Māhanga Technologies Limited
Rotorua, New Zealand
Proposal for Todd
Head of Growth and Partnerships
Who we are and why we're doing this
Māhanga means twins
Māhanga Technologies is founded by twin brothers Bruce and Bryan. Every product we build started as a problem we lived through ourselves. Rather than put up with it, we built the answer, and then built it properly so it could help other people in the same position.
Our aim is to build and grow a company whose applications make a real difference in people's daily lives. The apps are the vehicle: the revenue they earn is what allows the company to develop further, diversify into new lines of business, and reach a financial position where we can do what we're actually here to do:
- Support people in need, and the communities and organisations that serve them
- Help fund other people's dreams and ideas through foundations and scholarships
- Build alliances with people who share the same purpose and vision
What we've built
All voice first. All built to keep people safe and keep their data their own.
- Doctor's Journal — records your medical visits and keeps your whole medical life in one place, in your own language
- Certo — compliance forms for New Zealand electricians, inspectors and the companies they work with
- PhotoVault — a family's memories, kept, organised and shared properly
- TrampSafe — Bryan's app for trampers, hunters and cyclists: precise navigation, hut to hut, day after day
- Dive Central — plan the dive, dive the plan, and your family knows you're home safe
- StillWater — Bryan's Bible app
- Te reo Māori app — learning to speak Māori, in development
- Skye — our own ecosystem: messaging, calls, calendar, notes and family lists, run by voice through your own AI companion, outside Google and Apple, with your data staying yours
Certo and Doctor's Journal are ready for launch and are the focus first. More detail on every product, and what's coming, is on the second page.
The role
Head of Growth and Partnerships
Growth
- Drive growth across every product the company builds, and whatever comes next
- Bring forward new revenue opportunities as you see them
Partnerships
- Build the partnerships that share our purpose and take these products to the people who need them — Māori and iwi health providers, councils, lines and trade companies, property managers and Kāinga Ora, with the full target list on the second page
- Papa Reo matters most
- Te Hiku Media is the iwi-led team in Kaitāia behind the most accurate te reo Māori speech recognition in the world
- Their values are ours: people's data belongs to them and is used only for their benefit
- That fit makes them a natural partner for Skye, Doctor's Journal and the te reo app
Standing
- Contracted to the company, not employed by it
- Shareholder, not a director — the directors are Bruce and Bryan
Commission
A percentage of everything the company banks each month, across all products
| Monthly company revenue | Your rate on that band |
|---|---|
| First $10,000 | 5% |
| $10,000 to $25,000 | 4% |
| $25,000 to $50,000 | 3% |
| $50,000 to $100,000 | 2% |
| Above $100,000 | 1% |
Example
- The company banks $12,000 in a month
- 5% of the first $10,000 = $500
- 4% of the next $2,000 = $80
- Commission for that month: $580
How it works
- Calculated on money actually received, not projections
- Paid monthly, once the month's revenue is in
- Rewards dollars, not seat counts — a $300 PhotoVault sale counts for more than a $6 Certo subscription
- Continues for as long as you're in the role, and does not stop when your shares vest
- Your dollars always rise as revenue grows; only the rate on the top band steps down
- The early months are where your percentage is highest — that's deliberate, because that's where the work is hardest
Retainer
$500 a month, paid on top of commission, for as long as you're in the role
- $500 a month — it never steps up and it never stops
- In a month where the company can't afford the full $500, you get half of what's left after the company's running costs, and the company keeps the other half
- Running costs are only the direct costs of keeping the apps live — AI and cloud services, hosting, and app store and domain fees. Nothing else
- Once revenue covers it, the full $500 is paid every month
- Paid on top of commission, not instead of it
- Not a salary
Example
- The company banks $1,000 in a month and running costs are $100
- $900 is left, so you get $450 and the company keeps $450
- Once the company is banking more than about $1,200 a month, the full $500 is paid and commission runs on top of it
Neither of us gets paid unless the other does. There's no deadline on this — if it takes a while to get there, the split simply keeps running.
Shares
A 2% share of the company, gifted in recognition of what you'll bring to it
- 2% non-voting shares, subject to Bryan's approval as co-director
- Bruce and Bryan hold the other 98% and run the company
- Given for your contribution — you pay nothing for them
- Granted now, while the company is worth very little, so any tax on the grant stays small
How they're earned
- Earned over three years, one third each year
- 12-month cliff: nothing is yours until you've been in the role 12 months
- At month 12 the first third lands
- After that the rest builds up month by month
If you leave
- You keep what you've earned to that point
- Anything not yet earned goes back to the company
- The company may buy back your earned shares at a fair value, so ownership stays inside the business
Example
- Leave at month 13: you hold roughly 0.68% of the company
- Stay three years: you hold the full 2%
Start-up loan
If you put money in to get things off the ground, it's a loan, not a share purchase — your 2% stays clean
- Drawdown facility of up to $10,000
- Advance money when it's needed, in whatever amounts suit
- Each advance is dated and recorded
- Interest at 8% a year on the outstanding balance, from the date of each advance
- Maximum term of 12 months
- The company may repay any amount at any time with no penalty — the aim is to clear it early
- You declare the interest as income
Summary of terms
- RoleHead of Growth and Partnerships, contracted, across all products
- CommissionBanded 5% down to 1% on total monthly revenue, for as long as you're in the role
- Retainer$500 a month for as long as you're in the role, paid in full once revenue covers it and shared 50/50 with the company until then
- Shares2% non-voting, gifted, granted now, earned over three years with a 12-month cliff, buyback if you leave
- LoanUp to $10,000 at 8%, 12 months maximum, repayable early at no cost
Agreement
This proposal takes effect once signed by all three parties below and the company is registered. The share grant will be reviewed by the company's accountant before shares are issued.
Our intention is that as revenue supports it, these contract roles become salaried positions with the company. When that point comes, whether you move across full time will be your choice.
Todd Date
Bruce Date
Bryan Date
Page two — the products and the partnership targets
Working detail for Todd. This page will keep growing.
The products
Every one is voice first
Doctor's Journal — ready for launch
- Started because Bruce kept forgetting appointments and what the doctor had said
- Records the consultation, transcribes it, and returns a plain-English summary, the doctor's notes and your reminders
- Medications with reminders, blood tests explained in plain English, appointment letters turned into calendar entries, documents, symptoms, journaling and every provider you see
- Already in eight languages including te reo Māori, Samoan, Tongan and Fijian, with more easy to add
- The same problem faces millions of people
Certo — ready for launch
- Bruce is an electrician with thirty years in the trade and wanted to build something for it
- One of the sparkies asked for an app to handle the paperwork, and Certo grew from there
- Certificates of compliance and the forms electricians, inspectors and companies deal with every day
PhotoVault
- Started as somewhere to keep our own memories, then built for every family to do the same
- Recognises faces, objects, places, dates and seasons, and organises everything into albums, collections, spaces and tags
- Send one link after a wedding or birthday and everyone's photos come back into one shared album; family newsletters work the same way
- Resurfaces memories the way the big tech companies do, done better, and built for families
TrampSafe — close to release
- Bryan's app for trampers, hunters and cyclists
- Precise navigation and location marking, hut to hut, across multi-day trips, with timing built in
Dive Central — in development
- Built because Bruce is a diver: plan the dive, dive the plan
- Voice safety brief, then your dive plan is texted to family automatically
- If you're not back inside your dive time plus a safety buffer, they're alerted; when you close the dive off, they get the home-safe message
- Built with kaimoana divers and their whānau in mind
StillWater — close to release
- Bryan's Bible app
Te reo Māori app — in development
- Learning to speak Māori
Skye — the ecosystem
- Born because life shouldn't mean opening ten apps: messaging, calls, texts, email, calendar, notes, shared family calendars and lists, all in one place, all run by voice
- Skye is your own AI companion at the centre of it — send a message, check the calendar, invite the kids to dinner on Friday, and she tells you when they've accepted
- Built outside Google and Apple. Your data stays private, secure and yours. Not the tech companies'.
- You choose the language Skye speaks, including te reo Māori
In the pipeline
- Certo Jobs — a full job management platform for trades, fully built and tested, pre-release
- A business planning and job-scoping tool
- Home Assistant integration into the Skye ecosystem
- Supporting other people to build their own apps, including around hardware
Partnership targets
Certo and Doctor's Journal first. Papa Reo throughout.
Papa Reo / Te Hiku Media, Kaitāia — critical
- Te reo Māori voice across Doctor's Journal, Skye and the te reo app
- The same values on data: it belongs to the people and is used only for their benefit
Doctor's Journal
The model: the partner funds the subscription for its members, so they get it at no cost.
- Māori and iwi health providers — the primary target
- Ngāti Pikiao Health Services, Rotorua
- Ngāti Hine, Northland
- Every region has its own — one conversation per rohe
- Hauora and Whānau Ora collectives — one conversation reaches several providers
- Māori land trusts and rūnanga with wellbeing programmes and funding of their own
- Pacific church and community networks — the app already speaks Samoan, Tongan and Fijian
- Primary Health Organisations
- Aged care and retirement village operators
- Disability support and home care providers
- Pharmacy groups
Certo
The model: companies and organisations run their compliance workflow through Certo.
- Kāinga Ora — forms and workflow first, Doctor's Journal for staff later
- Councils — their own maintenance and electrical crews, plus the property they own
- Lines companies
- Trade and electrical contracting companies
- Property managers
- Iwi-owned construction and infrastructure companies
- Facilities management and maintenance contractors
- Electrical training providers and apprenticeship organisations — reach apprentices before they enter the trade
- Master Electricians and other trade membership bodies
TrampSafe
- Department of Conservation, regional offices
- Tramping and alpine clubs
- Mountain Safety Council
- Land Search and Rescue
- Outdoor education providers and school outdoor programmes
Dive Central
- Dive training agencies and local dive schools
- Dive clubs
- Coastguard and Water Safety New Zealand
- Iwi with coastal rohe and kaimoana gathering groups
Te reo Māori app and Skye
- Kura kaupapa Māori and wānanga
- Pacific church and community networks
Across the safety apps
- ACC — injury prevention funding, and both apps are prevention by design
- Regional council civil defence teams
Across everything
- Large regional employers — councils, forestry, mills and manufacturers — trades for Certo, staff wellbeing for Doctor's Journal
- Any organisation that becomes a key partner and helps fund the work