CEO Liv Whitty and CTO
Shaun Moate
About us

Born from the Royal Commission. Built to Protect Vulnerable Australians.

Oho exists because current systems fail to protect our vulnerable people. We're building technology to bridge the gap.


Why Oho Exists

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse exposed a devastating truth: our systems for keeping unsuitable people away from vulnerable Australians are broken.

Checks often happened once at recruitment, then never again. Credentials lapsed. Status changed. Workers moved between organisations, states, and sectors with gaps no one noticed. The space between government registers and employers became a hiding place for those who would do harm.

Oho was founded to close that gap.

Our founders didn't wait for someone else to solve the problem. They experienced firsthand how safeguarding failures create devestating impacts.

So they built Oho: the infrastructure layer that connects government credentialing systems to employer action. Continuous verification. Real-time alerts. Permanent audit trails. Technology that makes safeguarding automatic instead of aspirational.

Today, Oho monitors 220,000 workers every 7 days across 23+ government registers. We've detected 570 red flags—unsuitable workers who should not be engaging with children and vulnerable people, who would have gone unnoticed in manual systems until something went wrong.

"Oho protects vulnerable people and organisations from abuse and its impacts."

Liv Whitty
CEO, Oho
VALUES

What We Stand For

1. Trust

Oho becomes the reliable foundation organisations depend on for protection. We establish, gain, and transmit trust—understanding what's at stake for the people and communities our customers serve.

2. Protective

Protection is our purpose. We exist to prevent abuse by ensuring only suitable people work with vulnerable Australians. Oho serves as a vigilant protection layer between risk and the people who deserve safety.

3. Grounded

We bring balanced perspective to complex situations: interpreting verified data to make systems safer, translating policy into practice, serving individuals and organisations. We're people-focused and risk-aware.

4. Courage

Oho exists because our founders saw injustice and didn't wait for someone else to act. We're willing to tackle complex, difficult problems. We're committed to work that genuinely makes a difference.

Meet The Team

The people behind Oho's mission combine deep safeguarding expertise with technology innovation. We've channeled that expertise into building something that actually works and helps protect vulnerable Australians.

Meet the Team
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