Build Faster. Risk Less
Your outsourced risk team for your business — so you can grow without the gaps.
Most small to medium businesses between $2M and $20M are running on instinct, not controls. When something goes wrong — a supplier fails, a breach occurs, a key person leaves — there's no system to catch it.
Xion maps your risks, closes your gaps, and acts as your ongoing risk function. No hiring. No full-time salary. Just the risk expertise you need, when you need it.
The Challenge
Most SMEs are one bad day away from a serious problem.
Your business has grown — but your internal systems haven't kept up. You don't have a documented process for what happens if your key supplier disappears. You don't know if your data handling meets the regulatory requirements. You don't have a controls register, a risk framework, or an accountability structure.
You're not alone.
This is the reality for most Australian businesses. The Big 4 firms are too expensive and treat you like a small engagement. Generic consultants don't understand risk. And internal hires cost $120,000 a year before you've solved anything.
That's the gap Xion fills.
Three Pain Points
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Undocumented processes, informal handovers, and no controls mean your business is running on institutional knowledge that exists only in your head — or one key person's.
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You're running the business. Risk management gets pushed to next month, every month, until something forces the issue.
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The Australian Privacy Act reforms, ASIC obligations, sector-specific compliance requirements. Most SME owners don't know what applies to them until they're being investigated.
How we work
A structured path from exposure to control
Start with our AI-powered diagnostic tool. Complete a structured 30-minute intake form, and within 48 hours you'll receive a plain-language report identifying your top risk gaps, regulatory exposures, and priority actions.
Price: $1,950 | Delivered in 48 hours | No consultant required
STEP 1 — Risk Health Check
For businesses ready to go deeper. A Xion consultant works with your team to map every critical process, identify risks at each step, and build a complete controls register with a prioritised remediation plan.
Price: From $8,000 | 3–4 week engagement | Full risk and controls report delivered
STEP 2 — Risk Diagnostic
STEP 3 — Remediation & Controls Build
We don't just identify the gaps — we close them. Xion implements the recommendations from your diagnostic: writing the SOPs, building the controls, setting up the frameworks, and training your team on how to use them.
Price: From $5,000 (scope-dependent following diagnostic)
Your outsourced risk function. Xion acts as your permanent risk team — monitoring regulatory changes, running quarterly reviews, updating controls as the business evolves, and being available when something unexpected happens.
Price: From $1,500/month
STEP 4 — Ongoing Risk Retainer
Our Clients
Xion is built for businesses between $2M and $20M revenue that are running well — but are carrying risk they can't see. If your business is in this range, growing, and has no internal risk or compliance function, you're exactly who we work with.
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A $5M–$15M manufacturing or trade business with 15–60 staff. You have multiple sites or shifts, supplier dependencies, and compliance obligations (WHS, EPA, contractual) you're managing informally. A single supplier failure or workplace incident can disrupt the whole operation — and there's no playbook for when it does.
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A growing legal, accounting, healthcare, or advisory firm. You're handling sensitive client data, you've added staff quickly, and you know your data handling and privacy obligations have probably fallen behind. The 2024 Privacy Act reforms increased your exposure — and you're not sure exactly where you stand.
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A multi-site hospitality or retail business with no centralised operations function. Processes exist in people's heads, staff turnover creates gaps, and the founder is still the person holding everything together. You need documented systems and controls before you can delegate, franchise, or exit.
The Xion Methodology
The speed of AI. The judgement of an experienced risk professional.
Traditional risk consulting takes weeks. The intake meetings, the document reviews, the drafting and redrafting — a diagnostic that should take five days ends up taking six weeks and costs $40,000.
Xion works differently. Our diagnostic engine combines a structured business intake process with AI-powered risk analysis, benchmarked against our proprietary framework and calibrated for Australian regulatory requirements. The same assessment a Big 4 firm charges $30,000 for, Xion delivers in 48 hours for a fraction of the cost. But AI doesn't replace the consultant. It accelerates them.
The Xion consultant reviews every output, applies industry-specific judgement, and has the conversations that no AI system can have — understanding the political dynamics of your team, the real exposure behind the polished answer, and what controls will actually be used versus what will sit in a folder.
That combination — AI-powered speed, human-powered judgement — is what makes Xion different from every other risk firm and every self-serve software tool in the market.
48 hours
Risk Health Check delivered within 48 hours of completing the intake form — not 4 weeks.
Fraction of the cost
Xion diagnostics are priced for SMEs, not enterprise. No Big 4 hourly rates. No minimum engagement fees.
Plain language, not consultant jargon
Every Xion report is written for a business owner, not a compliance committee. You'll know exactly what your risks are, why they matter, and what to do about them.
Ready to find out where your gaps are?
Start with the Risk Health Check — $1,950, delivered in 48 hours. No consultant required.
Or if you'd prefer to talk first, book a free 30-minute scoping call.
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