Software & automation, since 2013

We’re your technology team, without the headcount.

Two Red Kites builds, integrates, and automates the software your business runs on, or the software you’re ready to build. Senior-only, Brisbane-based, retained for the long arc.

13 years · Since 2013 100% Australian team 6 named senior engineers
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Trusted by Australian businesses since 2013
Helix Falcon Aqua Compass Meridian KiteTimer
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The four questions you’re already asking

Direct answers, before the sales call.

You’re making a five- or six-figure decision. The people you’re talking to have been burned before. Here’s what we’d tell you in the first 10 minutes of a call anyway.

01 / Who

Who will actually build my software?

Six named senior engineers in Brisbane. You meet them at the discovery call; they stay on the project from day one to year five. No junior-dev learning on your budget, no account managers, no handoffs.

02 / Quality

Can you actually ship quality at this size?

Our proprietary delivery tooling runs parallel specialist review on every deliverable: architecture, security, QA, UX, performance. A week of reviews compresses to hours. Humans make every technical decision.

03 / Change

What if my needs change?

We’re retained for the long arc, not the launch. The model is built for ongoing relationships. We scope each engagement around what changes: integrations, new workflows, or new products, without restarting the relationship.

04 / Trust

Why should I trust you?

Since 2013. 100% Australian. Published weekly on the hard problems of software delivery. Eleven published case studies, growing as confidential clients approve inclusion.

Who we’re built for

Four buyer archetypes. One senior team.

Our ICP is about investment posture, not size. You want professional software outcomes without hiring and managing your own dev team. When you’re ready to do that, you graduate out, and we help the transition.

Operators

Mid-sized business with 1–2 technical-ish people. You need tech outcomes without scaling headcount.

The core archetype

Founders

Validated idea, capital to invest, want it built to graduate. Not rewritten in 18 months.

Built to graduate

Product teams

Launching a new product line inside an existing company. Startup speed, enterprise-grade safety.

Intrapreneurs

SaaS migrators

Live on Bubble / Webflow / hacked-together Rails. Users and revenue exist. Needs live-to-live migration.

Off no-code debt
Mutual fit

We’d rather disqualify early than disappoint later.

When a client builds their own full internal team, they graduate out, and that’s the right call. We’ll help the transition. Here’s how to tell if we should talk now.

This is for you if

  • You need professional software outcomes without hiring a dev team
  • You’ve validated an idea and have capital to invest in a production-grade build
  • You’re launching a new product line and want startup speed with enterprise safety
  • You’re migrating off Bubble, Webflow, or hacked-together Rails and can’t afford a restart
  • You want the same senior engineers next year as this year

This isn’t for you if

  • You’re looking for the cheapest or offshore option
  • You want equity-for-work, sweat equity, or revenue share
  • You’re about to hire your own full internal team and have the capability to manage them (that’s the right call)
  • You’re building a multi-million-line codebase or running a multi-year programme that needs dozens of engineers permanently in parallel. That’s a large-consultancy job
  • You want “AI fairy dust” as a feature, not a way of working
Case studies

Real projects. Real systems. Named and confidential.

Eleven published studies across membership, e-commerce, industrial, and professional services. Each one describes the system we built and how it fits the business, not metrics we don’t track on our clients’ behalf.

Vontech HMI ultrafiltration control systemVontech HMI

A control room in the operator’s hands.

Purpose-built touchscreen HMI for ultrafiltration plants. Real-time monitoring across eight sensors, one-tap backwash, Elixir/OTP fault-tolerant runtime.

Elixir/OTP React Electron
Project Helix: unified e-commerce platformPlatform consolidation

Four disconnected systems became one unified platform.

Trade storefront, membership platform, internal admin, and auth server unified. Single sign-on across all domains, B2B tiered pricing, Xero-integrated order-to-accounting flow.

Rails AWS Stripe
AMT member portalAMT platform

A full membership platform for Australia’s massage therapy body.

Member and staff portals, health-fund compliance, CPD tracking, renewals and member communications, built and maintained by the same team since day one.

Rails PostgreSQL Tailwind
Read all 10 case studies →
How we deliver

How a six-person team ships like a twenty-person agency.

You get senior-level review on every deliverable (architecture, security, QA, UX), without the overhead of a larger agency. No junior handoffs. No “we’ll look at it later.”

On every deliverable we run parallel specialist review: architecture, security, QA, UX, SEO, performance. The kind of review that takes a larger agency a week, compressed to hours. Our proprietary tooling accelerates production. The seniority stays in the seats.

01 / Discover

Fit call & scope

20 minutes with a senior engineer. No slides. We tell you whether we can help, and if not, who can.

02 / Plan

Scope & plan

Outcome-first statement of work. What we’ll do in the first 30 days. What could go wrong. Real numbers.

03 / Build

Build & ship

Sprint cadence. Parallel specialist review on every deliverable. You see working software, not slide decks.

04 / Operate

Operate & evolve

Retained for the long arc. New integrations, new workflows, new products, all without restarting the relationship.

Parallel
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Architecture Security QA UX SEO Performance Accessibility
Let’s talk

Ready to see if we’re a fit?

A 20-minute fit call with a senior engineer. No slides, no sales pitch. We’ll tell you whether we can help, and if not, who can.

Book a 20-min fit call →