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For Australian accounting & bookkeeping firms

More capacity and more advisory revenue for your accounting firm, without another senior hire.

Lever Up builds and runs custom AI and automation for accounting and bookkeeping firms on Xero. We start with a paid diagnostic that finds your highest-payback fix and models it in your own numbers, build it in the first few weeks, then run it for you. You own what we build.

Built by engineers from Macquarie, Qantas, IAG and Rest Super: systems where a mistake is a headline, not a rollback.

15+

Years building financial-grade platforms

$17.4M

Processed in a single platform release

Millions

Users served on systems we’ve built

Bank-grade

Privacy and security standards we build to

The Problem

Your team is buried in compliance while the advisory revenue goes unsold.

You can now automate work that two years ago needed a specialist team and a year to build. Most firms don’t know where to start, and the people offering to help are either a solo freelancer or a generic agency that has never read a set of accounts. So every month the same capacity quietly leaks away.

Seniors doing junior work

Your most expensive people spend their days on compliance prep, payroll runs and data entry a system should handle.

Advisory left on the table

Between 76% and 89% of firms say clients want advisory. The opportunities are sitting in your own client base, unbilled.

You can’t hire your way out

The senior accountant you need isn’t in the market, or isn’t worth the cost. Capacity stays capped and turnaround slips.

Xero plus a dozen disconnected add-ons

Tools that don’t talk to each other, so the integration work, and the errors, land back on your team.

A straight answer takes half a day

Client data scattered across Xero, spreadsheets and inboxes. Pulling a clear number for a partner means someone goes digging.

Manual steps, real exposure

Every manual handoff is a chance for a missed deadline or a privacy breach, and you carry that risk personally.

How it works

One service, entered through a paid diagnostic.

It starts with a free 45-minute call to see if we can help. If we’re a fit, here’s the engagement.

Step 01 · Paid, credited back

Leverage Diagnostic

We map where your firm is losing time, losing margin and leaving advisory work unsold, then model the payback in your own numbers. You leave with a build roadmap you own, whether or not you go further.

Fixed fee · credited to the build

Step 02 · Build & run

We build the highest-payback fix

The fix with the fastest payback gets built first, usually live within the first few weeks. Then we run it and improve it as a service. Custom to your firm, but built on an engine we’ve proven across firms like yours, so it ships faster and costs less than starting from scratch.

Live in weeks · 12-month term

Step 03 · Own it

Your copy, your data

After the initial term we keep improving the system on a lighter monthly fee. You licence your own copy and own your data, with a buy-out named up front and an escrow safety net. No lock-in, no black box.

Ongoing · you own it

The Lever Framework

From diagnosis to a system that pays for itself.

01

Map

Diagnose

We map your workflows on Xero and around it, find the bottlenecks, and quantify what each one costs you in time and margin.

1 week

02

Architect

Design

We blueprint the highest-payback fix, choose the right tools, and put the payback in writing, in your own numbers.

1 week

03

Build

Deliver

We build in rapid sprints and put the first working system in your firm within weeks, not a big-bang rollout months away.

4 weeks

04

Sustain

Drive

We run it, train your team, measure the result against the payback we promised, and keep improving it.

Ongoing

Track Record

We built the systems where a mistake is a headline. Now we build them for your firm.

Major Airline · Direct Booking Platform

Rebuilt a major airline’s direct booking platform, transitioning off legacy third-party technology.

First release processed 49,000 customer cancellations and $17.4M in transactions — measurably reducing call-centre volume, the airline’s top contact driver.

$17.4M

Transactions processed

49,000

Cancellations handled

#1

Call driver reduced

National Retailer · Subscription Products

Led subscription products for one of the largest national retailers.

Through personalisation and continuous optimisation, drove a 30% lift in customer engagement — directly improving subscription revenue and customer lifetime value.

30%

Engagement lift

+LTV

Customer lifetime value

Data-driven

Personalisation

National Insurance Platform · Product Launch

Led the end-to-end launch of a new Home Insurance product during COVID-19 disruption.

Delivered on deadline while maintaining the roadmap across Car, Health, and Travel insurance lines.

On time

Launched on deadline

4

Insurance lines maintained

COVID-era

Delivery under pressure

Results from prior roles. Lever Up is a new venture; we bring the same discipline to every engagement.

Why Lever Up

What you get that a generalist can’t give you.

We build for accounting firms only

We work with Australian accounting and bookkeeping firms on Xero, and no one else. Every system we ship sharpens the next, so you get financial-grade work without paying us to learn how a practice runs.

Priced to your payback, proven first

We charge for the diagnostic and quote every build against the return in your own numbers, not vague “hours saved”. If the payback isn’t there, we tell you before you spend a dollar on the build.

You own what we build

You licence your own copy and keep your own data, with a buy-out named up front and an escrow safety net if anything happens to us. The opposite of a black box you can never leave.

The Team

Most automation consultants have never built a system where a mistake costs real money. We have.

Two decades inside banks, super funds, airlines and federal government — building the systems where an error isn’t a rollback, it’s a headline.

1M+

users served across the systems we’ve built

A$ billions/yr

in credit-card payments processed

Govt-cleared

AGSVA security clearance, classified-data access

Privacy Act-grade

TFNs, super and bank data handled to the APP standard

Hafid Sousa — Co-founder & CEO, Lever Up

Hafid Sousa

Co-founder & CEO

LinkedIn

Two decades leading engineering across banking, superannuation, payments and federal government, including Macquarie Bank, Rest Super, IAG and Qantas. Built payment and financial platforms held to the strictest regulatory standards in the country. Ran federal identity integrations with ATO RAM and myID, plus systems across the Biosecurity, Exports and Imports divisions — the most sensitive data the government holds.

Diego Freitas — Co-founder & CTO, Lever Up

Diego Freitas

Co-founder & CTO

LinkedIn

Fifteen years building the platforms behind some of Australia’s most recognised brands, including Qantas, Coles, Tabcorp, Gumtree and Macy’s. He rebuilt Qantas’s direct booking platform; its first release cleared 49,000+ cancellations, processed A$17.4M+ in transactions and slashed call-centre volume. Subscription work at Coles lifted engagement 30%. He starts by diagnosing where margin leaks — not by pitching technology.

Why it matters here — Automating your operations means touching your most sensitive data: financials, payroll, customer records, payment details. We handle it to the standard regulators expect — and every system is built and delivered by the two founders, with no hand-off to juniors.

Common Questions

Straight answers.

Get Started

Start with a free 45-minute call.

We’ll map your biggest bottleneck and tell you honestly whether we can help. If we’re a fit, the next step is a paid Leverage Diagnostic that models the payback in your own numbers, before you commit to any build.

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For Australian accounting and bookkeeping firms on Xero. No commitment, no sales pitch.

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