AI and Automation

AI consulting services
AI built, measured and reviewed to one standard

AI and Automation at Precision Consulting is the AI practice of Precision Consulting Corporation. Precision builds, reviews and recovers AI for organisations that have to answer for the result. Every system we build is held to a standard set with the client and measured from an agreed baseline to a formal review after go-live, and we never independently review our own work.

Talk to us about a named problem Book a Use Case Sprint

The first conversation is confidential, without obligation and without charge.

Where are you?

One bar. One baseline. One role per system.

AI held to account

  • One bar.

    Every AI tool you run is held to one standard, set once, before every team builds its own. One register, one data spine, one set of criteria.

  • One baseline.

    We agree the baseline with you before we build, measure the result at a formal review after go-live, and measure AI that others built independently.

  • One role per system.

    When we have reviewed a system, we do not build, fix or run it, or a system that replaces it, for 24 months. When we have built, fixed or run a system, we do not review it independently; any independent review goes to another firm.

Read our independence and conflict rules

Which kind of help do you need?

One of four families, chosen by whose AI it is and what state it is in. Each starts with a defined first step, scoped to your situation, with its fee agreed before work begins.

  • AI Project Recovery

    Stalled pilot, overrun agent, or a rollout that has lost the room? We establish the true position in weeks and decide with you whether to stop, fix or scale it. We will lead the fix if you want us to.

    Stop, Fix or Scale Review

  • Independent AI Review and Governance

    Will this AI deliver the benefit it was funded for, safely? Our senior reviewers rate delivery confidence against your adopted standard or a public framework, and after we review a system we do not build, fix or run it, or a system that replaces it, for 24 months.

    AI Delivery Confidence Review

  • AI for the PMO and Transformation Office

    Your portfolio office now has AI in every tool, and each tool governs itself. We review your business cases against written assessment criteria and set one bar for every tool the office runs.

    AI Business Case Review

  • AI Automation and Agents

    How many hours a week does your team spend on work a well-governed AI agent could do? We measure it first, so the saving is a number from your data. The agents we build complete multi-step work within limits you set, with every action recorded in an audit log and a named person accountable.

    Use Case Sprint

Where else can we start?

Two more first steps, and one for private equity sponsors.

  • Accounts Payable Recovery

    Duplicate payments, overpayments and invoice exceptions, found in your own ledger and fixed at the control. We identify and evidence each item, your team decides and makes every claim, and we report identified, confirmed and received amounts separately.

    Duplicate Payment Diagnostic

  • Starting with AI

    No named problem yet? The AI Readiness Assessment ranks the use cases worth pursuing from your own time and cost data and tells you what your data and controls will bear.

    AI Readiness Assessment

  • For private equity sponsors

    A Portfolio AI Exposure Screen describes a portfolio company's AI systems, data and controls as we find them, for sponsors and operating partners.

    AI for private equity portfolios

How do you build and run AI?

We measure the current process first, so the saving is a number from your data. Then we prove an agent on your data and build it into production with people approving what matters.

  1. 01

    Sprint

    One named process, costed in one to two weeks.

  2. 02

    Prove

    A working agent on your data in a controlled environment, measured against written success criteria and a baseline you sign, ending in a decision you make to go ahead or stop. A proof of value is planned at three to four weeks from data access.

  3. 03

    Build

    Production deployment with human approval points, an audit log, an evaluation suite you keep, a runbook and training.

  4. 04

    Run

    Available once your build is live, on terms set out in the proposal.

Limits you set. We build agents that complete multi-step work inside your systems, within limits you set, with every action recorded in an audit log we configure for the build and a named person accountable for each decision that affects a client, an employee or the public. Agents read, match, flag, draft and recommend. A named person approves anything that moves money, changes a supplier's bank details, makes a decision that significantly affects a person, reports a figure to a board or changes production.

Fees. Every engagement is scoped to your situation. Every build starts with a scoped proposal that sets out what we will deliver, by when, and how fees are calculated.

Where is our data stored and processed?

Where you agree, in writing, before any work touches your data.

Sovereign and Australian-hosted options

Sovereign:
on your premises, or with an Australian-owned provider, operated and supported from Australia. Available on request.
Australian-region:
a global provider's Australian region, configured so your data is stored and processed in Australia. The provider remains subject to the laws of its home country.

Your data is not used to train public AI models.

How do we know you will not review your own work?

Because our published rules forbid it. When we have built, fixed or run a system, we never review it independently, and after we review a system we do not build, fix or run it, or a system that replaces it, for 24 months.

Every new piece of work, including a placement or a contractor engagement with a client of this practice, is checked against a conflict register before it is scoped. You can ask to see every register entry that concerns you.

We take no commission, rebate, referral fee or funding from any vendor whose product we recommend, assess or review.

Read our independence and conflict rules

Who does the work?

Senior practitioners lead our engagements, and our engineers build.

A Precision engineer who scoped your build leads it through go-live, and every engineer on the team works to our method and our bar.

You will not be handed to an account manager.

What record stands behind the practice?

AI and Automation is part of Precision Consulting Corporation. These are the firm's own figures, as its home page states them.

  • 30+ Years of Experience
  • AU$2.3B+ Programme Value Delivered
  • 94.3% On-Budget Delivery
  • 90+ Client Programmes Recovered

Common Questions

The questions we are asked most

What does an AI consultant do?

An AI consultant helps an organisation decide where AI will return money, what its data and controls will bear, and how to build, run and review it safely. In this practice that work is done by senior practitioners and engineers together, and it starts with one named problem and a measure of where things stand today.

How much does AI consulting cost in Australia?

It depends on what you need: a costed answer for one process, an independent review, a recovery or a build. Every engagement is scoped to your situation, and each first step has a defined scope and a fee agreed before work begins. Builds are scoped after a proof of value.

How should we choose an AI consulting firm?

Ask every firm the same questions. How will the return be measured, and against what baseline? What will you not do after you have reviewed a system? Who does the engineering, and who leads it? Where will our data be stored and processed, and who can reach it?

Do you build AI, or only advise?

Both. Our engineers build AI for clients, and our reviewers independently review AI programmes and systems that others built. Our conflict rules keep the two apart for every system: we either review it, or we help build, fix or run it.

Will you independently review a system you built?

No. When we have designed, built, recovered or operated a system, any independent review of it goes to another firm. The rule is published on our independence and conflict rules page.

Read our independence and conflict rules

Where do we start if we have no named problem yet?

Start with the AI Readiness Assessment, which ranks the use cases worth pursuing from your own time and cost data and tells you what your data and controls will bear.

About the AI Readiness Assessment

Do you work with smaller businesses?

Yes, from about 20 staff, where there is one named process worth measuring. A Use Case Sprint is the first step at any size, on the same terms as for a larger organisation.

Is AI and Automation part of Precision Consulting Corporation?

Yes. AI and Automation is a practice of Precision Consulting Corporation Pty Ltd.

How we work, in writing

Bring us a named problem.

One process, one system or one stalled initiative is enough to start.

Talk to us about a named problem

The first conversation is confidential, without obligation and without charge.