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Your enterprise, reimagined. Delivered .

An Australian specialist transformation consultancy. We embed leadership and delivery capability in your M&A, modernisation, simplification and AI programs, working alongside your teams.

EXPERIENCE LEADING THE BIGGEST TRANSFORMATIONS IN AUSTRALIA AND BEYOND
WHAT WE TRANSFORM

Four kinds of transformation, one delivery discipline

M&A, modernisation, simplification and AI. Whichever brings you here, the same embedded leadership and $3B+ delivery record stand behind it.

TYPE 01 | M&A: INTEGRATION AND SEPARATION

Bring two organisations together, or take one apart

Mergers, acquisitions and separations delivered with business continuity protected and the deal value banked.

  • TSA planning and exit
  • Day 1 readiness
  • Separation governance
  • Standalone entity design
THE TRIGGER

A deal signed, a divestment announced, a TSA clock running.

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TYPE 02 | MODERNISATION

Replace or rebuild core platforms without betting the company

Core replacement, cloud migration, payments modernisation and digital channel transformation, delivered with rehearsals and readiness gates.

  • Core replacement
  • Cloud migration
  • Payments modernisation
  • Digital channels
THE TRIGGER

A legacy core constraining every initiative, a vendor decision pending, a regulator watching.

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TYPE 03 | SIMPLIFICATION

Cut the sprawl down to what earns its keep

Fewer products, fewer systems and a leaner operating model, with the savings measured and banked.

  • Application consolidation
  • Process optimisation
  • Portfolio rationalisation
  • Cost-to-serve reduction
THE TRIGGER

Cost-income pressure, duplicated systems after years of growth, an operating model nobody chose.

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TYPE 04 | AI DESIGN & DELIVERY

Turn AI spend into measurable value

We redesign the work around AI and put it into live operation. Catalyst+, our AI transformation product, carries you from first conversation to scaled capability.

  • Catalyst+: a six-week AI blueprint
  • Agents and automation
  • AI-ready data estates
  • Role and operating model redesign
THE TRIGGER

Tools trialled across the business, but the value from the investment isn't showing up.

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CASE STUDIES

What we've delivered, in numbers

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WEALTH MANAGEMENT TRANSFORMATION
$318M
EBITDA uplift projected

A $430M carve-out from a major bank: 36 TSAs exited and an $18B account migration, with no major customer disruption.

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BANKING SIMPLIFICATION
$300M+
a year in forecast savings

The plan and business case to decommission around 80 systems and cut 193 products to 45, for around 6 million active customers.

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CORE BANKING TRANSFORMATION
9 months
to a live core banking platform

The world's fastest SAP core banking rollout at the time: a $300M program across 450+ people and 30+ integrated systems.

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INSURANCE CLAIMS TRANSFORMATION
$213M
in benefits delivered

Claims cycle times down 30 to 40%, with an end-to-end digital claims journey delivered globally.

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WHY TRANSFORMATIV

Built to scale. Trusted for precision.

Senior practitioners embedded through delivery: faster than the Big 4, independent of vendor agendas, bigger reach than a boutique.

WHO OWNS THE OUTCOME
Big 4 consultancies

They advise, then hand delivery back to you.

System integrators

Technology delivery, disconnected from the business outcome.

Boutique firms

Deep expertise, with limited capacity to carry a large program.

Transformativ

Accountable for the outcome, from plan to go-live.

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HOW WE WORK

The muscle behind every transformation

Six services in three groups. One directs, four deliver, one makes it last. Engage one, several, or all of them.

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AI RUNS THROUGH ALL SIX Agents in delivery, an AI-enabled program cadence, data built for AI readiness. When AI is the transformation itself, Catalyst+ runs it end to end.
Most clients start with one service. Some hand us the whole journey. →
AI DESIGN & DELIVERY | CATALYST+

Six weeks to an AI blueprint you can activate.

  • 6 WEEKS
  • FIXED SCOPE
  • FIXED FEE

Most AI pilots never find the value. Catalyst+ starts with your work and your people, then designs the AI around them.

1ALIGNWK 1–2
2DISCOVERWK 3–4
3DESIGNWK 5–6
READY TO ACTIVATE
Board-ready blueprint
OUTCOME · WEEK 2
Agree the focus, the baseline and the target.
OUTCOME · WEEK 4
Map the work. Automate, augment or preserve.
OUTCOME · WEEK 6
Target architecture, operating model, stack and activation plan.
10–15%

In software development, AI assistants alone lift productivity 10 to 15%.

25–30%

Paired with end-to-end process change, some companies report 25 to 30%.

That gap is what Catalyst+ closes.

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SECTORS

Where we do our best work

How we work in each sector →
INSIGHTS

Thinking from inside the programs

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ENTERPRISE AI · 8 MIN READ

The Five Levels of Enterprise AI

Why most AI investment stalls at Level 2, where usage climbs and the work stays the same, and what it takes to reach Level 3.

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BANKING · 10 MIN READ

Lead, Follow, or Merge

Australia's mutual banks have three positions open on core banking, and deferral is no longer one of them.

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TRANSFORMATION DELIVERY · 7 MIN READ

Navigating change in large-scale transformations

The people side of a major program: how leaders bring their teams with them and make the change last.

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QUESTIONS

Common questions

Transformativ is an Australian specialist consultancy based in Sydney. We embed senior leaders and delivery teams into organisations to run complex transformation programs: M&A integration and separation, modernisation, simplification and AI. Our people have led more than $3B of these programs.

Four types. M&A integration and separation brings organisations together, or takes one apart, with continuity protected. Modernisation replaces or rebuilds core platforms such as core banking. Simplification cuts products, processes and systems back to what earns its keep. For AI, we redesign the work around the technology and put it into live operation with measured value, through Catalyst+, our AI transformation product.

We work across three sectors: financial services, covering banking, wealth and insurance; service and regulated enterprises, such as government, health, utilities and member organisations; and Digital, Consumer and Platform Businesses. Our people have led programs for some of Australia's largest banks, insurers and wealth managers.

Our senior practitioners stay through delivery and are accountable for the outcome. We mobilise faster than a Big 4 firm, with less overhead, and we are independent of any technology vendor, so decisions about what to do first are made on business value. A vetted specialist network and a dedicated offshore hub let us size the team to the work.

We start with the work itself. Every task gets a verdict: automate it, augment it, or keep it with people. We then redesign roles and the operating model around that, and put the capability into live operation with value measured from day one. AI also runs through all of our consulting work.

Catalyst+ is our AI transformation product, run in three stages. Define is a fixed six-week sprint that produces a board-ready blueprint and a clear place to start. Activate puts live AI capability into that area, typically over 8 to 12 weeks. Scale rolls it out across the organisation in waves, with your own people running the later ones.

A Transformation Office is the leadership, governance and rhythm that keeps a transformation on strategy and on track to deliver its benefits. Depending on scope, we can have a Transformation Office fully mobilised in as little as four weeks, through our TxO Mobilisation framework: Discover, Design and Deploy.

Most clients start in one of two ways: a free five-minute assessment, which gives an instant scored baseline, or a discovery call to talk through the program. From there, you can engage us for a single service or the whole transformation.

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Know where your program stands before the next dollar goes in.

A scored baseline against twenty years of programs.

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