Ed Broadbent · Architecture, Delivery & Builds · Sydney
I design health and human-services systems, then build them — national programs, community platforms, and the operational tools in between.
Live work
Approach
One person does the architecture and the build, so the design survives contact with delivery.
What you're trying to fix, and whether it's worth building at all.
The data model, the access rules, and the build-vs-buy call.
The working system, built and shipped. Scoped and quoted up front; every change agreed in writing first.
Documentation and handover so your team can operate and extend it. You own everything. No vendor lock-in, ever.
Engagements
For organisations that have outgrown off-the-shelf. Tenant-scoped data and access, tiered permissions and audit trails, and in-house delivery where that retires a recurring licence. Handover includes runbooks, so your team can extend it.
Delivery and governance reviews, operating models, information management, and a second opinion on a build someone else is running. The most useful review I did this year concluded the client should stop building and keep the tool they already paid for. That outcome is on the table.
For small businesses and community organisations. Peer-led organisations, NGOs and community health get the same architecture as anyone else, scoped to what the funding actually supports — it’s the work I most want. Quoted per project after a short conversation.
Where I advocate on an issue in a personal capacity, I keep that firewalled from paid work and say so up front.
Availability
I hold a senior role alongside this practice, so it stays deliberately small — a few engagements at a time, by referral and direct enquiry, chosen for fit. I'm genuinely interested in the right projects.
Where I'm most useful right now: architecture reviews, design engagements, a second opinion on a build someone else is running, and short scoped advisory — work measured in decisions rather than months. Builds are welcome too, staged on a longer clock.
Tell me what you're working on and I'll be straight with you about whether I'm the right person — including when the answer is no.
Tell me about the workAbout
I’ve watched the same problem — how do you get information to the people who need it, in a form they’ll actually use — solved very differently at national scale, in a Medellín comuna, and in a Crows Nest cafe. That range is what I bring to something new: not one favoured answer, but a sense of which of the available answers fits, and the discipline to build only the part that earns its place.
I lead complex program delivery, run Primed as its Executive Director, and take on a few engagements through this practice. How I got here →
NCCRED/UNSW, Everymind, theknow.org.au: data governance, evaluation, national communication systems.
National health infrastructure, community organisations, allied health, hospitality. Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, edge-native infrastructure, and honest assessment of the vendor you already pay for.
Selective engagements, scoped and quoted per project. Remote-first, Sydney-based.
AI engaged ethically and structurally as a development partner. Architecture, decisions, accountability are mine.
Get in touch
Best for architecture reviews, program and delivery advisory, platform builds, Microsoft 365 / Power Platform migrations, and data-governance work. Impact-aligned work especially welcome.
Send me the shape of it rather than booking a slot — I'll read it properly and come back to you honestly about whether I'm the right person. Selective engagements, scoped and quoted per project.