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SlaveCheck: Stabilising an Australian RegTech Platform for Launch

Ostride stabilised a delayed compliance product, created a controlled release process and helped launch it before extending the platform with enterprise UX and production AI automation.

  • Platform stabilisation
  • Release process improvement
  • AI-powered supply-chain data collection
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Australia, with international users

Engagement

Launch stabilisation, enterprise UX redesign, admin rebuild and ongoing development.

Core need

Prepare a delayed platform for a reliable launch under quality, compliance and reputation pressure.

Key work

Platform stabilisation, enterprise UX, release process and AI-powered supply-chain data collection.

The platform needed a reliable path to launch

The product had accumulated quality and delivery problems that delayed release. A failed first experience with an enterprise buyer would have put trust in the platform at risk.

The real problem was not a single defect. Quality, delivery control and compliance evidence could not be handled as separate workstreams. The team had to decide what blocked release, what could wait and how future changes would be controlled.

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What Ostride did

Stabilised the release path

We began by identifying what blocked launch and what could wait. The work focused on platform stabilisation, prioritisation and a release path that gave the product team clearer delivery control.

Rebuilt delivery control

After launch, we redesigned the enterprise interface, rebuilt the admin panel and established a multi-environment setup and release process. Quality assurance was shared between Ostride engineers and the client's product manager.

Added production AI automation

We built AI agents that collect supply-chain data from public global sources and prefill records intelligently. This functionality was used in the product, rather than developed as a demonstration.

Supported compliance-related product requirements

Modern Slavery Act reporting needs, data-residency requirements and reports used in compliance reviews informed the engineering decisions. Legal and regulatory interpretation remained with the client and its advisers.

Technical approach

Frontend
Backend
Cloud
Database
Applied AI

Custom agents for public-source data collection and processing.

Delivery

Multi-environment setup, a controlled release process and quality assurance shared between Ostride engineers and the client's product manager.

Team

A lead engineer and one engineer, with a designer at key phases. Quality assurance was shared between Ostride engineers and the client's product manager.

Results

  • The delayed platform launched in Q4 2023, about four months into the engagement.
  • Ostride continued product development after launch.
  • Multiple large enterprises joined the platform.
  • Enterprise onboarding involved hundreds of users and thousands of supply-chain counterparts.
  • The platform attracted use in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
  • AI-powered supply-chain data collection became part of the production product.
  • Reports generated by the platform were accepted in relevant compliance reviews.
  • Enterprise email delivery operated at the scale required by onboarding workflows.

Strategic takeaway

Compliance platforms fail when quality, release process and regulatory evidence are treated as separate problems. In regulated products, they must be designed and managed together.

When I hired our Head of Product, the first thing he did was to engage advanced technical experts Ostride...

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Tim Murray

CEO and Founder

Tim Murray
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Tim Murray

Tim Murray

CEO and Founder

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