About

Regsoft seeks to simplify and redefine the nature of regulation, using 21st century thinking to solve 21st century problems.

Regsoft Pty Ltd (Regsoft) was established in 2021. The directors of Regsoft have a combined 20 years of experience in the area of deontic, defeasible logic research, and have previously worked at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) [and National ICT Australia (NICTA)] undertaking research in this area.

Dr Leif HanlenDr. Leif Hanlen is a certified Scrum Master, with 25+ years of experience in research, technology development, and business consulting. Leif is focussed on unlocking the capacity of organisations to absorb new systems, technologies and capabilities, having developed several regulation technology projects and startups including:

  • Supported AusTrac, ASIC, and ATO to deploy processing for massive data extraction 
  • Know-Your-Client analytics for Westpac, and ‘Regosaurus’ regulation analyser
  • Automated analysis of legislation to optimise licensing for small businesses, in ‘PermitMe’ for ATO.
  • Payroll analytics ‘PaidRight’ to detect underpayment in the retail sector.
  • Data analytics of the worlds’ patent datasets through the Lens

Leif has worked in multiple consultancy and software development roles where he has designed and led major software transformation projects, with Australian government agencies and regulators across multiple jurisdictions.

Travis Simon is a software engineer and architect with over 20 years of professional experience. He has led technology teams in Data61, and development teams in Xero.

Travis is currently dedicated to digitising Australia’s regulations to reduce the cost and burden of compliance. He is working to encode regulation into a simplified, interoperable logic that can be implemented across industry.

Travis developed the core technology for PaidRight.io, a platform for encoding Enterprise Agreements (EAs) and Awards. The startup PaidRight has spun out into its own business, after receiving AUD $3.8 million of series A funding.

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