Press kit
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Valont is a Brisbane-based business capability firm that runs the back office for Australian SMEs as one connected team: finance, people, operations and growth, coordinated by one Trusted Advisor. Founded in 2024 and part of Wattlestone, Valont is a registered BAS agent and works with owner-led businesses Australia-wide on a fixed monthly fee with no lock-in.
Company facts
Every figure below is the published value in Valont’s company-facts file, last reviewed 2026-10-15. Figures that are not confirmed are not listed.
- Legal name
- Valont Pty Ltd
- Trading name
- Valont
- ABN
- 79 682 227 934
- Founded
- 2024
- Parent
- Wattlestone
- Headquarters
- Level 35, 71 Eagle Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia-wide delivery
- Registered BAS agent
- Yes (Tax Practitioners Board)
- Modern Award guides published
- 122
- Engagement terms
- Month-to-month, 30 days notice, no lock-in
- Phone
- 07 3473 0020
- hello@valont.com.au
Spokespeople
Andrew Northcott
Founder & Chairman, Valont
Andrew Northcott is the founder and chairman of Valont and of its parent group, Wattlestone, a private Australian holding company that acquires businesses to own and operate for the long term. He has spent two decades building and running Australian SMEs. By 2009 he was running a labour-hire business that went on to become one of the largest privately owned labour-hire companies in its market before it was sold, an experience he describes as learning the weight of payroll, compliance and cash flow first hand. Along the way he completed the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School. He founded Valont in 2024 to make that kind of business capability accessible to owners who could never justify building it themselves. He writes about ownership, cash, people, systems and the decisions that compound.
Nick Lucock
Chief Executive Officer, Valont
Nick Lucock is the Chief Executive Officer of Valont and leads its day-to-day operations across Finance, People, Operations and Growth. He runs the team that does the work Valont publishes about: the bookkeeping, BAS and payroll runs, the award interpretation on every pay cycle, the IT and security layer, and the advisor cadence that keeps an owner's back office current. Nick writes the practical side of Valont's library, the processes, systems and tools that keep Australian SMEs compliant and growing, and he is the author of most of the operational articles on the site. He works with owners across construction and trades, health, hospitality and professional services.
Topics they speak to: the connected back office, founder dependency, award compliance and payroll risk, what AI genuinely does in an SME back office, and buying a business to hold it.
Images and assets
Logos may be used to identify Valont in editorial coverage. Portraits may be used alongside a quote from the person pictured. Please do not alter the logo or present the mark on a competing product.
Research and reference pages
For a story on Australian small-business compliance, the sourced, dated reference pages are the ATO key dates, the 122 Modern Award guides, the AI Capability Ledger and the state payroll pages such as payroll in Queensland. Each figure carries its official source and an as-at date. A quarterly SME back-office benchmark is in preparation and will be published under /research with its methodology.
Press enquiries
Email hello@valont.com.au with "Press" in the subject line, or call 07 3473 0020. A person replies within one business day.