MakerX
@makerxau.bsky.social
MakerX is a research and development studio that partners with organisations to build digital products and high-growth ventures.
Big models get the headlines. Clean data gets the results.
In this blog, we break down the research, the cost implications, and what actually works in practice when building agentic AI for business.
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In this blog, we break down the research, the cost implications, and what actually works in practice when building agentic AI for business.
blog.makerx.com.au/beware-of-co...
Beware of Confident Liars: Why Your Data Matters More Than Your Model Size
There's a common refrain in AI circles: open-source LLMs can't compete, small models are garbage, and frontier providers like Anthropic or OpenAI will always outperform everyone else.
That's increasi...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Big models get the headlines. Clean data gets the results.
In this blog, we break down the research, the cost implications, and what actually works in practice when building agentic AI for business.
blog.makerx.com.au/beware-of-co...
In this blog, we break down the research, the cost implications, and what actually works in practice when building agentic AI for business.
blog.makerx.com.au/beware-of-co...
We’re seeing a shift from “can we build this with AI?” to “how does this create real, sustainable value at scale?”. It’s a pattern we’re seeing across the work we do with teams moving AI from experimentation into production.
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From hype to value: The AI trends set to shape 2026
In 2026, AI will move from pilots to accountable production at scale, where cost, trust, realistic views on agents and industry-specific implementations decide who delivers real value
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January 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
We’re seeing a shift from “can we build this with AI?” to “how does this create real, sustainable value at scale?”. It’s a pattern we’re seeing across the work we do with teams moving AI from experimentation into production.
www.itnews.com.au/feature/from...
www.itnews.com.au/feature/from...
We’re excited to welcome David Hyde to MakerX as a Principal Designer, based in Queensland.
Great to have you on board, Davey 😃.
Great to have you on board, Davey 😃.
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 AM
We’re excited to welcome David Hyde to MakerX as a Principal Designer, based in Queensland.
Great to have you on board, Davey 😃.
Great to have you on board, Davey 😃.
Throwing it back to this great read from our Lead Engineer, Wade Baglin on why Verifiable Credentials (VCs) are stepping into the spotlight in digital identity and security
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Why Verifiable Credentials (VCs) are Coming to the Forefront in Digital Security and Identity Verification
Verifiable Credentials are revolutionising digital identity verification by providing secure, verifiable claims usable across multiple sites. Learn why VCs are essential, how they differ from passkeys...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Throwing it back to this great read from our Lead Engineer, Wade Baglin on why Verifiable Credentials (VCs) are stepping into the spotlight in digital identity and security
blog.makerx.com.au/why-verified...
blog.makerx.com.au/why-verified...
Our Principal Designer, Donna Spencer's blog is worth a (re)read if you’re planning, resetting, or just need a fresh way to think about get something done for 2026.
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Start with the Problem: Our Framework for Meaningful Internal Initiatives
As a small, new company, and with founders who love to try new things, we started with no fixed approach for many of our core business processes. We all have a genuine desire to create a company that ...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Our Principal Designer, Donna Spencer's blog is worth a (re)read if you’re planning, resetting, or just need a fresh way to think about get something done for 2026.
blog.makerx.com.au/start-with-t...
blog.makerx.com.au/start-with-t...
New read! Our Principal Engineer, Stafford Williams, explores how to work with AI tools in a way that strengthens code quality rather than eroding it.
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Steering the Vibe: Verify
Using deterministic verification scripts to steer AI code-assist tools toward more maintainable code.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
New read! Our Principal Engineer, Stafford Williams, explores how to work with AI tools in a way that strengthens code quality rather than eroding it.
blog.makerx.com.au/steering-the...
blog.makerx.com.au/steering-the...
We’re excited to welcome Dylan Reilly-Hynes as our final new face for 2025, joining our team over in WA
Welcome to the team, Dylan, we’re so glad to have you with us and can’t wait to see what you help build.
Welcome to the team, Dylan, we’re so glad to have you with us and can’t wait to see what you help build.
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We’re excited to welcome Dylan Reilly-Hynes as our final new face for 2025, joining our team over in WA
Welcome to the team, Dylan, we’re so glad to have you with us and can’t wait to see what you help build.
Welcome to the team, Dylan, we’re so glad to have you with us and can’t wait to see what you help build.
How do you build technology that helps families, friends, and communities do more together than they can alone?
Moja's mission is to make global, group-based financial collaboration simple, secure and accessible!
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Moja's mission is to make global, group-based financial collaboration simple, secure and accessible!
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Building Financial Collaboration for a Global Community
Moja is a people-focused technology company on a mission to make group-based financial collaboration accessible and easy for everyone, everywhere. Using stablecoin technologies, Moja's mobile and web ...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
How do you build technology that helps families, friends, and communities do more together than they can alone?
Moja's mission is to make global, group-based financial collaboration simple, secure and accessible!
blog.makerx.com.au/building-fin...
Moja's mission is to make global, group-based financial collaboration simple, secure and accessible!
blog.makerx.com.au/building-fin...
We’re excited to welcome Eddie Phan to the team as our newest Lead Engineer based in Perth!
We’re thrilled to have you on the MakerX journey with us!
We’re thrilled to have you on the MakerX journey with us!
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
We’re excited to welcome Eddie Phan to the team as our newest Lead Engineer based in Perth!
We’re thrilled to have you on the MakerX journey with us!
We’re thrilled to have you on the MakerX journey with us!
We’re incredibly proud to have been nominated for the Outstanding Professional Services Award at this year’s Digital Economy Council of Australia, Blockies.
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We’re incredibly proud to have been nominated for the Outstanding Professional Services Award at this year’s Digital Economy Council of Australia, Blockies.
Throwback to The AI Revolution: Rethinking Money, Identity, Truth and Work!
In September we partnered with the University of Melbourne for an incredible evening exploring how AI is transforming the way we work, transact, verify identity, and establish truth!
🎥 Watch the recap
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In September we partnered with the University of Melbourne for an incredible evening exploring how AI is transforming the way we work, transact, verify identity, and establish truth!
🎥 Watch the recap
youtu.be/meyL1WYNpaQ
The AI Revolution: Rethinking Money, Identity, Truth and Work
YouTube video by Melbourne Connect
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November 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Throwback to The AI Revolution: Rethinking Money, Identity, Truth and Work!
In September we partnered with the University of Melbourne for an incredible evening exploring how AI is transforming the way we work, transact, verify identity, and establish truth!
🎥 Watch the recap
youtu.be/meyL1WYNpaQ
In September we partnered with the University of Melbourne for an incredible evening exploring how AI is transforming the way we work, transact, verify identity, and establish truth!
🎥 Watch the recap
youtu.be/meyL1WYNpaQ
Throwback time! Last year, Wade Baglin, our Lead Engineer published a brilliant piece on EQ in tech: why it matters, how it shows up in teams, and why “soft skills” aren’t soft at all. Still just as relevant today. Worth a re-read 👀!
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EQ from the perspective of a software engineer
In this post, a software engineer writes about their thoughts on EQ. They use an intelligent comparison of IQ and EQ to foster a better understanding.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Throwback time! Last year, Wade Baglin, our Lead Engineer published a brilliant piece on EQ in tech: why it matters, how it shows up in teams, and why “soft skills” aren’t soft at all. Still just as relevant today. Worth a re-read 👀!
blog.makerx.com.au/eq-from-the-...
blog.makerx.com.au/eq-from-the-...
A big welcome to Dylan Reilly-Hynes who has joined MakerX as our Lead Engineer in our ever-growing South West WA team.
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A big welcome to Dylan Reilly-Hynes who has joined MakerX as our Lead Engineer in our ever-growing South West WA team.
Welcome to MakerX, Casey Allen! Great to have you with us as we continue to grow and tackle exciting new work!
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Welcome to MakerX, Casey Allen! Great to have you with us as we continue to grow and tackle exciting new work!
Are you on a team that still publishes NPM packages using long-lived tokens?
Our Lead Engineer, Wade Baglin, breaks down how it works, why it matters, and why adopting it now is an easy win for secure engineering teams.
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Our Lead Engineer, Wade Baglin, breaks down how it works, why it matters, and why adopting it now is an easy win for secure engineering teams.
blog.makerx.com.au/catch-up-on-...
Catch up on the new NPM Trusted Publishing feature
NPM Trusted Publishing replaces risky long-lived tokens with secure OIDC authentication. Learn how this new feature eliminates token exfiltration attacks and makes publishing packages safer with zero ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Are you on a team that still publishes NPM packages using long-lived tokens?
Our Lead Engineer, Wade Baglin, breaks down how it works, why it matters, and why adopting it now is an easy win for secure engineering teams.
blog.makerx.com.au/catch-up-on-...
Our Lead Engineer, Wade Baglin, breaks down how it works, why it matters, and why adopting it now is an easy win for secure engineering teams.
blog.makerx.com.au/catch-up-on-...
We’re excited to welcome Petar Avramoski to MakerX as our newest Junior Engineer, joining our growing team in Western Australia!
We can’t wait to see what he builds with us!
We can’t wait to see what he builds with us!
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
We’re excited to welcome Petar Avramoski to MakerX as our newest Junior Engineer, joining our growing team in Western Australia!
We can’t wait to see what he builds with us!
We can’t wait to see what he builds with us!
We’re so proud of Jack Watts and Brendan Graham for representing MakerX at AgentCon Brisbane, contributing their perspectives on both modern engineering culture and responsible AI implementation.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
We’re so proud of Jack Watts and Brendan Graham for representing MakerX at AgentCon Brisbane, contributing their perspectives on both modern engineering culture and responsible AI implementation.
A Perth welcome lunch to Petar Avramoski who has joined the MakerX team as a Junior Engineer 😃.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A Perth welcome lunch to Petar Avramoski who has joined the MakerX team as a Junior Engineer 😃.
We’re excited to have Rinat Zaripov joining us as a Lead Engineer. With deep technical expertise and a passion for building, exploring, and collaborating, Rinat will be a huge part of shaping the products and experiences we create together!
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
We’re excited to have Rinat Zaripov joining us as a Lead Engineer. With deep technical expertise and a passion for building, exploring, and collaborating, Rinat will be a huge part of shaping the products and experiences we create together!
We’re pleased to welcome Isaac Dedini to MakerX as a Senior Engineer, joining our Brisbane team!
Isaac brings strong experience in software engineering and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to problem-solving!
Isaac brings strong experience in software engineering and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to problem-solving!
October 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
We’re pleased to welcome Isaac Dedini to MakerX as a Senior Engineer, joining our Brisbane team!
Isaac brings strong experience in software engineering and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to problem-solving!
Isaac brings strong experience in software engineering and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to problem-solving!
A warm welcome to Isaac Dedini and Karmjit Singh, who’ve joined us in Brisbane as Senior Engineers. We’re really glad to have you both on the team and look forward to the experience you’ll bring to MakerX.
Excited to see the impact you’ll make as we keep building together!
Excited to see the impact you’ll make as we keep building together!
October 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A warm welcome to Isaac Dedini and Karmjit Singh, who’ve joined us in Brisbane as Senior Engineers. We’re really glad to have you both on the team and look forward to the experience you’ll bring to MakerX.
Excited to see the impact you’ll make as we keep building together!
Excited to see the impact you’ll make as we keep building together!
Karmjit Singh joins us in Brisbane as a Senior Engineer, bringing more than 15 years of experience across Australia, the US, and India. Beyond his engineering depth, Karmjit is passionate about sharing knowledge and runs a youtube channel dedicated to teaching iOS programming!
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Karmjit Singh joins us in Brisbane as a Senior Engineer, bringing more than 15 years of experience across Australia, the US, and India. Beyond his engineering depth, Karmjit is passionate about sharing knowledge and runs a youtube channel dedicated to teaching iOS programming!
Last week our Principal Engineer, @melissahoughton.dev took the stage at AI Industry Connection: Generative & Agentic AI for Business, hosted at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social’s WA Data Science Innovation Hub.
September 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Last week our Principal Engineer, @melissahoughton.dev took the stage at AI Industry Connection: Generative & Agentic AI for Business, hosted at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social’s WA Data Science Innovation Hub.
We’re proud to share that MakerX has been recognised as the 12th Best Place to Work in Australia (Micro category) for 2025! This is our second year in a row making the list, and it reflects the culture we’ve built together, one where people can collaborate, develop their craft, and make an impact.
August 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
We’re proud to share that MakerX has been recognised as the 12th Best Place to Work in Australia (Micro category) for 2025! This is our second year in a row making the list, and it reflects the culture we’ve built together, one where people can collaborate, develop their craft, and make an impact.
Our Principal Engineer, Jack Watts will be speaking at the BNE .NET user group next week, diving into the patterns, pitfalls, and practices that turn RAG apps and agentic
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Making AI Systems You Can Trust in Production (Jack Watts) [~1h], Thu, Sep 4, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
**Meetup kindly sponsored this month by our friends at [MakerX](https://makerx.com.au/)**. 🍕
**Live stream** from 6pm AEST via our [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/chann
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August 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Our Principal Engineer, Jack Watts will be speaking at the BNE .NET user group next week, diving into the patterns, pitfalls, and practices that turn RAG apps and agentic
www.meetup.com/brisbane-dot...
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