Senior People & Culture and Technology leadership for Australian tech scale-ups.
Two senior practitioners, one practice. Fixed-scope programs that ship working systems, ongoing advisory for the day-to-day, and specialist support when situations get hard.
Who we work with
Australian tech scale-ups
Companies of roughly 30–200 staff moving from startup improvisation to scale-up structure, where People and Technology have to mature without slowing the business down.
Product led companies
Founders who built the product deliberately and want the same applied to how they build their teams and systems — measurable, documented, and designed to scale.
At an inflection point
Preparing for international expansion, a fundraising milestone, a compliance audit like SOC2 or ISO27001, or the departure of a senior People or Technology leader — moments when getting it right compounds.
Implementation Programs
Fixed-fee engagements that deliver working systems — across two tracks. Pick the one that matches your trigger, or combine tracks where the problem sits between them.
All pricing is indicative and in AUD ex GST. Discovery call required before quoting.
People & Culture
Led by Molly Rowe
AI Adoption Strategy
Empower your teams to adopt AI with intent, not by accident.
$50–60k
8 weeks
Performance Management System
Replace ad-hoc feedback with a system managers actually use.
$30–40k
10 weeks
HR Process Automation, Audit & Build
Stop drowning your People team in manual work and audit findings.
$25–35k
8 weeks
Engagement Diagnostic & 90-Day Uplift Plan
Find out what's actually going on before exit interviews tell you.
$12–18k
4 weeks
Cultural Alignment Sprint
Move from values on the wall to values in decisions.
$20–28k
8 weeks
Remuneration Benchmarking & Banding
Pay confidently and retain deliberately. A compensation system your managers can use and your candidates can respect.
From $28k
8 weeks
Talent Function Build
Bring talent acquisition in-house and stop paying agency fees for roles you'll hire repeatedly.
From $30k
8–14 weeks
Graduate Program Build
Build a sustainable junior engineering talent pipeline that compounds over time.
$40–50k
12 weeks
Technology
Led by Chris Fowles
AI Product Strategy
Move past prototypes — ship AI features your customers will actually use, and that you can run reliably.
$40–60k
8–12 weeks
DevOps Strategy & Delivery Uplift
A delivery system your engineering team can move quickly through without breaking things.
$30–40k
6–10 weeks
Cloud Architecture Review
Pressure-test the cloud platform you've grown into — before cost, reliability, or compliance forces the conversation.
$25–35k
4–6 weeks
Data Platform Review
Make your data a strategic asset, not a maintenance burden.
$30–40k
6–8 weeks
SRE & Reliability Uplift
Reliability practices that hold up at scale-up pace, without the FAANG-style overhead.
$25–35k
6–8 weeks
Not sure which track or program fits? A 30-minute discovery call is enough to figure it out.
Advisory Services
For ongoing support, fractional leadership, and reactive specialist work across both disciplines.
People & Culture
Led by Molly Rowe
Light Advisory Retainer
Senior People expertise on tap, without the embedded cost.
$5–10k /month
Learn more →Dispute & Exit Advisory
Senior, experienced support for the situations where getting People process wrong carries real cost.
People process consulting, not legal advice.
From $450/hour
Learn more →How we work
Discovery first.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute discovery call. If the path is clear, we send a fixed-price proposal. If not, a 1-week paid scoping ($3k) ends with a concrete plan and locked price.
Remote-first delivery.
Weekly synchronous touchpoint, async collaboration in between. We work with your existing tools — no consulting platform to learn.
Build, then leave.
Every program ends with documentation your team can run from. We don't create dependency.
Two clients at a time.
Capacity is deliberate. You get senior attention, not delegated work.
Recent writing
Notes from the team on technology leadership, AI adoption, and building healthy engineering organisations.
About Molly Rowe
Molly is a People & Culture leader with nearly a decade scaling People functions inside Australian tech companies. Most recently VP of People at RecordPoint (2022–2026), where she joined as Head of People & Culture in 2019 and built the People function across the company’s global operations — APAC, the USA, Canada, the UK, and Europe.
Outcomes during her seven-year tenure included a graduate program averaging 4+ year staff tenure, an 80%+ internal promotion rate at senior levels, 35%+ female engineering headcount, and the process automation that supports the company’s SOC2 compliance.
Before RecordPoint, Molly was a founding HR team member at Vibrato, growing the consultancy from 15 to 60 staff and establishing the Sydney region before the company was acquired by Servian in 2019. Earlier roles at IBM in cloud consulting and product management.
Currently completing a Masters of Law (Technology and IP) at UNSW.
Speaking credits include SXSW Sydney, PyCon, AWS, DevOps Days, and Transform.
About Chris Fowles
Chris is a technology leader with nearly two decades across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud-native systems, and the organisational change that comes with them. At Metacosm he helps customers navigate the shifts reshaping technology delivery — AI adoption, data strategy, cloud, and DevOps/SRE.
Prior to founding Metacosm, he was Director of Technology at Plenti, Australia’s leading consumer fintech lender. There he established the data and AI practice, led the cloud platform strategy, and implemented the technology processes behind the company’s ISO 27001 certification.
Before Plenti, Chris was Head of Technology at Vibrato — the consultancy Molly helped grow — and spent over a decade at StarRez moving from technical support into systems administration and architecture where he designed and implemented thier initial cloud platform.
He has architected and built multiple production systems across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and obtained professional certifications across all three clouds.
Speaking credits include Google Cloud Summit, Microsoft TechEd, AWS, Hashicorp, Databricks, Pagerduty, among others.
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