We ran the business first.
Centra Limited is a New Zealand-owned software development house. Before we wrote software, we ran a wholesale business turning over more than $5M a year, on tools that never quite fit.
Our story.
We spent years chasing stock that wasn't where the system said it was, quoting from a spreadsheet and finding out about a dead product line months too late. Every gap got filled with another subscription, and the only place the picture came together was at the end of the month, when it was too late to act.
So we built what we wished we'd had: one system where every part of the business writes to the same record, with an AI that watches all of it and gets the next step ready for a person to approve. That became the Centra One platform ↗, launched in 2026.
Now we build the same way for other organisations, government and business: start from the job, build one system, and let the software do the noticing.
The company.
Straight up: we're a new company, and we won't pretend to a decade of history we don't have. What we do have is a production platform you can inspect, and years on the other side of the problems we solve.
- Legal name
- Centra Limited
- NZBN
- 9429053739476
- Ownership
- New Zealand-owned and operated
- Founded
- 2026
- How we work
- Remote-first across New Zealand and Australia
- Our product
- The Centra One platform
- Our stack
- React, TypeScript, Supabase, Claude, Cloudflare
Three things we'll always do.
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Tell you when something off the shelf will do.
We'd rather lose a build than sell you one you don't need. We hold our own product to the same rule: demand forecasting isn't in it yet, and we say so.
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Put the people who pitch on the work.
The senior team you meet at the start is the team that designs, builds and supports your system.
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Give you everything you paid for.
The code, data and documentation we create for you belong to you, and we'll hand them over whenever you ask.
Work with us.
We're a small team, so everything you build ships to real customers quickly. We're hiring across engineering, product, sales and customer success, and we hire for attitude and aptitude.