Built from the floor up.

Three years ago I was on shifts at a steel mill in Whyalla. Twelve-hour days. The kind of work where you feel it in your hands at the end of the week.

I left the floor and spent two years in corporate recruitment. Learned the trade. Learned what I'd never do again. KPI walls. Bell-ringing. A business model designed around the agency, not the people doing the work.

So I built Zionic Group from zero. Solo. No office. National from day one. Trades, electrical, industrial. 30+ placements in my first 12 months.

The whole time I was running Zionic I was paying USD for tools that didn't fit how we work in Australia. Apollo. Lusha. Smartlead. Eight different platforms duct-taped together. Hundreds a month for a stack that half-worked.

So I built that too. Kolvera. B2B sales intelligence for the Australian market. Hiring signals, enrichment, AI outreach, dialler, CRM. One platform. A fraction of the cost. The tool I always wanted.

Now I run both. Zionic is the agency. Kolvera is the infrastructure. With dual focus I'm stepping back from active billing and bringing on proven 360 consultants through a senior partnership model.

Two companies. Run lean. Run remote. No office. Australia-wide.

That's the freedom I built this for. My kids get the version of me that isn't burned out from a commute. Work fits around life instead of the other way round.