AI consulting and delivery in Australia and New Zealand

AI consultants who cut manual work across your sites

Time back and fewer errors for operations, finance and IT teams at multi-site organisations, proven alongside your people before you commit.

Fixed-fee phases. Stop after any phase.

Some of the organisations we have worked with

  • National Solar Energy Group
  • Sunboost
  • Luxco Energy
  • Australian Solar Designs
  • National Solar Services
  • German Energy
  • 3P Solar
  • Square 1 Property Group

Solve8 is a Brisbane-region AI consultancy, founded in 2016, that helps COOs, CFOs and CIOs at mid-sized to enterprise multi-site organisations across Australia and New Zealand cut manual work in field services, fire protection, facilities, wholesale, logistics, mining supply, professional services and government.

Where multi-site organisations lose time

  • Retyping between systems

    The same job keyed into three systems.

  • Quotes that wait

    Quotes sit for days on two people.

  • Every branch is different

    Head office cannot compare sites.

  • Audit week

    Compliance evidence assembled by hand.

Runs on your infrastructure

AI does the first pass. Your team approves. Your data never leaves your environment.

How we keep it secure
Your systems feed AI, which does the first pass. Your team approves each result before it goes back into your systems. All of it runs inside your infrastructure in Australia.Your infrastructure, in AustraliaYour cloud or your own serversYour systemsFinance and ERPOperationsDocuments and emailAssets and fieldAI does thefirst passReads, checks, draftsYour teamapprovesNothing moves without a personBack intoyour systemsApproved results update the systems your team already usesYour systems feed AI, which does the first pass. Your team approves each result before it goes back into your systems. All of it runs inside your infrastructure in Australia.Your infrastructure, in AustraliaYour cloud or your own serversYour systemsFinance and ERPOperationsDocumentsAssets and fieldAI does the first passReads, checks, draftsYour team approvesBefore anything movesBack into your systemsApproved results update thesystems your team already uses
  • Data stays in your environment
  • Never used to train models
  • Access through your identity provider
  • You own the code

Built for the people who run the systems and the sites

  • Application and systems managers

    We work inside your stack and your change process, document every integration, and hand over code your team can support.

  • IT and data leads

    Your identity provider, your infrastructure in Australia, every AI action logged and auditable.

  • COO and GM Operations

    Fewer handoffs between branches and head office, measured in hours saved per week.

  • CFO and finance lead

    A baseline before we start, a fixed fee per phase, and faster month-end across entities.

  • Branch and service managers

    Quotes, job updates and paperwork drafted for checking, not retyped.

  • Continuous improvement and transformation leads

    A measured pilot on one process you can take to leadership with real numbers.

How an engagement runs

  1. Discover

    We map one process at one site and measure the time and errors today.

  2. Prove

    A working version runs beside your team on live work. You set the accuracy bar.

  3. Build

    Connected to your systems, logged, and approved by your people before anything is written back.

  4. Run

    We support it, or hand over the code, documentation and training to your team.

Why organisations choose Solve8

  • A senior lead throughout

    One accountable lead from the first workshop to handover.

  • Your infrastructure, your code

    Built in your cloud or on your servers in Australia. You own it.

  • Fixed fee per phase

    Scope and fee agreed in writing. Stop after any phase and keep the work.

  • Enterprise experience

    Our consultants have worked on projects at BHP, Rio Tinto, Senex Energy and Schneider Electric.

Works with the systems you already run

We connect to the platforms you already run. You keep your licences and your data.

  • SAP
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Oracle NetSuite
  • Pronto Xi
  • simPRO
  • AroFlo
  • Uptick
  • Xero
  • MYOB
  • Salesforce
  • ServiceNow
  • SharePoint

Great company to work with. Assisted with AI automation.

Square1 Property Group Google review

AI solutions and consulting questions

What are AI solutions for business?

AI solutions are software that reads, sorts, drafts or checks information so staff spend less time on repetitive work, such as pulling data from invoices, coding defects or drafting quotes. In mid-sized and enterprise organisations they work best when connected to the systems you already run, with a person approving the output.

What problems can AI solve for a multi-site organisation?

The most common are the same data keyed into several systems, quotes waiting on one or two people, every branch running a process differently, and compliance evidence assembled by hand before audits. AI and automation take the first pass at each, so head office gets consistent records and comparable numbers across sites.

How do we know an AI solution will pay off before we commit?

Measure the process first, then test the AI on live work alongside your team before it goes live. We record time and error rates as a baseline, report accuracy against the bar you set, and each phase ends with a go or stop decision made on your numbers.

Do AI solutions work with the systems we already have?

Yes. Most AI solutions connect to existing ERP, finance, CRM, field service and document systems, such as SAP, Dynamics 365, Pronto Xi, Xero, MYOB, simPRO and SharePoint. Results are written back with approval, so staff keep working in familiar tools and nothing needs replacing to get started.

How do I build a business case for an AI project?

Pick one process, measure how many hours and errors it costs each month today, and estimate the share AI can take on with a person still approving. Add the cost of running it and the risk if it is wrong. Then propose a short paid pilot on live work with a go or stop decision, so leadership approves evidence rather than a forecast.

What does an AI consulting company do?

An AI consulting company works out where AI will save time or reduce errors in your organisation, then designs, builds and supports it. That usually covers strategy, integration with your existing systems, data, automation and support after go-live.

What is an AI agent and where does it fit in operations?

An AI agent is software that carries out a sequence of steps, such as reading an email, checking a record in your ERP, drafting a reply and queuing it for approval. In operations they suit high-volume work with clear rules, like quote preparation, defect coding, invoice matching and job updates, with a person signing off.

How do we roll out Copilot or ChatGPT across several sites safely?

Use a business or enterprise plan so administrators control training, retention and single sign-on, then fix file and SharePoint permissions so the assistant cannot surface documents people should not see. Publish a short usage policy, start with one team and a few measured tasks, and extend site by site.

What do the Privacy Act automated decision rules mean for AI?

From 10 December 2026, organisations covered by the Privacy Act must say in their privacy policy when a computer program makes, or substantially helps make, decisions that could significantly affect a person's rights or interests, and what personal information it uses. List where AI scores, approves or declines anything about customers or staff, keep a person accountable, and update your policy before that date.

How do we stop retyping jobs between simPRO, AroFlo or Pronto and finance?

Connect the systems so a job, quote or invoice is entered once and passed on automatically, through each system's API, or scheduled exports where there is none. AI handles the unstructured part, reading emailed purchase orders or PDF work orders into a draft record a person checks. Start with the highest-volume handoff and measure the hours saved.

Can AI help prepare mining prequalification and tender packs?

Yes. AI can pull the right policies, certificates, insurances and past project evidence from your document library into a first draft of each section, flag what is missing or expired, and keep answers consistent across tenders. Your team reviews and signs off every submission.

Start with one process. Prove it first.

Name the bottleneck. We will say if AI fits.

Fixed-fee phases, agreed before we start. Stop after any phase.