Find the waste. Fix the operating cause. Pay from verified savings.
TightShip helps Australian mid-market businesses reduce costs without weakening service, people, or growth capacity by finding operational leakage in process, systems, suppliers, decisions, and workflows, then fixing the operating cause through practical technology: data, automation, integration, reporting, exception monitoring, and narrow AI where it can be measured, controlled, and tied to verified savings.
Most cost programmes start with budgets. TightShip starts with operating evidence: where work is duplicated, spend has drifted, systems are distrusted, and capable people are compensating for weak design, then uses targeted technology to remove the cause.
We separate waste from capability so service, culture, and growth capacity are not weakened just to make a spreadsheet look better.
We do not stop at a slide deck. TightShip helps implement the technology, workflow, and reporting changes needed to recover the dollars.
Every opportunity needs a baseline, an owner, a measurement path, and a reason it should improve margin.
Four steps to find, fix, and verify avoidable operating cost using practical technology, not blunt cuts. No guesswork. No upfront cost.
We map your operations end-to-end and pinpoint where cost is being recreated: in process, systems, suppliers, decisions, or people.
Every finding is measured and priced. We agree the baseline and focus areas before implementation so savings are verifiable.
Targeted changes, minimal disruption. We implement practical technology fixes: automation, integrations, reporting, controls, and workflow changes, then track results against evidence such as spend, labour effort, rework, billing, supplier terms, or margin movement.
TightShip earns only when signed-off savings are found, delivered, and measured against the agreed baseline. If we don't create savings, we earn nothing. Full stop.
Our shared-savings model ties TightShip's fee to savings that are agreed, delivered and verified against the baseline.
Book a Margin AssessmentTechnology is the main vehicle, not the headline. TightShip starts with the operating leak, then uses the right practical fix: data extraction, systems review, automation, integration, reporting, exception monitoring, and narrow AI where the workflow is specific, the data is available, and the outcome can be measured.
We find where tools, handoffs, reporting, permissions, and data quality are forcing people to compensate for weak operating design.
Manual evidence work, repeated approvals, supplier checks, billing reviews, and exception handling can often be automated once the saving and control path is clear.
If you already have AI ideas, TightShip helps prioritise the ones worth doing based on savings, effort, risk, data readiness, controls, and measurability.
Start with the ideas already on the table or one bounded operating problem. TightShip tests the options against operating evidence before anything moves into production.
Compare existing AI and automation ideas against economics, feasibility, data, adoption, controls and measurability.
No shortlist is required. Start with one recurring decision, handoff, exception or evidence task that is worth improving.
The right answer may be AI, automation, integration, workflow redesign or no project. Finance verifies the measurement path.
Mid-market Australian businesses that need to reduce costs without weakening delivery, service, or growth capacity.
Revenue grew. Margin did not. TightShip finds the operating leaks that scaling has hidden inside process, suppliers, systems, and handoffs.
EBITDA improvement without waiting for a full transformation programme. We find measurable leakage your portfolio companies may not see from the inside.
Stop deal value leaking through duplicated work, supplier drift, reporting gaps, and system handoffs after the transaction closes.
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