Learning software that fits your industry.
Custom LMS platforms shaped around your courses, your compliance, and your community. Software development services from an Australian custom software development company. You own the IP. No per-user licensing.
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LMS capabilities.
The functional areas we routinely cover in a custom LMS build.
Course authoring & content
Structured courses, lessons, and resources. Authoring tools tuned to how your educators actually work.
Assessments & competency tracking
Online assessments, evidence capture, observations, and competency progression.
Pathways & prerequisites
Course sequencing, prior learning recognition, and conditional progression — the way your sector actually requires.
Compliance reporting
AVETMISS-ready reporting for AU RTOs and bespoke compliance hooks for other regulators.
Virtual classrooms & blended delivery
Online, face-to-face, and blended learning models supported in one platform.
Certifications, payments & enrolments
Portable credentials, integrated payments, and end-to-end enrolment workflows.
Why build your own?
There's no shortage of off-the-shelf LMSs. Here's why training providers choose to build instead.
Industry-specific from day one
Compliance reporting, pathways, and course structures built around your sector — not retrofitted onto a generic platform.
Yours to own
Own the platform, the IP, and the data. License it to your industry as a product if that's the play.
No per-user licensing
Scale your student base without paying per-seat fees. Build once, grow without the licensing tax.
What does it cost?
LMS builds scale from focused single-program tools to multi-tenant SaaS platforms. Here's roughly where most engagements land.
Starter
From $50k / build
Focused LMS for a single training program or audience.
Growth
$100k / build
Multi-program LMS with compliance reporting and integrations.
Enterprise
$250k+ / build
Multi-tenant SaaS LMS platforms ready to be sold to a sector.
Don't want the big CapEx spend up front?
Talk to us about our Bespoke SaaS delivery model — all the benefits of custom software, paid monthly, with full IP handover at the end of the term.
Got a sector the off-the-shelf LMSs don't serve?
Tell us about your courses, your compliance requirements, and the way your learners actually learn. We'll show you what a platform built for your sector looks like.
Built with your team, not just for them.
Every build begins with our fixed-price Discovery engagement. The aim is simple: understand how your team actually works, sketch the solution together, and prove the design before a single line of production code gets written. It's the discipline our clients hire us for.
Talk to the people who use it
We sit with the people who'll touch the software every day. Their pain points are your requirements. We listen for what slows them down today and where a tool built for them would change the day.
Map the work, not just the wishlist
The actual processes the software has to serve: intake, approvals, handoffs, the exceptions. We document them in your team's language, not ours, so everyone agrees on what's being built before anything gets built.
Sketch the screens together
Whiteboards, paper, low-fidelity mockups. Visual conversation surfaces disagreements about how the work really flows in seconds, disagreements that written specs would let slip silently into the build.
Build a clickable prototype
Realistic enough to test. Your team plays with it, finds what's wrong, and tells us what to fix, cheaply, before a line of production code exists. Most surprises surface here, not in user acceptance testing.
Ship, refine, repeat
Two-week sprints. Working software in front of your team continuously. They feed back, we refine, they feed back again, until the tool fits their day so well they'd resist going back.
WHY WE WORK THIS WAY
Visual conversation moves faster than written requirements, and your team can tell us what's wrong before we build it. Mockups and prototypes turn a 6-month spec debate into a 6-week design loop. Cheaper iteration. Fewer surprises. Software your team actually wants to use.
Australian government, big brands, and growing businesses across the country trust us with the work that matters.
Custom LMS platforms in the wild.
AccessIQ
AccessIQ started as an internal tool at the Benchmarque Group and grew into a market-leading SaaS LMS for the Australian training sector. 22,000+ students, 1,700+ workshops delivered, and 95% of students rating their experience 'very good' or 'excellent' — all on a platform built for RTO compliance from day one.
Typsy
Typsy set out to be the default global LMS for hospitality. We built a platform tailored to how hospitality staff actually learn — micro-lessons, quick assessments, and a portable 'virtual resume' that follows employees between employers.
The Alliance team consistently demonstrates a high level of technical capability but more importantly, they share our vision for success. They remain approachable and are able to deliver a strong balance between the technical system requirements and the user experience.
Drew Sutherland
Director, accessIQ
Let's build something
great together.
Every great project starts with a conversation. Tell us what you're working on and we'll figure out the best way to help.
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