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About SlashTech

Good technology
starts with people.

We bring software, connected hardware and practical engineering together to help people do their work better. A small team in Brisbane, involved from the first conversation to the working system.

A SlashTech team member connecting wiring inside a solar-powered field monitoring cabinet
Close to the work. From the first idea to the field.

Our story · Since 2023

A shared reason
to build something.

We met on a community project in 2023. We wanted to learn, to build, and to help people do work that mattered.

The more we worked together, the clearer the opportunity became. Organisations needed technology built around the people who would use it, with the knowledge to keep it working long after the builders had left the room.

SlashTech started as Jayben’s idea. With Javier, it became a company. That same purpose still guides the software we write, the hardware we connect, and the systems we leave in other people’s hands.

Jayben & Javier Founders, SlashTech

Our people

The people you meet.
The people who build it.

You work directly with the founders. We stay close to the whole system, across software, hardware and the field, with a growing team alongside us.

Jayben Bertrand

Founder · Technical Director

Jayben Bertrand

It is only done when the work is fit for purpose.

The same pattern kept showing up: organisations needed better technology than they were getting, and nobody was building it for the operators who would have to live with it. Slash Tech is his answer to that — and every output is held to his standard before it leaves the door.

system design · data pipelines · field hardware

Javier Bates

Founder · Operations Director

Javier Bates

The standard we hold for clients starts with how we run ourselves.

He runs operations: keeping the business running, holding client relationships, and making sure Slash Tech itself functions as cleanly as the systems it ships. He still gets into the build work — but his job is to make sure there is a company underneath all of it.

Recognised as a 2025 Westpac Young Technologist Scholar.

More hands. The same care.

Growing deliberately, with people who care about how the work holds up.

Working at SlashTech
Technical AssociateSarah Preston

Studying software engineering at UQ, and drawn to the parts of the work that decide whether a system holds — information systems, databases, and web builds where the front and back end actually fit together. She joined most excited about documentation, which is exactly how we build here.

information systemsdatabasesfull-stackdocumentation

Our principles

Good work leaves
people more capable.

A few simple beliefs, carried into the everyday decisions.

Start with the people.

Understand the work before choosing the technology. Spend time with the people who will use it, and build around what they actually need.

Make it useful.

A dashboard should help someone act. An automation should make work easier. Every technical decision needs a reason in the real operation.

Leave people capable.

Documentation, training and a clear handover are part of the build. Your team should be able to operate, change and recover the system.

Think beyond launch.

Build for the person who inherits the system in three years. Clear dependencies and maintainable choices matter long after the first release.

What this means for your system

Part of Slash Group

Our focus is technology.
Our ambition is shared.

SlashTech is the applied technology and R&D company within Slash Group. We build software, connected hardware and automation around real work.

The Group builds and operates distinct ventures, bringing people, systems and shared experience together around problems worth solving. Each has its own purpose. We share a commitment to useful work that lasts.

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SLASH GROUP

The home for the companies we build.

  • The team behind this site

    SlashTech

    Software, hardware and automation.
    Built around your operation.

    Explore our work
  • In development

    SlashFlow

    A connected workspace for service teams.
    Born inside SlashTech.

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Two connected stories within Slash Group. Distinct purposes, shared capability.
A note from JavierWhy the idea behind SlashTech grew into Slash Group.

Start a conversation

Good work starts with a conversation.

Tell us what you want to make better. A free 25-minute Fit Call is a chance to meet the team, talk through the problem and find a useful next step.