Find Out Where AI Will Pay Off Before You Build Anything

A written audit, typically fifty to seventy pages. It covers a ranked register scoring each use case on value, feasibility, data readiness and risk; the data each use case depends on; risks across twelve categories, assessed against seventeen standards; the legal questions identified for your lawyer to confirm; dependencies and a recommended build order; and the case for building it. After two strategy sessions you also receive a fixed price Schedule of Work for the first build.

Our AI readiness assessment is the Discovery Audit for AI projects. It is a fixed fee, credited in full against the build. After the audit you get a fixed price Schedule of Work with three options: The Minimum, The Recommended and The Complete. The option you choose is paid in three stages against work you have accepted. We never publish day rates.

The Discovery Audit Meeting and the Discovery Audit Session are 60 minutes each. You receive the written audit within seven days of your answers, then we walk you through it in two strategy sessions. The most common cause of delay is waiting for data samples and system documentation, so we ask for those early.

No. The audit is yours to keep whoever builds, and it is written so another supplier or your own team could build from it. We offer a fixed price Schedule of Work for the first build because it is the natural next step, but the decision to go ahead is yours.

A strategy workshop usually produces ideas and themes. This assessment tests specific use cases against your actual data, systems and obligations, and ends with a scoped, buildable plan. The people who assess it are the people who would build it.

A sponsor who can make decisions, around an hour each from the people who run the candidate processes and the relevant systems, representative data samples provided under NDA, and a named contact in IT or security for access questions. We keep the time burden on your staff deliberately small.

It covers what affects feasibility and design: personal information involved, the Privacy Act questions your lawyer should confirm, including the automated decision making disclosure from 10 December 2026, residency constraints and human oversight needs, with a baseline against the six practices in Australia's Guidance for AI Adoption. It is not a legal review or a compliance certification. For a fuller governance programme, see our AI governance service.

Rates across the Australian AI consulting market vary widely with firm size and seniority, so compare what you hold at the end, not only the rate. We do not charge by the hour or the day. Our AI readiness assessment is the Discovery Audit, a fixed fee credited in full against the build. After it you get a fixed price Schedule of Work with three options: The Minimum, The Recommended and The Complete.

Each candidate use case is scored on four dimensions: value, feasibility, data readiness and risk. Alongside that we baseline your organisation against the six practices in Australia's Guidance for AI Adoption and note the Privacy Act obligations that shape the design. The output is a recommendation per use case to pursue, park or drop, with the evidence behind it.

Often, yes, focused on one or two use cases. The Discovery Audit is a fixed fee, credited in full against the build. For a small business with a single clear idea, an initial call may be enough to establish that an off the shelf tool already does the job, and if so we will say that rather than sell an assessment.

A self assessment questionnaire, such as those published by cloud vendors, is a useful way to start the conversation internally. It tells you how ready you feel in general; it cannot tell you whether your particular data supports a particular use case, what the work will cost or what could go wrong. Our assessment samples your real data under NDA and ends with a scoped, buildable plan.

You choose one of three options in a fixed price Schedule of Work: The Minimum, The Recommended or The Complete. The assessment fee is credited in full against that build, and the option you choose is paid in three stages against work you have accepted. Senior engineers lead every build, and you get updates every Tuesday and Friday, Sydney time. If you decide not to build, the written audit is still yours.

Yes, and a stalled pilot is a common reason to commission one. We score the pilot's use case on the same four dimensions as any other, value, feasibility, data readiness and risk, and look at why it has not reached production: data quality, integration gaps, unclear ownership or no way to measure whether it works. The output is a recommendation to fix, rescope or drop it, with the evidence behind it.

Start with a Development Consult, a 15 minute phone call or a Zoom with Andy. If the assessment suits, it runs as a Discovery Audit Meeting and a Discovery Audit Session of 60 minutes each. You receive the written audit within seven days of your answers, followed by two strategy sessions to walk through it. We reply to every enquiry within one business day, Sydney time.