Who is Yellow Canary?

Yellow Canary is an Australian RegTech scale-up providing Always On Compliance solutions to businesses of all sizes, ensuring payroll, superannuation, and Long Service Leave compliance.

What does Yellow Canary do?

We provide automated compliance solutions for payroll, superannuation, and Long Service Leave, using AI and automation to audit historical and ongoing payments, detect errors, and deliver actionable insights.

Who are Yellow Canary's founders?

Marcus Zeltzer and Brenton McSweyn founded Yellow Canary in 2018 to address widespread workforce compliance challenges in Australian businesses.

Is wage theft a crime in Australia?

Yes. State-specific laws in Queensland and Victoria make wage theft a criminal offence, with severe penalties under the Closing Loopholes Acts 2023 and 2024. Employers are encouraged to maintain proactive compliance strategies to avoid these penalties.

Why should my business prioritise compliance?

Maintaining compliance reduces the risk of payroll underpayments, protects employee morale, and ensures businesses meet legal and ethical obligations. Regular reviews prevent errors from compounding over time.

Who are Yellow Canary's clients?

Our clients include some of Australia's most recognisable employers, with workforces ranging from 500 to 100,000 employees across industries such as banking, insurance, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, and healthcare.

What makes Yellow Canary's Always On Compliance solution unique?

Our subscription-based solution uses a purpose-built AI-powered calculator configured to each business’s needs. It provides fast, scalable, and actionable payroll compliance insights, simplifying verification across multiple payment obligations.

Australia's industrial relations landscape is complex

With over 122 awards, thousands of Enterprise Agreements, state-based Long Service Leave rules and Superannuation obligations, managing payroll compliance is no easy task. Our automated audit platform helps large organisations stay compliant and in control.

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Our story

Yellow Canary was founded in 2017. As underpayment issues began making headlines more often, it became clear that even large, well-resourced organisations were finding it difficult to stay on top of payroll compliance.

We set out to build a better, more effective way for businesses to strengthen their governance and stay ahead of compliance risks.

Bringing confidence and visibility to payroll compliance

Yellow Canary’s automated, AI-powered platform conducts both historical and ongoing audits to identify, quantify, and diagnose the root causes of payroll variance across employee payments, Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements, Long Service Leave and Superannuation.

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Eliminate guesswork. Make informed decisions.

Assess accuracy

Have you paid employees in accordance with the relevant pay rules?

Quantify scope

If you have not paid your employees correctly, how big is the issue?

Diagnose cause

If you have identified an issue, what exactly is the root cause?

The leadership team behind our vision

Leverage expertise in technology, data, payroll, and employment law shaped by experience across 110+ large-scale pay reviews.

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Living our values in everything we do

At Yellow Canary, our values shape how we work and who we are. We bring them to life by hiring with them in mind, celebrating those who live them, sharing real stories, and keeping them front and centre in everything we do.

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