# FLIP 360 — PRESS KIT
### IPO-scale launch · Embargoed materials for tier-1 + tier-2 outlets
### Confidential — for publicist and journalist distribution only

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## 0. How to use this kit

This kit contains everything a journalist needs to write the Flip 360 story
without picking up the phone. It is structured so the publicist can excerpt
sections directly into a pitch email, or send the whole document under
embargo to a single outlet for an exclusive.

**Embargo discipline:**
- Tier-1 exclusive pitch → 48-hour embargo, single outlet, written confirmation.
- Tier-1 wave → simultaneous release date, 24-hour pre-brief window.
- Tier-2 / trade → no embargo, distributed on launch day +1.

**Contact:** [Publicist on retainer — appointment pending Master Strategy
sign-off]. Founder direct: Matt Punter, founder@flip360.org.

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## 1. The headline release (ready to send)

> **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
> **Embargoed until [DATE], 6am AEST**
>
> ### Sunshine Coast platform Flip 360 launches the operating system for Australia's professional services economy
>
> **A 25-year mortgage broker has built the rails Australia's $87B referral
> economy has been running on goodwill alone — and is giving half the revenue
> back through an audited foundation.**
>
> SUNSHINE COAST, AUSTRALIA — [DATE] — Flip 360, an Australian software
> platform that turns the country's informal professional referral economy
> into trackable, payable, auditable infrastructure, today opens registration
> to mortgage brokers, accountants, conveyancers, allied health professionals,
> recruiters and tradespeople across Australia.
>
> Built by 25-year mortgage broker Matthew Punter on the Sunshine Coast, Flip
> 360 is the first platform to treat referrals between professional services
> providers as first-class economic events — booked, tracked, reported and
> paid, with the trust layer of audited standards underneath. Fifty per cent
> of every dollar the platform earns flows back through the separately
> registered Flip 360 Foundation. The Foundation is independently audited and
> publishes its grants quarterly.
>
> "For fifty years, every working Australian has been making free referrals
> — to their broker, their accountant, their tradie," said Punter. "Billions
> of dollars of trust, moved on goodwill alone. Flip 360 is the operating
> system for that economy. We built the rails. Now the goodwill finally pays
> — to the person who actually did the work."
>
> The platform is live today in financial services and mortgage broking,
> with confirmed pilots in conveyancing, accounting and allied health, and
> a public roadmap extending to trades, recruitment and NDIS services in
> 2027.
>
> Flip 360 is not a multi-level marketing scheme. There is no recruitment
> commission, no joining fee, no down-line. The platform charges a flat
> transaction fee per completed referral; half of that fee passes through
> the Foundation.
>
> Industry analysts have placed Australia's annual professional referral
> economy at between $80 and $90 billion in implicit value moved — value
> that currently flows through phone calls, handshakes and informal
> reputation. Flip 360 is the first end-to-end attempt to make that economy
> transparent, audited and equitably rewarded.
>
> Registration of interest opens today at **cosaiflip360.org**.
>
> *— ENDS —*
>
> **Media contact:** [Publicist] · founder@flip360.org · +61 [direct]
> **Founder availability:** Matthew Punter is available for interview from
> [DATE], remotely or in person on the Sunshine Coast.
> **Assets:** Hero film, vision reel, founder portraits, logo pack and
> fact sheet available at cosaiflip360.org/press-kit

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## 2. The founder narrative (long-form, for profile pieces)

### The slow build

Matthew Punter is not a typical tech founder. He has been a working mortgage
broker for 25 years. He runs TSC Mortgage Brokers on the Sunshine Coast. His
clients are families, tradies, small business owners. He has done the loans,
the refinances, the difficult conversations. He has seen the referral economy
from the inside for a quarter of a century.

The thing he kept seeing was this: every good piece of work he did produced
another piece of work for someone else. The client needed a conveyancer. The
conveyancer needed a building inspector. The inspector needed an accountant.
The accountant needed a financial planner. Every referral was a transfer of
trust — and every transfer of trust was free. Worth nothing on paper. Worth
everything in practice.

He started Flip 360 not because he wanted to build a tech company. He started
Flip 360 because he could no longer watch the rails his own industry ran on
stay broken.

### Why the Foundation, why 50%

The Foundation predates the software. Matt registered the Flip 360 Foundation
as a separate legal entity before a line of code was written. The deed locks
50% of platform revenue to the Foundation for as long as Flip 360 exists.
The Foundation is independently audited and its grants are published quarterly.

"Foundation-first wasn't a marketing decision," Matt says. "We registered it
before we wrote a line of code. Fifty per cent, locked in from day one. If
I'm asking working Australia to trust us with their referrals, the trust has
to be structural — not promised."

### Why now, why this scale

Flip 360 launches into a moment when three things are true at once:
- Generative AI has collapsed the cost of professional services delivery, so
  the value increasingly sits in the **referral** and the **trust** rather
  than the work itself.
- Australia's specialist workforce — brokers, accountants, allied health,
  trades — is fragmenting into independent operators at unprecedented speed.
- The cost-of-living crisis means consumers are more aware than ever of
  what their goodwill is worth, and who is profiting from it.

This is the inflection point. The platform is ready. The economy is ready.
The founder has spent 25 years earning the right to build it.

### Why this is a category, not a product

Flip 360 looks at first glance like a mortgage broking tool. It isn't. It
is the operating system for any professional services relationship where
there is a job, a report, a referral and an invoice. The wedge is mortgage
broking because that is what Matt knows. The platform extends to allied
health, recruitment, conveyancing, accounting, trades, aged care and
veterinary services — anywhere the same loop runs.

The closest historical analogues are Atlassian (which started as one product
and became infrastructure for software teams worldwide), Canva (which started
in social media graphics and became infrastructure for visual communication),
and Stripe (which started in payments and became infrastructure for the
internet economy). Flip 360 starts in mortgage broking and is building the
infrastructure for the referral economy.

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## 3. Fact sheet (one-page hand-out)

| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company | Flip 360 Pty Ltd |
| Trading name | Flip 360 |
| Foundation | The Flip 360 Foundation (separate registered entity) |
| Headquarters | Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| Founded | 2026 (entity); core IP development 2024–2026 |
| Founder & CEO | Matthew Punter (25-year mortgage broker) |
| What it is | Operating system for the professional services referral economy |
| Wedge vertical | Mortgage broking + financial services |
| Active verticals | Mortgage broking, financial services referrals |
| Pilots | Conveyancing, accounting, allied health |
| 2027 roadmap | Trades, recruitment, NDIS services |
| Foundation share | 50% of every platform dollar |
| Foundation audit cadence | Independent, published quarterly |
| Business model | Per-completed-referral transaction fee; no subscription, no joining fee, no recruitment commission, no down-line |
| Geography | Australia-first; global roadmap from 2028 |
| Funding status | [Founder + advisor capital; Series A discussions ongoing — confirm with publicist before publication] |
| Headcount | [Current FTE — confirm with operations] |
| Customer count | [Active registered members — confirm at press launch] |
| Website | cosaiflip360.org |
| Press contact | founder@flip360.org · [publicist email] |

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## 4. Pitch angles (by outlet type)

### 4.1 Tier-1 business broadsheet (AFR, BOSS, Forbes Australia)
> **The Sunshine Coast mortgage broker building the operating system for
> Australia's $87B referral economy — and giving half of it back.**
>
> A 25-year working broker has registered a Foundation, locked 50% of platform
> revenue to it in the deed, and built the software to make the country's
> informal referral economy auditable. He says it's not a fintech. He says
> it's infrastructure. Talk to him.

### 4.2 Saturday paper / The Monthly long-form
> **The quiet platform: how a Sunshine Coast broker is asking Australia
> to rewrite goodwill into infrastructure.**
>
> A profile piece. The 25-year arc. The Foundation. The slow build. The
> refusal to play the loud-fintech game. The reason this might be the most
> Australian-shaped technology platform of the decade.

### 4.3 Equity Mates / Bouris podcasts
> **Matt Punter — the broker who built the rails his own industry ran on.**
>
> Two-hour conversation. The mechanics of the platform. The Foundation. The
> commercial model. The expansion roadmap. The IPO trajectory. The honest
> answer on "is this an MLM" (it isn't, here's why).

### 4.4 Sky Business / ABC News Breakfast
> **The Foundation-first software company: 50% locked in the deed, audited
> quarterly, live today.**
>
> 4-minute live segment. Matt + a 30-second product reel. The point of
> difference is the audited Foundation. The visual is the platform showing
> a referral flowing through with the Foundation share splitting in real
> time.

### 4.5 Mortgage Professional Australia / Australian Broker / AdviserVoice
> **Flip 360 opens registration to brokers — what working Matthew Punter
> built for his own industry first.**
>
> Trade press wedge story. Matt as one of their own. The platform-for-brokers
> framing. The expansion to other verticals is a footnote here, on purpose.

### 4.6 HealthcareIT / Allied Health News
> **The referral OS expanding into allied health: what physios, OTs and
> psychs get from Flip 360.**
>
> Vertical pitch. Lead with the allied health pilot. The Foundation. The
> per-referral economics. The expansion of the Australian platform built on
> 25 years of broker experience.

### 4.7 Forbes Australia / Australian Financial Review Magazine
> **The next Canva? The case for Flip 360 as Australia's next category-
> defining platform.**
>
> Analyst-framing piece. The horizontal-platform thesis. The TAM. The
> comparable companies. The Foundation as a structural moat. The IPO
> trajectory.

### 4.8 The Australian / The Conversation (op-ed by Matt)
> **Why I locked half my company's revenue in a Foundation before I wrote
> a line of code.**
>
> First-person op-ed under Matt's byline. The philosophy. The 25 years of
> seeing the referral economy from the inside. The structural choice.
> Co-publish with /press on cosaiflip360.org.

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## 5. Journalist target list (Australia, tier-1 + tier-2 + podcast + trade)

### Tier 1 — national business + technology
| Outlet | Target journalist | Beat | Approach |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFR | [Tech/Startups desk] | Australian startups, IPO trajectory | Exclusive embargo, founder portrait + hero film |
| AFR BOSS Magazine | [Profile editor] | Founder profiles | Long-form profile pitch — section 4.1 |
| Forbes Australia | [Editor] | Most Innovative Companies | Section 4.7 — IPO trajectory analyst framing |
| The Saturday Paper | [Tech / business writer] | Long-form business | Section 4.2 — slow build, structural choice |
| The Monthly | [Features editor] | Long-form profiles | Section 4.2 |
| ABC News Breakfast | [Business segment producer] | Live business segments | Section 4.4 |
| Sky News Business | [Bookings producer] | Live business segments | Section 4.4 |
| The Australian | [Business editor] | Op-ed + profile | Section 4.8 op-ed |

### Tier 2 — startup & tech trade
| Outlet | Beat |
|---|---|
| Startup Daily | Australian startup launches |
| SmartCompany | Founder profiles |
| ITNews Australia | B2B SaaS |
| The Australian's "The Deal" | Capital markets adjacent |
| Mumbrella | Marketing + brand build |

### Trade vertical
| Outlet | Vertical |
|---|---|
| Mortgage Professional Australia | Broking |
| Australian Broker | Broking |
| AdviserVoice | Financial advice |
| Professional Planner | Financial advice |
| HealthcareIT | Allied health |
| Pharmacy Daily | Health adjacency |
| Recruitment International ANZ | Recruitment |
| Real Estate Business | Conveyancing + agents |
| Lawyers Weekly | Conveyancing legal |
| Trade Magazine ANZ | Trades |

### Podcasts (the warmer surface)
| Show | Host | Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Equity Mates | Bryce + Alec | Section 4.3 — 90-minute deep dive |
| The Mentor (Mark Bouris) | Mark Bouris | Founder credibility, broker network |
| The Property Couch | Bryce + Ben | Property + broker audience |
| How I Built This (ANZ guests) | [Producer] | Long-form founder story |
| The Diary of a CEO (AU swing) | [Booking] | International upside |
| Imperfects (Hugh + Ryan) | Hugh van Cuylenburg | Mission + mental health angle |
| Pinches of Salt (Christian) | Christian Kennedy | Tech founder community |
| The Process (Sean Aylmer) | Sean Aylmer | Capital markets + IPO trajectory |

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## 6. Quote bank (cleared for direct attribution to Matt Punter)

> "For fifty years, every working Australian has been making free referrals.
> Flip 360 is the operating system for that economy."

> "We built the rails. Now the goodwill finally pays — to the person who
> actually did the work."

> "Mortgage brokers. Accountants. Tradies. Allied health. Recruiters.
> Lawyers. Everywhere there's a specialist, a job, a report and a referral
> — Flip 360 runs the loop."

> "Fifty per cent of every dollar Flip 360 makes flows back through a
> separately registered Foundation. Independently audited. Published
> quarterly."

> "We're not the loudest fintech in the room. We're the most useful one.
> Working Australia built this country on referrals — Flip 360 finally
> pays them back."

> "Foundation-first wasn't a marketing decision. We registered it before we
> wrote a line of code."

> "I've been a working mortgage broker for twenty-five years. I'm not
> selling you a dream. I'm building the rails my own clients deserve."

> "There is no recruitment commission. No joining fee. No down-line. If
> it looks like multi-level marketing — it isn't."

> "We're on the Sunshine Coast. We're not in Silicon Valley. I reckon
> that's a feature, not a bug — we're building this for working Australia,
> from working Australia."

> "My wife and my kids are the reason I'm doing this the slow way. If it's
> worth doing, it's worth doing properly."

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## 7. FAQ for journalists (the hard questions, answered honestly)

**Q: Is this a multi-level marketing scheme?**
A: No. There is no recruitment commission, no joining fee, no down-line. The
platform charges a flat per-completed-referral transaction fee. Half of that
fee flows through the Foundation. No member is rewarded for recruiting
another member. The /faq on the public site goes into the structural detail.

**Q: How is the 50% Foundation share legally locked?**
A: The Foundation is a separately registered legal entity, governed by its
own deed and board. The deed binds Flip 360 to transfer 50% of platform
revenue to the Foundation for as long as Flip 360 operates. The transfer is
audited annually by an independent firm and the grants are published
quarterly. The deed and the audit reports are public.

**Q: What does Flip 360 actually do?**
A: It is the software underneath a professional services referral. When a
mortgage broker refers a client to an accountant — or a conveyancer refers
to a building inspector, or a physio refers to a podiatrist — Flip 360
records the referral, tracks the work, handles the invoicing, splits the
revenue per the agreed terms, and updates the trust score of both
professionals. It does for the referral economy what Stripe did for payments
and Xero did for small business accounting — it removes the manual
infrastructure.

**Q: How is this different from a CRM?**
A: A CRM stores contacts. Flip 360 settles transactions between
professionals. It is a marketplace, a payment rail, a compliance layer and
a trust scoring system in one platform. A CRM is a system of record. Flip
360 is a system of transaction.

**Q: How big is the addressable market?**
A: Independent industry analysis places the Australian professional services
referral economy at $80–90 billion AUD in implicit value moved annually
across broking, accounting, conveyancing, allied health, recruitment, trades
and adjacent fields. Flip 360 targets a per-transaction fee on that flow.
Globally the equivalent figure runs to several trillion USD.

**Q: Are you raising capital?**
A: [Defer to publicist + Matt to confirm public position before publication.]

**Q: Is the founder open to acquisition?**
A: No. The Foundation deed makes acquisition structurally difficult by
design. Flip 360 was built for compounding, not for exit. The mission is to
own the category long-term.

**Q: What's your relationship with TSC Mortgage Brokers?**
A: Matthew Punter remains a working broker. TSC Mortgage Brokers and Flip
360 are separate entities. TSC is one of many brokerages now active on the
Flip 360 platform. There is no preferential treatment.

**Q: Have you used AI-generated content in your marketing?**
A: Yes — and we are transparent about it. We have a written AI governance
policy. Conceptual and aspirational footage of the founder used in branded
marketing carries a "Synthesised with founder consent" disclosure. We never
synthesise real journalists, real customers, real media logos, real
regulators or real partners. The hero film and short-form campaign creative
involving the founder is synthesised under the disclosed policy. Real
filmed footage will replace synthesised content for all PR-grade and
investor-grade material as filming budget is deployed.

**Q: Why the Sunshine Coast, not Sydney or Melbourne?**
A: Because that's where Matt lives and where the customers live. The
Sunshine Coast has one of the highest concentrations of small-business
financial services professionals in Australia. The platform was built where
the customer is.

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## 8. Press kit asset index (download URLs)

> Hosted under cosaiflip360.org/press — public assets are public; private
> press-only assets are gated behind a passcode that the publicist
> distributes per outlet.

| Asset | Format | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Hero film "How Flip 360 Works" (96s, 16:9) | MP4 | /static/launch/matt-hero-howitworks.mp4 |
| Hero film poster | JPG | /static/launch/matt-hero-howitworks-poster.jpg |
| Vision reel "The Next 36 Months" (60s, 16:9) | MP4 — internal / concept only | /static/launch/matt-vision-reel.mp4 |
| Founder portrait — branded 3:2 (5MB) | JPG | /static/founder/matt-punter-flip360-branded-3x2.jpg |
| Founder portrait — landscape | JPG | /static/founder/ (12 variants) |
| Founder portrait — square | JPG | /static/founder/ |
| Logo pack — horizontal | PNG + SVG | /static/brand/logo-horizontal.* |
| Logo pack — stacked | PNG + SVG | /static/brand/logo-stacked.* |
| Logo pack — inverse / white | PNG | /static/brand/*-white.png |
| Wordmark — teal | SVG | /static/brand/wordmark-teal.svg |
| Brand mark — square | PNG | /static/brand/logo-square.png |
| Brand CSS tokens | CSS | /static/brand/flip360-brand.css |
| Brand canonical tokens (developer) | TS | /src/brand.ts |
| Fact sheet | PDF (export from this section) | TBC |
| Master strategy (board-only — not in press kit) | MD | Internal only |

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## 9. Embargo + distribution discipline

1. **The publicist is the only outbound channel** for tier-1 placements.
   Matt does not pitch direct. Carla does not pitch direct.
2. **One exclusive only per tier-1 outlet.** Once an exclusive is granted,
   no parallel pitches in the same fortnight.
3. **Embargo violations cancel the relationship.** Written confirmation
   required for every tier-1 send.
4. **Trade and vertical press are distributed simultaneously on launch +1**
   to avoid stepping on the tier-1 story.
5. **Founder Twitter/X is locked silent for 48 hours pre-launch** and posts
   a single statement at the moment of embargo lift.
6. **The /launch viewer is not public** until launch day. The hero film is
   the public-facing centerpiece.

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*End of Press Kit. See `02_PAID_MEDIA_PLAN.md` for the paid channel layer
that runs in parallel with the press wave.*