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About Lockii

Lockii exists to make renting things as easy as buying them online.

We started building self-service rental technology in 2019, launching the world’s first fully automated paddleboard rentals in regional Australia. Nothing on the market could take a booking, verify a customer, unlock a physical item and confirm its return without someone standing at a counter, so we built that system ourselves and ran our own fleet on it.

Paddle boards at a waterfront location where Lockii self-service rentals began in 2019

Running our own rentals taught us where rental businesses lose their time: being on call for every pickup, chasing documents that never arrive, and checking items back in by hand. We launched Lockii as a product in mid 2025 to give every operator the system we had already built for ourselves.

Today Lockii powers self-service rental operators across Australia, the United States and Europe, from single-trailer side businesses to fleets running hundreds of items across hundreds of locations. In early 2026, Lockii was backed by Australia’s largest startup accelerator.

Lockii handles 96% of rentals without staff intervention, allowing operators to scale without adding staff or expensive offices. Instead they focus on putting the "service", in self-service.

That’s why everything we build is designed around automation, conversion, security, and scale.

Our mission is simple: to democratise self-service rental technology and empower anyone to create profitable, contactless rental businesses.

  1. 2019

    Launched the world's first fully automated paddleboard rental, in regional Australia, because no existing software could take a booking, verify a customer and unlock a physical item without staff on site.

  2. 2019-2025

    Built custom rental software and tooling for our own fleet and then for some of the largest contactless rental operations in the world.

  3. Late 2025

    Lockii launched as a product, opening the same automation to any rental operator rather than a handful of partners.

  4. Early 2026

    Lockii was backed by Australia's largest startup accelerator, funding a faster build-out of the platform and support team.

Lockii is an engineering first company. We believe building a scalable automated process starts with building quality software and paying attention to the small details that everyone else misses.

We would rather build the hard thing than sell around it. Every lock, tracker, payment and identity integration in Lockii are there because a real operator needed it, and each one is held to the same standard: it has to work unattended, EVERY TIME, with nobody watching.

We're a small, remote first team of 4 based in Melbourne, Australia, and every one of our team members work directly with the operators who use our platform. If this sounds fun, we currently have 3 open roles.

Founding Team

Bodhi Hawken, Founder & Lead Engineer at Lockii

Bodhi Hawken

Founder & Lead Engineer

Bodhi has been building rental automation since 2019, starting with the world's first contactless paddleboard rental in regional Australia. With a background in IoT and operations automation, he has helped hundreds of operators strip the manual work out of every booking. He leads product and engineering from Melbourne, Australia.

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Andrew Nunn, Founding Sales at Lockii

Andrew Nunn

Founding Sales

Andrew joined Lockii in early 2026 as our founding sales. He works with operators from first touch through to franchise launch. Most of our customers know him as “the guy that gets shit done”. Andrew brings years of experience in large scale operations to the team to help us build the best self-service rental platform in the world.

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