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Press kit
Brand kit & press resources
Everything you need to write about Stagex, partner with us, or feature us in your stack. Free to use — please don't change the colours.
Logos
Download the logo
Usage rules
- Clear space: leave at least the height of the 'x' in 'Stagex' around the wordmark on every side.
- Minimum size: 24px tall for digital, 12mm tall for print. Below this, use the mark only.
- Don't recolour, rotate, stretch, or add effects. Use the supplied SVG / PNG variants as-is.
- Don't place the wordmark on a background that fails 4.5:1 contrast against the chosen variant.
Colours
Brand colours
Two colours. That's the kit. Navy carries every surface; orange carries every action.
Stagex Navy
#0B1F33
rgb(11, 31, 51)
Primary background, body, deep surfaces
Stagex Orange
#E8600A
rgb(232, 96, 10)
Primary accent, CTAs, brand highlight
The full Tailwind scale (navy-50 through navy-950, primary-50 through primary-950) is published in the repo'stailwind.config.cjsfor engineering partners.
Boilerplate
Company description — three lengths
For announcements, partner directories, or interview prep. Pick the length, tap copy.
Short
~50-word boilerplate
Stagex is Australia's first milestone-escrow CRM for the trades sector. Customers pay into a licensed Australian trust account before work begins; funds release only when each milestone is signed off by both parties. Built in Sydney; founded 2026. Stage by stage. Always paid.
Medium
~100-word boilerplate
Stagex is Australia's first milestone-escrow CRM for the trades sector. Customer payments are held by Zai (Assembly Payments), an AFSL-licensed Australian trustee under AFSL 461841, in a segregated trust account — never in Stagex's bank. Funds release only when a milestone is signed off by both the customer and the tradie. Stagex's milestone-escrow flow is the subject of four patent applications lodged with IP Australia and the USPTO. Built in Sydney; founded 2026. Designed for Australian sparkies, plumbers, builders, painters, and HVAC operators running 1–20 staff.
Long
~200-word boilerplate
Stagex is Australia's first milestone-escrow CRM for the trades sector — a payment platform that puts the customer's money into a licensed trust account before the tradie picks up a tool. Australian tradies lose an estimated $14.7 billion a year to unpaid, withheld, and disputed invoices; 2,636 construction insolvencies were recorded in 2024. Stagex was built to remove that risk. Customer payments are held by Zai (Assembly Payments), an AFSL-licensed Australian trustee under AFSL 461841, in a segregated trust account. Funds release only when a milestone is signed off by both the customer and the tradie. If a dispute arises, balances stay frozen with the trustee and can be escalated to AFCA (the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) as the final-recourse EDR scheme. Stagex's milestone-escrow flow is covered by four patent applications lodged with IP Australia and the USPTO. Founded in Sydney in 2026 by Ryan Joseph, the company is built for Australian sparkies, plumbers, builders, painters, and HVAC operators running 1–20 staff. Data is hosted in Australia and the platform is designed to line up with Vic SOPA 2026, the QBCC BIF Act, NSW Fair Trading retention rules, iCare HBCF, and the Privacy Act 1988.
Screenshots
Product screenshots
High-res screenshots coming soon
In the meantime, email press@stagex.com.au and we'll send hero shots of the dashboard, milestone funding flow, and customer sign-off screens within one business day.
Founder
Founder bio & photo
Founder & CEO
Ryan Joseph
Ryan founded Stagex after a decade watching family and friends in the trades get burned by the same broken payment chain. He's based in Sydney and spends most weeks on-site with the design-partner tradies shaping the product.
High-res photo coming soon — email press@stagex.com.au
Press & partner contact
Working on a story, a feature, or an integration partnership? Email us — we reply within one business day.