Hi everybody, Tonight at 10pm our offer on Birchal closes. We have hit our $100k minimum and expect a lot more to come through today which is awesome. We thank everyone for being a part of this campaign. So I thought I would share for the last time our weekly commonly asked questions! What's your history Ash and why are you passionate about this problem? Well it's a simple one, back in 2009 I started at a little Temp Fence company in Tullamarine as a sales rep. I was employee number 7 and we were turning over $1m a year. Good but not great. But I saw a real opportunity there as the owners were tech and growth focused and had a lets just do stuff attitude. This completely aligned to me. So I headed up the sales and helped drive growth of that business from $1m p/a in 2009 to $89m p/a in 2019. We did it by thinking strategically, targeting growth markets like events, major projects, civil construction. Knowing our lane and being the best at it and making something complex and annoying into something simple. Also I learned alot about the power of subcontracting and how that can really help grow your margins vs carrying a tone of costs. (Thus our business model). But the big thing for me was that I saw the amount of work that went into strategic planning and it went absolutely nowhere as we were growing fast. It was mind blowing to see state managers spending months working on a strategy to present to a board for 30 minutes and forget about. I know we needed to fix the problem. So I decided in 2019 I did my time, I wanted to forge my own path and it led me here. Compared to other products on Birchal, it is a bit different, they tend to have more consumer facing products, why Birchal? Simple, it made sense to us. Fundraising is a time consuming activity and in the tech market especially, funding is down and a super long drawn out process. Especially on the companies chasing big bucks. We aren’t doing that, we don’t need millions of dollars at the moment, we are focused on growth capital and betting on ourselves to hit our goals (Goal setting is kinda our thing). Our vision is that we can grow the business to be profitable and scalable. We want to keep ourselves hungry! We want to zig whilst everyone else is zagging. Yes Birchal has more consuming facing products that are awesome, that is why we chose them to partner with, so we would stand out. We would give a different flavour of a business for their members to invest in. Investing in tech is so out of reach for so many people, so we wanted to make it accessible. Quickly we chose Birchal as well as we considered them to be the Rolls Royce of CSF in Australia and having our brand aligned with theirs is a no brainer. Do I get a tshirt if I invest? Startups love t-shirts! HAHAHA we will be sending out swag to our investors in October, we want you repping the Empiraa brand. Forget all the cool brands (that I don't know who they are haha) Empiraa merch is the best. The hoodies especially. If I am a consultant can I use Empiraa in my business with my clients? YES YES YES. We have rates for consultants, in this fundraising period we have picked up another 12 consultants that want to bring Empiraa into their tech stack. Yes we do the implementation and deployment for you, so you can focus on helping your clients. Let us do the techy boring stuff. We also offer discounts and special offers for investors. If I have a business do I get an Empiraa package for free? Our rewards are set up so we have our investors be our biggest fans. The best way to be a fan is to use Empiraa to help you grow. So we offer a years free Empiraa with 5 hours with a strategy consultant and our software, plus 25% the year after that, that is for investments over $10k and if you invest over $20k you get 10 hours with a strategy consultant and software for free for a year and 50% off the second year. If you invest up to $9,999 you get a 20% discount. We want you to come on board and grow your business or help your friends business (Yes we can transfer it for you if you don’t need it) Once again, thank you to everyone that I have spoken to, everyone that has read our email updates, everyone that has reached out and especially those that have invested. We take a community approach to this and everyone has helped in one way or another. If you have any last minute questions, don't hesitate to reach out via text, call or email! Thanks again and looking forward to having a scotch at 10.01pm

Presenting at the BackBone Connect event yesterday with over 250 SME owners yesterday was amazing. 12 requests for Proposals ($95K of quotes) 3 new requests to become an Empiraa Consultant Countless conversation that started with "Holy crap this is a great idea and you make it so simple" Attending and presenting at events are a cornerstone of our approach, it really connects the key target market and our solution. Epic day.