Built by People Who Actually Use These Tools
We started orbicelivora in 2019 because we were tired of financial software that felt like it was designed by people who never had to balance a budget themselves. Turns out, a lot of Australians felt the same way.
Making Financial Tech Actually Make Sense
Back in early 2019, our founder Bridger Calloway was sitting at his kitchen table in Wagga Wagga, frustrated with yet another banking app that promised simplicity but delivered confusion. He'd spent fifteen years in finance operations and kept hearing the same complaint from clients: why is managing money so unnecessarily complicated?
So he gathered a small team of developers, designers, and actual accountants who understood real-world money problems. Not the theoretical kind taught in business school, but the everyday challenges of tracking expenses, planning for irregular income, and making sense of tax obligations without needing a finance degree.
Six years later, we're still that same team. Just bigger now, with around forty people who genuinely care about building tools that don't require a manual to understand.
How We Actually Build These Things
Most fintech companies talk about innovation and disruption. We prefer to talk about whether something actually works when you're tired, distracted, or dealing with three other tasks at once.
Real User Testing, Not Focus Groups
We test our tools with small business owners, freelancers, and families managing household budgets. Not in artificial lab settings, but during their actual workday chaos. If someone can't figure out a feature while they're simultaneously answering emails and watching their toddler, we redesign it.
Design That Assumes You're Busy
Our design philosophy is simple: assume the person using our tools has about thirty seconds of attention to spare. Everything needs to be obvious at a glance. We use plain language, clear visual hierarchies, and we never hide important information behind three layers of menus because it looks cleaner.
Security Without the Paranoia Theater
Yes, we use bank-level encryption and follow all the Australian financial regulations. But we don't make you change your password every two weeks or lock you out because you logged in from a cafe. Security should protect you, not punish you for having a normal life.
Updates Based on Actual Problems
We don't add features because they sound impressive in a press release. Our development roadmap comes directly from support tickets, user surveys, and conversations with our community. When dozens of people are struggling with the same task, that's what we fix next.
What Actually Matters to Us
Transparency Over Marketing Speak
We tell you upfront what our tools can and can't do. If there's a limitation or a known issue, we put it in our documentation instead of hoping you won't notice. When we make mistakes, we admit them publicly and explain how we're fixing them. Our pricing is straightforward because hidden fees are exhausting.
Support That Doesn't Make You Jump Through Hoops
When you contact our support team, you get an actual person who has access to your account details and the authority to solve your problem. Not a chatbot. Not a first-level script reader. Someone who can look at what's happening and help you sort it out. Usually within a few hours, not days.
Building for the Long Term
We're not trying to flip this company to a bigger corporation or chase explosive growth that compromises quality. We're building sustainable software that you can rely on for years. That means careful development, thorough testing, and making decisions based on what's good for our users rather than what looks good in quarterly reports.
This approach might seem old-fashioned in the startup world, but we've watched too many promising tools disappear or deteriorate after acquisition. We'd rather stay independent and accountable to the people who actually use what we build.
A Word from Our Technical Lead
Lysander Pryce
Technical Lead
I joined orbicelivora in 2021 after working at two major banks where I spent most of my time trying to work around legacy systems that nobody wanted to fix. Here, we actually rebuild things when they're not working properly. The entire team has permission to stop and redesign something if users are struggling with it. That's rare in fintech, and it's why I'm still here.
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