Where AI Stops Being
a Side Project
Automation, strategy and implementation, governance and training — for Australian businesses that want AI actually working, not another report. Four ways in. Pick the one that fits where you are.
Book a Free CallWhat Is Manual Admin Actually Costing You?
No borrowed statistics. Move the two sliders — this is your own arithmetic, from your own numbers.
10 hrs
$65
460
hours a year spent on work a system could be doing
$29,900
a year in time value — whether you bill it or lose it
12.1
full working weeks gone, at 38 hours a week
Want the full picture, including what it compounds to over five years? Run the Lost Profit Calculator →
Assumes 46 working weeks a year. Rough arithmetic from the numbers you enter — not a quote, and not a promise about your business.
Four Ways I Can Help — and Where to Start
These aren't steps on a ladder. Pick the one that matches where you are. Prices are in AUD and exclude GST, and every project is scoped and priced before you commit.
Get It Built: AI Automation
Start HereFrom $1,500 + GST
▼You know what is costing you time or money. I define the problem, design the fix and build an automation that works in your business, at a fixed price agreed before work begins.
The three tiers
- Quick Automation, $1,500 + GST: one trigger, up to two connected systems, simple rules
- Connected Workflow, from $3,950 + GST: multi-step, normally up to three systems, with approval points
- AI Agent & Connected Systems, $7,500 to $20,000+ + GST (indicative): complex logic, documents and data controls
How I work with you on it
- Understand the problem and the systems involved
- Agree scope, deliverables and a fixed price
- Build and test against real scenarios
- Handover, then five business days to accept it
You get: a working automation in accounts you control, documentation, and a defined support period after launch.
See the three tiers →AI Readiness Day
$3,500 + GST
▼You know AI could help but you are not sure where. One focused day with one department finds the opportunities worth pursuing and puts them in order.
What you need to think about
- Which processes cost you the most time
- Where AI fits, and where it should stay out
- What it would cost to act on each opportunity
- Who needs to be in the room
How I work with you on it
- A short setup call
- Two short questionnaires, then a full-day strategy workshop
- A close look at the specific processes
- A sequenced 90-day roadmap and draft baseline AI policy within 7 calendar days
You get: six to eight viable opportunities where they exist, a 90-day roadmap with indicative costs, and a draft baseline AI policy for your approval (not legal advice). A $500 or $1,000 credit applies to a project commissioned within 30 days.
About the Readiness Day →AI Governance & Training
From $97 + GST
▼Rules for how AI gets used in your business, so you're not relying on every individual's judgement about what's safe to paste into a chatbot.
What you need to think about
- What data can never leave your business, under any circumstances
- Which tools are approved, and who gets to decide that
- Where a human must sign off before anything reaches a client
- What you would be able to show a client who asked
How I work with you on it
- AI Use Policy Kit, $97 + GST: create your rules
- Practical AI Team Training, $500 + GST: 60 minutes, virtual, up to 12 people
- Half-Day AI Governance Workshop, $1,750 + GST virtual / $1,950 + GST onsite: agree the rules and prepare your team
- Review it as the tools change
You get: a policy kit, team training or a facilitated workshop with a draft tailored policy, depending on where you start. The kit and policies are templates and guidance, not legal advice, and training does not write your policy.
More on governance →Support & Continuous Improvement
An automation is only valuable if it keeps working as your business changes. Ongoing support covers monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance and minor adjustments, priced individually for smaller systems.
For businesses with several automations, the Continuous Improvement Partnership adds support, optimisation, reporting and an agreed amount of improvement capacity. Everything I build sits in your accounts, so staying on is always a choice.
From $2,500/month + GSTWhere Are You Now?
Pick whichever line sounds most like your business.
Get It Built: AI Automation
You already know what is costing you time. Start there: a Quick Automation from $1,500 + GST, or a Connected Workflow from $3,950 + GST if several steps and systems are involved. Fixed price, agreed before work begins.
First step: a 30-minute call to find the task costing you the most hours.
See the three tiers →How an Automation or Build Engagement Works
This is the method for automation and system builds. The Readiness Day is a planning day with no build, and the policy kit and team training are self-contained, so they skip these steps.
Friction Audit
Where the hours actually go, and where the risk actually sits. Usually not where you'd guess.
Opportunity Mapping
Everything worth doing, scored on effort against return, so the order is obvious.
Design & Build
Built in your systems, in your name. Custom AI agents where they earn their place.
Test With Real Work
Your actual jobs, invoices and documents. Sample data proves nothing.
Handover & Support
You drive it before I step back — then ongoing support if you want it.
Not Sure Which One You Need?
That's exactly what the call is for. Thirty minutes, no pitch — we find the task costing you the most, and work out honestly what would fix it.
Book a Free Call Or see the automation options and prices →