What does Divine Lab Worx do?

Divine Lab Worx is Australia's specialist infrastructure consultancy. We identify and validate locations for mission-critical facilities: hyperscale data centres, sovereign AI factories, semiconductor fabs and advanced cleanrooms. We then stay with you through power, permits and project management until your site is build-ready.

What is the bottleneck when deploying data centres and AI factories in Australia?

As sovereign AI factories, hyperscale data centres and semiconductor fabs race to deploy, the bottleneck is no longer capital. It's finding the right site, secured fast. Divine Lab Worx specialises in exactly this: site intelligence, power proximity assessment, zoning clearance, fibre path mapping and water access validation.

What site validation criteria does Divine Lab Worx assess?

Divine Lab Worx validates five critical criteria for every site: Power Proximity (grid access, substation distance and MW capacity), Zoning Clearance (planning approvals and industrial land classification), Fibre Path (dark fibre routes and latency to exchange points), Water Access (cooling supply, wastewater rights and flow rates), and WHS Compliance (industrial safety and construction regulatory readiness).

Which types of facilities does Divine Lab Worx consult for?

Divine Lab Worx consults for hyperscale data centres, supercomputers and sovereign AI factories, semiconductor fabrication plants, and advanced cleanrooms requiring precision-controlled environments across Australia.

Dainu Devis: The Emerging Tech CEO Bridging Infrastructure Intelligence and AI Platform Deployment in Australia

There is a category of technology founder that the Australian market has historically underestimated. The one who builds from inside the problem rather than observing it from the outside. Whose knowledge is not academic, not acquired through an accelerator cohort, but earned through years of operating inside the industries that the technology is designed to serve.

Dainu Devis is that founder.

As the founder and chief executive of Sharktech Global, and the Commercial Architect of Divine Lab Worx, Devis is building at the intersection of two converging forces: the AI platform layer that service businesses, hospitality operators, and industrial facilities in Australia need to compete at scale, and the site intelligence layer that determines where the physical infrastructure supporting that AI will actually be built.

Both practices are grounded in specific knowledge. Neither could have been built by someone who had not spent years inside the operational reality of the industries they serve.

You can teach someone to code. You cannot teach someone to live inside a broken industry and fix it from the inside out. That is what gives Sharktech its edge, and it is the same knowledge that makes Divine Lab Worx's site intelligence practice something no desktop analyst can replicate.
Dainu Devis, Founder and CEO, Sharktech Global

The Business He Built

Sharktech Global operates three AI-powered platforms, each built to address a structural compliance or operational gap in an underserved Australian market segment.

VCPility

Growth and marketing platform for service businesses operating between A$1M and A$10M. Provides the intelligence and automation layer that replaces expensive manual marketing and client acquisition processes. Status: Active, approximately 10 clients.

eTakeaway Max

Hospitality operations platform for restaurants, cafes, and food service operators. Streamlines ordering, delivery, workforce management, and compliance reporting under a single operational layer. Status: Deployment phase.

Flagman.ai ANZ

Industrial safety compliance platform for construction, mining, and infrastructure sites. Sharktech holds ANZ exclusive rights, the only entity authorised to deploy this platform in Australia or New Zealand. Status: ANZ exclusive rights.

The three platforms share a structural logic: each addresses a non-discretionary obligation in a market that cannot opt out. WHS Act compliance for Flagman. Hospitality wage and reporting obligations for eTakeaway Max. The marketing and client acquisition ceiling that every growing service business eventually hits for VCPility. These are not nice-to-have platforms. They are operational necessities, which is why Sharktech's model scales differently from a consumer technology company competing for discretionary spend.

The Founding Principle

Sharktech Global was built without salary, without external capital, and without permission from an ecosystem that rarely backs founders who do not arrive through the conventional pathways of university accelerators, venture scout networks, or prior institutional employment.

That origin is not incidental. It is the thesis.

The knowledge that powers Sharktech's platforms was acquired through direct operational experience. It was not modelled from a spreadsheet. It was not derived from customer interviews. It was lived. The understanding of how industrial safety compliance actually works on a construction site, how hospitality operations fail under compliance pressure, and where a service business's growth model breaks down, comes from being inside those industries for years before building the platforms that serve them.

This is the distinction between specific knowledge and general capability. Anyone can be taught to build a compliance software platform. The moat is not the code. The moat is the knowledge that shaped every decision inside the code, and that compounds with each client added.

The Sharktech Global foundation

$0: External capital raised prior to the current seed round. Built entirely by the founder.
1: ANZ territorial exclusivity over Flagman.ai. Secured before any competitor could enter.
3: Non-discretionary compliance and operational markets addressed across three active platforms.

The Infrastructure Intelligence Practice

Divine Lab Worx is Sharktech Global's specialist site intelligence consultancy. Devis established it to address a gap he identified as Australia's infrastructure investment cycle accelerated: the absence of a specialist firm capable of evaluating data centre and compute facility sites through a rigorous multi-variable framework before capital is committed.

The practice is built on the same principle as the platforms: specific knowledge that cannot be replicated by a generalist. Evaluating whether a site can support a sovereign AI factory or a hyperscale data centre requires not just infrastructure mapping but an understanding of how regulatory, climate, talent, and operational variables interact, and how they are likely to evolve over the twenty to thirty year asset life of the facility.

Devis brings to this practice the same quality of knowledge that powers Sharktech's platforms: earned through direct engagement with the industries, the regulators, the infrastructure operators, and the capital markets that determine where critical infrastructure gets built and where it fails.

Australia is building the infrastructure layer for the next fifty years of its economy right now, in real time. The decisions being made in the next three years about where to put power, compute, and connectivity will determine which regions and which operators capture the value of the sovereign AI era. And which ones miss it permanently.
Dainu Devis, Commercial Architect, Divine Lab Worx

The Timeline That Explains the Thesis

2024 to 2025: Sharktech Global platforms built and first clients acquired. VCPility reaches approximately ten paying clients. eTakeaway Max and the Flagman.ai deployment architecture are developed. No external capital. No institutional support. Entirely founder-built.
2025: ANZ exclusive rights to Flagman.ai secured. Sharktech Global acquires ANZ territorial exclusivity for the Flagman.ai industrial safety compliance platform. WorkSafe compliance under the WHS Act 2011 is non-discretionary. The mandate is structural and cannot be competed away.
2025 to 2026: Divine Lab Worx site intelligence practice established. Recognising the gap in specialist infrastructure site intelligence as Australia's data centre and sovereign AI investment cycle accelerates, Devis establishes Divine Lab Worx as a dedicated practice with a seven-variable site viability framework applied to initial client engagements.
May 2026: Capital 2026 investor engagement at Hilton Sydney. Sharktech Global presents its seed investment case to institutional and private investors at Capital 2026. The raise: A$500K seed at 7% equity for Flagman ANZ launch. Next round: A$3M at 15%. Investment interest confirmed. The early-entry window into Sharktech's ANZ exclusive rights position is open.
Vision 2026: Sharktech Global scales to 100 or more clients across all three platforms. The Vision 2026 programme drives Sharktech to commercial scale across ANZ, with the infrastructure intelligence practice embedded in Australia's major infrastructure development programmes.

Why This Matters for Australian Technology

The Australian technology ecosystem has a structural tendency to celebrate international imports over domestic builders. The founders who receive the most institutional attention are those with overseas credentials, those who have been through Y Combinator or equivalent programmes, those who arrive with the social proof of Silicon Valley endorsement.

Dainu Devis is a different category of founder. The specific knowledge that powers Sharktech's platforms and Divine Lab Worx's practice is inherently local. It is knowledge of Australian regulatory frameworks, Australian industry dynamics, Australian infrastructure constraints, and the particular gaps in the Australian market that a founder operating inside those industries for years is positioned to see and act on before a competitor arrives from outside.

In the context of ANZ-specific compliance mandates, ANZ exclusive territorial rights, and an Australian infrastructure investment cycle that requires local knowledge to navigate, that is not a disadvantage. It is a structural advantage of the first order.

Why investors are watching Dainu Devis

Built Sharktech Global without salary or external capital, demonstrating founder commitment that institutional capital cannot manufacture.
Holds ANZ exclusive territorial rights to Flagman.ai, a structural moat in a non-discretionary compliance market that cannot be replicated by a later-entry competitor.
Operating at the convergence of AI platform deployment and physical infrastructure intelligence, two of the highest-value categories in the current Australian technology market.
Three revenue-generating platforms in three structurally different non-discretionary markets, reducing single-product concentration risk.
Early-stage entry point: A$500K seed for 7% equity in a business with exclusive territorial rights, active clients, and live code.
Recognised by institutional investors at Capital 2026, Hilton Sydney, May 2026, as one of Australia's most compelling emerging technology investment opportunities.

What Comes Next

The current Sharktech Global seed round, A$500K at seven percent equity, funds the commercial launch of Flagman.ai across Australian construction and mining sites, accelerates the VCPility client base, and capitalises the Divine Lab Worx infrastructure intelligence pipeline as Australia's data centre build-out enters its most intensive phase.

The second round, projected at A$3M, scales all three platforms to one hundred or more clients, builds the distribution infrastructure required to achieve that scale, and positions Sharktech for the Series A that a company with exclusive territorial rights, non-discretionary market demand, and a compounding intelligence moat can credibly target.

The window is open. The mandate is law. The rights are secured. The code is running. The clients are paying.

This is not a vision. This is a business asking to be scaled by investors who understand that the most valuable positions in Australian technology are the ones already held by the founder who built them without waiting for permission.