Journal

Notes from the work.

Plain, practical reading for people who run a business on timing and memory.

15 October 2026 · 5 min readWhen a tenant goes into administration: the first five business daysTenants that fail often give notice first, in scraps: a market announcement, a store that closes early, an outgoings bill nobody has paid. When a company does enter voluntary administration, the Corporations Act stops the landlord from taking back the premises for a while. This is what to watch for, and what the first days look like.
15 October 2026 · 5 min readTen questions to ask any AI firm, including usThe websites of AI firms read much the same. Ten plain questions cut through that, each with an answer you can check and a bad answer that gives itself away. We have also set out the published Australian price points, so you can judge a quote before you sign anything.
15 October 2026 · 5 min readHow to read the odds on an asking priceA valuation is a best guess with a range around it. Run the range through a simulation and you can ask how often a price actually gets reached. We ran the live model on our home page against a $1.4m asking price: about 1 in 10, and the yield decided most of it.
15 October 2026 · 5 min readThe dates a commercial agency can't afford to hear about lateA lot of lease trouble starts with a date nobody diarised. An option that lapsed, a rent review nobody flagged, a make-good bill that turns up after the tenant has gone. Here is what the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic) says about the dates, what it leaves to the lease, and the calendar we would keep on each file.
15 October 2026 · 5 min readWhat AI can and can't do for a commercial agencyCommercial agencies are being offered AI in a handful of shapes, and each shape is good at one thing and weak at another. Here is a plain map by category, what the Australian Consumer Law says about AI-written listing copy, and where we think the real gain is. It is memory and timing, more than the writing.
15 October 2026 · 6 min readBefore an AI reads your client records: the Privacy Act in plain EnglishWhether the Privacy Act binds your business turns on turnover and a short list of exceptions. The duties that matter most for AI tools are about notice, purpose, overseas disclosure and security, and they are worth following even where the Act does not reach you. Here is the text, section by section, and ten questions to put to any provider.