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BOSS Most Innovative Companies

The Most Innovative Companies List recognises and celebrates those businesses that are shaking up their industries with genuine game-changing innovations.

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SpaceDraft founder and CEO Lucy Cooke in Perth.

Visual planning tool finds way to top in year when AI reigns

Lessons from the WA wheatbelt and Hollywood movie sets helped inspire 4D visual planning and communication platform SpaceDraft.

Michael Carroll, chief executive of ASX-listed Synertec.

Synertec brings greener electricity to the outback

This ASX-listed minnow supplies microgrid power systems that have introduced a new way of powering critical operations in remote areas.

Fleet Space founder Flavia Tata Nardini

To the moon and back not enough for new mining explorer

If local exploration firm Fleet Space Technologies’ vision is realised, we will be mining rare minerals from asteroids in the not-too-distant future.

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MYOB CEO Paul Robson

MYOB’s tap and pay tech for solo traders a game-changer

Australia’s first unicorn tech company has used its innovation “muscle memory” to give small business owners a better chance of survival.

AI is freeing teams to focus on more creative and strategic work.

Australia’s culture of AI-powered innovation

This year’s entries show growing confidence in how organisations are embracing fresh thinking and experimentation.

Jordan Taylor Bartels CEO of Prophet and Prophet COO Hamish Mogan.

How a crash test dummy for marketing can save advertisers money

Marketing analytics business Prophet builds digital clones that help companies show where they can get more bang for their buck.

Minikai co-founders Keoki Alexander-Chang and Kyel Shera-Jones: “We were surprised by how many people are willing to go out of their way to help you out.”

AI agents help transform patient care and processes

Minikai founders have developed digital advocates to ease the administrative burdens faced by the disability and aged care sector.

Jo Egan, AGL chief customer officer

AGL doubles down in e-mobility

After nearly two centuries in the energy game, the group is familiar with reinvention. But its attitude to innovation is changing.

Lawrence Kusz, managing director of ChatStat

Social media monitoring tool helps schools track malicious content

Start-up zooms in on potential problems before they develop into serious mental health issues.

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Founders of SiteHive, Adam Ferguson and Ben Cooper-Woolley.

This is how construction sites could become less noisy

SiteHive has invented a product that measures noise on a construction site with AI.

Apate.ai co-founders Brad Joffe, Dali Kaafar and Peter Eckermann are aiming to have their AI army working for all Australian banks and telcos in a year.

This company’s AI bots talk to scammers so you don’t have to

It takes a lot to stand out in an increasingly crowded market, but Apate.ai’s co-founders think they have a globally significant company on their hands.

Nick Zanapalis, Operations Director at Prime Cut Meats, says the Brisbane-based butcher has come to rely on its AI-order taker.

Butchers turn to bots to end the late-night data entry shift

Fresh food suppliers no longer have to work late into the night trying to transcribe garbled voicemails from chefs and restaurants.

Joe Rayment, founder and CEO of Automatise.

Meet the man leading AI’s charge in the legal industry

Joseph Rayment established Automatise, the company behind litigation artificial intelligence program Cicero AI, to cut out dreary manual processes.

Iain McGuire, managing partner, Cognizant Consulting, Asia Pacific and Japan: The judging process revealed strengths and areas for improvement across the field.

The best of human insight blends with the power of technology

How our judging framework recognises Australia’s vibrant innovation ecosystem, highlighting the creativity, resilience and ambition of the business community.