We started brenoviqalor because managing personal budgets felt unnecessarily complicated. Three people in a Darwin office decided that financial tracking shouldn't require a finance degree.
Back in 2021, Thatcher Dempsey couldn't understand why every budgeting tool either oversimplified everything or demanded you become an accountant. He'd spend hours each month wrestling with spreadsheets that broke whenever he added a new expense category.
His colleague Bernadette Quillen had the same problem but from a different angle. She wanted to see where her money actually went without generating fifty different reports. And Lysander Hogue? He just wanted something that worked on his phone during his lunch break.
So they built brenoviqalor. Not as some grand vision to revolutionize finance — just as a tool that made sense to them. Turned out, plenty of other people in Australia wanted the same thing.
These aren't boardroom buzzwords. They're the actual principles we use when deciding how to build features and help users.
Financial jargon makes simple things confusing. We explain budgeting concepts the way you'd tell a friend over coffee.
We don't sell information about your spending habits. We're not an advertising platform pretending to be a budgeting tool.
Life changes. Your budget should adapt without requiring you to start from scratch every time something shifts.
Small team, direct communication. No layers of customer service departments between you and the people who build the software.
Former systems analyst who got tired of explaining to friends why their budgets kept breaking. Built the first version of brenoviqalor on weekends while still working his day job. Drinks way too much coffee and responds to support emails faster than is probably healthy.
Handles the parts of the business that aren't code. Previously worked in financial education but got frustrated watching people struggle with tools that weren't designed for real life. Believes strongly that budget categories shouldn't require a manual to understand.
Three people in a shared office space, building something they wished existed. The interface was rough but the core idea worked.
Released to forty-seven people who agreed to try it and tell us what broke. They found plenty. Also found out our expense categorization made no sense to anyone but us.
People wanted to check budgets while shopping. Built native apps that actually worked offline because supermarket WiFi is terrible.
Partnered with Australian financial institutions to enable automatic transaction imports. Took longer than expected because banking security is complicated.
Started creating educational content after hundreds of users asked similar questions. Workshops launching in autumn 2025 for people who want structured guidance.
