Everything started in a cramped office in Balcatta when our founder, Marcus Chen, was helping his family's construction business understand why their budgets never aligned with reality. Traditional accounting software gave them numbers, but nobody could explain the gaps between projected and actual spending.

Marcus realized that most budgeting tools were designed for stable markets, not Australia's resource-dependent economy where costs fluctuate wildly. After six months of building prototype algorithms that could identify deviation patterns specific to Australian businesses, xyloviantra was born.

By December 2018, we had our first three clients - all Perth-based small businesses. They saw average deviation identification improve by 340% in their first quarter. Word spread quickly through local business networks.