Palmerston solopreneur Melissa Maguire, founder of The Bid Agency, has been named one of the Top 50 Small Business Leaders 2025. From her home office, Melissa helps SMEs across the Northern Territory and nationally win tenders, secure grants, and gain recognition through awards — with over $2 billion in contracts and hundreds of millions in grants won to date.

Quad Charts are a useful tool for presenting and summarising your business capabilities in a concise and clear manner to the Australian Defence Force. In the Defence industry, quad charts are commonly used to present information as they allow decision-makers to quickly understand the key features of a capability and compare it to other options.

Capability statements, or "Glossies" as they are sometimes called, are a powerful sales tool and are the new standard document for businesses marketing to the public, other big businesses or government agencies.