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You may be just one improvement away

You may be just one improvement awayYou may be just one improvement away

Practical, hands-on improvement for regional businesses, their suppliers and the programs that back them.

Where do you fit?

Business Owners

Chambers, Government and Regional Partners

Major-Project Suppliers and Contractors

A steadier, more profitable business. We look across every function, find what is holding it back and fix it with you. Practical support to align, simplify and grow.

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Major-Project Suppliers and Contractors

Chambers, Government and Regional Partners

Major-Project Suppliers and Contractors

Mines, councils and major contractors want systems, safety and paperwork in place before they sign. We help you get ready, win the work and deliver it.


See how we help

Chambers, Government and Regional Partners

Chambers, Government and Regional Partners

Chambers, Government and Regional Partners

Running a funded program for local businesses? Proteus delivers the hands-on support on the ground. See how we work with program owners and delivery partners.

Working with Proteus

Sound Familiar

You're the only one who really knows how it all works. Profit's slipped and you cannot see exactly where. Everyone's flat out, but nothing actually moves forward. You know what needs fixing, it just never sticks. It's usually one constraint doing the damage. Not ten.

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Problems we solve

Doing everything for everyone

You cannot just hire another one

You cannot just hire another one

Being the only option in town pulls you into work that distracts from the core work the community needs. We help you choose what to say yes to.

You cannot just hire another one

You cannot just hire another one

You cannot just hire another one

The local labour pool is thin. We free up the capacity already in your team before you add more, and help you keep good people.

Local prices, city costs

You cannot just hire another one

Two or three customers carry the business

Freight, fuel and parts cost more out here. We help you build a clear cost baseline, so your prices are fair to the customer and fair to the business.

Two or three customers carry the business

Two or three customers carry the business

Two or three customers carry the business

Lose one and it hurts. We help you identify quality buyers in a changing market.

Equipment costing more than it should

Two or three customers carry the business

Equipment costing more than it should

You suspect it but cannot prove it. We help you set up the real operating cost per unit of production, and the strategy to repair, replace or rebuild.

One breakdown stops everything

Two or three customers carry the business

Equipment costing more than it should

Parts are days away and there is no backup machine. We help you get prepared with a plant strategy, so you act on maintenance before it acts on you.

A big month hides a bad year

No plan for when you step back

It lives in one person's head

Turnover looks healthy, but the cash is not there. We help you build consistent cash flow, where every invoice counts.

It lives in one person's head

No plan for when you step back

It lives in one person's head

If they are sick, the business stops. We get it out of heads and into simple systems. The first step to getting your time back and a team that runs on its own.

No plan for when you step back

No plan for when you step back

No plan for when you step back

Selling, handing to family or winding down, it takes years to get ready. We help you build a business someone else can run.

Who you'll be dealing with

Jamie Schwarz, Managing Director

I started as a service technician in Adelaide in 1985. From the workshop floor I moved through mine sites, supervision, project and branch management, then into senior executive roles with global equipment suppliers, leading large teams across multiple disciplines. That covered onsite maintenance and repair contracts, technical management, and training the operations and maintenance trainers across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific.


I have seen mining, construction, engineering and agribusiness from the workshop floor, the sales desk and the P&L. That is how I spot the constraints others miss. I fix them with you, not for you, so the fix lasts and no report is left gathering dust.


I am based in Crystal Brook, in the Mid North, and work with businesses from Port Pirie to the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas.

Jamie Schwarz, Managing Director of Proteus Consulting

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