I've run one of the largest Terraform fleets in Australia, built around a unified tenancy model that most enterprises completely miss.

The problem isn't just that teams work in silos - it's that they design systems in silos. VMware has one way of thinking about tenancy, AWS another, security tools yet another. When you try to connect them, nothing fits together properly.

At one major Australian retailer, we built one of the first platform engineering capabilities that started with a unified tenancy model - a single way of describing how systems, teams, and resources interact across the entire stack. Multi-cloud, security, identity, networks, ITSM integration - all operating from the same tenancy framework.

This is what most platform engineers get wrong. They focus on the tools instead of the model. They build automation for individual systems instead of designing how everything connects together.

Since then, I've replicated this unified tenancy approach across multiple organisations. When you get the tenancy model right, everything else follows - orchestration, delivery flows, ITSM integration all become consistent because they're all working from the same underlying framework.

I started Wayvz because this unified tenancy thinking is what separates platforms that actually work from expensive automation theater. It's the difference between connecting systems and truly integrating them.