What SECORA Consulting does

Secora APII Pty Ltd, trading as Secora Consulting, is an Australian private asset performance improvement consulting firm headquartered in Adelaide with offices in Brisbane, Canberra and Darwin, plus international affiliates in Tampa (USA) and Kleinmachnow near Berlin (Germany). Founded in 2006, the firm employs over 100 senior practitioners who embed side-by-side with client teams across defence, mining, oil & gas and infrastructure verticals to address reactive maintenance, OQE/documentation overload, fragmented OT/IT data, ageing assets and project delivery shortfalls. Its named customer base spans the Royal Australian Navy, RAAF, BHP (multiple sites including WAIO Port Hedland and Mt Arthur), BMA, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Barrick Gold, Glencore, FMG, Newcrest, South32, Woodside, Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Origin and government agencies including DefenceNT, NSW State Water and NSW Health.

The firm delivers through its three-phase APII (Asset, Performance, Improvement, Implementation) engagement model - Understand, Analyse, Implement - and in 2025 launched Secora Garage, an industrial AI / digital innovation lab led by CTO Dr Ana Kuusk. Garage offerings include OT/IT data convergence, AI-enhanced work instructions, digital twinning, SCADA/ERP/IoT modernisation and predictive asset propensity modelling, typically built on Microsoft 365 and Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE rather than as standalone products. Proprietary assets include the 'Data Safari before Procurement' methodology, a Master Isolation Database deployed for naval and mining clients, and the Northern Territory Virtual Twin co-developed with Dassault Systemes, AMC Search and the NT Government.

Secora monetises primarily through project-based professional services engagements scoped per client, complemented by multi-year managed improvement programmes (e.g. the RAN Isolation Project) and longer-term sovereign-industry partnerships such as the NORSTA Maritime joint venture. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; the firm runs direct enterprise field sales augmented by event-driven demand generation (Industrial AI After Hours, Australian Energy Week, DTC Defence Industry Awards), academic partnerships (UniSA Industrial AI) and curated partner networks rather than channel resellers. Ownership is founder/management-led with no disclosed external funding, public listing or parent entity.

Name

SECORA Consulting

Legal name

Secora APII Pty Ltd

Website

https://secora.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Secora APII is an Australian consulting firm that embeds senior practitioners alongside defence, mining, oil & gas and infrastructure clients to improve asset performance, OT/IT data convergence and digital-twin delivery, including via its Secora Garage industrial AI lab.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Asset Performance Improvement Consulting

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

API Management & Gateways (BPAMAOAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Technical Enablement & Adoption Services (Change Management, Adoption, Champions) (BPAEANAC), Identity & Access for Workforce (IAM/SSO/MFA, Conditional Access) (BPAEAIAH)

Keywords

• Asset performance consulting
• Industrial AI solutions
• Defence sustainment services
• Mining process optimisation
• Digital twin services

Headquarters

HQ city

North Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Asset Performance Improvement Consulting Services: Project-based professional services engagements across defence, resources, infrastructure and government. Combines business improvement, process analysis, optimisation, training, and process design. Delivered by senior practitioners who embed alongside client teams; revenue tied to project scope, duration, and outcomes rather than seats or subscriptions.
2. Digital Innovation & AI Solution Delivery (Secora Garage): Custom industrial AI, data-pipeline, and digital-twin solutions built and deployed for clients, including AI-driven work instruction generators, audit systems (Microsoft 365-based), and SCADA/ERP/IoT convergence architectures. Project-based with potential ongoing support.
3. Specialist Advisory & Strategic Reform Engagements: Defence and government advisory including contract analysis, capability acquisition reform, and strategic partnership facilitation. Typically milestone-driven consulting mandates with public-sector clients.
4. Long-term Managed Improvement Programmes: Multi-year embedded engagements (e.g., RAN Isolation Project) covering procedural improvement, data management, digital solution development, change management and continual improvement - retained/managed-service style.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Secora APII is an Australian asset performance improvement consulting firm that embeds senior practitioners inside client teams to deliver measurable productivity, safety and financial outcomes across defence, mining, oil & gas, power, infrastructure and government. Engagements are delivered through a three-phase Understand–Analyse–Implement model (APII), with a dedicated digital innovation unit (Secora Garage) building industrial AI, OT/IT data convergence pipelines, digital twins, AI-enhanced work instructions and Microsoft 365-based safety audit systems on top of clients' existing technology stacks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Secora Garage: Secora's digital innovation team / industrial AI lab, led by CTO Dr Ana Kuusk, that harnesses industrial AI and data-driven approaches to deliver asset management solutions for clients.

Products and services

• Asset Performance Improvement Implementation (APII) Consulting Project-based professional services engagement covering business improvement, process analysis, optimisation, training and process design, delivered by senior practitioners embedded with client teams to drive knowledge transfer and sustainable adoption.
• Secora Garage (Industrial AI Digital Innovation Lab)

Quantifiable outcome

• ROI of 1 to 461 delivered at a Hunter Valley mine (Head of Asset Leadership Team attestation)
• +14 more outcomes

Named customers55 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability5 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Dassault SystemesflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development partner on the Northern Territory Virtual Twin project, alongside the NT Government and AMC Search. Combined digital-innovation, critical-infrastructure and defence expertise to deliver Australia's first harbour-scale virtual twin in six weeks; Secora Garage draws on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for digital twin deployments.
• AMC SearchflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development partner on the Northern Territory Virtual Twin project (with the NT Government, Secora, Dassault Systemes). Brings maritime and Australian Maritime College search expertise to the consortium.
• NORSTA Maritime (Norship, Tropical Reef Shipyard, Nova Systems, Secora)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner100% Australian joint venture and Regional Maintenance Provider North East Australia, delivering naval sustainment services to the Royal Australian Navy's fleet in Cairns. Won the DTC Defence Industry Awards 2022 Teaming Award together. Secora provides process, isolation, digital and improvement expertise.
• Nova SystemscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-venture partner in NORSTA Maritime alongside Norship, Tropical Reef Shipyard and Secora; collaboration supports the Royal Australian Navy's Cairns-based fleet sustainment.
• NorshipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-venture partner in NORSTA Maritime alongside Nova Systems, Tropical Reef Shipyard and Secora; naval sustainment partner.
• Tropical Reef ShipyardcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-venture partner in NORSTA Maritime alongside Norship, Nova Systems and Secora; naval sustainment partner.
• University of South Australia (UniSA) Industrial AIflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic / research partnership powering the Secora Garage. Five UniSA Industrial AI students completed internships with Secora at the Adelaide launch (Aug 2025); UniSA Project Mentor Professor Markus Stumptner guided the ReimburseMe project. UniSA collaboration is referenced as a model of combining academic insight with real-world application.
• Microsoft 365coreTechnology or IntegrationUnderlying platform for Secora's cutting-edge safety audit system (military-grade security, rapid customisation, real-time defect notification by email). Microsoft 365 also underpins the ReimburseMe low-code prototype built by UniSA interns on Power Apps, SharePoint and Power BI.
• AICRAFTminorGTM or Marketing PartnerIndustry partner that delivered live real-time object recognition and mapping demonstrations at Secora's Industrial AI After Hours #2 event in Adelaide on 5 November 2025; co-presents on edge/industrial AI applications.
• IFSminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSpeaker (Shaun Edsall) at Secora's Industrial AI After Hours Adelaide launch in August 2025; co-presents on industrial AI themes.
• ConsunetminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSpeaker (Antonio Parrella) at Secora's Industrial AI After Hours Adelaide launch in August 2025.
• Veterans' Employment Program (VES)minorOthersSecora is signalled as a participant in the Australian Government's Veterans' Employment Program (logo featured in the website footer), supporting hiring of veterans into its workforce.
• Northern Territory GovernmentflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner for the Northern Territory Virtual Twin; engaged Secora to deliver a first-of-its-kind digital twin of Darwin Harbour and the Top End to support defence, infrastructure and economic planning. Supports Secora's Darwin office and resource expansion.

Scale indicators20 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Accenture: Global consulting and systems integrator with a large Australian practice across resources, infrastructure and defence. Comparable on digital transformation, AI for asset-heavy industries and large-enterprise delivery, though at substantially greater scale.
• WSP: Global professional-services and engineering firm with major Australian operations across infrastructure, environment, mining and energy. Overlaps with Secora on asset management, transport and defence-adjacent advisory work, but at much larger scale and broader portfolio.
• CGI: Global IT and business consulting firm with a strong industrial-AI and digital-twin practice serving utilities, mining and defence clients. Comparable on industrial-AI integration, ERP/SCADA convergence and Australian federal/defence work.
• Jacobs: Global engineering and advisory firm with significant Australian defence, water and resources work. Comparable on digital-twin, asset management and OT/IT integration themes, but operates as a much larger incumbent with global delivery capacity.

Direct peers

• GHD: Privately held Australian engineering, architecture and asset-management consultancy operating across infrastructure, water, energy and resources. Closely comparable in size, vertical mix (resources, infrastructure, government) and senior-practitioner-led delivery model.
• Worley: Australian-listed global engineering and asset-performance services firm serving resources, energy and chemicals customers. Overlaps with Secora on asset reliability, shutdown support, isolation management and digital-twin services for mining and oil & gas clients such as BHP, Woodside and Shell.
• AVEVA: Industrial software and digital-twin platform provider serving process, power, marine and infrastructure operators. Comparable on digital-twin and OT/IT convergence themes for asset-intensive industries (Dassault Systemes partner to Secora on NT Virtual Twin).
• Bentley Systems: Infrastructure engineering software vendor focused on digital twins for roads, rail, utilities and mining. Comparable on digital-twin capability and infrastructure vertical alignment, though delivered via software platform rather than embedded consulting.
• SLR Consulting: Global environmental and advisory consultancy with strong ANZ mining, oil & gas and infrastructure client base. Comparable in privately held, practitioner-led delivery model and resources/infrastructure vertical mix.
• Aurecon: ANZ-headquartered engineering and infrastructure advisory with deep exposure to defence, transport, water and energy clients. Comparable in size, ANZ-centric footprint and asset-lifecycle consulting orientation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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