Three Australian tech companies, one campaign.

Employment Hero is an Australian-built employment platform helping more than 300,000 businesses worldwide run HR, payroll, and people management in one place. They put their name on the bow of this boat because they're a company built around the idea that work should fit the people doing it — and this campaign, as much as it's about racing, is about expanding the picture of who belongs in elite offshore sport.

Alliance carries their name from Sydney to Mackay.

Amazon Web Services backs the campaign as our cloud and data partner. Everything we do offshore — weather routing, telemetry, polar modelling, post-race analysis — is built on data, and AWS is the company that makes that data tractable for a two-person crew with a satphone and a laptop bouncing around the nav station.

The connection to my day job is direct: I lead a platform engineering team that builds on AWS. The skills transfer surprisingly well to a wet cockpit at 3am.

Mantel is the Australian engineering consultancy where I lead platform. They've supported this campaign from the start because they care about the same thing I do — engineers doing serious work in serious settings, building things that hold up under pressure. Sailing a boat hard offshore is, in its own way, the same problem.

The team back home gets a steady stream of unflattering 3am photos for their patience.