A specialist engineering practice for the software your business runs on.
Domato AI Pty Ltd is an independent, Melbourne-based engineering practice. We help Australian businesses design, build, and operate the software their work depends on — websites, booking systems, workflow automation, AI copilots, data platforms — end-to-end, with full IP transfer, on Australian time.
There’s a gap between consulting and software.
Most engagements end the same way: a beautifully-formatted strategy deck, a vendor recommendation, a roadmap. The hardest part of the work — the engineering — gets handed to a different team, often offshore, often months later, often at a different bar.
We started Domato to be the team that does the engineering itself. Senior practitioners who design the system also build it, deploy it, and hand it over to your in-house team to run. No bait-and-switch. No hand-offs to a junior pool. No lock-in.
Modern tooling and AI-assisted engineering mean a small senior team can ship in weeks what larger shops take quarters to deliver — a booking system, a customer chatbot, a workflow tool, or the data platform underneath them. Alongside client work we run our own production SaaS products, so the work you see is the work you get.
Four commitments, on every engagement.
We turn down work that doesn’t fit these. They’re what an engagement with Domato looks like in practice — not aspirations, not slogans.
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Engineering, not advice.
Strategy decks don’t run in production. Every engagement we take results in working software, deployed in your environment, owned by your team.
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Senior people, all the way through.
The engineer who designs your platform is the engineer who builds it. No bait-and-switch with juniors after the statement of work is signed.
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Production from week one.
Working code in your environment from the first cycle. Architecture trade-offs are validated on running systems, not in workshop slides.
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Full IP transfer.
Code, data, models, runbooks — yours on day one. No licensing, no royalties, no vendor lock-in. We ship; you own.
Australian-owned, on Australian time.
Melbourne, Australia
Working AEDT / AEST. We run quarterly on-site cycles for engagements that need them, and ship from a remote-first studio the rest of the time.
Australian organisations
Small businesses, government, financial services, public-sector data, professional services, and Australian SMBs. AU data, AU regulation, AU tax.
React · TypeScript · Python · Azure
Modern web (React, Next.js, TypeScript), Python and Node backends, Azure across the board, plus deep specialisation in Microsoft Fabric and Databricks for data. We pick the tool for the job.
Fixed-fee or T&M
Most projects ship on a fixed-fee timeline (6–16 weeks). Long-running platform builds run as time-and-materials with a published rate card.
Tell us about the problem you’re trying to solve.
We reply within one business day with a scoped response — and only take on engagements where we’re confident we can ship.