Why us

We work out how your business runs before we sell you anything.

Most software starts as a product looking for a problem. Ours starts as a map of your operation, drawn by a team that has spent eight years and more than 150 projects learning where the hours really go.

What we believe

Eight things we hold to.

A checklist worth holding any software partner to, us included. Each one comes with proof from real client work.

Understand before anything is built.

You find out where the time and money actually go, before you spend a dollar fixing it.

Every engagement opens with a fixed-fee diagnosis of how your operation really runs. What we find is yours to keep, even if you stop there.

Proof · The diagnosis$2,500–5,000Fixed fee, and the map is yours either way. How it works

Track record

150+ projects in, the software was rarely the problem.

OctalHQ is the workflow-software arm of LogicSync, an Adelaide consultancy delivering since 2017. Across every sector the same thing kept showing up: nobody had worked out how the business actually ran. We do that first, then build what fits.

delivering, first out of Sydney: 2017
projects across the group: 150+
industries, hospitality to government: 8
systems written up as case studies: 5

Hari, founder of LogicSync and OctalHQ, at night by Adelaide’s waterfront — “No hand-off between the people who understand your business and the people who build for it.”
HariFounder · LogicSync & OctalHQ

Across the group

Hospitality · Real estate · Construction and home building · Professional services · Health and aesthetics · Finance and property · Telecommunications · Research and government

Innovation House, Mawson Lakes · Adelaide

How we compare

Other ways to get a system, and where each one stops.

Every option here is right for someone. This is where each tends to leave a business like yours.

Works for you
Depends
Works against you

If you choose…OctalHQMapped, then built for youA dev agencyBuilt to your briefA platformOff the shelf, per seatHiring in-houseYour own developer

Starts withA fixed-fee map of how you actually runA brief you write yourselfA demo of what it already doesA job ad and a recruiter

Fits how you workShaped around itIf the brief was rightYou fit around itOnce they’ve learned the business

How it’s pricedA fixed quote off the diagnosisHourly, or by the sprintPer seat, per month, plus feesSalary, super and recruiting

As you growPriced to your operation, never per userEach change is a new projectClimbs with every seatAnother hire

After launchLooked after for a flat monthly feeHandover, then a support contractTheir roadmap, not yoursRests on one person

Who owns the dataYou, and it leaves with youUsually you; check the contractYou, if they let you export itYou

Built fromOur own foundations, so faster than scratchUsually from scratchTheir product, configuredWhatever they know

Start with the diagnosis →

With us

OctalHQ

Mapped, then built for you

Versus

Agency

Built to your brief

Starts with: Works for you: A fixed-fee map of how you actually run; Agency, Depends: A brief you write yourself
Fits how you work: Works for you: Shaped around it; Agency, Depends: If the brief was right
How it’s priced: Works for you: A fixed quote off the diagnosis; Agency, Depends: Hourly, or by the sprint
As you grow: Works for you: Priced to your operation, never per user; Agency, Depends: Each change is a new project
After launch: Works for you: Looked after for a flat monthly fee; Agency, Depends: Handover, then a support contract
Who owns the data: Works for you: You, and it leaves with you; Agency, Depends: Usually you; check the contract
Built from: Works for you: Our own foundations, so faster than scratch; Agency, Depends: Usually from scratch

When an agency is the right call

You already know exactly what to build, and someone on your side can own it after handover.

Start with the diagnosis

Worried about what happens if we disappear? Security, data & exit.

One question to start

Let's find out what's actually slowing down your .

That’s the first thing we ask. Tap the word and answer it in your own terms.

Scope your system Rather talk first?