Our story

Built in the field.
Built on trust.

Practical experience, strong relationships and a belief that every commitment deserves to be kept. That is where Circl began.

Meet our leadership
Circl team gathered outside their warehouse beside branded service vans
Circl Group Every promise. Kept.
25 YEARS / FIELD EXPERIENCE

Hard-won expertise.
A better model.

We know what it takes to get a job done because we have done the work ourselves. That experience shapes how we select our trades, support our people and take responsibility for every client commitment.

01

The start

Field expertise looking for a better model.

Circl wasn’t a startup idea — it was 25 years of hard-won field expertise. The company began with a simple bet: do the work properly, prove it was done, and the contracts will come. No head-office theatre. Just jobs finished and evidence filed.

02

The insight

Treat skilled labour like the scarce asset it is.

Technology was about to rewrite field services while skilled labour moved into structural shortage. Circl’s model came from those truths: credential the workforce, respect it, wrap it in technology and orchestrate it at national scale.

03

The proof

The industry changes. The discipline doesn’t.

The model moved from insurance and building into retail installation and government housing. Each sector proved the same thing: a consistent operating discipline transfers.

04

The scale

Thousands of monthly tasks in three months.

A coast-to-coast technology deployment became the biggest test. Circl scaled without breaking, then stood up a New Zealand company and field operation in four weeks.

05

The platform

Systems that couldn’t forget.

That pressure produced CoreTechX: an eight-phase backbone, hard compliance gates, GPS evidence, universal QA and daily reporting. Volumes rose from roughly 3,000 to 41,000+ with the same headcount.

06

What’s next

Australia. New Zealand. Then the world.

The operating backbone is becoming a product. The ambition remains simple: make the commitment, keep it, then do it ten thousand times over.

+Mission

Deliver field work at national scale
with certainty behind every commitment.

01

Keep it.

A commitment made is a commitment delivered. Photos, GPS and QA every time.

02

Finish it.

Half-done is not done. We close the loop.

03

Act with care.

Respond promptly, make sound decisions and put safety and quality first.

04

Own the moment.

AI runs the process so people can own the customer, the craft and the call on the ground.

+Leadership

The people who own
the moments that matter.

Everyone senior at Circl has stood on a site, chased a make-safe or answered to an enterprise client at 6am.

Chief Operating Officer

Ben Stevens

Ben runs operations, technical services and field delivery at national scale — turning thousands of jobs a month into completed, evidenced work.

Chief Commercial Officer

Greg Johnson

Greg leads commercial, partnerships and finance oversight, turning national programmes into durable contracts and keeping the numbers honest behind them.

Co-founder & Director — Construction

Connor Aitken

Connor owns delivery across major government and commercial works, keeping complex builds on programme, on standard and fully documented.

Co-founder & Director — Facilities Management

Blake Waters

Blake leads long-horizon government and corporate portfolios where responsiveness, compliance and paper trail are non-negotiable.