OnePassport was built by people who had to run compliance themselves, in sectors where getting it wrong is not a paperwork problem.
Every care worker in Australia holds a set of credentials that says they are safe to do the job. Almost none of them own that record. It sits in an employer's system, and when they move it does not move with them.
That single flaw costs the sector more than anyone measures. Providers spend their week re-collecting proof that already exists. Workers re-prove a career they already proved. And nobody, at any level, can answer a simple question about whether the workforce in front of them is verified.
We built OnePassport to fix the ownership problem first, and everything else follows from it.
OnePassport used to serve eleven industries. We now build for four: Healthcare, Aged Care, Disability Support and Childcare.
They share a workforce, a regulatory temperament and a consequence when compliance fails. Building for all four properly is worth more than building for eleven adequately.
Compliance held by employers. Proof fragments every time a worker moves, and providers rebuild it from scratch.
Give the employer one place to see and manage every worker's compliance.
Move the record to the worker, so it travels with the person who earned it.
Make the credential recognisable across an entire sector, and the triangle closes.
Michael Maher was operating in aged care when he went looking at the employee records. They were disorganised. Missing or out of date data was common, and the administration around it wasted time nobody had.
The part that mattered was what happened when something went wrong. Tracing the cause was difficult, and sometimes vulnerable people were harmed before anyone could.
He partnered with Sean Bennett to build OnePassport for the sectors that have to verify credentials across many locations and prove it on demand.
Works at the intersection of workforce and technology across Australia, Japan and Europe. Author of Care Factor: Why building teams is the No 1 priority in Aged Care. Studied military leadership and speaks Japanese. Scout leader, stroke survivor, and a board member of Stroke Recovery Victoria.
CTO of Stronghold, a San Francisco fintech firm. Ran some of the earliest blockchain currency transactions, founded Stellar's first stablecoin provider, moved AUD and NZD across borders on Ripple and Stellar in 2014, and built settlement infrastructure with IBM in 2018.
Trading as OnePassport. ABN 17 676 790 542. Australian owned and Australian hosted.
The method at the centre of OnePassport, connecting one worker's verified record to many organisations' changing requirements, was devised by Michael Maher and Sean Bennett and first lodged with IP Australia in March 2019. AU 2020104464 ceased in 2024, so no current protection may be claimed or implied.
Healthcare, Aged Care, Disability Support and Childcare. Identity verified, qualifications validated, safety demonstrable.
