Better decisions start with better experience.

Who you are retaining

Senior Australian investment professionals whose profiles a RetainedCo founder reviews before publication. Every profile is drafted from the professional’s own CV and nothing is published until they confirm it. Rates are never public: a professional’s rate range is shown to you once you send them a brief, and professionals RetainedCo introduces show theirs once they say they are interested. Ratings appear only once at least three reviews exist.

The experience you can retain

Analyst mentorship, project advisory, operational counsel, independent reviews, fractional leadership and specialist delivery. You describe the engagement in your own words; within 48 hours of submission RetainedCo introduces up to three professionals whose experience fits the work. Each says whether they are interested, and you choose who to engage. Each engagement has its own message thread, agreed times and calendar invitation.

The full order of an engagement, from brief to review, is set out on how it works.

Judgement over capacity

You are not buying another resource. You are accessing decades of decisions, mistakes, successes and institutional memory. The purpose is not to replace your team, but to strengthen it at the moments that matter most.

The fee, exactly

You pay the professional’s hourly rate, plus 10% GST. The platform fee is 6% of the engagement subtotal, capped at $30 per booking, and is deducted from their payout, never added to your bill. Writing a brief costs nothing. You are charged when an engagement is confirmed complete; the one exception is an optional A$150 deposit hold some professionals require on bookings of up to two hours, forfeited only if you do not attend.

GST and invoicing

Engagements are billed in Australian dollars with 10% GST added. For engagements up to $5,000 with an agreed timeline that finishes at least 24 hours before the card authorisation expires, your card is authorised when you book and charged when the engagement is confirmed complete. A card authorisation lasts seven days, so larger engagements, engagements with no agreed timeline and longer ones are invoiced through Stripe when delivery is confirmed, payable within ten days. A receipt showing the GST charged follows either way, and professionals are paid through Stripe to their nominated Australian bank account.

Retained advisory and fractional engagements are settled by invoice and never charged to a card: you agree a monthly retainer and a minimum term of up to twenty-four months, and each calendar month is billed once it has ended, never in advance. Automatic monthly invoicing is not switched on yet, so no month is invoiced until RetainedCo raises it. Either of you can end the relationship; billing runs to the end of the current month or the end of the minimum term, whichever is later.

The company

NOMARK Pty Ltd · ABN 72 687 436 219

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