08 FOUNDER

Trent Harper. Clinician first, then builder.

Principal psychologist and managing director of a multidisciplinary, NDIS-registered allied-health practice in the Hunter, NSW. Founded H-Project Tech in 2026 to turn what the practice keeps teaching into small, honest software, proven on that floor before it is sold to anyone else.

The operating idea

A practice is a running experiment in people under pressure: clinicians, admin, families, and the owner. Most software for that world is built by people who have never sat in the room. I sit in the room every week. That is the unfair advantage, and it is the only one I claim.

The workshop runs on a written method rather than enthusiasm. Every idea passes four gates: validate, prove, build, tend. One reviewer's only job is to kill it. The pass bar is written down before a test runs and is never moved after. Parked work stays on the record, because a workshop that hides its misses is selling you something.

The build side is an AI agent studio I designed and operate: validation, design, engineering, QA, security review and release run as coordinated teams under one human decision-maker. Agents draft; a human publishes, deploys and sells. Permanently. That rule is why the workshop ships like a studio of forty on one founder's hours without the quality drifting.

What that has produced

  • ●90 Day Strong, live. A crew challenge app built in late August 2026 and running its first cohort from 1 September. How it works.
  • ◔ClinicMetrics, in build. Capacity and intake foresight, used fortnightly by a practice leadership team. How it works.
  • ◐Confera, in trial. Assessment scoring that stores nothing, in daily clinical use. How it works.
  • ○Loop and Headroom, validating. The two long bets, held to the same gates as everything else. The Bench.

Off the clock

Father of two in Newcastle. Writes country songs, slowly. Built a card-collecting app with a nine-year-old co-founder who is the toughest tester in the company. The dad part is not a side note: what people carry home shapes their families, and most of what this workshop builds starts there.

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RECORD

ROLEPrincipal Psychologist and Managing Director, allied-health practice, Hunter NSW DISCIPLINESPsychology, occupational therapy, behaviour support, speech pathology, mental-health social work under one roof COMPANYH Project Tech Pty Ltd, established July 2026, Newcastle NSW SHIPPED90 Day Strong, August 2026 IN USEClinicMetrics, Confera METHODFour gates, written pass bars, one kill reviewer STUDIO129 AI agents in coordinated teams; human-only publish and deploy WRITE[email protected]

WHAT I WILL NOT DO

  • —Promise an outcome the evidence can't carry.
  • —Store client data a product doesn't need.
  • —Move a pass bar after the test has run.
  • —Let an agent publish, deploy or sell.
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