Who are we?

We are a team of capable people: CTO + software engineers who love building technology for new startups. We are your ultimate drop-in team to build your app.

What do we do?

We build mobile apps and AI.

Mobile apps:

• Frontend: React Native

• Backend: AWS microservices

• Integrations with GPT, LLM, Stripe, Shopify etc.

AI: Pytorch

• Recommenders

• Classifiers

• Transcribers

• LLM

Our team is ready, keen and capable of bringing your next idea to reality.

We are also able to take existing codebases built in Cursor, Replit and Bolt and add functionality you seek.

What is unique about us?

We are your one-stop-shop for technology strategy AND implementation. We do a full assessment of your situation, tech stack and budget. We then come up with a package that’ll work for you.

Specialising in working with startups and scaleups, we can help you apply for your Australian R&D grants and fund your idea.
We steer your ship through getting your idea off the ground. We do not outsource any work overseas. We get the job done, here in Sydney. You talk to the engineer who builds your product.

We build your MVP through to deploying so millions of people every day will use your app, algorithm or device.

SERVICES

1. Chief Technology Officer

Founded in 2021, Step-In CTO is the flexible CTO that you need to get your idea off the ground. As a CTO, founder Matt Brown has a unique, decade of experience specialising in three key areas:

1. Technology

2. Product Management

3. Business

Step-In CTO is founded on the premise that we know how hard it is to find that best-fit technical co-founder. Whether it’s advisory, guidance or building your product; we’ve got you covered.

2. Dream Team of Software Engineers

Alongside our CTO is a unique team of engineers who are dedicated to help get modern startups off the ground. We are not your everyday software engineering agency. We step into your business, understand your problems and build your product for scale so your first or millionth customer has a hassle-free experience.

We love to help our clients get their idea off the ground by using the latest web, mobile and AI technologies. We’ll make your ideas reality and talk in language you can understand, and truly be part of your business as you navigate new technology.

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Portfolio

Notewize

Built in 2024, Notewize is an AI music-education app for iOS and Android. Now in Beta, new music students can learn how to play the guitar using our AI music transcription system that tells you whether you got the note right or wrong. As of May, 2024, Notewize has its first 50 customers and is on track to be a scalable app with its first thousand users by end of FY25.

Tiliter

Tiliter is the technology you see in WoolWorths’ automatic fruit and vegetable scanner.

We have helped the Tiliter team develop their image recognition API that is now being deployed in

StylSpot

Built in 2023/2024, StylSpot is an AI social media app for iOS and Android for fashion communities. The app helps like-minded style-conscious folks find a sense of belonging with their unique outfit choices. With similar recommender technology employed to instagram, the app is currently in beta testing and will be released publicly in June, 2024. StylSpot has its first 100 beta users and is on track for its first thousand in 2024.

FreshPets

Built in 2023, FreshPets is a mobile app that allows users to wash their dogs. Through our app, users scan a QR code and get their dog washed. Dog Kiosks will be assembled in 2024 that will be set up near dog parks, where users can select from 9 separate options including shampooing, conditioning, blowdrying, rinsing and a range of pampering options. Our work included raspberry pi integration, stripe payment and AWS internet of things that allows a k9000 dog washer to be connected to the internet, and our app.

Quickli

Quickli is software that helps Aussie mortgage brokers find the absolute best interest rate home loan from any bank, in real time! We loved helping their founders to develop their engineering and team strategy.

Pianify

Built in 2023, Pianify is an AI piano education app that teaches new piano students how to play the piano. With a variety of pop piano tracks from Adele through to One Republic, our AI technology cancels out noise so the app can play a backing track from the phone’s speaker, whilst performing real-time note detection. As of 2023, Pianify is on track for its first 500 users mainly based in Vietnam and Canada.

Vera

Built in 2023, Vera is an AI music-therapy app for iOS and Android. It was engineered to free up busy nurses’ time in hospital wards around Australia by using AI to generate and play familiar music for patients suffering from demenita and Alzheimer’s disease. The AI technology creates 3 endless music stations based on the severity, age and condition of the patient. The stations: Reminisce, Relax and Energise were meticulously crafted to help patients remember their loved ones, feel less agitated and supported through their dementia journey. Vera is now in a scale-up stage and has daily increasing users.

Vively

Built in 2022, Vively is a mobile healthcare app for iOS and Android. Featuring a real-time glucose monitoring hardware integration, Vively allows glucose monitoring real-time insights on how your diet, exercise, sleep and stress affects your health so you can become a healthier person. With several hundred users, Vively is now in a scale-up stage via our startup assistance and guidance. We wish Vively the best.

Google Creative Lab

As a one off special technology in 2021, we were commissioned to build a novel beat tracking app that allowed music makers to clap their hands or beat box to generate new drum beats for music tracks. The AI converts “clapping sounds” from a phone’s microphone into a live, ready to use drumkit sound .wav file on a mobile device.

Stylefit

Built in 2021, we engineered a brand new furniture rendering system for the likes of Snooze and One World furniture. Featuring ability to zoom, rotate and style furniture around your living room, the app uses augmented reality on your phone.

Profound Homes

Built in January 2021, Profound is a brand new property-sales mobile app and website. We give you priority access to Australia’s off-market properties. Featuring both Google Maps and Apple Maps integration, the app displays properties available for sale that you never knew existed. Best of all, it’s free!

URef

This app was built by us in 2018-2019 and it reports how biased a referee is in English Premier League Games. Featuring a first-of-kind data scraping algorithm that figures out genuine referee bias, this app feeds data to bookmakers to help them ensure the best, most accurate odds are presented to punters. Make your voice heard with referee statistics and rate key decisions in live soccer EPL games.

Shot By Sound

This application was a job with David Jones and Daniel Johns where we were asked to build a system that would take photos based on instruments’ sounds and singers’ vocals. For example, a snare drum would make a particular camera take a photo, and a keyboard melody would make several other cameras take photos. All the photos were then assembled to create a video.

We built the electronics, software and firmware in order to achieve this.

Audio Fingerprinter

This application is used to detect plagiarism in music and pay musicians royalties through crypto currency.
Our Client, Emanate has a music-streaming platform where musicians can upload their music.

Two problems we are addressing:
How do musicians who have previously uploaded their music:

1. ensure their music won’t be plagiarised?

2. guarantee they’re properly rewarded for plays?

Solution:

Music-uniqueness audio fingerprinter. This captures the most unique part of a sound and stores it on the blockchain, ensuring a one-of-one source of musical truth.

Microphone Equalisation Algorithm

Sitehive is a company that makes waterproof Internet Of Things (IOT) devices that monitor urban noise pollution so their customers can avoid fines. For example, if a construction site sound is too loud, the Sitehive device will switch off their noisy equipment.

Our job: In 2021, we built C and Python code that runs in real-time to make sure their microphone is accurately measuring sound across all frequencies.

We write software for Sitehive to flatten the microphone of their treble-heavy microphone so Sitehive device microphones sound the same across many different circuit boards.

Bullet-Time Photography System

Spliceboys is a company that makes films for the likes of Marvel, Disney and ads for Range Rover and Nike.

• We built their point of difference: A unique high-speed “bullet-time” photography system.

  • This system is comprised of 100 electronic circuits that each sit on top of a Canon DSLR camera.

  • Each photograph is queued in an algorithm that converts the individual photos into video frames

  • Each circuit is connected to a network and fires a signal so unique videos can be taken

Our clients