Behind the Fast50: Adactin Group

It’s been a strong year for Sydney-based Adactin Group, with 13% year-on-year revenue growth to $54 million in FY25 to earn it seventh position in the 2025 techpartner.news Fast50 and its fifth Fast50 appearance.

While state government is Adactin’s main market, director and chief executive Navneesh Garg said the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act created opportunity to grow other areas.

“The implementation of SOCI changes for many of our customers in energy, utilities and healthcare sectors created urgent demand for cloud migration, OT uplift and cyber-resilience, which fuelled our growth,” he said.

The demand was so high that finding the right talent became an issue. 

This challenge was mitigated through strengthening delivery processes, investing heavily in structured upskilling for AI, data and secure cloud, and creating specialised practices across Microsoft, AWS (it became an AWS Select Partner) and Quality Engineering. 

In turn, these efforts helped to fuel continued growth for the company, which has former UXC Connect CEO Ian Poole on its board.

Adactin also touted its place on several government panels, including a Queensland Government IT Services Panel, WaterNSW IT Services Panel, and ACU, UTS and Newcastle University panels.

Its clients have included Vinnies, icare, UNSW, Sydney Opera House, TAL Insurance and NDIS. 

The company began as a software testing consultancy, but today, professional services make up the largest share of its revenue, followed closely by data/application integration work.

Garg said AI will play a key part in the company’s future growth as it moves into “an AI-first focus across all service lines”.

“This includes expanding our Microsoft Copilot Studio and AI Foundry capabilities, deepening our AWS practice with AI stack across Amazon Bedrock and QuickSuite, and scaling AI-enabled quality engineering and automation services,” he said

There is also work underway on Adactin’s own AI platform for building integration AI solutions for enterprise ecosystems, serving the enterprise customers that make up more than half of Adactin’s customers base.

Adactin’s AI Innovation Studio was recently launched to help public and private enterprises explore, prioritise, and prototype scalable GenAI solutions.

Merger and acquisition exploration and the strengthening of Adactin’s partner ecosystem will also be part of the company’s growth strategy.

In addition to its Sydney presence, the company has a presence in Canberra and Melbourne and was setting up a Brisbane office when we spoke with the company earlier this year. 

The company has several hundred people in Australia and grew its Victorian team to more than 50 people this year.

Garg said the company is expanding its presence across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the broader ASEAN region. It established a presence in Singapore this year. 

“These markets are seeing rapid demand for AI, cloud and quality engineering services and align strongly with our long-term growth vision,” he said.