Melbourne · VIC
AI consulting engagements scoped from Melbourne, designed around the city's specific industry mix, regulatory environment, and on-site engagement realities.
Melbourne's AI work skews differently from Sydney's — less concentrated financial services, more retail and consumer-goods operations, more manufacturing and supply-chain optimisation, and a real research-and-higher-ed cluster (the Carlton / Parkville axis, Monash, RMIT). The city also has a long tail of mid-tier financial services and super funds with regulator exposure but smaller compliance teams than the Sydney majors, which shapes the kind of governance work we do here: practical, implementable, and proportionate to a team of one or two AI-responsible staff rather than a separate AI risk function. Manufacturing and retail engagements in the south-east and outer west typically combine generative-AI pilots with deeper integration work — Salesforce or ERP. We come on-site for kickoff and workshops; ongoing delivery is hybrid.
Local context
Active local AI community: AI Bound Melbourne, the Monash and RMIT AI institutes, the Victorian Government's AI work via Digital Victoria. The MAB / Docklands tech cluster and the Cremorne creative-tech precinct are the two most active commercial AI scenes outside of the CBD.
Industry depth in Melbourne
AI for demand forecasting, assortment, content operations and customer service — designed for the realities of AU retail (small market, long supply chains, seasonal swing).
Key regulators
AI for law firms (LPP-aware), accounting (CA / CPA obligations), and consulting (IP retention) — including the document-workflow and client-data realities specific to each.
Key regulators
AI work for banks, insurers, super funds and wealth managers — with the APRA CPS 234, CPS 230 and Privacy Act compliance reality baked in from the start.
Key regulators
FAQ
Yes. We have specific experience with mid-tier super and wealth firms — the engagement shape is different from a tier-1 bank: tighter scope, faster cycle, and the compliance documentation produced is sized to the team that will own it.
Yes — typically demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, and operations-side workflow automation. We pair with your ERP / WMS integrator if needed; we don't replace existing systems integrators, we work alongside.
Yes. Workshops on-site as standard. Ongoing Deliver work is hybrid — typically 1 day a week on-site if useful, the rest remote with daily standups.
Melbourne engagements
A senior partner from kickoff to handover.
Every engagement in Melbourne is led end-to-end by our founder, Shubham Shrivastava. The person you meet in the discovery call is the person doing the work — no bait-and-switch to juniors — and is named in the engagement letter.
Next step
Discovery calls are 30 minutes, no deck. For on-site work in Melbourne CBD, we’ll come to you — workshops in person are part of every engagement scoped here.