Practical AI tooling for small business
AI is everywhere right now, and most of the advice is either hype or fear. I help Australian small businesses cut through it and use AI for the jobs it's genuinely good at — drafting, summarising, searching your own documents, and automating repeatable work — with sensible boundaries and a human in the loop. No promises to replace your staff, just practical AI automation that saves real time.
Scoped per project · advisory from $185/hrStart with what's actually worth automating
The first thing I do isn't build — it's work out where AI helps and where it doesn't. Some tasks are perfect for it; others are a trap. An AI readiness review looks at your repetitive work, your data, and your risk tolerance, then gives you a short, honest list of where to start and what to leave alone.
Tools that know your business
Generic chatbots give generic answers. The useful version is AI grounded in your own information — an assistant that searches your documents, drafts from your templates, and answers routine internal questions in your context. That's the difference between a novelty and something your team actually opens every day.
Reports and audits, generated and reviewed
My own free website audit is a working example: gather the data, let AI synthesise a plain-English draft, then review it before it goes out. The same pattern works across plenty of small business jobs — turning raw information into a clear, consistent document, with a human check on anything that matters.
Safe, sensible adoption
Privacy and accuracy aren't afterthoughts. We agree what data can leave your systems, what stays private, and what must be reviewed before a customer ever sees it. I'll help you choose tools that won't lock you in, and I'll be honest when simpler automation is the better answer than AI.
What's included
AI readiness review
An honest assessment of where AI helps your business and where it doesn't — before you spend.
Internal assistants
Search your own documents, draft from templates, and answer routine internal questions.
Report & audit pipelines
Automated gathering with AI synthesis and human review — like the free audit, for your workflow.
Safe adoption guidance
Tool selection, data boundaries, and clear rules for what stays human-reviewed.
Rough starting prices
- Where AI helps vs where it doesn't
- Tool and vendor guidance
- Data and privacy boundaries
- Internal assistant or report pipeline
- Built on your data and templates
- Human review designed in
Prices in AUD, excluding GST. Advisory billed hourly; builds quoted per scope.