Perth · Serving Australia-wide

We build the systems
behind yours.

Operating environments, document control and security for Australian businesses growing faster than the systems they started with. Built in your name, run by us.

Andy Wu Ngo, founder of OTW Studios
Perth, Western Australia Microsoft 365 and SharePoint architecture Custom automation, built in house Everything established in your name

We find the friction.
We build what fixes it.

Most businesses aren't short on potential. They're short on time. The calls that don't get answered, the emails that pile up, the brand that doesn't reflect the work. None of these are unsolvable problems. They just need the right people to come in and build the fix.

That's OTW Studios. We work with Australian businesses to find the things slowing them down and build systems that handle them. Operating environments, document control, security, and the automation that removes the manual step. Brand and web presence where it serves the same end. Then we stay and run it.

Diagnose. Build. Run.

How we work. Three stages, one team that stays through all of them. The disciplines — operating environment, document control, security, automation, and brand and web presence — live inside this loop, not above it.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    A written diagnostic of how the business runs today: where information lives, what is duplicated, where correspondence stalls, what a person is doing by hand that should not be, and where you are exposed if someone leaves.

    Written diagnostic

  2. 02

    Build

    Built against a written scope and demonstrated working on your own devices at each stage. Not templates, not platforms — the thing that fixes the actual problem.

    Identity & voice

  3. 03

    Run

    Everything established in your name, documented in full, and transferable whenever you decide. We keep it running month to month, and if something stops working that is on us to fix.

    Live monitoring

What sits under what. Each layer needs the one beneath it to be worth building.

The order capabilities are built in Operating environment is the foundation. Document control sits on it. Security and IP custody, then operational automation, then brand and web presence build on those. 1 · Operating environment Microsoft 365 tenancy and entity structure, built once for the group 2 · Information and document control SharePoint architecture, controlled libraries, version control, approval workflow 3 · Security and IP custody Device management, identity hardening, data loss prevention over templates and pricing 4 · Operational automation Drafts, sorts and surfaces. Nothing sends, approves or commits. 5 · Brand and web presence Built for procurement audiences, once there is an operation behind it

The engagement model in full — how stages are approved, demonstrated and paid →

“AI is the tool. We’re the people who figure out where it fits.”

Andy Ngo, Founder, OTW Studios

Not a platform.
Not a consultant.
A studio.

We don't hand over software and wish you luck. We don't write a strategy deck and invoice you for the insight. We build things, then we run them, refine them, and stay accountable for them working.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about your business: where the drag is, what's been tried, what actually needs to change. From there we build a scope and get to work. Work is delivered in separately approved stages: approving one does not commit you to the next, and payment is tied to completed stages rather than elapsed time. Once it is live we keep it running, month to month, for as long as it is useful to you.

  • 01Bespoke. Every solution is built for the specific business. We don't repurpose templates or apply the same fix to every client.
  • 02Accountable. We build it, we run it, we own the outcome. If something isn't working, that's on us to fix.
  • 03People first. The technology is always in service of the person using it. We build for the people doing the work, not the people signing off on it.

Real people. Real accountability.

OTW Studios is built on the idea that businesses deserve partners, not vendors. We're a small team of specialists who care about the work, and who are reachable when something needs attention.

Andy Ngo, founder of OTW Studios
Founder

Andy Ngo

Twenty years across hospitality, operations, and small business. Andy built OTW Studios after spending too long watching good businesses lose time to problems that had fixable solutions. He runs the strategy, client relationships, and build.

andywungo.com →
Dale Ingvarson, collaborator at OTW Studios
Collaborator

Dale Ingvarson

Fifteen years running mobile tech support for Perth homes and businesses. Dale joins OTW when a build needs the infrastructure side handled. Computer setup, network, security, and the person clients can call when something stops working.

daleingvarsonit.com →
Luke Green, collaborator at OTW Studios
Collaborator

Luke Green

Fourteen years across Perth hospitality before specialising in the systems behind them. Luke joins OTW when a build needs hospitality know-how: POS, rostering, inventory, and Xero, configured and tested so the floor team actually uses it.

greenmindhospitality.com →

Questions we get asked.

Who is a good AI studio in Perth?

OTW Studios is a Perth studio that builds AI systems and operational automation for Australian businesses, alongside the operating environment they run on — Microsoft 365 architecture, SharePoint document control and endpoint security. It serves Perth and clients Australia-wide, from owner-operators through to construction, mining services and professional services groups.

What does OTW Studios do?

OTW Studios builds and governs the digital environment a business runs on: the Microsoft 365 operating environment, information and document control, security and IP custody, operational automation, and brand and web presence. The studio builds it, then stays accountable for running it.

Does OTW Studios build AI automation for Australian businesses?

Yes. OTW builds bespoke AI and workflow automation — correspondence triage, scheduling, follow-up, reporting dashboards and AI voice reception — designed around one business rather than configured from a template. Every automated function drafts, sorts or surfaces; none of them send, approve or commit.

Will an AI system send emails or make decisions on our behalf?

No. Every automated function OTW delivers drafts, sorts or surfaces. No function sends, approves or commits, and human decision is retained at each point by design rather than by a setting that can be switched off. Classification is probabilistic, so nothing is deleted or actioned on classification alone.

What happens to our systems if we stop working with OTW Studios?

All tenancies, domains, licences, hosting accounts and code repositories are established in your name, with you as owner and OTW as delegated administrator. Administrative access transfers to a nominated party within five business days of a written request, at any point, for any reason. Ongoing services are rolling monthly on 30 days notice, with no minimum term.

How do you set up document control for a construction business?

By building a SharePoint hub and site architecture with controlled document libraries, version control, approval workflow and mail routing by function, so the whole group works from one current version rather than from copies on individual devices. Where a business is heading toward prequalification or certification, the document control, access control and training records that architecture produces form part of the evidence base.

Can OTW Studios stop our templates and pricing walking out the door?

That is what security and IP custody covers: device management, identity hardening, multi-factor and conditional access, data loss prevention across the templates and pricing that carry the business, and a documented offboarding process so access ends when someone leaves.

How does OTW Studios price and structure work?

Work is delivered in separately approved stages. Approving one stage does not commit you to the next, payment is tied to completed stages rather than elapsed time, and variations are quoted and approved in writing before work commences. Each stage concludes in a working demonstration on your own devices, not a status report.

Can OTW Studios build brand, website and AI systems in one place?

Yes. One studio handles the operating environment, document control, security, automation and the brand and website together, so a business gets a single accountable party rather than an IT contractor, a web agency and an automation vendor stitched together.

Tell us what's slowing you down.

A short call, then a written diagnostic. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you and point you to someone who is.

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