B-01
Build
- Duration
- 8 to 24 weeks
- Structure
- Fixed fee + outcome-linked
A scope-locked system, shipped to production. We hand it to a named operator inside the team and stay through the first 90 days against live numbers.
Production systems for operators. Engineered, shipped, and run against your numbers.
Black Shard works alongside operators across the company life cycle. Founders building category companies. Enterprises managing regulated complexity. Software, integrations, and applied AI where it earns its place. We scope a system, build it, and stay until it runs.
Production systems, not slideware.
The work sits inside the operator's stack. It moves real transactions, runs against real margins, and has a named owner inside the customer team on day one. We name the operating cost we removed and the cycle time we cut, in numbers.
Most engagements pair an integration backbone with workflow logic and, where it earns its place, one or two applied-AI modules. Each part answers to a measurable line in the customer's P&L. Conventional software where conventional software is the right tool.
Three ways. Direct or portfolio. Always against named numbers.
Approach E-01
Embed
- Duration
- 6 to 12 months
- Structure
- Retainer + outcome-linked
One or two of our operators inside the customer team. Used where the work is ongoing and the org needs the bandwidth without the hire.
P-01
Portfolio
- Duration
- Long-horizon
- Structure
- Equity for capital, build, operating contribution
We co-build a category company alongside its founders. Black Shard takes a position and stays. Discrete by design.
Five principles. How the work gets done.
M-001 / ManifestPrecision
Named systems. Named owners. Named numbers. No vague scopes, no soft commitments.
Structural
Build for a decade. Infrastructure, not marketing. The system survives the engagement.
Edge
One sharp cut, used sparingly. Where automation does the work, it does it well. Nothing gratuitous.
Disruption
Challenge incumbents on ship-rate and unit economics. Not on slogans. The numbers carry the case.
Ownership
Capital and equity at risk where it matters. Operators alongside operators, not vendors at arms-length.
Portfolio. Long-horizon positions. Held in confidence.
Portfolio model P-01 · Active
Selected positions are private.
Black Shard takes long-horizon positions in category companies. Names, sectors, and operating numbers are held in confidence.
Direct enquiry to discuss specifics. We respond from info@blackshard.com.au within two business days.
- ID
- P-01
- Status
- Active
- Stage
- Build
- Cohort
- 2026
- Sector
- Brand
- Revenue band
- Headcount
- Region
- AU
- Acceptance
- Visibility
- Discrete · NDA
To discuss the position
Portfolio enquiry Direct · One inbox
Brief. The size of your business in revenue and headcount, the system or outcome you want shipped, the rough timeframe.
- Response
- Two business days
- Posture
- Operator
- Region
- AU national