Started from one simple observation

Back in 2019, I noticed something odd during a consulting project. The finance team had spent weeks building this elaborate budget model. Charts, forecasts, scenario planning—the works.

Three months later? Every single department was off by double digits. But nobody seemed to know why or what it meant. They just shrugged and said "that's how it goes."

That seemed wrong. Not the variances themselves—those happen. But the lack of understanding around them.

So we started running small workshops. Teaching people how to read deviation reports, spot patterns, understand what different types of variances actually signal. Not rocket science. Just practical skills that somehow weren't being taught anywhere.

Six years later, we're still doing basically the same thing. Helping people in Australian businesses make sense of their financial variances without needing an accounting degree.