Custom software
strategic AI
built for
your team.
A one-operator Sydney studio. I find the manual ritual that is costing your business the most — the spreadsheet, the PDF chain, the Tuesday-afternoon retyping — and replace it with code fitted exactly to that workflow. No platform. No retainer. No deck.
How does AI help your business do more with the workflows you → already run?
Off-the-shelf software pretends every business runs on the same workflow. They don't, of course. For thirty years that pretence was the price of admission — bespoke meant enterprise budgets.
AI changed the economics. The cost of writing software the exact size of one team's actual workflow has finally collapsed. Open8arms is what happens when one operator takes that seriously, twenty-eight times in a row.
The leverage is almost always already in the room — the data, the team, the tools. My job is to find the layer that makes them work together, build it, and hand it back.
Twenty-eight workflows, turned into systems.
How a specimen happens.
Three steps. Fourteen days. One workflow.
No platform, no retainer, no deck.
Audit one workflow.
A fortnight inside the work that is costing you the most. I leave with a map of the friction and where it compounds.
Build the smallest fix.
Working code, not a deck. The fix lives on your data and integrates with what you have already paid for.
Yours, entire.
Documentation, a handover session, and a build plan if there is a bigger system to grow into. No retainer trap.
From noise to signal — ninety seconds.
signal.
If a specimen
looks like your problem,
send me the workflow.
No deck. No sales call. I review the work, sketch the system, and either tell you it is already as good as it gets — or show you, in working code, what one of the specimens above could become for your business. One document, one decision.
One person. One queue.
Wayne Curnuck
founder · open8arms · sydney
It started with a Tuesday-afternoon ritual. A gallery I worked with handled artwork consignment with PDFs, spreadsheets, and three hours a week of someone retyping the same twelve fields. The cost was never the typing — it was that nobody had time to do it well. I wrote a tool. The afternoons came back.
Then I noticed the same shape of problem at three other galleries. Then in marketing teams. Then in compliance. Then in knowledge work. The problem isn't the tools businesses have — it's that no two businesses run on the same workflow, and off-the-shelf software has to pretend they do.
For thirty years that pretence was the price of admission: you adapted to the software, because bespoke meant enterprise budgets. AI changed that. The economics of building software the size of one team's actual workflow finally make sense. That's what open8arms is.