Atlantis Strategic Advisory works with founders and operators to bring clarity to complex business problems — shaping product strategy, user experience, commercial systems, and the organisations needed to scale.
A bespoke practice, not a consulting factory. Every engagement is led by the principal — design-trained, research-grounded, and operating a technology business today.
Our work concentrates where design and commerce meet: finding what the market actually wants, shaping the product to meet it, and building the engine to take it there.
Research-led discovery to understand your customers, sharpen the problem you're solving, and test whether the market will pay for the answer — before you over-invest in building.
Hands-on product strategy and UX from a career designer — turning ambiguity into roadmaps, prototypes, and shipped product that customers understand and use.
Commercial systems that convert product into revenue — positioning, channels, sales motion — then the operational refinement that lets it scale without breaking.
Our method comes from design practice: diverge to understand before you converge to decide — first on the problem, then on the solution. It keeps ambition honest and prevents expensive answers to the wrong question.
Immerse in your customers, market and operations. Research over opinion — interviews, data, and observation in the field.
Converge on the problem worth solving. A sharp brief, clear success measures, and alignment before a dollar is spent building.
Prototype and test multiple answers cheaply. Real customers, real signals — iterate until the evidence points one way.
Ship, measure, refine. We stay through execution — go-to-market, operations, and the systems that make it stick.
Hamish Henderson is a designer, researcher, academic, and technology executive working at the intersection of human-computer interaction, human-centred design, product strategy, and technology commercialisation. He is currently the CEO of Resparke, an aged care technology company focused on wellbeing and engagement, and holds positions as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney and Industry Fellow at UTS. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Senior Member of the Australian Computing Society.
With nearly two decades of experience across start-ups, research, and consulting, Hamish has worked across aged care, digital health, pharmacy technology, transport, urban technology, enterprise systems, construction, travel, and consumer technology. His work focuses on translating research and systems thinking into products, services, and ventures that operate in complex real-world environments.
Hamish is a First Class Honours graduate in Information Technology with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, a member of the Urban Interfaces Lab at the University of Sydney, and a published HCI researcher with work appearing in JMIR, IJHCI, ACM CHI, and OzCHI.
Peer-reviewed research in human-computer interaction and digital health — the evidence base behind how we practise.
If you're wrestling with product direction, market traction, or how to scale what's working — a conversation costs nothing.
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