Three weeks, because I'm not building the plumbing.
Most AI projects spend their first two months on the parts nobody sees — authentication, permissions, billing, document handling, voice, audit logging, compliance. I finished those two years ago. 47 shared code packages, already written, already running — installed from one private registry, not copy-pasted between repos.
So the clock starts on your actual problem, not the scaffolding around it.
How it works
Start with a paid week that ends in something you can use.
Most people would rather not commit to an AI build before they have seen one work. So the entry point is a single week with a real deliverable — and if you go ahead with the full build, it costs you nothing.
One week
Opportunity Audit
$2,500 + GST
One week. I map where your hours actually go, rank the best automation targets, and build one of them so you can click it.
- · Your process mapped — where the hours actually go
- · The three best automation targets, costed and ranked
- · One of them built as a working prototype, not a slide
- · A straight answer on whether the full build is worth it
Credited in full against a Sprint booked within 30 days.
Book a call →Three weeks
Deployment Sprint
$18,000 + GST
One AI system, running in your production environment, that you own outright. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed end date.
- · Built on your accounts, in your environment
- · You own the code — no licence, no lock-in
- · Usable on a private link from about day eight
- · Written handover and your team trained on it
50% on signature, 50% on delivery. Two slots a month.
Book a call →Rolling
Run & Extend
$3,500 / month + GST
I keep it running, fix what breaks, and keep building on top of it. Month to month, 30 days notice either way.
- · Monitoring, fixes and version upgrades
- · Continuous build on what is already there
- · Direct access — you talk to the person who built it
- · Cancel any month without penalty
Optional. Offered at handover, never a condition of it.
Book a call →Why it's faster
The parts are already made.
An agency quoting against this starts from an empty folder every time, which is why their number has a two in front of it and their timeline is in quarters. I start from an inventory — and everything below is already running in production across 29 published platforms.
Identity & access
Sign-in, password reset, team roles, invitations, admin separation. One hardened component, used across every build.
Voice
Conversational agents with persistent memory, so the system remembers what you told it last week. Not a chatbot.
Documents
PDF and scan extraction into structured, checkable data — approvals, certificates, invoices, plans.
Compliance
Australian Spam Act email, ABN lookup, sanctions screening, audit logging, privacy surfaces. Built in, not bolted on.
Billing
Subscriptions, usage metering, caps and invoicing — if the thing you are building needs to charge someone.
Safety rails
Prompt-injection guards, red-team probes and a kill switch, because an agent with access to your systems needs a brake.
Your project inherits all of it on day one. See who I have built for and what has been shipped.
How a sprint runs
Three weeks, and you know what happens in each.
Week 1 — Scope
I sit with whoever actually does the work, not just whoever signs. We agree the one system being built and write down what "done" means. Nothing after this is a surprise.
Week 2 — Build
It goes up on a private link around day eight, and you use it while it is still being built. Feedback lands the same day.
Week 3 — Deploy
Into your environment, on your accounts, with your team trained on it. Written handover. You can fire me and keep everything.
If it slips
Fixed price means fixed price. An overrun is mine, not yours.
What it looks like
A sprint against a quoting process, start to finish.
This is the shape most often. Your details will differ; the sequence usually does not.
Where it starts
A contracting business, forty staff. One estimator spends about two days a week turning site notes, supplier prices and a rate sheet into a quote. Every quote is assembled by hand in a spreadsheet, and a variation means doing most of it again. Nobody thinks this is a technology problem — they think it is just how quoting works.
Week one
I sit with the estimator and watch a real quote get built, end to end, without helping. That is where the hours actually are — usually not where anyone expects. In this shape, roughly half is re-keying numbers that already exist somewhere else, and a third is chasing a supplier price that was current last month.
Weeks two and three
What gets built is unglamorous and specific: the rate sheet becomes the single source of prices, site notes go in once, and the quote assembles itself into your existing template — your wording, your terms, your logo. A variation reuses the original instead of restarting it. The estimator still decides every number; the system stops asking him to type them twice.
What changes
The two days becomes a few hours, and quotes go out the same week rather than the next one — which in most trades matters more than the hours saved. It runs on your infrastructure, and you own it outright.
This is an illustration of the shape, not a case study or a promise of a particular result. The audit exists to tell you what your own numbers are before you commit to the sprint — and if they do not justify it, it will say so.
Fit
Who this works for, and who it doesn't.
Good fit
An established business with a process that eats hours every week — quoting, compliance paperwork, intake, reporting, follow-up — and someone who can say yes without a committee.
Poor fit
“We should do something with AI.” If there is no specific process losing you specific hours, the audit will tell you that in week one, and I would rather it did.
Not offered
Staff augmentation, day rates, or open-ended retainers with no deliverable. The work is scoped or it is not taken.
Start with a fifteen-minute call.
Tell me what the process is and roughly how many hours a week it costs you. If I can't see a way to make it materially better, I'll say so on the call and it costs you nothing.
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