Arkero’s story starts well before Arkero itself.

Kyle spent much of his career in construction and business operations across Australia and New Zealand.

Like a lot of businesses, the companies he worked in changed over time. Teams grew. Responsibilities shifted. New problems appeared and old ways of working did not always keep up.

Those years gave Kyle a close view of what it was like to build, manage and operate businesses from the inside.

There was no Arkero at that point.

There was no plan to build a remote staffing company either.

It was simply the beginning of a much longer journey that would eventually lead to Tradelance, and later, Arkero.

Before Arkero, there was Tradelance.

Tradelance was built from the experience Kyle had gained working around trade and construction businesses.

The original idea was simple. Create a better way for contractors and businesses to work together, with clearer contracts, safer payments and more visibility across the relationship.

Over time, Tradelance grew into a real technology platform with customers, users and a team behind it.

It became the first major step in the journey that would eventually lead to Arkero.

At that stage though, Arkero was still not the plan.

While building Tradelance, we started building a remote team of our own.

It began with developers, then grew into operations, support, marketing and management.

Over time, something became very clear.

They were no longer just supporting the business.

They had become the business.

They were building the product, running operations, supporting customers and helping move the company forward every day.

And that changed the way we looked at remote work completely.

We realised that high performance was not tied to where someone lived.

The right person, with the right support and the right environment, could perform to an exceptionally high standard from anywhere.

For us, remote work stopped being an alternative way to build a team.

It became the way we built ours.

Building Tradelance kept us close to the businesses we wanted to help.

Over time, we realised many were not short on ideas or technology. They were short on capacity.

There was too much work sitting with too few people.

At the same time, our own experience showed us that finding great people was only part of the answer.

How those people were managed, supported and coordinated could be improved too.

That started to shape a much bigger idea about what the future of work could look like.

The more we saw, the clearer the opportunity became.

We did not just want to build another staffing company.

We wanted to create on demand staffing that made it easier for businesses to access great people when they needed them.

But the bigger idea went further than staffing.

We wanted to build a better way for small businesses to operate, with the people, systems and technology around them working together.

A way for a small business to run better than it ever had before.

That is what Arkero started becoming.