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We build great software for innovative digital businesses

Adaptable, reliable and provably secure software, delivered faster than your competitors.

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Who we work with

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For healthcare pioneers

Next generation digital healthcare systems

Human-centred patient-facing platforms that are adaptable, resilient and provably secure — in the most breached industry in the country.

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For startups with product-market fit

Take your platform to the next level

Replatform your MVP into something adaptable, scalable, reliable and provably secure — giving customers and investors confidence in your future.

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For technology companies scaling up

Accelerate your roadmap

Capitalise on the opportunity faster. We supplement your team to deliver the parts of your roadmap that matter most, right now.

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For mature software companies

Accelerate your AI transformation

Stay ahead of AI-native competitors. We add AI capability alongside your established platform to protect and grow your customer base.

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The proposition

What “great software” actually means

Adaptable

Built to change as your business does, not to be rebuilt from scratch every two years.

Reliable

Runs on the BEAM — the runtime behind systems that stay up when it matters most.

Provably secure

Security you can demonstrate and introspect on demand, not just assert in a slide.

Delivered faster

Real software in front of people sooner, using our accelerators and delivery methods.

Why “Alembic”

An alembic distils. So do we.

An alembic takes something raw and turns it into something pure and potent. That is the work: we take ideas, prototypes and ageing platforms, and refine them into software that lasts.

Raw

Ideas & vibes

A prototype that proved the point. An MVP held together with hope. A legacy platform that can’t keep pace.

Refine

Real doing

We build the real thing end to end — keeping every asset and every learning along the way, not throwing it out.

Pure

Software that lasts

Adaptable, reliable and provably secure systems your customers and investors can trust.

Let’s talk about where you’re heading.

Most of our best work starts with a conversation about the future, not a brief. Share where you want to be and we’ll tell you how we’d get you there.

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For healthcare pioneers

Next generation digital healthcare systems

Human-centred, patient-facing platforms that are adaptable, resilient and provably secure — built for the providers reimagining how care is delivered.

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The current state
#1

Healthcare is the most breached industry in the country.

By volume of people compromised and by economic impact, healthcare leads every other sector. For providers, that isn’t an abstract risk — it’s fines, forced closures and lost patient trust.

A pathology group received the first civil penalty under the Privacy Act following a major breach.
A prescription platform was forced into liquidation after a ransomware attack.
A fertility clinic suffered significant data exfiltration and delayed notifying affected patients.
The future state

What digital healthcare could feel like

When the platform is built right, everyone in the system wins at once.

For patients

A delightful experience

Onboarding, engagement and management that feels modern, personal and trustworthy — not like filling in a form from 2009.

For clinicians

Less admin, more care

Systems that remove busywork and friction, giving clinicians their time and their satisfaction back.

For providers

Better financial outcomes

New revenue streams, improved utilisation and security you can prove — without the administrative drag.

How we help

From a clear point of view to a platform in production.

We partner with providers who want to build patient-facing systems but don’t have the internal capability to do it alone. We bring the capability — you bring the ambition.

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    Discover & define

    We find the real problem worth solving and shape the platform around your patients and your business model.

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    Build the real thing

    End-to-end delivery using our accelerators — keeping every asset and learning, not disposable prototypes.

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    Run & evolve

    Optional managed services so the platform stays secure, supported and improving over time.

Our point of view on healthcare

Everything is changing

POV · Flagship

Human-centred digital healthcare platforms

The future of digital healthcare systems, and why the status quo can’t hold.

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Security

Continuously provably secure for healthcare

What it means to demonstrate security on demand under Sharing by Default reforms.

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Operations

Healthcare utilisation improvements

How better systems help patients, clinicians and providers all at once.

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Proof

Fresh Clinics

Replatforming and Ash migration for a healthcare scale-up. Read the story →

Building patient-facing healthcare software?

We’d love to share our point of view and hear yours.

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For startups with product-market fit

Take your platform to the next level

Adaptable, scalable, reliable and provably secure software that gives your customers and investors confidence in your future.

Page scaffold · content to come

This page follows the same hero pattern as Healthcare — built out fully before launch. The skeleton:

The current state

You found product-market fit on an MVP that wasn’t built to last. It’s slowing you down and worrying your investors.

The future state

A platform that scales with you, that you can change quickly, and that you can prove is secure.

How we help

Rapid replatforming using our accelerators and delivery methods, capacity- or outcome-based.

Proof & POV

Surfaced here: “Why Ash and Elixir is the perfect startup stack”, “From vibes to real software”, plus relevant case studies.

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For technology companies scaling up

Accelerate your roadmap

Capitalise on the opportunity faster. We supplement your team to deliver the parts of your roadmap that matter most.

Page scaffold · content to come

A genuinely distinct segment from startups — different scale, funding stage and internal capability. Same hero pattern:

The current state

Growing rapidly, with a roadmap longer than your team can deliver against in the window that matters.

The future state

Roadmap milestones hit on time, opportunity captured before the market moves.

How we help

We deliver a defined part of your roadmap somewhat independently, alongside your existing team.

Proof & POV

Surfaced here: roadmap acceleration POV, plus Remedy Meds, Space Machines and Yojee case studies.

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For mature software companies

Accelerate your AI transformation

Stay ahead of AI-native competitors. We add AI capability alongside your established platform to protect and grow your customer base.

Page scaffold · content to come

For established software businesses with a profitable platform and a real AI threat on the horizon. Same hero pattern:

The current state

A profitable, established platform built before AI reset what customers expect — and AI-native competitors are moving fast.

The future state

AI capability live alongside your platform, protecting the customer base and the value you’ve built.

How we help

An “AI side-car” deployed beside your existing platform, using our accelerators and delivery methods — no risky rip-and-replace.

Proof & POV

Surfaced here: “How Alembic can accelerate AI transformation”, plus relevant case studies.

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Technology & accelerators

The stack behind provably secure software

We lead with outcomes — but when you want to look under the hood, here’s what makes the difference.

Reference layer · linked from every segment page

This is the canonical home for the deep technical story. Segment pages stay outcome-led and link here.

Language & runtime

Elixir & the BEAM

The runtime built for systems that stay up — fault tolerance and concurrency as first-class properties.

Framework

Ash Framework

Declarative resource and policy modelling: your business rules expressed as something you can read and verify.

Accelerator

Clarity

Our open-source introspection and visualisation tool — see policy coverage and sensitive data flows on demand.

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Insights

Our point of view

The thinking behind the work — written to share in a conversation, not to sit in a drawer.

Central hub · surfaced across segment pages
Healthcare · POV

Human-centred digital healthcare platforms

The future of digital healthcare systems.

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Healthcare · Security

Continuously provably secure for healthcare

Demonstrable security under Sharing by Default.

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Healthcare · Ops

Healthcare utilisation improvements

Helping patients, clinicians and providers.

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Startup · Stack

Why Ash and Elixir is the perfect startup stack

Fast to deliver, lower cost to run.

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Mature software · AI

How Alembic accelerates AI transformation

The AI side-car approach.

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Cross-segment

From vibes to real software

Ash as the spec, and the end of disposable prototypes.

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Services

How we engage

One discipline, flexible commercial terms — capacity- or outcome-based, with optional managed services.

Reference layer · the offering & commercial model

Discover & define

Find the real problem and shape the right solution.

Platform build

End-to-end delivery leveraging our accelerators and delivery methods.

Managed services

Keep the platform secure, supported and improving over time.

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Client stories

Real doing, not theatre

The proof behind the proposition.

Full case study write-ups · referenced by segments
Healthcare · Scale-up

Fresh Clinics

Replatforming and Ash migration.

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Healthcare · Scale-up

Remedy Meds

Roadmap acceleration.

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Scale-up

Space Machines

Roadmap acceleration — in orbit.

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Scale-up

Yojee

Roadmap acceleration.

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About

A tiny team that builds things that last

For over a decade we’ve built great software for innovative businesses — on the strength of senior people and real relationships.

History + team/credibility + careers

Our history

A decade of work, sustained by reputation and referrals — now reaching out proactively to the markets we serve best.

The people

For a tiny team, the people are the proof. Senior, experienced, hands-on. (Folds careers in here rather than a separate page.)

Working with us

Open roles, when we have them, live at the bottom of this page.

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