Three products. One mission. 22 years of back-office evolution.
Streamline Business Group starts automating back offices.
Streamline was founded to solve a problem that has not changed materially in 22 years: finance teams spending their days doing work that should be done by software. The first customers were in manufacturing, transport, and professional services – industries where invoice volumes made manual processing an unsustainable cost.
The early platform wasn't called Acume. But the core belief was the same: structured data beats unstructured data, every time.
PlusOne: a decade of AP automation for ANZ mid-market.
Launched nearly a decade ago, PlusOne helped hundreds of Australian and New Zealand businesses streamline their accounts payable processes. It integrated with the major accounting and ERP systems of its era. The customer-informed design decisions from PlusOne carry forward into Acume today.
PlusOne was a product of its time. Acume is the product of what that time taught us.
Acume: built for the Peppol era from day one.
In 2022, we launched Acume as a ground-up rebuild for a different world. Australia had adopted Peppol. New Zealand had adopted Peppol. The entire AP/AR category was about to shift from "automating the manual process" to "eliminating the manual process entirely."
Acume is the first Streamline product designed with Peppol as a native capability, not an add-on. This is the platform PlusOne would have been if we were building it today.
The decade the back office changes permanently.
With Peppol mandates now active across Australian government procurement and New Zealand's 5-business-day payment targets in force from January 2026, the ANZ finance-automation landscape is consolidating fast. Businesses that moved early are compliant. Businesses still processing PDFs are exposed.
Acume is built for this decade, not the last one. Every feature is informed by 22 years of back-office observation and the specific shape of the ANZ regulatory environment.
