About Us
We spent years in procurement, automation, and IT consulting watching great businesses haemorrhage time and money to broken processes. So we built the thing we wished existed.
Between us, El and Lachlan have spent careers across procurement, IT consulting, automation, and process improvement. We've sat in the rooms where purchase orders get lost, approvals take three weeks, and five-figure consulting bills arrive to tell you what you already knew.
The tools that fix these problems — the good ones — are built for enterprises with armies of implementation consultants. And the affordable tools aren't smart enough to actually change anything.
Octopodia exists in that gap. We take the same AI technology that powers enterprise automation and build it to fit how your business actually works — your suppliers, your approval chains, your people.
We're based across Australia and work with SMBs who are ready to stop doing things the hard way.
Too many businesses are running on a combination of spreadsheets, email threads, and institutional memory. That's not a people problem — it's a tools problem.
The Team
A background spanning procurement operations and process improvement, El has spent years identifying where businesses lose the most time and designing systems to fix it. At Octopodia, El leads client engagements and the Business Operations Review — turning operational chaos into clear automation roadmaps.
With deep roots in IT consulting and automation architecture, Lachlan designs and builds the AI agent systems that power Octopodia's client platforms. He's obsessed with making complex technology simple to use — and making sure every system we ship actually works in the real world.
How We Work
We don't sell pre-built automation packages. Every agent we build is designed around your specific processes, your suppliers, and your team. Generic solutions create generic results.
Every engagement starts with a Business Operations Review that produces hard numbers — hours saved, cost reduced, errors eliminated. If the numbers don't stack up, we'll tell you.
Your data, your platform, your code. We don't lock you into proprietary systems or hold your automation hostage. Everything we build, you own outright.
Quick wins in weeks, not months. We deliberately sequence our engagements so you see real results fast — before committing to a full platform build.
We'll tell you when automation isn't the right answer. Some problems need a process change, not a new tool. We're here to help your business, not sell you something you don't need.
We use modern, maintainable technology — LangGraph, n8n, PostgreSQL — because your automation platform needs to grow with your business, not fall over when things get complex.
Work With Us
Book a free 45-minute discovery call. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest conversation about where automation creates value for you.