AI Readiness Review
A scorecard and a roadmap you keep whether or not we go further.
from $1,800 + GST
1 week · fixed price
View on pricing →AI that works for your team. Not instead of it.
Human-Led AI for Australian small and medium businesses. Your people stay in charge of every outcome, your data stays in systems you own, and the foundation is built once so it's yours to keep — not rented from a vendor, and not dependent on me.
Fixed prices, published · Everything I build belongs to you · Nationwide, remote-first
You want AI. That's where it starts, not where it ends.
Three things you'll end up wanting sorted. In this order, because each one pays for the next.
1
You want the repetitive work handled.
Your team wants help with the tasks that eat the week. The question is how to get it without handing a process to a black box and hoping. That's Human-Led AI: the AI does the work, a person owns the outcome, and the AI earns more room only as it proves itself.
2
AI shows you what's exposed.
The moment an assistant can read your files, so can you: every over-shared folder, every ex-staff login, every client record with no boundary around it. AI doesn't create those problems. It surfaces them, and gives you a real reason to fix them.
3
You already own the platform for both.
For most Australian SMBs on Microsoft 365, the automation tools, the AI build surface and the security controls are already paid for and switched off. And the licences you're wasting cover the cost of switching them on.
How much should the AI do? You decide, one task at a time.
Every task sits somewhere on a five-level scale, from a person doing all of it to nobody checking at all. I build at Levels 1 to 3, where a person can always see what happened and stop it. Tasks graduate to more autonomy only after they've proved themselves on your real work.
- Level 0 — Manual
A person does the whole task
- Level 1 — Assist
AI drafts, a person edits and sends
I build here
- Level 2 — Approve
AI completes it, a person approves before it goes out
I build here
- Level 3 — Audit
AI acts, a person reviews a sample afterwards
I build here
- Level 4 — Autonomous
AI acts, nobody checks
Only when a task has earned it, and only if you choose
The plumbing gets built once. Then it's yours.
Most AI consultants sell you one automation at a time and stay on the invoice forever. I build the foundation first — I call it Groundwork — and hand you the keys.
One foundation, many assistants.
Identity, data boundaries, guardrails, audit trail and change control are set up once. Your first assistant is the expensive one. Your tenth is cheap, because the pipes are already in.
Your people can build the next one.
Groundwork ships with a runbook and a half-day of enablement so someone on your team can add the next assistant without calling me.
Nothing hostage.
Every configuration, prompt, playbook and document belongs to you. If you never call me again, everything keeps working.
Where the hours go back.
Finance
invoices chased, coding prepared, month-end drafted
Admin & reception
enquiries triaged, bookings confirmed, documents chased
Sales
proposals drafted, CRM kept honest, quiet quotes nudged
HR & people
onboarding packs built, policy questions answered
Operations
reports drafted, clashes flagged, compliance pre-filled
Owners & managers
inbox triaged, board pack drafted, the week summarised
Hours back. Measured, not promised.
Every assistant I build starts with a baseline week: how long the task actually takes, who does it, how often it slips. Thirty days after go-live we measure again. You get the number, and the part that matters more: what your person did with the time.
That's the test of Human-Led AI. Not "did the AI work" but "what can your team do now that it couldn't before".
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Written down before we start.
You see the deliverable and the price before you commit. The three most common starting points:
Groundwork
The seven-layer foundation built in your tenant: identity, data boundary, build surface, guardrails, audit trail, change control, runbook.
from $7,500 + GST
3–5 weeks · fixed price
View on pricing →Security Health Check
A one-page executive summary and a prioritised fix list.
from $1,500 + GST
1 week · fixed price
View on pricing →Not a big firm. Not a freelancer. Not on anyone's payroll.
And not building anything you'll need me to keep running. I take no commissions from Microsoft or any AI vendor, I publish my prices, and I publish my framework. The odd one out is the one who works for you and nobody else. The independence disclosure →
Start wherever you're comfortable.
Low commitment
Fixed price, one week, a scorecard and a roadmap you keep whether or not we go further.
Direct
No pitch. Worst case you leave with two or three things worth fixing.