The Sole Trader
ABN, GST & BAS. Home-office and vehicle claims. Contractor vs employee — finally answered.
Varen combines persistent workspaces, local knowledge and specialist AI routing. Ground answers in your own documents, inspect sources, and choose where inference runs. We're opening a founding cohort. Apply below.
Running a small business in Australia means a steady drip of questions you never trained for. GST and BAS. Fair Work and award rates. What you can claim, what you can't, and what'll bite you at tax time.
So you Google it at 11pm — and still aren't sure the answer fits your situation.
Varen is a private intelligence platform built for Australian businesses. Ask it anything — it routes your question to the right specialist, grounds the answer in current Australian rules and your own documents, and shows you exactly where every answer came from.
Less time second-guessing. More time on the work that actually pays.
If one of these sounds like you, you're exactly who we're building for.
ABN, GST & BAS. Home-office and vehicle claims. Contractor vs employee — finally answered.
Licensing and insurance. Fair Work. Quoting, variations and subcontractors.
Contracts and invoicing. IP and structure. Super you keep forgetting about.
2–15 staff. Award rates and leave. WHS and payroll-tax thresholds.
Signal your interest and we'll prioritise these for Phase 2.
Landlord obligations. CGT and depreciation. State-by-state tenancy law.
Centrelink and NDIS. Aged care. Estate planning — the hard, high-stakes stuff.
Six quick questions. We read every application by hand.
We review every application by hand and get back to you within 2 business days. If it's a fit, you'll get an invite to set up your node and start using Varen.
Questions? hello@varen.au.