Built for the people the software industry forgot

Oxil started on the farm

Archie and Ian Whiting grew up on land that carried the Whiting name for more than 80 years in South West Victoria. Cattle, cropping, sheds full of paperwork, and every kind of work that comes with a life on the land. They know the industry from the inside, and they know the ones next to it, the full path from paddock to plate.

Between them, a career’s worth of experience across agriculture, people and technology. That combination is what shaped Oxil.

Oxil takes its name from the Latin word auxilio, meaning “to help.” That principle drives everything we do: using technology to help businesses look after their people, without paperwork getting in the way.

“If we’d had this back when I was farming, it would have been a game-changer. Not just from a risk perspective, but getting rid of paper records would have helped enormously.”Ian Whiting, co-founder

Archie carries that thinking into the product. An avid AI user himself, he builds Oxil around what AI can now do for frontline businesses, not just safety, but the whole workforce picture: onboarding, training, competency, communication, records, and live visibility across every worker, contractor and site. Work that used to fill folders and weeks now takes minutes, so operators get their time back to run the business, not chase paperwork.

The mission stays simple. Frontline workers going home safe. Employers running the business without paperwork holding them back. Oxil is how we make both real.

Why we exist

Six industries account for the large majority of Australian workplace deaths, and agriculture carries the highest fatality rate of any of them. These are jobs done by people who are often new, mobile, working alone, and reading a language that isn’t their first, and the training meant to protect them still arrives as a verbal briefing, a laminated policy, or a sign-on sheet.

None of it proves anything. A signature records attendance and nothing else. When something goes wrong and a regulator, insurer or court asks what the worker actually understood, a signed sheet has no answer, and the cost falls on the worker first, and the employer right behind them.

Oxil exists to change what ‘trained’ means. What protects a worker, and what stands up years later when someone asks, is evidence they understood the hazard in front of them, in a language they can read. That is far harder to build than a checkbox. It’s the thing we build.

Who we are

The founders, board and advisers behind Oxil.

What we believe