Why Hide and Seek

How we work, and what it means for you.

Seven things we do differently, and what each one means for the people who hire us.

We are a specialist digital team working mostly with Australian government. These are the positions behind how we scope, build and hand over the work.

Three Hide & Seek team members talk over coffee in the Canberra studio

Big is out. Boutique is in.

Senior people, no layers of account management, and the team you met is the team that delivers.

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Through a glass wall: one team member maps ideas on a whiteboard as two colleagues discuss at the meeting table

Design-led, from the first conversation

Designers and researchers lead from the start, and human-centred design decides what gets built, tested with users before the build.

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Wayfinder feature evidence tab linking 'Upfront eligibility checker' to a hypothesis, a research finding and a goal

Build the right thing first

Every feature linked to the user, the job, the evidence and the hypothesis behind it, so the reasons never get lost.

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Pathfinder agents screen: a roster of AI agents (QA, designer, architect, developer) with each one's model, role and system prompt

Human-led, AI-accelerated

AI agents as governed members of the delivery team: clear specifications first, set autonomy, every action logged.

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Wayfinder release timeline: MVP and Release 2 split into delivery cycles, with scheduled load per month

See the trade-off before you make it

Features sized in credits and a clear price for each cycle, so you choose what goes in and see what moves out.

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SharePoint site owners set to your intranet team, with ShareHub, no licence fee and running in your tenant

Yours to run, with or without us

Your tenant, your code and a team trained to run it. If we stay on, it is because you want us to.

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Team members gather around the studio kitchen bench, seen through a glass partition

Senior people, in the room

In person from Canberra, Melbourne, Noosa and Tāhuna (Queenstown), with the people who scope the work running it.

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Seven things we do differently, and what each one means for the people who hire us.

Want to see how we would work on your project?

Tell us what you are trying to do. We will tell you how we would approach it and who from our team would be on it.

Here’s some that put their trust in us

Treasury Wine Estates
Fair Work Commission
Seeing Machines
Australian Taxation Office
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New South Wales Government
Department of Home Affairs
National Film and Sound Archive
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
Questacon
Australian War Memorial
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St Vincent de Paul Society
Biometix
Sport Integrity Australia
Australian Government Department of Defence
Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Australian National University
SyncTech
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Australian Electoral Commission

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