About Telvra
Technology with
some business scars.
We’ve built businesses, operated them, grown them and occasionally learned exactly how not to do it.
Why we exist
Business is hard. We can make parts of it easier.
Established businesses are expected to keep up with thousands of software tools, fast-moving AI and the daily reality of running a company — all at the same time.
They don’t need another newsletter about the future. They need somebody to make the useful part work.
A note from Michael
“I have a young family, so I know exactly how precious time is. The hours we lose to unnecessary admin and poor systems are hours we don’t get back.”
Michael Quigley · Telvra
Built by operators
Operator before adviser
Twenty years of running businesses, and the receipts to prove it.
Multiple Subway franchises
Payroll, stock counts, food waste and the unglamorous mechanics of running sites that have to open every single day.
Building and running fitness businesses
Memberships, retention, classes and staffing — where the numbers and the people are the same problem.
Service operations
Vans, rotas, awkward margins and reports assembled at eleven at night because nothing spoke to anything else.
Overseeing specialist technology
Including a project-intelligence platform: real delivery, real deadlines, real consequences for getting it wrong.
Some ventures flourished. Some failed miserably. Both created the perspective behind Telvra: see the business from every angle, spend time and money wisely, and never use technology for the sake of looking clever.
How we work
Outcome first
We start with the result the business needs, then decide what — if anything — to build.
Plain language
No acronym fog. If we can’t explain it to the person using it, it isn’t finished.
Security and judgement
Commercial sense and proper security are not optional extras bolted on later.
The people affected
Systems are used by humans with a day job. We design for that, or nobody uses it.