Deep experience designing practical systems for government environments
- Document and information management solutions used across local government
- Major transport infrastructure delivery support (VicRoads M1/M80)
Dean Jackson
Principal Consultant
Dean has both a IT, Finance and Management background.
Dean is known for:
- Understands financial reports
- Financial API endpoints
- Project implementation
- Microsoft platforms
- Advanced Excel spreadsheets
Chui Tey
Principal Consultant
Chui is a broadly skilled software consultant with over 25 years of experience delivering enterprise and mission-critical systems across banking, insurance, and payments.
Chui is known for:
- Leading teams on large-scale enterprise and government projects
- Guiding cloud and integration initiatives across Azure and AWS
- Modernising and migrating legacy platforms, including .NET and Azure Functions
- Performance profiling, load testing, and reliability improvements in high-throughput systems
- Designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Working with executive stakeholders to align technical decisions with business outcomes
Chui brings hands-on depth as both a consultative leader and individual contributor, with a track record of mentoring teams and delivering pragmatic, robust solutions.
Testimonials
Xelleron helped us identify and remove a significant overhead in our development process, resulting in a reduction in our ongoing development and maintenance effort. Their advice was practical, commercially grounded, and focused on outcomes rather than technology for its own sake.
Melinda Watt, Vice President Relationship Management, Earthcheck Pty Limited
Stefan, Dean and the team at Xelleron worked with us to provide a seamless integration of Class API data to excel. The resulting SMSF workpapers are tailored exactly to our needs and will save us hours of manual data entry. The project process was easy to manage with the team always on hand to answer queries and provide feedback.
Ryan Pinkerton, Manager, Roberts + Morrow
Bramwell Partners asked Xelleron to develop a platform that would allow us to conduct audits for our clients. The brief was to develop something that was user-friendly, presented professionally to the client and provided efficiencies for us in a service delivery. Throughout the process Dean and the team were extremely easy to communicate with, they took on our feedback and made adjustments to the platform that exceeded our expectations both in quality and time frame. We have since expanded our scope of services under development by Xelleron. I am extremely excited by the opportunities for improvement that the platform will provide Bramwell Partners.
Tameka Bramwell, Director, Bramwell Partners
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