Australia's AI Agents Studio · Currently taking Q3 2026 engagements

AI agents,
built and deployed.

We design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents for Australian mid-market and SMB companies. Strategy through delivery, under one roof. Two-week sprints to ship-ready agents in twelve weeks — without the consulting bloat.

Founded
2026
Melbourne · Operating Australia-wide
Engagement
2 – 12 weeks
Strategy sprint to production agent
Pricing
$8K – $80K
Fixed-scope · Outcome-aligned
Focus
Mid‑market
10 – 500 employee AU companies

Four products. One ladder.
Start anywhere.

Most AI consultancies sell strategy and disappear before delivery. We sell delivery and refuse to disappear. Every product is fixed-scope, fixed-price, and produces a real artifact your team can use — even if you never engage us again.

01 / Strategy
Strategy Sprint
THE WEDGE · 2 WEEKS
$8 – $15K
Fixed-scope · Paid upfront

A focused two-week engagement that maps where AI agents create the most value in your business over the next twelve months, ranks the opportunities by ROI and feasibility, and gives you a buy-build-partner recommendation for each.

You walk away with a roadmap your board will sign off on — and the confidence to know which agents will actually pay back.

  • Opportunity map across operations, sales, support, back-office
  • Ranked use-case shortlist with ROI estimates
  • Buy-build-partner recommendation per use case
  • Reference technical architecture
  • 12-month investment plan with milestones
  • Executive readout + board-ready deck
02 / Build
Build & Deploy
CUSTOM AGENT · 6 – 12 WEEKS
$25 – $80K
Fixed-scope · Milestone billing

End-to-end custom agent development for a single use-case. Spec, design, build, integrate, deploy, monitor. We work alongside your team — your domain expertise, our engineering — and we ship to production, not to a slideshow.

Stack: LangGraph or custom orchestration · Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or open-source models · vector + structured retrieval · LangSmith / OpenAI evals · your existing infrastructure.

  • Detailed agent specification with evaluation criteria
  • Iterative builds with weekly demos
  • Integration to your CRM, ERP, ticketing, or data warehouse
  • Comprehensive evaluation harness
  • Production deployment + observability
  • Handover docs + internal training session
03 / Productized
Niche Agents
DROP-IN · LIVE IN A WEEK
$2 – $8K /mo
SaaS · Cancel anytime

Industry-specific agent products you can drop into your stack and have running in five days. Each one is pre-trained on the workflows, terminology, and edge cases of a single vertical — no green-field build required.

Currently shipping: Buyer Qualification Agent for real estate. Next quarter: agents for accounting reconciliation, recruitment screening, and legal research.

  • Pre-trained on real-world vertical workflows
  • White-label option for agencies and resellers
  • Standard integrations to industry CRMs and tools
  • Monthly performance reports + tuning
  • SLA-backed uptime + support
  • Migration path to fully-custom (Product 02) if needed
04 / Operate
AgentOps Retainer
ONGOING · PRODUCTION-GRADE
$5 – $15K /mo
3-month minimum · 30-day notice

For teams running agents in production. We handle the unglamorous, mission-critical work: evals running daily, drift detection, incident response, prompt and model upgrades as new releases land, observability dashboards reporting to your exec team.

Your agents stay sharp as your business — and the underlying models — evolve.

  • Daily eval runs with auto-alerting
  • Quarterly prompt + model upgrade reviews
  • 24-hour incident response
  • Monthly performance + ROI reporting
  • Roadmap consultation as your needs evolve
  • Priority access to new productized agents

We don't do discovery decks for six weeks. We ship.

Every engagement follows the same rhythm. Tight scope, weekly demos, ruthless prioritisation. The agent is in your hands earlier than you expect — and so is the decision about whether to ship it.

01

Locate the value

Most AI projects fail because they target the wrong workflow. We start with a half-day workshop, map your operations, and find the three places where an agent saves $200K+ in the first year. Then we pick one.

02

Ship a working agent

Spec in week one. Working prototype in week three. Production deploy by week eight to twelve. Every week we demo what's built, what's broken, and what's next — no surprises at the end.

03

Make it durable

Evals, observability, runbooks, and team training. Your agent doesn't degrade silently in production because we built the monitoring system before we built the agent.

The 18-month window for Australian business.

In Q3 2026, AI agents have moved from "interesting demo" to "enterprise budget line item." Mid-market AU companies are now allocating real spend — $200K to $2M annually — to agent deployments. The companies that move in the next twelve to eighteen months will compound advantages their slower peers will spend the next decade trying to close.

01

The models finally work for production.

Frontier models hit a reliability threshold in late 2025 that made multi-step agent workflows commercially viable. The gap between "impressive demo" and "shippable system" closed. Tooling for evaluation, observability, and orchestration matured in parallel.

02

The economics inverted.

A custom agent that cost $500K to build in 2023 now costs $30–80K. Inference costs dropped 95% on equivalent capability. What was previously only justifiable for enterprises is now squarely in the SMB budget envelope.

03

AU mid-market is still pre-deployment.

Most Australian companies between 10 and 500 employees have not yet deployed agents into production. Big 4 firms quote $300K+ for projects boutiques deliver for $50K. The arbitrage window is real and time-limited.

04

Government tailwind.

The 2025–2026 federal AI investment plan, R&D Tax Incentive on qualifying AI builds, and state-level grants (NSW Innovation, Vic Future Industries) cover 30–50% of project cost for eligible companies. We help our clients access them.

A buyer-qualification agent that doesn't sleep.

Real Estate · Melbourne Bayside Mid-Market

Replacing the first 20 minutes of every buyer call with an AI agent that qualifies, books, and routes — 24/7.

A Melbourne bayside agency was losing 30% of inbound buyer leads to delayed response times. Their sales agents spent two hours daily on initial qualification calls that produced no commission. We built an agent that handles those first conversations end-to-end: budget, timeline, financing, must-haves, deal-breakers. It books a calendar slot with the right human agent only when the buyer is qualified.

"It pays for itself every Tuesday. We're now closing inbound leads on Sunday afternoons that we previously didn't see until Wednesday."
— Principal, mid-market AU real estate agency · Build & Deploy engagement, 9 weeks
Lead response time
< 60s
Down from 4–9 hours during business hours
Agent hours freed weekly
22h
Per sales agent, redeployed to closing work
12-month ROI
8.4×
Implementation cost vs. attributable commission

→ This is now available off-the-shelf as our productized Buyer Qualification Agent.

What we've been writing about.

Working notes from the field. Practical, opinionated, occasionally contrarian. Built for AU operators and engineers who want signal over hype.

Strategy · 8 min read

The three workflows in your business where an AI agent pays back in 90 days.

If you're trying to figure out where to start with agents, here's the heuristic: look for high-volume, rules-based interactions with structured outputs. We rank the most common candidates and show how to evaluate them.

Read the playbook →
Engineering · 12 min read

Why we use evaluations to write specs — and you should too.

The biggest unlock in production agent development isn't a better model. It's a better evaluation harness. We walk through the eval-first methodology we apply on every Build & Deploy engagement.

Read the deep dive →
Australian Market · 6 min read

The AU AI grants stack — and how to actually claim them.

Between the federal R&D Tax Incentive, state innovation grants, and sector-specific programs, eligible AU companies can recover 30–50% of agent-build costs. Here's the practical breakdown.

Read the guide →

Let's find your first agent.

Thirty-minute strategy call. No deck. We talk through your business, identify the two or three places an agent earns its keep, and tell you whether we're the right people to build it.