Company

The AI-native operating company.

monō exists to help organisations go AI-native, so people can do the best work of their lives, and organisations achieve what was never possible.

The operating belief

The frontier gap is widening.

What frontier AI can do, and what most organisations actually run on, are years apart, and the gap compounds every month. The tools exist. What is missing is someone inside the business making them work.

Closing that gap is not a software purchase. It is an operating decision, made inside the work, by people who ship. That is the company we built: one that goes AI-native itself, then does it with you.

How we work

Small pods. Senior people. Real systems.

monō ships through embedded pods of senior operators and engineers, craft over headcount, working software over documents. The people who scope your work are the people who build it.

01
Find where to start
The highest-value work in the core of the business, not a replatforming project.
02
Ship in weeks
First agents in production, on your infrastructure, measured against real work.
03
Hand it over
You own the platform and everything your agents learn. The capability stays yours.

Velocity
We create velocity inside the business we work in. You ship faster, move faster, and make decisions faster.
Intelligence
We level up your intelligence. The whole organisation gets smarter over time, and that gain is yours.
Capacity
The same team does far more, because the agents carry the load. Your people take on the work that was always out of reach.
Experience
We build experiences that were not possible before: new products, new markets, and new ways to serve your customers.

Client Zero

We run monō on monō.

Our own revenue, finance and operating rhythm run on the Collections you can buy. Every demo is the live system, on our own data, never a slide.

It is the strongest proof we can offer: we bet our own company on the product before we ask you to. In production at monō and inside Australian enterprises; named references stay anonymised until each client clears them.

Our own daily brief, assembled by the same agents we deploy.

Who we are

Operators and engineers, inside the business.

We hire senior people who want their work in production, not in decks. Engineers and operators who sit inside the business, work in the core of it, and ship. No layers, no hand-offs to juniors.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, working inside ASX-listed and top-tier Australian enterprises, with deployments that follow the work wherever it runs. Sovereign by default: your data stays in your cloud, your region, your control.

The name

monō is named for how it is made.

monō takes its name from monozukuri, the Japanese craft tradition of making things well. The discipline where the maker owns the whole, takes pride in the detail, and lets nothing ship half-made.

We build agents the same way. Each one is shaped to do real work, owned end to end, and proven in production before it earns its place.

Founder

Built by an operator who has done it before.

monō was founded by David Hyman. He co-founded Lendi in 2013 and spent around 13 years building it into one of Australia’s largest home-loan platforms. He scaled it to a $110 billion loan book, ~$400 million in revenue and 5 million customers.

Along the way he won his category at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and now serves as a judge for the programme. He started monō to do for every business what took Lendi years to learn: go AI-native in the core of the operation, and prove it in production.

Team + advisors

The people building monō.

Operators, engineers and independent advisors with experience in the industries and systems where the work matters most.

Leadership

Daniel Folb

Founding VP, Clients

Daniel leads client work at monō, turning AI ambition into measurable operational value. Across 17 years at Deloitte, including seven as a Partner, he led performance, turnaround and transformation work. He also shaped the firm’s global analytics and technology work for Turnaround & Restructuring. He now helps leaders redesign the systems, decisions and operating rhythms that turn AI into value.

Industry focus: Financial services · Professional services · Enterprise turnaround
Operating focus: Value creation · Operating models · Analytics

Selected experience

Deloitte

Shoumo Thakurta

Founding VP, Product

Shoumo leads product at monō, translating frontier capability into an enterprise platform teams can trust and use. He previously led CommBank’s GenAI Centre of Excellence and agentic-transformation work in Business Banking, combining responsible AI, production systems and real adoption at scale.

Industry focus: Financial services · Public sector · Enterprise AI
Operating focus: AI product · Responsible AI · Agentic systems

Selected experience

Commonwealth Bank
PwC
National AI Centre

Olivia Braddick

Founding VP, Growth

Olivia leads growth at monō, building the narrative, community and market motion around an AI-native future. Her work turns complex technology into ideas people can understand, trust and rally behind, connecting the company to the leaders, communities and conversations shaping what comes next.

Industry focus: Technology · Community · Brand
Operating focus: Growth strategy · Narrative · Go-to-market

Selected experience

Dominick Ng

VP, Engineering

Dominick leads engineering at monō, building the platform and team behind an AI-native operating company. Before monō he led engineering at Relevance AI and spent nearly a decade at Google, shaping ChromeOS, Progressive Web Apps and web-platform security. He brings deep technical judgement to products that need to scale, stay secure and earn trust.

Industry focus: Developer platforms · AI · Internet products
Operating focus: Engineering leadership · Platform architecture · Security

Selected experience

Relevance AI
Google
University of Sydney

Brad Drysdale

Field CTO

Brad is a forward-deployed technology leader who helps organisations turn AI ambition into working systems. Over more than two decades, he has worked across cloud, data, APIs, automation and enterprise transformation. Before monō, Brad held Field CTO and technical-engineering roles at SnapLogic, Kong, MuleSoft and Accenture. At monō, he brings product judgement and hands-on technical depth to the work of building and deploying the platform.

Industry focus: Enterprise technology · Cloud platforms · Data and automation
Operating focus: Product strategy · Technical go-to-market · Technical architecture

Selected experience

SnapLogic
Kong
MuleSoft
Accenture

Brad Perriott

Head of GTM

Brad leads go-to-market at monō. He brings more than 20 years of experience building enterprise technology businesses, teams and customer relationships across Australia and New Zealand. Before monō, he was Area Vice President and Country Manager for ANZ at SentinelOne. He also led enterprise and regional sales at New Relic, and held account, alliances and go-to-market roles at Dell Technologies. At monō, Brad connects the company’s AI-native operating model to the business outcomes leaders need to deliver.

Industry focus: Enterprise technology · Cybersecurity · Observability
Operating focus: Go-to-market strategy · Enterprise sales · Partner ecosystems

Selected experience

SentinelOne
New Relic
Dell Technologies

Independent perspective

Advisors

Experienced leaders who bring outside perspective across law, education, enterprise technology, investment and work systems.

Prabhat Sethi

Chairman, Archistar

Prabhat brings a boardroom and operator’s view of technology businesses across global retail, media and property technology. He is Chairman of Archistar and Executive Chairman of Global Blue. Earlier, he served as Managing Director of Murdoch Media. He helps frame the strategic choices that matter most as a company scales.

Selected experience

Archistar
Global Blue
News Corp

Danny Gilbert AM

Co-Founder & Chairman, Gilbert + Tobin

Danny co-founded Gilbert + Tobin and remains its Chairman. He brings commercial legal judgement and a deep commitment to institutions that broaden opportunity. His board and civic work includes the Reserve Bank’s Governance Board, Cape York Partnership and Impact Investing Australia. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to law and the community.

Selected experience

Gilbert + Tobin

Linda Brown

Member, Governing Board, Torrens University Australia

Linda founded and led Torrens University Australia as President and CEO, building a new Australian university with international reach. She brings institution-building, growth and student-centred leadership. Her board and leadership roles span education and future-skills ventures.

Selected experience

Torrens University
EY

Jeff Smith

Independent Non-Executive Director, ANZ

Jeff brings decades of enterprise technology and operating-change leadership to the advisor group. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director at ANZ and chairs its Digital Business & Technology Committee. Previously, he was CIO at IBM and Suncorp, and CEO of Suncorp Business Services. He also led IBM’s global agile transformation.

Selected experience

IBM
Suncorp

Dominic Price

Partner & Work Futurist, Be Luminous

Dominic is Partner & Work Futurist at Be Luminous, helping leaders redesign work for a technology-rich world. Across nine years at Atlassian he helped the company scale, co-created the Team Playbook and became one of its clearest voices on teams, culture and human systems. He brings that practical lens to the relationship between AI, leadership and work.

Selected experience

Be Luminous
Atlassian
Deloitte

Selected prior experience. Names identify selected prior employers, education or professional affiliations. They do not imply endorsement, partnership or current client status.

AI shouldn't replace your people. It should make them capable of what was never possible. That's what AI-native means. That's monō.

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