ZenovaVentures

Advisory & delivery practice

We work at the practical end of ambition.

Zenova Ventures researches opportunities, builds products and automations for the organisations that will own and run them, and untangles the operational problems that get in the way. The work is grounded in real financial-services and cybersecurity experience, and built to hold up long after launch.

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  1. 5 Products built for others
  2. 750+ Compliance docs · Get Site Ready
  3. 14 Course modules · Launchpad
  4. 2 Projects delivered · Leading Lights

Services

What you can hire us for.

Most engagements begin as one of these four. Bring us the problem and we’ll tell you straight which it is, and whether we’re the right team to solve it.

  1. Service 01

    You have an idea and need to know it’s worth building.

    Research & validation

    Before a line of code, we pressure-test the opportunity: the market, the competition, the regulations, the real customer need. Backed by PhD-level social research into what people actually do, not what a survey says they will. Comfortable with evidence, unafraid of inconvenient answers.

    Led by A PhD social scientist

  2. Service 02

    You need it designed, built and shipped, end to end.

    Product & automation builds

    We design and ship practical products, tools and automations. That includes applied AI and machine learning, from computer vision to production data pipelines, among them the pipeline behind an ASX-wide reporting calendar. Pragmatic over clever, shipped over perfect, and built to hold up after launch.

    Proven in Get Site Ready · Cyber Career Launchpad · Leading Lights (website and intake system)

  3. Service 03

    You operate where the rules and the scrutiny are high.

    Security & compliance advisory

    A background in financial services and cyber security means we’re at home where the stakes are real and the details are audited, the places where getting it wrong gets expensive. We help you build and operate safely there.

    Led by An ISO 27001 Lead Auditor from a major cyber security practice

    Proven in IT, security and managed-service advisory for an NDIS-registered paediatric practice

  4. Service 04

    You’re running a large program and need to prove it delivers.

    Business analysis & benefits realisation

    Business analysis for programs where the governance is real: requirements, process and stakeholder work that stands up to scrutiny, paired with benefits management that defines what the program is meant to deliver, then proves whether it did.

    Led by A business analyst who has led analysis on government programs in the hundreds of millions

How we work

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Understand the problem and what a win actually looks like.

  2. 02

    Scope

    A clear plan, price and timeline, agreed before work starts.

  3. 03

    Build / advise

    Hands on the work start to finish, against the agreed scope.

  4. 04

    Handover

    Documented, supported, and genuinely yours to run.

Selected work

Built for others, and running.

We’d rather show than tell. We researched, designed and built each of these for the organisation that owns it: one in public beta, three live. The proof behind the services above.

Build in progress

Delivered and live

Capability

The bench behind the work.

Rohan D leads every engagement and works on it day to day. Specialist work goes to the specialist: the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor does the ISO 27001 work. The people named in your proposal are the people on the job, and they don’t change without your agreement.

  • 01

    Cyber security & assurance

    Hands-on experience in a major cyber security practice, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certification, and a background inside regulated financial services. Security treated as something you operate, not a document you file.

  • 02

    Applied research & social science

    A PhD social scientist. Mixed-methods research into what people actually do. It is the evidence base under our validation work, so decisions rest on more than a hunch and a survey.

  • 03

    AI & machine-learning engineering

    Production machine learning and computer vision. Systems that run in the real world, with the unglamorous parts taken seriously: data pipelines, evaluation, monitoring.

  • 04

    Business analysis & transformation

    Business analysis led on programs in the hundreds of millions, across multiple government departments and a global technology firm. Fluent in the artefacts and the governance that large programs actually run on.

  • 05

    Benefits realisation

    Benefits management drawn from multi-billion-dollar transformation programs. It defines what a program is meant to deliver, then proves whether it did.

About

Founder-led, with a standing team.

Zenova Ventures is led by Rohan D, with fifteen years in risk across financial services and technology. That background is why the work sits where the consequences are real: regulated environments, security, and the operational detail that decides whether something holds.

Alongside him is a standing team spanning applied research, machine learning, business analysis and benefits realisation.

We care about getting the details right, saying what we actually think, and building things that still hold up after the invoice is paid.

Precise. Pragmatic. Straight with you.

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Tell us the problem you’re trying to solve.

A real message gets a real reply, usually within a day or two. No forms shouting into the void.

Canberra, ACT · Australia