Fango is live — AI community engagement platform

AI that actually delivers.

Slicify builds purpose-built AI products and platforms — from Fango, our multi-use-case community engagement platform, to bespoke enterprise builds. Live in weeks, not months.

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built for your use case
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Fango RIVERSIDE RUNNING CLUB
1,247
Members
3.2k
Messages today
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Active groups
Member · Sarah K.
What time is Saturday's training session?
AISaturday training starts at 7am sharp at Princes Park — east entry near the carpark.
Member · James T.
How do I renew my membership?
AIYou can renew online at the link below — takes about 2 minutes. Your current membership expires Oct 31.
Member · Priya S.
Is there parking at the Oakley Creek trail run?
AIYes — street parking on Woodward Rd. Arrive by 6:45 to get a spot. Carpool encouraged!
Used by
Sports clubs & events Community organisations Real estate agencies Enterprise custom builds
The AI navigation problem

AI is moving fast. Most organisations are flying blind.

77%
of leaders unsure which AI models are right for their business
10×
cost difference between the right and wrong model choice

The tools are everywhere. The vendors are loud. And the decisions — which model, what structure, who owns it, how you govern it — are genuinely hard. Most organisations are making these calls without the experience to back them up.

Get advice from people who know

Which model is right for us?

The AI model landscape changes weekly. Choosing wrong means overpaying by 5–10× or getting results that don't deliver. Most vendor advice is self-serving.

We don't have the right structure

AI needs new roles, workflows, and decision-making processes. Organisations that bolt it on struggle. The ones winning have built around it deliberately.

Nobody owns governance

Without clear AI governance — data use, model oversight, output quality — you're exposed to risk you can't see yet. Regulation is catching up fast.

AI advisory

Confused? Lost? Get advice from people who've been building AI for a decade.

Grant and Merryn have been building and deploying production AI systems since 2011. Before the hype. Before the tools were easy. They've seen what works, what wastes money, and what organisations get wrong — and they can help you make better decisions, faster.

Model strategy

Which models actually fit your use case — and how to dramatically cut costs by using the right one for the job, not the most expensive one.

Organisational structure

How to build the right team and decision-making process around AI — roles, ownership, workflows, and where to start without boiling the ocean.

Governance & risk

Data use, model oversight, output quality, and regulatory readiness. Build the policy foundations before a problem forces your hand.

Build vs. buy

When to use off-the-shelf tools, when to build, and when Fango or a custom Slicify application is the right answer. Honest advice, not vendor pitch.

Talk to Grant or Merryn directly

Between them, more than two decades of production AI experience — from founding and scaling Straker.ai to an ASX IPO, to deploying AI systems across dozens of organisations globally. They work with leaders who want to make the right calls on AI, not just the obvious ones.

Book a strategy session
Grant Straker
Grant
Merryn Straker
Merryn
What we build

A platform and a studio.

Fango is our flagship product — a multi-use-case AI engagement platform ready to deploy today. Slate is Fango applied to real estate. Custom builds are Fango applied to your world.

SLATE · LIVE● 14 active
→ Vendor follow-up · sent automatically
→ 14 Willow St · appraisal booked
→ Open home · 24 RSVPs confirmed
Fango · Real Estate

Slate

AI staff for real estate agencies

Handles leads, vendor comms, calendar, CRM, and admin across the full listing lifecycle — from acquisition through to post-settlement follow-up.

See how Slate works
Bespoke · Any industry

Custom builds

AI applications designed for your business

We scope, design, and ship AI applications tailored to your specific workflows — from customer-facing agents to internal automation. Built on the same platform as Fango and Slate.

Start a project
How we work

From brief to live in weeks.

We've productised the build process for AI applications. No six-month discovery phases, no bloated project teams. We scope fast, build fast, and get you to measurable results fast.

Tell us what you're building
01
Week 1–2

Scope & design

We map your workflows, identify the highest-value AI intervention points, and agree a scope with clear success metrics.

02
Week 3–4

Build & integrate

We build on the Slicify platform — reusing the AI core, conversation engine, memory, and integration layer already proven in production.

03
Week 5–6

Deploy & train

Live on your infrastructure. We run your team through the system and tune the AI on real data from day one.

04
Ongoing

Improve & scale

Monthly sprints that improve accuracy, add capability, and expand to new workflows as confidence builds.

Our core platform · Live in production

Meet Fango — AI built for communities.

One platform, many use cases. Fango puts an AI engagement agent in any community's pocket — answering questions, sending broadcasts, running events, and keeping members connected, 24/7 over WhatsApp.

⚽ Sports clubs 🏃 Events & races 💪 Fitness communities 🎓 Schools & colleges 🎉 Fan groups 🤝 Community orgs
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Always-on AI agent

Answers member questions instantly — training times, event details, membership info, results — without a human in the loop.

02

Broadcast to thousands

Send personalised updates to every member in seconds. Fixtures, announcements, renewals — delivered and tracked automatically.

03

Competitions & events

Run predictions, polls, and competitions inside WhatsApp. Manage events, registrations, and results from one dashboard.

04

Community groups

Segment members into squads, age groups, supporter tiers, or locations. Each group gets its own AI-managed channel.

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Community groups · 8 active
All Members
1,247 members · 3 new today
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Saturday Runners
342 members
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Volunteers
89 members
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Recent AI activity
→ 24 member questions answered automatically
→ Race-day broadcast delivered to 847 members
→ 12 competition entries recorded for Sunday's race
Sovereign AI

Your AI. Your data. Your rules.

Every public AI service trains on your prompts. We build small, purpose-built language models fine-tuned on your knowledge — deployed on infrastructure you control, with zero third-party data exposure.

Talk about a custom model

Fully Private

Your data never leaves your environment. Trained, hosted, and run on infrastructure you control.

Trained on Your Data

Fine-tuned on your knowledge base, documents, and processes — the AI understands your business.

Lean & Efficient

Small language models purpose-built for your domain — faster, cheaper, and more accurate than generic AI.

Fully Auditable

Know exactly what your AI knows and why it responds the way it does. Complete transparency.

Our team

Experienced builders driving AI innovation.

Grant Straker

Grant Straker

Co-founder · AI Strategist

Building AI since before it was the thing to do. Co-founded Straker.ai in 2009 and took it to an ASX IPO in 2018 — one of the first companies globally to productise neural machine translation at scale. Now helping organisations make the right AI decisions: which models to use, how to structure for it, and where to invest to get measurable outcomes in weeks, not years.

Merryn Straker

Merryn Straker

Co-founder · AI Operations & Governance

At the forefront of production AI since 2011 — long before the current wave. As COO of Straker.ai she has overseen global AI product teams, dealt with real-world governance challenges, and built the organisational structures that make AI actually stick. If your organisation is trying to figure out how to run AI responsibly, at scale, without it becoming shelfware — Merryn is the person to talk to.

Peter Holster

Peter Holster

Head of Product

15+ years across technology from start-up to ASX-listed. Guides strategy and delivers better processes and products.

Vick Nguyen

Vick Nguyen

Full-Stack AI Technical Lead

11+ years building production systems. Owns features end-to-end — system design, APIs, deployment.

Tan Nguyen

Tan Nguyen

AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer

Builds production AI systems and modern web apps. LLM integrations, data processing, and AI training initiatives.

Nick Heiler

Nick Heiler

AI Testing Lead

Mechanical engineering student at Canterbury. Puts new agents through their paces before they ship.

Ready when you are

Let's build something that actually works.

Try Fango with your community, or tell us what you're trying to solve — we'll get you to measurable results in weeks.