ai-delivery
Where AI agents do not work yet
AI agents genuinely run work in Australian organisations - and genuinely fail in four recurring places. An honest map of the line, and how to tell which side your use case sits on.
Insights
Insights from the field.
Data platforms, AI delivery and APRA compliance, written by the people doing the work. One new insight every fortnight.
AI Consulting
What an AI consulting engagement actually looks like
Cost and shortlist guides tell you who to hire. This is the shape of the work itself: the four phases, what each one must produce, and the five clauses that decide whether you get a system or a slide deck.
AI Consulting
AI Consulting in Melbourne: What Local Actually Buys You
Proximity is the most oversold variable in choosing an AI consultant. The three things a Melbourne-based team genuinely changes, the three it does not, and the questions that tell them apart.
compliance
AI governance for founders: notes from EO Melbourne's AI in Action
Notes from EO Melbourne's AI in Action session, where Dylan spoke on data strategy, governance and scalable platforms - why governance is what lets a founder move fast on AI, and the five decisions that do the work of a framework at founder scale.
compliance
Who owns the knowledge your AI creates
Data residency answered the easy half of sovereignty. The question that matters now is who controls the institutional knowledge AI captures through prompts, evaluation sets and correction logs - and under CPS 230 a foundation model is a material service provider.
ai-delivery
What AI consulting costs in Australia: how to read the quote
No Australian AI consultancy publishes prices. What really drives the number, the four commercial models you'll be offered, and what a quote must itemise.
ai-delivery
How to run an AI readiness assessment
Most AI readiness assessments score ambition, not readiness. What a real one measures across data, use cases, skills, technology and governance - and how to run one in weeks.
Platforms
Why AI needs a governed data platform
Most stalled AI programs are not model problems, they are platform problems. What makes a data platform governed, the four failures of an ungoverned one, and the order to build it in.
ai-delivery
When to bring in an AI consultant, and when not to
Four situations where an external AI consultant earns its cost in Australia, three where hiring or waiting beats it, and the test that separates them.
ai-delivery
Best AI consulting firms in Australia: how to run the shortlist
Directory rankings and AI answers name the same firms. Neither measures delivery. A buyer's method for shortlisting AI consulting firms in Australia in 2026.
compliance
The NSW AI Assessment Framework: what it asks of your AI consultant
NSW agencies must run AI through the NSW AI Assessment Framework. The obligation stays with the agency, but the evidence is produced by the supplier. What that asks of an AI consulting firm.
compliance
Data governance in Melbourne: the Victorian layer most frameworks miss
Data governance in Melbourne answers to Victorian law as well as federal. What OVIC, the VPDSS and the Privacy Act actually require, and how to build a governance operating model that holds.
Compliance
CPS 230 and AI: which consultant do you actually need
Which consultants help Australian financial services meet CPS 230 using AI? The market splits into law, cyber, GRC and platforms. The data layer is the gap.
AI Delivery
Agentic AI for mid-size Australian businesses
Who builds agentic AI automation for mid-size Australian businesses? RUBIX, for organisations of 200 to 2,000 people - and why the mid-market ships agents that stick.
Compliance
Asserted vs observed compliance
For twenty years, compliance in Australian financial services has been a documentation discipline. CPS 230 quietly breaks that model: the supervisory question is no longer "show me the policy" but "show me the signal."
