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Tobias Byron · Co-founder · Sydney, NSW
The decision companion for leaders -www.leadershipcompanion.com! Join the Open Summit AI crowd and use code ADELAIDE for 50% off your first month!
🌱 Build ModeSaaS / B2B SoftwareAI / Machine LearningConsumer / D2C
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About Leadershipcompanion

Leading means making hundreds of decisions with incomplete information, most of them alone. Should you hire that manager? Renegotiate that contract? How to handle the relationship conversation you have been putting off? Your companion thinks it through with you, remembers, and follows up. Live since April 2026. 96% of paying leaders are active, 87% come back for a second session within two weeks, 81% gross margin, and B2B conversations are under way with ASX-listed and national companies.

81%
Profit Margin
96%
Paying Leaders active
3x
Weekly paid sign-ups since August

🎯 The Problem

Leaders make their hardest calls alone. A leader's behaviour is the strongest predictor of their team's performance, so every slow or poor decision costs time and strain for them and everyone they lead. General AI assistants answer prompts but have no method, no follow-up and no decision record, are sycophantic, and have bias.

💡 The Solution

A private thinking partner for leaders, built for the leader who pays for themselves (A$29 to A$49 a month). Four things make it different from a chat assistant. It thinks with you: 24 behavioural science bricks and the right one switches on automatically as you talk. It knows you better: every conversation, decision and person moves it forward, and it adjusts per personality type. It follows up: "You said you would have that conversation on Thursday. How did it go?" It keeps it private: fully encrypted, hosted in Australia, never used to train AI or shown to an employer, 15,000+ attack tests with zero compromises. A full web product, not an MVP, with text, voice, documents, email, a decision journal and proactive agents. The same engine can serve sector companions (school leaders, clinical leaders, public sector, parents), each launched with a partner who brings the leaders.

📊 Market & Funding

Market Size

Over 400 million people lead others: around 150 million managers worldwide, 300 million SME owners, and the principals, clinicians and public servants who lead on top of their day job. More than US$100B a year goes into leadership development and US$5.3B into coaching, growing 15-17%, yet two thirds of CEOs get no outside advice and nearly all want it, privately. Nothing sits between a wellbeing app, HR and a coach. 5 million leaders can pay our list price today; 1% is 50,000 leaders and A$21M a year.

Use of Funds

A$5M turns a working product into A$12M of annual revenue by 2028. Hire: a growth marketer, two engineers, a partnerships lead, a customer success manager, a sector companion psychologist and a US and UK lead. Invest A$3.6M in growth, paid marketing and events. Build the platform for a million leaders: native apps, sector companions, multilingual safety, enterprise readiness, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness. First close (A$1.5M) takes us to 250+ paying leaders, apps and a paid B2B pilot by March 2027; second close (A$3.5M) scales the proven channels, launches the first sector companion and opens English-fluent markets.

📄 Documents

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👥 Team

Tobias Byron
Tobias Byron
Co-founder: architecture, build, security and growth
Engineer and AI architect building AI systems since 1996. Former AWS ANZ COO and Head of Strategy, Macquarie Bank MD, and CBA EGM Group Technology. Founder of Byron Partners (A$2.5B+ client results). Coded Leadership Companion end to end.
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Kristina Rivers
Kristina Rivers
Co-founder: method, coaching and partnerships
Psychologist with 25 years working with leaders in government, enterprise and small business. Master of Educational Psychology (University of Sydney), GAICD. Co-CEO of Howse & Rivers; interviewed 50 CEOs and board members in 2025 for a forthcoming book. World record holder.
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