Melbourne, Australia
Entrepreneur. Dad. Builder of useful things.
I’m Matt Rollins, a Melbourne-based technology founder. I run a managed IT provider and build businesses that help Australian organisations get more out of their technology, and lose a lot less time and money to it.
Technology should either cut your costs or make your people faster. If it does neither, it’s decoration. Every venture I build starts from that.
Currently building
15+
Years working in technology, across education, industry and small business.
4
Companies I’m actively building and running today.
2
Specialist service brands operating under TechAssist.
Right now
What I’m focused on
Three things get most of my attention at the moment.
Running TechAssist
Leading the team and service strategy for a managed IT provider that keeps Melbourne businesses running, and takes cost and friction out of how they work.
Building TeachingBlox
Developing an AI-assisted learning platform for students aged 8 to 16, built around clear pathways, useful feedback and real progress.
Raising the security floor
Helping organisations work through the Essential Eight without pretending it is a box-ticking exercise or a one-off project.
The portfolio
Companies
Four businesses, each solving a problem I ran into myself.
Active
TechAssist
Managed IT for growing Australian businesses. Secure, reliable technology without the cost of a large internal IT team, run so it saves money rather than quietly leaking it. Support, networks, communications and security, plus specialist industrial and education work.
Building
TeachingBlox
Personalised learning that keeps young people engaged. An AI-assisted platform for students aged 8 to 16. I’m building it to give learners clearer pathways, useful feedback and a stronger sense of progress, at a pace that suits them.
Active
AussieWave Hosting
Australian hosting, supported by Australians. Fast, secure infrastructure with local support and straightforward migrations. Built on the belief that hosting should feel human rather than like a ticket queue.
In development
Self Storage Auctions
Transparent auctions for abandoned storage units. When storage fees go unpaid, facilities auction the contents. The platform connects facilities and bidders across Australia and the UK with clear terms and an auditable process.
Specialist services
Two specialist service brands operating under TechAssist, for the sectors where the standard business approach doesn’t quite fit.
TechAssist service
School Phone System
Campus-grade 3CX communications for multi-site and education environments: site-wide coverage, emergency announcements, and handsets anyone can use without training.
TechAssist service
Essential Eight IT
Implementation support for the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight maturity model. Honest assessment of where you are, and a realistic plan to move up.
The why
Why I build what I build
Most of my ventures started because I watched something be harder and more expensive than it needed to be. A business paying for IT that created more work than it removed. An organisation told its security posture was fine when nobody had actually checked. A kid switching off from learning because the pace didn’t suit them.
Being a dad sharpened that last one considerably. Watching your own children learn makes you impatient with systems that treat every student the same, and it’s a large part of why TeachingBlox exists. Family is also the reason I care about building businesses that are steady rather than spectacular. Reliable beats impressive.
Writing
Recent notes
Practical writing on managed IT, cybersecurity, productivity and where AI genuinely helps.
The term-time problem: why school IT projects fail in week one
School technology projects rarely fail during the build. They fail on the first morning of term, and the post-mortem almost always finds a plan…
What parents should actually ask about AI in the classroom
Your child’s school has introduced an AI tool and told you about it in one newsletter paragraph. Six questions worth asking, and what a…
Choosing a phone system for a school campus
The least glamorous thing a school buys, and one of the few that has to work during an emergency. What actually matters, in the…
Let’s talk
Partnership, advisory work, a question about one of the businesses, or just a decent conversation about technology. I read everything that comes in and reply within a couple of days.