Legacy rebuilds & bespoke software · SME · Australia
I rebuild ageing legacy systems as clean, cloud-native web platforms — and build the bespoke tools that replace spreadsheets and manual process. Software you own, built to scale, by the person who stays on it. Not an account manager, not offshore.
Honest, accountable delivery. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you straight.
The three risks I remove
Work that lives in spreadsheets, inboxes and copy-paste. Slow, error-prone, and it doesn't scale — you feel it as overtime, mistakes and admin that never ends.
A critical process lives in one person's head. If they leave or slip up, the business is exposed. Software moves that knowledge into a system — documented, auditable, safe to grow.
An ageing app installed on your desktops, an onsite server, software that breaks with every Windows update — the system everything depends on and no one dares touch. One failure, one bad backup, one departure and you're stuck. I rebuild it, cloud-native, before it bites.
What I build
Not off-the-shelf, not a rented black box. Software you own — clean, documented and scalable.
Custom business workflow and automation platforms — the operational backbone that replaces spreadsheets and manual handoffs with one auditable system your team can't route around.
Bespoke survey, data-collection, portal and reporting platforms built for your process — turning manual collation into insight, and manual admin into a system that scales.
A specialty: legacy modernisation
Ageing apps installed locally on desktops, software that no longer plays nicely with newer versions of Windows, unsupported platforms, an onsite server backed up by a strategy one hardware fault or human slip away from disaster — legacy systems carry real risk, and the business logic that runs your company is often locked inside them, undocumented. I replace them with clean, cloud-native web platforms — no onsite server, no looming failure.
The hard part isn't the new code. It's recovering the hidden rules and business logic buried in the old system — the decades of "why it works that way" that no one wrote down. That's what I'm genuinely good at, and it's how a rebuild ends up better than the original instead of breaking what worked.
Reverse-engineering the rules and edge cases out of legacy apps and code — the part most rebuilds get wrong.
Remove the failing box in the office and the technical debt with it — accessible, backed up, secure.
Rebuilt and moved over in safe stages — the business keeps running throughout.
Why it matters who does it
AI coding tools and offshore shops can produce code cheaply and fast. What they consistently get wrong are the two things that actually matter for a system your business depends on — and cutting corners on either gives you a rebuild that demos well and falls over in production.
The edge cases and "why it works that way" logic buried in your legacy system, undocumented. Miss them and the new system quietly does the wrong thing. Recovering them is painstaking, human work — it's exactly what a vibe-coded or offshore rebuild skips.
Clean, documented, maintainable architecture that holds up as you grow — not a pile of generated code no one can safely change. You're going to run your business on this for years; it has to be built like it.
I do the unglamorous part properly — because it's the part that decides whether the rebuild works.
Proof, not promises
faster audit completion
for an SMSF audit firm
of athletes kept engaged
through lockdowns
typical engagement length
— I stay on the platforms I build
Selected work
Where I work
…and other workflow-heavy, established businesses.
Why work with me
No sales team, no offshore hand-off, no depersonalised account management. I speak with you, I work on your platform, and I stay accountable for it — often for years. That's the whole point of BMH.
How it works
A free intro call, then a paid Opportunity Review if it's worth going deeper.
A clear, phased plan with honest scope and cost. No enterprise theatre.
I build it — clean, scalable software you own, delivered in working phases.
Ongoing support from the person who built it. Not a ticket queue.
Not sure software is even the answer?
A paid, honest diagnostic — a 2-hour workshop with your stakeholders and a written report on where software could help, what it might cost, and whether there's a real return. From $1,000, credited to your project if you proceed. No obligation — take the report anywhere.
Tell me one process that runs on spreadsheets and memory. I'll tell you — honestly — whether software is worth it, and whether a Software Opportunity Review is worth your while. No pitch, no obligation.
