Your directors are busy.
Your board papers are buried in someone's inbox.
A managed governance and company secretarial function that keeps the board operating — without a full-time COSEC. Records maintained, meetings structured, filings tracked, directors supported between meetings.
Book a governance diagnostic →Most directors arrive at the meeting, not before it.
Australian governance bodies flag it explicitly: directors who don't read papers in advance are failing their duties — and it is common enough to be a standard governance risk. The answer is not better directors. It is a better operating layer.
Lost logins and buried emails
Directors across multiple boards lose credentials to board portals regularly. The pack email is buried in a crowded inbox. The result: a phone call to the chair five minutes before the meeting starts.
Last-minute, not disengaged
Busy directors want to be briefed — they need it frictionless. A five-minute summary of what matters and what to decide lands better than a 200-page pack sent the night before.
No audit trail outside meetings
Email resolutions and verbal approvals between meetings leave no defensible record. Under the Corporations Act, that creates personal liability exposure for every director on the board.
ASIC filings missed without a COSEC
Private companies often rely on their accountant to catch ASIC deadlines — with no proactive monitoring. Missed or late filings create penalties and trigger ASIC scrutiny at the worst possible time.
Stale registers and missing records
Member registers, officer registers and minute books updated reactively — not maintained continuously. Discovered during due diligence or a dispute, stale records become a serious liability.
Governance that runs between meetings — not just during them.
WK Digital operates your board office: records maintained, filings tracked, packs prepared, minutes drafted, decisions documented. Directors get frictionless access. Nothing falls through the cracks.
One link. No login maze.
Board packs delivered via a single link — mobile-friendly, no portal login required. Directors can also query the board agent directly for context on any item before the meeting.
- Frictionless pack delivery to every director
- Mobile-friendly brief format
- Agent available for pre-meeting queries
- Five-minute summary of what matters and what to decide
Entity records kept current — continuously.
Member registers, officer registers and minute books maintained in real time, not catch-up mode. Document custody with version control and a complete audit trail.
- Share and officer registers
- Constitution and deed custody
- Resolution and minute archive
- Document version history
Board pack and meeting workflow.
Agenda prepared and circulated ahead of each meeting. Minutes drafted within 48 hours of close. Resolutions documented with a full paper trail.
- Agenda preparation and circulation
- Board pack collation and delivery
- Minutes drafted within 48 hours
- Resolution drafting and execution routing
Filings tracked. Nothing missed.
ASIC obligations, annual reviews and jurisdiction deadlines monitored proactively — not reactively discovered when the penalty arrives.
- ASIC filing calendar and reminders
- Annual review and solvency obligations
- Jurisdiction-specific compliance playbooks
- Multi-entity obligation tracking
Active companies with real boards — and no full-time COSEC.
A full-time company secretary in Australia costs A$120,000–$250,000 per year. WK Digital delivers the governance operations without the overhead — and removes the need for a separate board portal subscription.
Company secretarial output. Without the A$200k salary.
Outsourced COSEC retainers across Australia run A$3,000–$7,000/month. WK Digital delivers structured governance operations — and replaces the need for a separate board portal subscription.
Governance Desk
/month
For single-entity companies with a board meeting quarterly. Registers, filings, minutes and basic compliance covered.
- Entity registers and document custody
- ASIC filing calendar
- Board pack preparation
- Minutes drafted within 48 hours
- Resolution drafting
Board Office
/month
Full board operations with director access layer, monthly meeting cadence support and adviser escalation model.
- Everything in Governance Desk
- Director frictionless access layer
- Monthly board cadence support
- Adviser escalation model
- Decision audit trail and action register
Portfolio / Cross-Border
/month
For multi-entity, multi-country, investor-backed or high-governance environments.
- Jurisdiction packs
- Portfolio registers
- Approval routing
- Adviser escalation model
Setup typically ranges from A$3,500–A$10,000 depending on entity count, existing register quality, board cadence and document migration. WK Digital does not replace a lawyer, accountant, licensed company secretary or registered agent where the jurisdiction requires one; it gives those people a cleaner operating layer.
Start with a governance diagnostic.
Entity records, open decisions, filing calendar, board cadence, document custody and jurisdiction rules — all covered in your first session.
Book a COSEC session →