About

ABOUT
EMPIRE9.

Empire9 is an AI automation studio for financial services firms. We find where time leaks out of your business and build the systems that take the busywork off your team.

Model Founder-led
Based in Melbourne, AU
Founded Empire9, 2025
Focus AI Automation

WHY EMPIRE9 EXISTS

In most financial services firms, skilled people spend their days on work a system should handle. Chasing clients for documents. Re-entering the same data between tools that don't talk to each other. Running the same reports by hand, every month.

The tools to fix that have finally arrived. AI has crossed the point where it can handle real, complex workflows, not just toy demos. What has been missing is someone to actually sit down and build the bridge for each firm. That is why Empire9 exists.

HOW WE WORK

We don't sell off-the-shelf software. We audit your firm properly, find the workflows eating the most time, and build custom AI systems around how your team actually works. You own everything we build. No lock-in, no rented platform you can't leave.

And we treat your clients' data the way you do. Everything runs on Australian infrastructure, or fully on-premise on your own hardware for firms holding the most sensitive information.

FOUNDER-LED

Empire9 is founded and run by Ben Todd in Melbourne. When you work with us, you work directly with the person building your systems. Not a sales team, and not a help desk. When something needs changing, you are talking to the person who built it.

That is deliberate. It keeps the work hands-on and the firm small enough to get every build right, instead of chasing scale for its own sake.

Ben Todd, Founder · Empire9

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