Newcastle, NSW
AI consulting in Newcastle
We sit with the people doing the work in Newcastle businesses, find where the hours go and build the two or three things that change it. Discovery is on site. The roadmap is priced before you commit.
What we see in Newcastle
Newcastle and the Hunter are one of the most industrial regions in the country. It has engineering and fabrication firms, mining services, the Tomago and Williamtown precincts and the Port of Newcastle. Its construction sector stretches from the city out through Maitland and Lake Macquarie. Quoting, compliance paperwork and job costing are where most of the repeated hours sit.
Hunter businesses tend to be long established and owner led, with deep customer relationships and systems that have not kept up. That combination usually means a lot of value sitting in email, spreadsheets and a few experienced heads.
Where the hours go
The work we find first
Fabrication and engineering quotes
Estimators pricing custom work from drawings by hand while historical job costs sit unused in the ERP.
Mining client compliance
Contractors rebuilding safety, quality and capability documentation for every site and every client portal.
Job costing after the fact
Finding out a job lost money weeks after it finished, because timesheets and supplier invoices landed late.
Industries
Who we work with in Newcastle
Each of these has its own page covering where the hours go, what we typically build and the systems we usually meet.
How it works
- 01
Discovery
An intro call on your objectives and goals, then we sit with your team to learn the business and how the work runs today. We agree the decision the system supports and the one metric that says it works.
- 02
Ground the data
We find where the data lives, who owns it and whether it reconciles, and plan where the data and the model will sit.
- 03
Prototype and evaluate
We build on your real data and score the output against an evaluation set from your own past cases before it carries load.
- 04
Integrate
It goes into the workflow and your systems of record, with review points where an error costs money, monitoring and an audit trail.
- 05
Operate and hand over
We run it with your team, then hand over the code, the evaluation suite, runbooks and training. It is not finished until you are satisfied.
Questions
Do you work on site in Newcastle and the Hunter?
Yes. Discovery is on site with your team, including time in the workshop or yard where the work happens. Roadmap and execution then run as a mix of on site and remote.
Can you work with an older ERP?
Usually. Most of what we build reads from and writes back to the system you already have. We tell you if the system itself is the constraint.
How do we start?
Book a 30 minute intro call. We talk through objectives, timeframes and what success looks like, then scope a discovery period and quote it before it starts.
Next step
We map where your hours go and price the work that is worth automating.