Atturra named as a founding partner of monō ai, supporting Australian enterprises in transforming their AI ambition to AI-enabled operating reality
Atturra, a leading technology services business in designing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions, today announced it has become a founding partner of Australian Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform company, monō ai.
Established by David Hyman, Founder of Lendi Group, monō ai helps established organisations compete with the growing cohort of new, AI-native businesses. The new partnership combines Atturra’s transformation, delivery, and enterprise integration capabilities with monō ai’s enterprise AI platform.
Successful transformation
Hyman led the AI-native transformation of Lendi Group, a financial services operation managing a loan book of more than $105 billion. The transformation compressed software delivery cycles and embedded agentic AI across mortgage operations at enterprise scale in what is a highly regulated environment.
The playbooks monō ai brings to market are built from that production experience, not theoretical frameworks.
“Our relationship with monō ai is an important, strategic step for us and aligns with our broader sovereign AI-first direction,” said Atturra Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Kowal. “The partnership is built around a shared view that AI is not fundamentally a tooling issue but a work redesign issue.”
Kowal said a critical part of that view is where ownership sits. Organisations that treat AI as a technology project – housed in one department, separate from how work actually gets done – will consistently underestimate what is required and overestimate what a tool alone can deliver. monō ai delivers a platform built for agentic and AI-native operations that requires business leaders, not just technology teams, to take ownership of how work is redesigned and goes beyond just AI software or implementation support.
“The partnership creates a practical pathway to move beyond pilot activity and redesign work in a way that is commercially meaningful, operationally realistic, and properly governed,” Kowal said.
“Our clients can use the partnership to identify where human effort is being consumed by low-value motion, where AI can remove friction, and where entirely new operating patterns are possible.”
This partnership also aligns strongly with Atturra’s broader AI-first direction. Atturra’s own internal strategy is built on the idea that AI is not a side initiative or an isolated capability. It is a shift in how the organisation works, operates and delivers services. That includes redesigning workflows before automating them, embedding AI into products and services, and evolving toward more scalable, agentic ways of operating.
The partnership with monō ai strengthens that direction. It gives Atturra a platform and partner aligned to the same belief: that the organisations who win will not be the ones with the most AI tools, but the ones with the clearest view of how humans and AI work together to create value.
monō ai CEO and founder, David Hyman said monō ai was built to help organisations move beyond AI pilots and apply the technology in everyday operations. The monō ai team brings experience from large, regulated businesses, which shapes how they design and deploy the platform. The opportunity is substantial, and their priority is helping organisations capture it in a way that works at scale.
Evolving workflows
Working together, Atturra and monō ai will not simply be introducing AI capabilities in existing workflows within organisations. Rather, they will help clients to determine what should remain human, what should become AI augmented, and what should be fully automated.
Kowal said getting that distinction right matters as much as the technology itself. Most organisations stall not because they lack AI tools, but because those questions have been left to technology teams to answer alone, without the business context needed to make them meaningful. It’s become increasingly clear that, when it comes to the deployment of AI tools, Atturra’s clients do not just need a proof of concept. They need to move from isolated AI use cases to agentic operating patterns that improve workflow speed and quality.
“monō ai provides the technology foundation for AI-native operations, while Atturra provides the capability to embed that foundation into real enterprise environments,” Kowal said.
“AI doesn’t make broken workflows faster but rather makes the case for redesigning them. That’s where Atturra and monō ai come in. We’re not here to layer AI over how work currently happens. We’re here to change how work happens.”
A scalable platform
monō ai has been designed as a scalable platform that embeds intelligence directly into an organisation’s operating environment. Capabilities developed for one deployment remain within the platform, evolve over time, and can be extended across teams, processes, and business units.
Each client engagement begins with a fixed‑scope proof‑of‑value deployment focused on a single high‑impact process. Once results are demonstrated, the platform is expanded incrementally to support broader workflows, progressing toward an enterprise‑wide AI operating system.
“I am very excited by the opportunities that will emerge as a result of this new partnership,” said Kowal. “With the pace of AI development continuing to increase, it will ensure we can deliver the capabilities that our clients require to flourish.”
