{"id":33122,"date":"2023-10-20T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/aulay-macaulay-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:30:05","slug":"aulay-macaulay-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/aulay-macaulay-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Aulay Macaulay &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aulay-mccaulay.gif\" alt=\"Aulay Mccaulay\" title=\"Aulay Mccaulay\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17755\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aulay-mccaulay.gif\" alt=\"Aulay Mccaulay\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Aulay Macaulay <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rosterplus.com.au\/\" title=\"Roster Plus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roster Plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> Victoria   <span id=\"more-4290\"><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roster Plus is the brainchild of Aulay Macaulay, who became inspired after watching his girlfriend struggle to juggle work shifts and university classes due to an ineffective roster system.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Macaulay was already in charge of a web development company, which was routinely building successful start-ups for other people, so in 2009 Roster Plus was set up as a side project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 19, my web development company was turning over $400,000 per annum and I was able to run it while travelling around Europe,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But by 2010, Macaulay had become obsessed with Roster Plus, which had taken over all of his time as he pushed it towards becoming an internationally successful start-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within the first six months of setting up the business, Macaulay had signed up World Vision Australia as a client, along with more than 20 other Australian businesses across multiple sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roster Plus is now used by more than 400 managers, and completed a rollout for the Telstra retail network earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company has also launched a \u201crevolutionary approach to time and attendance\u201d as an extension of its product, with Telstra keen to implement the system already.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rather than shy away from innovation because of his age, Macaulay makes a point of building solutions for his generation <i>with <\/i>his generation. And he\u2019s not stopping here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt in my mind we are going to absolutely shake up rostering in Australia, then globally. While this might not be the start-up that defines me as a \u2018future maker\u2019, the next one will be,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Aulay Macaulay Business name: Roster Plus Age: 24 State: Victoria \u00a0 Roster Plus is the brainchild of Aulay Macaulay,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}