When a company is under serious cashflow pressure, the worst outcome is a director making irreversible decisions from incomplete records, scattered correspondence and advice sought too late. Directors carry personal duties in that period, and those duties are assessed afterwards against what was known and documented at the time.
This is Massud-led coordination work. It is deliberately narrow: we organise the records, the chronology, the adviser briefings and the practical workstreams so that qualified professionals can advise properly and quickly. We do not advise on solvency, and we say so on every page for a reason.
Get qualified advice early. If you are a director worried about your company’s ability to pay its debts, speak to a registered liquidator, restructuring practitioner, insolvency accountant or lawyer now. Connect Australia supports the practical work around that advice. It is not a substitute for it.
What we do
Situation and records readiness
Build the chronology. Locate the books and records — including the ones nobody has looked at since the bookkeeper left. Identify notices, creditor positions, contracts, leases, personal guarantees, employee entitlements and the questions that need professional advice immediately rather than eventually.
Adviser coordination
A registered liquidator or restructuring practitioner asked to advise from a shoebox will spend your money assembling what you could have assembled yourself. We prepare an organised briefing pack and coordinate the director’s work with the professional selected for the matter.
Director action control
Track what has been committed to whom, keep correspondence orderly, and keep the director focused on actions that are documented, authorised and professionally reviewed. This is the part that matters most if conduct is examined later.
Handover and implementation
Support document delivery, operational handover, remediation tasks and the practical implementation of decisions taken with the appointed professionals.
What we do not do
- We do not assess or determine solvency.
- We do not provide safe-harbour, restructuring or insolvency advice.
- We do not accept appointment as an external administrator, liquidator or restructuring practitioner.
- We do not advise on, arrange or recommend asset transfers, and we will not assist with any arrangement designed to defeat creditors.
- We do not provide legal, tax or financial advice.
Those matters belong to registered or appropriately qualified practitioners. If what you need is that advice, the most useful thing we can do is say so and help you get it organised quickly.
Common questions
Is this “pre-insolvency advice”?
No. That phrase covers a market that includes some operators whose advice puts directors in a worse position than the one they started in. Our scope is coordination and records: chronology, document control, adviser briefings, workstream management and handover. The advice comes from a registered or qualified professional, and we will tell you plainly if a request falls outside what we do.
The company might still trade out of this. Does that change anything?
It makes early organisation more valuable, not less. Whether the outcome is restructuring, refinancing, a formal appointment or recovery, all four paths depend on knowing the real position, having the records available and being able to demonstrate what was known and when.
Will you talk to our accountant and lawyer directly?
Yes, with your authority. Coordinating those advisers from one set of facts is the substance of the engagement.
What does it cost?
Engagements start with the $850 initial strategic consultation, which requires your full name, telephone number and the relevant documents in advance. Documents are supplied only after the engagement and a secure exchange method are confirmed.
Start with a confidential fit check
The first conversation is short and costs nothing. We want to understand the decision you are facing, the deadline attached to it and whether this is work we should be doing at all. You do not need to send documents at that stage.
If the matter is a fit, the next step is usually the $850 initial strategic consultation, which includes up to one hour of pre-reading and a one-hour meeting.