Ducats has been a trusted part of the Armidale community for decades, but now an app born within the iconic earthmoving, landscaping and concrete supplies business is turning heads on a global scale.
Gojee, the software company that grew out of the Ducats operation, has been named a finalist in two categories of the Xero Global App Awards 2026, recognising its excellence and innovation within the Xero app ecosystem.
Gojee was selected as a finalist in the Global Small Business App of the Year category, Xero’s flagship small-business award and the top tier of the program across all markets, and as a finalist for Small Business App of the Year, Australia, the regional award recognising the apps delivering the most value to Australian small businesses. The dual recognition acknowledges Gojee’s work giving product and project-based small businesses real-time visibility of job profitability, quoting, inventory, staff and operations, all connected directly to their Xero accounts.
The global category is the most competitive in the program, drawing a shortlist of just four from an ecosystem of more than 1,000 apps on the Xero App Store. Gojee stands alongside three of the largest and longest-established names in the ecosystem: A2X, ApprovalMax and ServiceM8.
Xero is the ASX-listed accounting platform used by more than 4.9 million subscribers worldwide. The final round of judging is underway, with winners set to be announced in August 2026.
Gojee Co-Founder and CEO Jack Ducat said the recognition was extraordinary validation of what the team had built.
“To be judged one of the four best small-business apps in the world, in an ecosystem of more than a thousand apps on the Xero App Store, is extraordinary validation of what our team has built,” Mr Ducat said.
“We’re on that shortlist alongside companies that have been at this for a decade or more – and we got there by staying obsessed with one problem: profit blindness,” he said.
“We show businesses whether every job is making money as the work happens, not weeks after it’s finished.”
Mr Ducat said the company’s roots were firmly in the region, growing out of the family’s long-running Ducats earthmoving, landscaping and concrete supplies business.
“Gojee was born on the tools – built in Armidale, inside an earthmoving and concrete business by the people who ran it.”
“Today those same workflows run for customers across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa and the US,” he said.
Gojee aims to give growing businesses ERP-grade capability without the ERP price tag. In one published Xero case study, a Gojee customer recovered $165,000 in margin after gaining live visibility of job profitability. In another, a civil construction contractor cut administration time by around 50 per cent.
“The Xero App Store gave a company from regional Australia a global stage, and Xero genuinely backs its app partners.”
Gojee’s recognition has been building through the year. It was named a finalist for Global Small Business App of the Year on 13 August and for Small Business App of the Year, Australia, on 14 August. It has also been a Featured App on the Xero App Store in February, April, June and August this year, is a member of the Xero Developer Growth Program, and holds a five-star customer rating on the Xero App Store, with customers across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States.
“This recognition belongs to the customers who trusted us early and built the product with us, and to the Gojee team, who I’m very proud of,” Mr Ducat said.
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