I changed my mind. The Matrix is for one person, not a company.

For the last nine months I have been pitching The Matrix as a small-business tool. A crew tool. A mining-site tool, then an accounting-firm tool, then a clinic tool. I drew nice org charts. I built a "Business" tier. I wrote pricing pages that asked you how many users you needed.

I was wrong, and the people who kept emailing me were the ones telling me so.

The folks who actually wanted The Matrix were not buying for a team. They were buying for themselves. A tradesperson with four years of receipts in a shoebox. A landlord with three properties and a drawer of statements. A locum doctor reconciling timesheets across two hospitals. A parent of an elderly relative drowning in Medicare letters, super statements, and chemist receipts. A side-hustle owner who scans every invoice and then never finds it again. Every one of them was one person, with one laptop, with a folder of mess.

So I have cut the SKUs. There is no "Business" tier anymore. There is no per-seat math. There is no "starting from." There is one thing: A$29 a month, you, your laptop, your folders. Cancel any month from the billing page.

Why I got it wrong for so long

I built The Matrix because I watched an entire department lose three days a week to filing scanned paperwork by hand. The obvious shape of that problem was institutional. the org chart had supervisors, planners, and an admin pool, and they all touched the same paper. So I designed for the org chart. I priced for the org chart. I wrote case studies about the org chart.

The org chart was never the buyer. The buyer was always the one person inside that org chart who was personally tired of it. When that person took the trial home, the first thing they did was point it at their own kitchen drawer. They told their partner about it before they told their boss. They asked me whether it would work on their tax pile.

That is not a small-business product. That is a personal-productivity product that occasionally shows up at work.

The new setup: email me your paperwork, I'll mail you an installer

I am not going to make you click through twelve setup screens trying to describe your folder structure to a wizard. That is a terrible first hour with a piece of software, and most people quit before they finish.

Instead: email three to five of your everyday documents to setup@chunkland.com. Invoices you get, statements, timesheets, work orders, receipts, school letters, super statements. whatever your actual paperwork looks like. Don't curate. The messier the better.

I read each batch personally. I look at where the dates live, what the headers say, who the senders are, what filenames you probably want. Then I package an installer pre-configured around your documents and email it back to you. Usually inside a day, sometimes the same evening. When you run it, your folders already know what to do with your paper. There is no blank-slate setup screen.

It is slower than a self-serve signup. That is the point. It is the difference between a sorter that works on day one and a sorter you have to spend a weekend training.

What is not in this box

Because I have been burned by everyone else's "free" tier, I want to be specific about what The Matrix is not:

• No cloud upload. Your documents do not leave your laptop. The Matrix files them in place. The only network call the app makes is a licence check against license.chunkland.com, which sends a licence key and a machine ID. not a single byte of your paperwork.
• No telemetry. I am not measuring which folders you open. I am not measuring how often you scan. I am not building a "usage dashboard" so I can upsell you to a tier that doesn't exist.
• No ads. No banners. No "upgrade to remove." A$29 is the price. There is nothing inside the app trying to sell you anything else.
• No freemium dark patterns. There is no crippled free tier with a watermark on your PDFs. There is a free trial, then you either pay or you stop. I would rather have a thousand paying customers than fifty thousand people I am annoying.

The trade-off, and I want to be honest about it, is the setup email. To pre-configure your installer I have to actually see a few samples of your real paperwork. I store those samples for thirty days so I can iterate if your first install needs tuning, and then they are deleted. They do not get used to train anything, because there is nothing to train. the sorter is deterministic. If you don't want to send samples, the generic installer still works; it just takes you longer to get to the same place.

What this means for the people who already bought a "Business" plan

You are not getting downgraded and you are not getting charged more. Existing Business and Enterprise customers keep what they have, at the price they signed up at, for as long as they want it. The change is for new buyers: from today, there is one plan and one price.

If you are on the old Worker tier at A$9 and want to move up to the new single plan to get every feature, email me and I will swap you over without a billing gap.

Try it on your own paperwork this week

I am one person. I built this for one person. I sell it to one person.

If you have a scanner, a folder of mess, and A$29 a month. try it. Email setup@chunkland.com with three to five of your real documents and I will mail you back an installer that already understands what they are.