Australian entrepreneur and Dallo founder Kyle Hunt believes the next generation of major businesses could emerge from an unlikely place: everyday workers who know their industries better than the corporations running them.For decades, some of Australia’s most valuable industries have been dominated by large organisations with the financial resources, legal teams and compliance departments needed to navigate complex regulatory requirements.From healthcare and childcare to construction, pharmaceuticals and disability services, entering these industries has traditionally required more than a good business idea. Entrepreneurs have faced complicated licensing processes, regulatory approvals, extensive documentation and significant upfront costs. According to Hunt, this has created a market where the biggest players have often enjoyed an advantage simply because they could afford the infrastructure required to participate.

“People think, ‘I can’t enter this. This is only for the big guys.’ Once upon a time, it probably was,” Hunt says.

But he believes technology is beginning to change that equation. Through his latest venture, Dallo, Hunt is looking to make regulated business ownership more accessible by bringing the complicated processes involved in starting, operating and growing a regulated business into one platform. The concept, which Hunt calls R-Commerce, aims to do for regulated industries what e-commerce platforms did for online retail: make the infrastructure behind business ownership easier to access. For Hunt, the opportunity is not necessarily with entrepreneurs who have millions of dollars to invest. It is with people already working inside these industries. A nurse who understands where patient care could improve. A tradie who knows how to deliver a better service. A pharmacist who sees an underserved market. A childcare worker who believes they could build something better.These individuals often possess years of practical experience and a direct understanding of customer needs, but lack the resources or knowledge to navigate the process of establishing their own business.

“Whatever is relevant to your knowledge and experience is also a superpower in a regulated industry,” Hunt says.

Hunt argues that industry experience should be a competitive advantage, rather than something that remains trapped inside a larger organisation. Dallo is designed to help bridge that gap by bringing business registrations, licensing requirements, regulatory workflows and other operational essentials into a more accessible digital system. Rather than entrepreneurs having to coordinate multiple advisers, applications and disconnected processes, the platform aims to simplify the journey from industry experience to business ownership.Importantly, Hunt says the objective is not to remove regulation or lower the standards required to operate. Healthcare providers must still meet safety requirements. Childcare operators must still satisfy regulatory obligations. Businesses handling pharmaceuticals must still comply with strict industry rules. Instead, the ambition is to make understanding and navigating those requirements significantly easier. The potential impact extends beyond individual entrepreneurs. If more qualified smaller operators can enter traditionally difficult markets, Hunt believes customers could benefit from greater competition, more specialised services and businesses built by people with direct experience of the problems they are solving. It could also challenge the assumption that success in a regulated industry requires becoming a large corporation. A smaller operator may never match the scale of a national provider, but could outperform it in customer experience, specialisation or local service delivery. For Hunt, that is precisely the point. The next major healthcare company, childcare provider or construction business may not begin with a corporate boardroom or a multimillion-dollar investment. It could begin with one experienced worker who recognises an opportunity and finally has a practical pathway to pursue it. Hunt’s message is simple: the big corporations are not going anywhere, but they should no longer be the only ones with a realistic opportunity to compete. With Dallo, he hopes to help create a future where the best operators succeed because of their expertise, rather than the size of the organisation behind them.The big guys can stay. They just won’t get the market to themselves anymore.