Confluence Software

Software for businesses that need their data to stay useful, recoverable, and theirs.

Confluence builds practical systems across finance, operations, hardware, games, and simulation, with a current focus on data ownership and recovery.

The main work is Control-C: reliable backups and point-in-time recovery for business data. The wider portfolio includes accounting tools, product prototypes, developer utilities, game systems, and industrial interfaces built to make complex work easier to trust.

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Built in New ZealandFinancial systemsIndustrial softwareLocal-first toolsGames and simulationForty years writing code

The shape of the work

My desktop is full of tools I built because a real-world problem arrived before a tidy product category did. Some became production systems. Some are nearly there. Some are useful because they taught the next thing what not to be.

One idea keeps showing up in everything I build: your data should be yours.

Not rented. Not held hostage. Not trapped in a SaaS account until the month someone changes the rules. Control-C, Accounts101, and LedgerOne are all attempts at the same thing from different angles. The games and tools keep the curiosity alive, but the centre keeps pulling back to ownership, recovery, and trust.

Selected Work