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Meet the People Behind auriflexon
Every successful budget approval starts with understanding the people who make it happen. Our team combines decades of financial expertise with a genuine commitment to helping Australian businesses navigate their approval workflows with confidence.
Managing Director
Kieran Blackwood
After spending twelve years wrestling with budget approvals at three different multinational corporations, Kieran founded auriflexon in 2019. He'd seen too many good projects die in endless approval loops and too many finance teams burning out from manual processes.
Before auriflexon, he was CFO at Brisbane-based tech company Innova Systems, where he first developed the systematic approach that became our core methodology. Kieran holds a CPA and an MBA from QUT, but more importantly, he understands what it's like to present to a board at 9 PM because the approval process took three months longer than expected.
He started auriflexon because he believes every business deserves approval workflows that actually work for real people dealing with real deadlines.
Our Core Expertise Areas
We've built our practice around the three areas where most approval workflows break down. Each team member brings specialized experience from working inside organisations just like yours.
Process Architecture
We map your existing approval pathways to identify where decisions get stuck. Our process architects have designed workflows for everything from ,000 marketing campaigns to million infrastructure projects. The key is understanding that every organisation has invisible approval patterns that either help or hurt progress.
Technology Integration
Most approval bottlenecks happen because systems don't talk to each other properly. Our technical team connects your existing software – whether that's SAP, NetSuite, or something custom-built – into approval workflows that actually reduce administrative time instead of adding to it.
Stakeholder Alignment
The best approval process in the world fails if stakeholders don't understand their role in it. We work with your teams to create communication patterns that keep everyone informed without overwhelming anyone with unnecessary details. This includes training sessions tailored to how your organisation actually operates.
How We Actually Work
"Most consulting firms tell you what's broken. We focus on what can realistically be fixed."
We start every engagement by spending a week just watching how approvals currently happen in your organisation. Not reviewing documentation or interviewing stakeholders – actually observing the informal conversations, email chains, and workarounds that make things move.
This approach came from Kieran's early experience at a manufacturing company where the official approval process took six weeks, but everyone knew you could get sign-off in three days if you talked to the right person in the right order. We design around how people actually work, not how org charts say they should work.
Our recommendations focus on changes you can implement within your existing constraints – budget, staff, and company culture included.
Ready to Meet the Team?
We're always happy to discuss your approval workflow challenges, even if you're not sure whether our approach is the right fit for your organisation. Most of our best client relationships started with an informal conversation about what wasn't working.
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