About
From a scribbled idea between two friends to a company now trusted by listed enterprises, ambitious startups, universities, and governments across the Asia–Pacific, The Improbability Company (T.I.C.) has grown by doing one thing consistently: delivering outcomes that look impossible until they’re done.
We operate at the collision point of RegTech, Compliance, and ClimateTech Electrification. Our work blends engineering discipline with a sense of humour, curiosity, and the kind of naive optimism that built half the modern world. We like to think of ourselves as the improbable partner — the team you call when the thing you want doesn’t exist yet.
How we work
We’re geeks, nerds, and builders who grew up on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so we take our fun seriously. Across our projects, we bring over 20 years of founder experience, three successful exits, and a track record of taking messy problems and untangling them into elegant systems. We don’t posture; we ship.
Current Projects
Enterprise Worker Compliance — Tech Forge
We’re building a full end-to-end worker-compliance and workforce-management platform for a listed Australian company. That covers pre-employment checks, ongoing compliance, renewals, offboarding, audit trails, and complex regulatory workflows.
This project spans 20 engineers across Australia and Vietnam, developing a next-generation, Asia–Pacific–ready system from the ground up.
Learn moreVoltaRocks + 42 — Melvin Labs
Our internal ClimateTech venture, now valued at $10M AUD, powers the engine behind large-scale electrification. Think of it as the Shopify of electrification: real-time modelling for solar, batteries, VPP, EV charging, home upgrades, payback calculations, and retailer bundling.
It gives retailers, installers, and partners a modern, accurate way to sell and configure electrification solutions with zero friction.
Learn moreProject Cần Thơ 2030 — Magrathea
We are partnering with universities, government, and private industry to help transform Cần Thơ — Vietnam’s fourth-largest city — into a regional innovation hub aligned with the Cần Thơ 2030 digitalisation plan.
This includes convening keynote speakers, industry experts, accelerators, venture funds, and regional conferences to position Cần Thơ as a trading and innovation centre for ASEAN.
Learn moreWhere we've been
We’ve partnered with organisations around the world on problems that matter.
AEMO
Applying Lean Six Sigma, we analysed waste, mapped the full current-state process, and reduced lead times from 18 months to 3 months.
Geocon Construction
Designed a full technical architecture, workflow blueprint, and implementation plan to modernise construction management at scale.
Incsub
Guided the transition to a mature SaaS platform with hosting, agency support, and global growth — scaling valuation over 24 months.
McKinsey & Company
Collaborated on renewable-energy forecasting and modelling to support major state-level planning and investment.
"Improbable ideas become inevitable when the right people take them seriously."
This is what we do every day.
Who we are on the record
The Improbability Company is a registered Australian business name of L.O.L. Consultants Pty Ltd. Same company, same ABN, same GST registration — the studio name is how we trade.
Questions
Which door do I knock on — TechForge, Melvin Labs, or Magrathea?
Thirty-second rule. TechForge if the problem is already in the building and you need it unmessed. Melvin Labs if the problem is still a vision or an experiment — larger problem-solving you need to see alive before it is a product. Magrathea if that problem exists overseas and other people will pay to learn how you solved it.
Do you replace our team or sit inside it? After launch, who owns the IP, the codebase, and the product — you, us, or both?
We sit inside it. We accelerate the creation of a team — a startup built inside your company. Internal accelerated startups have shown huge impact across enterprises; the research and the showcase case studies are public. We create your Intrapreneur in Residence program. After launch we operate as the admin and employer-of-record layer. The IP, the staff, the codebase, and the product are yours.
How do we actually pay you? Fixed project, embedded squad, equity, or a mix — and what does the first month cost in practice?
Neither a fixed project nor a one-month hire. Discovery is free. After that we agree the number of staff, the roles, and the structure — then a monthly recurring fee covers the lot: HR, recruitment, training, conceptual architecture, briefing, new-product introduction, and learning. Minimum engagement is 18 months. The first billed month is that agreed monthly fee. The program runs the way you would found staff for a new startup. That is how we operate.
Who is behind The Improbability Company?
T.I.C. is the trading name of L.O.L. Consultants Pty Ltd (ABN 15 624 748 821). The studio is led by a distributed founding team across Australia and Vietnam.
What industries do you work in?
We work at the collision of RegTech, workforce compliance, electrification, and ClimateTech — plus the enterprise software those domains need to actually ship.
Do you only work in APAC?
APAC is home base — Australia, Vietnam, Singapore, and New Caledonia — but the work is built to travel. We partner with listed enterprises, startups, universities, and government.