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DAY ONE Group

Six businesses.
One operating company.

Built together. Since day one.

DAY ONE Group sells, markets and scales a group of owner-led Australian businesses. Owners keep the majority and stay in charge. We bring the commercial team they couldn’t build on their own.

The businesses in the group

  • Back5 logo
  • Toa logo
  • Final Place logo
  • MyPropertyAI logo
  • MakeThemBid logo
  • Poppi Social logo

Good businesses stall for want of a commercial team, not ideas.

Founders end up funding their business part-time from a day job, or giving away half the company to whoever promises sales and marketing.

DAY ONE Group is a third option. One operating company provides the sales, marketing, finance, legal and technology support every business needs, and shares that cost across the group. The owner keeps the majority and stays in charge. DAY ONE earns its stake through the work.

The team behind it built MATE, an Australian telco, together from a standing start. DAY ONE Group puts that experience to work across six businesses.

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How we work

Four principles run through every business in the group.

Plan before spend

The first three months are planning: a three-year plan built with each owner, an execution plan that maps it, and the group plan that delivers them all. Spend starts only against agreed plans.

One shared growth engine

A lean shared team covers sales, marketing, finance, legal and technology oversight, with automation and AI throughout. Every business uses it, so no business pays for the same work six times.

Owners stay in charge

Businesses come in largely as they are. The owner keeps the majority, and day-to-day operations and hiring are decided jointly by the owner and DAY ONE Group.

Capital discipline

DAY ONE Group is not a development fund. Major builds are funded on each business’s own economics: from revenue, fee for service, group capital or the owner’s own reserve.

Each other’s first customers

The businesses were chosen to work together. A new business in the group launches into an audience the group already reaches, rather than buying every customer from scratch.

  • Back5leads toToa

    Clubs on 360Player become Toa’s first teamwear customers.

  • Agencies and their clients carry straight into MakeThemBid.

  • Club and agent networksleads toPoppi Social

    Back5 and MyPropertyAI put Poppi Social in front of creators and the brands that pay them.

  • Builds its partner network directly with cemeteries and memorial parks, backed by the shared team.

One operating system behind every business

Every signed plan becomes a live project. Systems feed each other, so the scorecard updates itself, and AI agents handle drafting, summaries, forecasts and chasing updates around the clock.

Owners log in to see their plan, what the group is doing for them this week and their scorecard. No status meetings to ask how it’s going.

The tools and views that run the group, from plans and messaging to the scorecard, automation and AI.Select the diagram to view it full size

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