WHAT WE DO
OFFICE TEMPLATES & DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS
We specialise in designing easy-to-use and fully functional Microsoft 365 templates and custom program add-ins.
BRANDING
Build identity, accelerate growth, resonate with your audience and stand out in your industry.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
We aim to provide results-driven design solutions by truly understanding your business.
WEB & DIGITAL DESIGN
An impressive online presence is essential for your business’ credibility and growth.
MICROSOFT OFFICE TRAINING
To ensure brand consistency for your business, train staff to effectively create documents in-house.
Microsoft templates & document solutions
Microsoft Word is used by more than 1.2 billion people, yet most operate with only basic knowledge. Even experienced users lose time and battle frustration when relying on Word straight ‘out of the box’, repeating tasks that should be automated or intelligently structured.
With the rise of Adobe‑trained designers trying their hand at creating “templates” to meet project scope, we’re seeing more and more clients left with tools that simply don’t support the realities of everyday work. What looks good on a canvas often falls apart in a live document—disrupting workflows for teams and costing organisations more money than they realise.
In August 2026, major tech news publication TheNextWeb featured kboodl in an article examining the corporate productivity crisis.
Our Microsoft templates are built with purpose: customised paragraph and table styles, repeater fields, building blocks, and your brand elements applied consistently.
Our team has truly seen it all—and solved it all. Led by founder Bek Callipari Kirkwood, who has spent more than 30 years working in Word as a formatter, builder, designer, and IT consultant, we understand the intricacies, quirks, and hidden behaviours of the world’s most widely used document‑creation software.
When you work with kboodl, you gain a finely tuned logic behind every template, and a deep understanding of user challenges, program behaviour, and practical ways to make M365 work smarter for you.
Our expertise covers:
- Graphic design and brand expansion that delivers dynamic, professional materials across Word and PowerPoint
- Smart Word templates, document formatting and user training
- PowerPoint templates and animated presentations
- Excel template creation and advanced formulas
We encourage teams to invest in our custom productivity toolkits, which deliver single‑click automation for multi‑step processes. Our tools, refined over decades, were created in response to real user needs:
- SafePaste – our custom tool to keep your document safe from section breaks, and unwanted styles. Mapped to consolidate old to new styling on the fly.
- Live Content – import multiple Word documents through a live folder tree, ensuring teams always pull in the latest versions of CVs, project sheets, and company information. All content remains editable, and standalone files can be quickly converted to PDF when needed.
- CrossRefCheck – searches the document for broken cross-references and easily allows the user to replace each one through a userform.
- Doc Details userform – users set document details from one input screen, including saving author info defaults, selecting entity or location (easily managed in-house after rollout), importing document info to quickly load into new files, and file save prompt on completion with your naming protocol.
- Insert, or move content to, a landscape page (and other sizes and dimensions) – preventing hours of stress with a single click, auto-adjusting headers, footers and graphics.
- Insert branded tables – saving multiple steps to ensure your tables are ready to work in with correct paragraph styles, captions and fit to page alignment.
- Format existing tables in your document with one click across entire selections, fixing captions, table design, paragraph styles and alignment.
- Insert appendices sections with custom covers, page numbering and captions set up to your requirements.
Check out our ‘whole kboodl’ Word ribbon demo in the video below:
Undeniable savings using our templates
Clients tell us every day how much our work transforms their productivity.
We understand the challenges you face in Microsoft Office—and we already know the solutions you need.
Show your boss how much money our templates can save and you’ll be the hero of the year! Using our recommendations, we conservatively estimate each user saves at least 138 hours per year—around $13,800 across typical pay grades. Multiply that by your team size and the annual savings become impossible to ignore.
We regularly see highly paid consultants spending days formatting documents instead of writing content—some charging over $300 an hour while losing time to basic tasks. This hidden drain on productivity is one of the most overlooked costs inside modern organisations.
And in a landscape crowded with new AI apps—each demanding attention, complicating decisions, and stretching budgets—you don’t need another platform.
You need tools that make the software you already use work smarter — and your existing investment in Microsoft already gives you everything you need:
- Powerful online storage and asset collaboration through SharePoint;
- Intelligent content creation with Copilot; and
- The world’s most capable document‑building software — Word.
BRANDING AND STRATEGY
Whether you are launching a startup from scratch or looking to breathe new life into your current business, a powerful brand is your ultimate competitive advantage.
With our team’s span of creative expertise and forward-thinking market strategies, we can help your business build identity and accelerate growth. We don’t just design logos; we engineer cohesive brand environments that resonate with audiences and stand out in your industry.
BRAND CREATION & LAUNCH (NEW STARTERS):
Build your foundation on solid ground. We partner with ambitious startups and new ventures to transform abstract concepts into memorable, market-ready brands.
- Competitor analysis & market mapping: Identifying gaps and opportunities in your industry to ensure your brand stands out from day one.
- Core brand strategy: Defining your mission, vision, values and distinct market positioning based on a Central Creative Concept (CCC).
- Visual identity systems: Designing your signature logo, selecting typography and establishing a matching colour palette.
- Brand assets: Delivering digital and print assets to launch your new business’ brand with total confidence.
BRAND REVAMP / REDESIGN
Protect your business while unlocking your next level of growth. If your current branding no longer reflects your scale, values or target audience, we execute seamless, modern brand updates.
- Brand health audits: Analysing your existing brand perception, customer alignment, strengths and visual inconsistencies.
- Modernised visual design: Refreshing legacy logos and visual systems to match current digital standards and aesthetic expectations.
- Repositioning strategy: Shifting your messaging to target demographics, pivot industries, or launch new high-tier offerings.
- Seamless transition frameworks: Ensuring your visual transition retains loyal customers while acquiring new ones.
BRAND CONSULTING & STRATEGY
Perfect for businesses needing strategic brand direction to navigate market shifts.
- In-depth competitive audits: Keeping your brand ahead of emerging competitors through regular market assessments.
- Brand architecture & extension planning: Strategising how to introduce sub-brands, products, or services cohesively.
- Internal brand alignment: Training your internal teams to consistently deliver on your brand promise across all customer touchpoints.
THE CORE ELEMENTS
Every comprehensive engagement is built to deliver a complete brand environment. All deliveries can be created independently or a combination of:
- Logo design: Master marks, secondary logos and sub-icons optimized for everything from mobile screens to billboards.
- Brand style guide: A comprehensive workbook detailing visual rules, typography hierarchies, layout systems, and asset usage.
- Brand voice & messaging framework: A clear guide to your tone of voice, core taglines and messaging pillars.
- High-resolution asset library: Delivery of final web-optimized formats, print-ready vectors, and native source files, subject to project scope and agreement.
Why trust your brand to kboodl?
30+ years of proven experience:
Two decades of navigating design trends, market shifts, and consumer psychology means your brand is guided by deep, seasoned expertise.
Insight-driven creativity:
We balance beautiful, meaningful aesthetics with thoughtful market research to ensure your brand truly connects with your audience and supports your business goals. We believe your brand should look good AND work for you.
End-to-end partnership:
From initial consulting and strategy to final pixel-perfect assets, we manage the entire lifecycle of your brand’s visual identity.
Graphic Design
Even in this digital age, print design is still relevant and can reach markets that digital cannot.
- Stationery
- Business cards
- Brochures/flyers
- Annual reports
- Packaging
- Promotional goods: shirts, pens, uniforms (design and production)
ELECTRONIC
Electronic media requires its own specific parameters. Our experience ensures effective delivery of these items.
- Email signatures
- e-newsletters
- Animated graphics
- Web banners
- Adobe PDF fillable forms
LOGO, BRANDING AND IDENTITY
Whether you are start-up or looking to refresh an existing corporate image, we can develop a logo or entire visual brand to set you apart from your competition.
We also work with your existing brand guidelines to expand many items that are not defined when using Microsoft products for internal document production.
Web & Digital Design
We specialise in affordable website design services. For smaller businesses we recommend the use of WordPress websites. With many themes to choose from, they can be customised to suit your branding and are easily editable to ensure you have the freedom to update information whenever you like. Larger businesses may want a more customised solution and/or include e-commerce.
Whatever your needs we will attempt to use existing technology so you won’t pay for reinventing the wheel. If your project requires bespoke development we have all the skills needed and can still provide cost effective solutions.
Services we offer include:
- Website design
- Content Management Systems (CMS)
- E-commerce solutions
- Custom web applications
- Search engine optimisation
- Mobile app development
SOLUTIONS
- Cloud Computing
- BaaS
- SaaS
- Web Services
- Web Apps
- Mobile Apps
- SEO
- Content Marketing
Process Methodologies
- Business Model Generation
- Business Model Validation
- Innovative Accounting
- Agile
- User Stories
- Backlogging
- Burndown Charts
- Scrum
- Retrospectives
Coding Languages
- C#
- VB.Net
- SQL
- ASP.Net
- HTML5
- jQuery UI/Mobile
- CSS3
- Java
- Objective-C
Process Methodologies
- Xamarin Studio
- Sharp Develop
- Visual Studio
- SQL Management Studio
- MySQL Workbench
- Chrome Developer Tools
- Eclipse
- Xcode
- Git/GitHub
MICROSOFT OFFICE TRAINING
CUSTOMISED ON-SITE TRAINING
Everyone is using Microsoft 365, but how many have had formal training?
kboodl helps busy professionals and their teams discover what they “didn’t know they didn’t know” about Microsoft’s office document programs with customised training tailored to the needs of your staff and business.
A two hour session can work wonders for staff confidence and overall productivity.
We customise your training session particular to your systems and users’ skill levels.
A printed training reference or video tutorial are also recommended for future employee inductions or to be used as a refresher.
We can also offer full day training at your office for any of the standard Microsoft 365 courses; beginners, intermediate or advanced for Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Online training is the most cost effective way to train your staff.
We offer either watch and learn based or workshop style sessions.
For training sessions of 4 hours or over, we will supply your morning or afternoon tea at no extra cost!
Word Template Masters course
+ VIP support
kboodl is crafting a unique educational experience: a comprehensive Word Template Masters Course for creators who want to master the world’s most widely used document software. This program goes far beyond design aesthetics — you’ll learn to engineer ironclad, scalable, client‑ready templates built to perform in real‑world environments.
Students receive lifetime access to our private support community: an exclusive group of document masters and the kboodl team, who work inside Word every day. You’ll have expert guidance and a collective brains trust behind you as you confidently build templates for your own clients.
This course positions you among the elite template builders worldwide, setting you apart in an industry crowded with Adobe‑trained designers who create Word templates without truly understanding the software. You’ll gain the technical depth, structural logic, and user‑centric design principles that make kboodl templates trusted by millions of daily users.
Led by kboodl’s Founder, Rebekah Callipari Kirkwood, and shaped by her 30+ years of partnering with top‑tier clients, this program is continuously refined through real user feedback — past, present, and future.
This industry‑leading training is available exclusively through kboodl. Contact us to register your interest.
ABOUT US
kboodl is a collective of designers and brainiacs who believe your brand application shouldn’t feel confusing or complicated. We’re here to make the whole process friendlier, more human, and easier — backed by decades of experience in this realm.
From logo creation and brand guides to print design, web development, smart office templates, and in‑house document systems, we bring everything together so your brand looks consistent, confident, and unmistakably yours.
One team, one place, one bundle of creativity and cleverness.
The biggest advantage of working with us is that everything connects. Many businesses end up hiring separate designers, developers, and template builders — which means extra cost, extra time, and often a final product that doesn’t quite fit together. And when most designers don’t understand the quirks and capabilities of Word or PowerPoint, they either limit the design or create elements that simply won’t work in the real world.
We remove all of that friction. Because we handle every part of the process, your brand looks great everywhere — and behaves itself everywhere too.
We’ve always believed that working on a design and technology project should feel like collaborating with people who genuinely care about your brand, your business, and your sanity. That’s the landscape we’ve been changing — from formal and distant to approachable and people‑centred.
Why we’re called kboodl
Our name is inspired by the old expression “the whole kit and caboodle”… a phrase with mixed origins but made popular in America’s Wild West period to describe someone packing up all their essentials — their tools, supplies, belongings, and everything they needed for the journey ahead.
Our modern take on this hidden gem — shortened to kboodl because it’s cleaner, sharper, and unmistakably ours — fits us perfectly.
Just like those travellers who once gathered all their essentials into one complete kit, we give your business everything it needs, neatly bundled and ready to ride.
Our tangram brand mark reflects the concept that kboodl is made of elements of different shapes, colours and sizes, which work together as a whole to create a variety of solutions depending on your needs.
OUR TEAM
To preserve our creativity, the kboodl team work from individual studios
and attend the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne city offices for meetings and training sessions.
Rebekah Callipari Kirkwood
Founder and Director
Enterprise Software Architect
Document Automation Specialist
Graphic Designer
Brisbane
Cristian Rojas
Brand Specialist
Client Catalyst
Visual Designer
Melbourne
Paige Taylor
Office Template
Superstar
Brisbane
Sonja Conners
Graphic + Web Designer
Creative Ninja
Cairns
Max Dowse
Graphic Designer
PowerPoint Ninja
Auckland
OUR CLIENTS
Our clients are our priority.
We have been fortunate enough to work with some great organisations.
Hutchies ♥ kboodl
Hutchies loves working with kboodl to develop complex templates into easy-to-use resources for our 1,400 staff. kboodl aren’t just developers, they’re also designers, which means they whole-heartedly care about your project’s objective – not just the technical stuff (which are each equally as important to a great outcome).
Through a significant brand refresh over the past 24 months, Hutchinson Builders have invested significant energy to a range of modernised collateral and templates that unifies our iconic brand across everything including the thousands of templates and forms our teams use day-to-day on projects.
To achieve a strong buy-in and enable change amongst teams, our objective was to ensure these templates are easy to access and more importantly easy to use by our 1,400 staff across the business.
Being a graphic designer myself, my first nature is to use Adobe InDesign for everything – I’ve never been able to fully ‘buy-in’ to the Microsoft offering in Word. That was of course until I came across kboodl who have not only helped me better understand the inner workings and intricacies of Word but have blown my mind in Word’s ability to deliver sophisticated, easy to use and just
down right clever templates from our designs. I’m now completely sold on Word and have more recently been using it more than I would normally InDesign (something my designer friends can’t believe).
kboodl are an absolute pleasure to work with and really enjoy problem-solving our template complexities, which in return not only deliver efficiency in using the tools, but our people actually enjoy using them and have really embraced a fresh look.
We have had the pleasure of working with kboodl on numerous projects. Simple templates such as our stationery (letterheads etc), right through to jam-packed submission templates that assist teams with EOIs and Tenders to win new projects.
Furthermore, kboodl have delivered projects for our Health, Safety, Environment & Quality (HSEQ) teams, as well as our Training & Workforce Development for their comprehensive learning resource materials.<
I have absolutely no hesitation recommending kboodl to everyone I think could use their help – even my designer friends who refuse to embrace Word (I understand). kboodl have really filled a gap in the market that people just never actually dealt with. We all just put up with the painfulness and ‘limitations’ of Word and instead of trying to understand it, just complained about it and put up with dodgy self-made templates. kboodl have the winning formula to actually make you want to use it.
Can’t wait to kick off our next project with kboodl and continue to deliver these amazing templates to our people that make their day-to-day work that little bit easier.
Harleigh Venables
Communications Manager
Hutchinson Builders
WANT TO WORK WITH US?
Phone 1300 KBOODL [52 66 35] or +61 7 3181 5687
or email hello at kboodl.com.au to discuss
your business’ branding needs or find out how we
can improve your internal document production.
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Level 27, Santos Place
32 Turbot Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
