AustraliaOS Pty Ltd provides structured assessment capability to Australian organisations evaluating vendor, counterparty, and operational risk. This page sets out who is accountable for the work, how that accountability is exercised, and what a client is entitled to expect.
All engagements are contracted with AustraliaOS Pty Ltd, an Australian proprietary limited company with an active ACN and ABN, holding an Australian business bank account and subject to Australian corporate law and the Corporations Act 2001. The company is the legal counterparty to every client. Payment flows to the company. Liability sits with the company.
Every assessment, directive, and procurement brief released by AustraliaOS Pty Ltd is signed by a named director before release. The signing director is professionally accountable for the analytical judgement contained in the document. At the date of this statement the signing director is Brunel Al-Bijwaie, sole director of AustraliaOS Pty Ltd.
Accountability here means three things. The director has read the output in full before it leaves the company. The director stands behind the reasoning as a considered professional judgement on the evidence available at the time. The director is contactable by the client for the life of the engagement and for a defined period afterwards to discuss, defend, or correct the work.
An AustraliaOS assessment is decision support. It structures evidence, applies a doctrine, and renders a reasoned recommendation. It is not a decision. The client remains the decision maker and retains full responsibility for any action taken on the basis of an assessment. Assessments are produced on the evidence reasonably available at the time of drafting and are explicit about the limits of that evidence. Where an assessment relies on inference rather than verified fact, it says so.
Assessments are not legal advice, financial advice, or a substitute for statutory due diligence. They do not replace formal security clearance processes, regulatory approvals, or specialist professional opinions where those are required.
Every assessment is reviewed against the applicable doctrine schema by the signing director before release. The review is logged in the company's audit trail, which is HMAC signed and retained for the life of the engagement plus seven years.
The company operates today with a single reviewer. As the company grows, the intended upgrade path is a second independent reviewer with relevant subject matter credentials for assessments above a defined sensitivity threshold, and an external advisory board for assessments in regulated or national security contexts. Clients are entitled to ask, at any point during an engagement, which reviewers have signed their specific assessment.
Analytical work of this kind is not infallible. If a client identifies an error of fact, reasoning, or doctrine application in an assessment, AustraliaOS Pty Ltd commits to the following.
The company will acknowledge the notification within two business days. The company will review the identified issue and respond substantively within ten business days. Where an error is confirmed, the company will issue a corrected assessment at no additional cost, notify any other parties who received the original assessment with the client's consent, and record the correction in the audit trail. Where a material error has caused the client to act to their detriment, the company's liability is governed by the engagement contract and by the company's professional indemnity insurance.
AustraliaOS Pty Ltd carries professional indemnity insurance appropriate to the scale and nature of its engagements. A certificate of currency is available to clients on request before contract signature.
AustraliaOS Pty Ltd will disclose in writing, before contract signature, any actual or perceived conflict of interest relating to the subject of a proposed assessment. This includes prior engagements, personal relationships, financial interests, and ideological commitments that could reasonably be seen to bear on the objectivity of the work. Where a conflict cannot be managed, the engagement is declined.
AustraliaOS Pty Ltd does not hold Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) membership at the date of this statement. Engagements requiring handling of classified material or accessing protected government systems are out of scope. Engagements appropriate to an unclassified commercial assessment context are in scope. The company will not accept an engagement that it is not properly credentialed to perform.
Client material provided to AustraliaOS Pty Ltd for the purpose of an assessment is treated as confidential, used only for the engagement it was provided for, and retained only for the duration required by the engagement and Australian record keeping obligations. Client material is not used to train external models. The specific data handling terms for any engagement are set out in the engagement contract.
Correspondence relating to this statement, including notification of suspected errors, conflicts of interest, or requests for the certificate of currency, should be directed to the director at the address provided on engagement, or to the company's registered address.