Our approach

The engagement, phase by phase — priced up front

Every phase is a fixed-price work package with named deliverables — you always know what you're buying and what comes next. Designed for Australian organisations of 50–200 people. Indicative · AUD · ex-GST.

The engagement

From readiness to live, monitored AI in 7–13 weeks

Phase 01 stands alone — take it, act on the roadmap yourself, or continue with us and have its fee credited against the programme. Each phase is described in full on its own page under solutions.

012–3 wks

AI readiness & gap assessment

A score out of 100 against the Keelix AI Readiness Benchmark, and the roadmap to raise it.

A benchmarked diagnostic of your environment, data governance, security posture and responsible-AI maturity. It produces a score out of 100 against the Keelix AI Readiness Benchmark — six weighted domains scored against evidence rather than opinion — together with a documented gap analysis and a prioritised roadmap. It is standalone by design: you can act on the roadmap with your own team and never speak to us again. The benchmark is a Keelix measurement instrument, not a certification.

What this phase delivers →
$20K – $35K
Fixed price
023–6 wks

Remediation & environment readiness

Close the gaps the assessment found, then stand up the governance that keeps them closed.

We close the gaps your readiness assessment found — identity and access, data governance, oversharing controls, security posture — and establish an AI governance framework aligned to ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, so nothing ships into an ungoverned environment. Scope, price and duration all come from your assessment findings, which is why this engagement cannot honestly be quoted before one exists.

What this phase delivers →
$35K – $80K
Scoped after readiness
032–4 wks

AI deployment & agent build

Roll out the platform, then put agents on the processes that actually hurt.

Rollout of the enterprise AI capability chosen in your strategy work — Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot or another enterprise stack — followed by agents built on your most manual-heavy processes: document assembly, compliance packs, claims handling, client communications. Every agent ships human-in-the-loop, audit-trailed, and measured against the labour hours or cycle time it removes. Delivery runs in process waves: one process per wave, live and measured before the next begins.

What this phase delivers →
$30K – $55K
Per process wave
041–2 wks

Enablement & trainingNot yet available

Adoption you do not have to police, and reviewers who know what to look for.

Standardised playbooks and hands-on labs that teach your people to use AI responsibly, build simple agents themselves, and — the part nearly everyone skips — review agent output for reliability. Role-based rather than one-size-fits-all: one track for everyday users, one for the people who will build, and one for the reviewers who sign off on what an agent produced.

What this phase delivers →
$15K – $30K
Fixed price
Available from 2027
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Managed AI governance & agent careNot yet available

Agents degrade as the business changes. This is the layer that notices.

The durable layer after go-live: ongoing review of agent output, governance and responsible-AI check-ins, performance tuning as your processes drift, and new agent builds as needs emerge. It exists because the failure mode of a deployed agent is rarely a crash — it is a slow decline nobody is watching for.

What this phase delivers →
$6K – $10K
Per month
Available from 2027
Start here
$20K – $35K
Phase 01 alone, 2–3 weeks — standalone, and credited if you continue
Readiness to live agents
$85K – $170K
Phases 01–03, first process wave, 7–13 weeks
Each further process wave
$30K – $55K
2–4 weeks per process wave, once the platform and governance are already standing

What the programme figure leaves out. It covers only what you can book today, so Enablement & training (phase 04, fixed price, from 2027) and Managed AI governance & agent care (phase 05, per month, from 2027) are excluded. Their bands above are indicative only, and each is quoted on its own basis — a monthly rate is not a programme fee. Deployment includes the handover training and run-book needed to operate what we build.

All price bands on this site are indicative ranges in AUD, ex-GST. The final fixed price is quoted per engagement once scope is agreed. Software licences (Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot or another enterprise stack) are client-owned and passed through at vendor pricing — never bundled into our fee.

Operating principles

How we work

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Fixed price, not day rates. You get budget certainty; we get rewarded for efficiency, not elapsed time. Incentives pointed the same direction.

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Value over effort. Every agent is framed against the labour hours or cycle time it removes — if we can't state the value, we don't build it.

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Governance before go-live. The ISO 27001- and 42001-aligned framework is established in Phase 02, so nothing ships into an ungoverned environment.

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Licences stay yours. Claude or Microsoft 365 Copilot seats are a client-owned pass-through, kept separate from our fee — so our platform advice stays honest.

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Monitored, always. Agents degrade as businesses change. Ours ship with monitoring and output review, and an evaluation set your own team can re-run after any change.

Phase 01 is the low-risk way in

2–3 weeks, fixed price, standalone — and fully creditable if you continue. Ask us for the assessment scope.

Request the assessment scope