Our founder, Marcus, spent twelve years advising high net worth clients in Sydney. Good work. Great people. But something nagged at him. The majority of Australians couldn't access that level of financial guidance because they didn't have a million-dollar portfolio.
When he moved to Tasmania in 2017, he met Elise, who'd been teaching economics at the university level and running free budgeting workshops on weekends. She saw the same problem from a different angle. People wanted to understand money. They just needed someone to explain it in plain terms.
They started panorixevla in early 2019 with a simple premise: financial education shouldn't require a finance degree to understand. We began with weekend workshops in Hobart community centres. Twenty people showed up to the first one. Then forty. Then we ran out of seats.
By mid 2020, we'd shifted our entire model online. Not because of any grand strategy, but because people from Cairns and Perth kept emailing asking if we could bring the workshops to them. The digital format let us reach more people, but we never lost that kitchen table feeling. Every course we create still goes through the same test: would this make sense to someone who's never taken a finance class?
Today, we work with people across Australia who want to set meaningful financial goals without drowning in jargon. Some are saving their first five thousand dollars. Others are planning retirement strategies. The numbers vary, but the need for clear, honest guidance stays constant.
