Formal decisions need a record that holds up.
Nguma makes it, without making the decision.
Recruitment panels, committee meetings, court hearings, board resolutions, investigations. Nguma captures what was said and decided, structures it, and produces the record. The people in the room keep the judgement.
From session to signed-off record.
Without the manual work in between.
Find the version built for your work
Government Agencies
Commonwealth and state HR teams running recruitment. The manual administration between application and Selection Report, automated.
Merit · Privacy · Responsible AI For Government AgenciesRecruitment Agencies
Agencies on Government supplier panels. Take on more placements without adding headcount, and evidence compliance when the client asks.
Privacy Act · Panel compliance · MMR For Recruitment AgenciesScribes
Professional scribes supporting Government panels. Cut note-taking and report drafting time with a tool your clients will accept.
Privacy Act APPs · Responsible AI For ScribesCourts & Tribunals
Verbatim transcription for civil, criminal and appellate proceedings, tribunal hearings, coronial inquests and Royal Commissions. Human-certified.
Evidence Acts · Suppression orders · APP 8 For Courts & TribunalsBoardrooms
Confidential board minutes, resolution records and action trackers for boards, audit committees and AGMs. ASIC and APRA defensible.
Corporations Act 2001 · ASIC / APRA For BoardroomsInvestigations
Chain-of-custody transcripts for workplace investigations, disciplinary hearings, whistleblower interviews and integrity examinations.
Fair Work Act · PID Act 2013 · Privacy Act For InvestigationsOne compliance posture. Every kind of session.
The same five commitments cover a selection panel, a coronial inquest and a board resolution. Your procurement team evaluates one platform, not one per use case.
Buying Nguma satisfies your procurement obligations.
Nguma is majority Indigenous-owned and controlled, and Supply Nation registered. Every purchase contributes directly to your Indigenous procurement targets and can be made without a formal tender process.
Indigenous Procurement Policy
CPR Exemption 16 permits direct purchase from an Indigenous SME at any contract value, with a simple value-for-money quote and no tender. The Mandatory Set-Aside gives Indigenous SMEs first consideration within its threshold band, where Nguma sits.
Aboriginal Procurement Policy
Agencies are directed to consider Aboriginal businesses first, with direct engagement pathways for eligible contracts. Nguma spend counts toward your agency’s reporting under the policy.
Social Procurement Framework
Purchasing from Aboriginal businesses is a defined social procurement objective. Nguma spend counts toward your department’s reporting against the framework.
Queensland Procurement Policy 2026
Buying from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses is embedded in Queensland’s procurement objectives. Nguma spend counts toward your entity’s reporting.
Aboriginal Economic Participation Strategy
An across-Government target directs a minimum share of agency spend to Aboriginal businesses and ACCOs, administered through the Office of the Industry Advocate.
Aboriginal Procurement Policy
Mandates progressive targets for the award of contracts to Aboriginal businesses and ACCOs, applying to all contracts above its threshold.
No dedicated policy
Tasmania does not currently operate a dedicated Aboriginal procurement policy. Nguma’s Supply Nation registration still evidences Indigenous ownership for agencies applying their own reconciliation or social procurement commitments.
Aboriginal Procurement Policy
Applies above a low contract threshold. Agencies report on contracts awarded to Aboriginal Business Enterprises, alongside Value for Territory assessment.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Procurement Policy
Territory entities must identify opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enterprises and are encouraged to seek quotes from them, using Supply Nation’s Indigenous Business Direct where no Canberra-region supplier is suitable.
Portfolio targets. Every Commonwealth portfolio carries annual Indigenous procurement targets by number of contracts and by contract value under the Indigenous Procurement Policy, which was strengthened in May 2026 with revised criteria applying from 1 July 2026. Buying Nguma contributes to both figures. State and territory reporting varies by jurisdiction. We provide letters of engagement and participation data formatted for your Agency’s reporting requirements on request.
Built by people who understand both sides of the table.
Elizabeth O’Neil
Susan O’Neil
Toby Somerville
Questions your procurement team will ask.
What is Nguma?
Nguma is an Australian Indigenous-owned platform that produces compliant, defensible records of formal decisions. For Government recruitment it runs the administration of the end-to-end selection process, from application intake to the signed-off Selection Report. It also provides compliant transcription for any formal session that needs a defensible record, from committee meetings to court hearings. Both run from the same workspace, hosted entirely on Australian infrastructure.
Does Nguma make decisions about candidates or participants?
No. Nguma does not screen, score, rank or filter anyone at any stage, and it has no capability to do so. It structures what people submitted and captures what a panel or a meeting decided. Every AI-assisted output requires human review and approval before it becomes the record, with reasoning visible and overridable at every step. This is a deliberate design position aligned with the merit principle and the DTA Responsible AI Policy, not a limitation we intend to remove.
Does Nguma process data offshore?
No. All applications, audio, transcripts and AI inference are processed and stored in Australia, with the application database and records held in AWS’s Sydney region and speech-to-text processed in Australia. Nguma does not transfer customer data offshore for storage in the ordinary course of the service. Full architecture and data-residency documentation is available under NDA for security assessment.
Does Nguma use customer data to train AI models?
No. Nguma contractually guarantees that customer applications, audio, transcripts and metadata are never used to train AI models, fine-tune models or improve the Nguma service. This is a hard contractual commitment in standard terms, not a default setting that can be changed. It also means what happens to a person in your process cannot follow them into anyone else’s.
What is the difference between the two capabilities?
Selection process management covers Government recruitment: application intake, interview scheduling, panel and moderation scribing, individual assessments and Selection Reports. Meeting transcription covers any other formal session needing a defensible record: court hearings, board meetings, investigations, committee sessions and evaluation panels. Both run from the same workspace with identical compliance architecture, so your CISO and procurement team assess one platform.
Is Nguma an Indigenous-owned business?
Yes. Nguma Pty Ltd (ABN 36 695 423 851) is Majority Indigenous-owned and controlled, and Supply Nation registered. Government Agencies can purchase directly under Commonwealth Procurement Rule Exemption 16 at any contract value, with no formal tender process required. Every Nguma purchase contributes to your Indigenous procurement targets, and we provide letters of engagement and participation data formatted for your reporting requirements.
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