Solve8 is an AI consultancy based in Beenleigh, QLD, working with organisations across Australia. Brisbane is where we can be on site fastest. We help organisations decide where AI is worth the money, then build it: process automation, system integration, reporting, and the governance that lets a risk committee sign off.
Closer to home, we also provide IT consulting in Brisbane for software selection, Microsoft 365 and cloud planning, along with custom software development for the internal apps, dashboards and integrations that off-the-shelf tools leave unsolved.
Every engagement is scoped in writing and fixed before work starts, and you deal directly with the consultant doing the work. If you are comparing AI consulting firms in Brisbane, start with our AI strategy and advisory service or go straight to AI automation for Brisbane operations.
Our office is at 9/86 City Rd, Beenleigh, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Workshops run on site anywhere in South East Queensland, and we work with organisations across Australia.
We start from the problem in front of you. The organisations below come in every size and share a kind of work that automation handles well. If one sounds like your Monday morning, a scoping call will tell you quickly whether there is a project worth doing.
Job data in one platform, finance in another, and a spreadsheet joining them every Monday. We connect them so the numbers agree without retyping.
Plants, mines and utilities hold years of historian and SCADA data that rarely reaches commercial decision makers. We read it without writing back to control systems.
Project data is spread across sites, subcontractors and templates each project manager has edited. Standardising capture usually delivers more than any model built on top.
Climate disclosure, Safeguard Mechanism reporting and the Privacy Act changes all ask for figures someone can trace back to a source. We build the evidence trail first and the dashboard second.
Documents arrive as PDFs and emails and get rekeyed into a practice or finance system. Extraction with human review removes most of that rekeying.
Crews and jobs to dispatch, inspection records to file, and public sector rules about how data and AI may be used. We design for the audit trail from the first workshop.
Most enquiries from Brisbane organisations fall into a handful of patterns. Each has a well understood fix, and sometimes the right fix involves no AI at all. Our comparison of automation and manual processes covers how to tell the difference.
Extraction reads the document, checks it against purchase orders or job records, and sends mismatches to a person. The rest goes straight into Xero, MYOB or the ERP.
Invoice processing automation guideWe move the source data into a model that refreshes on a schedule, so month end becomes a review of figures already there.
Process automation servicesLegacy finance, maintenance and job platforms can usually be reached through the database, scheduled exports or a supported connector. We pick the least fragile route and document it.
Integrating legacy systems with AIPilots stall without a reliable source of truth or a hand-off to a person. We fix both before anyone tunes a prompt.
AI agents compared with chatbotsA governed internal assistant, with data held in an Australian region or on your own servers, gives people a sanctioned option.
How the wrong AI tools leak business dataAdvisory work produces a ranked, costed roadmap that the board can approve or reject on its merits, with the governance questions answered in writing.
Take the AI readiness assessmentPlenty of Brisbane organisations arrive with a budget approved and no agreed answer to what it should be spent on. Advisory work settles that with a costed document, and you own it whether or not you build with us.
We interview the people who run each process, look at the systems and data, and test each candidate for payback, data quality and governance. Rejected ideas are written up too, so nobody reopens them next year without new information.
Our article on AI strategy compared with AI implementation sets out when to start with advice and when to go straight to a build, and the four week proof of concept framework shows how a first pilot is structured.
Candidate processes ranked by payback and difficulty, so the cheap wins show up first.
Which systems connect, where the data lives, and what must change first.
Build and running costs against current effort, written to survive a finance review.
Privacy Act obligations, data residency, human review points and audit trails, written for regulated environments.
A sequence with a pilot first, so a single process proves the approach before budget goes to a program of work.
We name the tools that fit, including tools we do not sell. You own the document and can execute it with anyone.
Many Brisbane organisations already run on Microsoft 365, and Copilot is often the first AI tool a board asks about. Copilot answers from whatever each user can already open in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Outlook. Microsoft documents this directly: Copilot only surfaces organisational data that the individual user has at least view permission to.
A salary spreadsheet left in an open Teams channel years ago was hard to stumble across before. With Copilot, a plain English question can bring it straight back. The Digital Transformation Agency's evaluation of the Australian Government Copilot trial reported the same issue: trial participants saw Copilot surface sensitive information that had never been stored or permissioned properly.
So readiness work happens before the licences are bought: audit, fix or contain, then pilot.
Sites open to everyone, anonymous links, broken inheritance and ownerless sites, from SharePoint Advanced Management reports.
Where payroll, HR, legal and board material lives, and whether Purview sensitivity labels cover it.
Restricted Content Discovery keeps risky sites out of Copilot answers while the clean-up finishes.
A group with clean access, measured tasks, and an agreed rule for buying more licences.
Reporting is where a lot of AI work should begin, because a model is only as useful as the data underneath it. We build Power BI models that refresh from the systems you already run. Each measure has a written definition, so finance and operations work from the same number.
A plain English question layer on top is then a small step, covered in our guide to plain English dashboards with an AI agent.
For Seymour Whyte, a Tier 1 infrastructure contractor in the VINCI group, we replaced emailed spreadsheets with standardised templates, SharePoint and Power BI for carbon reporting.
Read the Seymour Whyte carbon reporting case studyOn industrial sites the source is often a PI System historian. Getting that data into Power BI without overloading the server or losing tag context is its own problem.
Groups with several Xero organisations need consolidated reporting first. A product already does that, so we point you to it before building anything custom.
ReportingMate for consolidated Xero reportingA lot of Brisbane teams already own Power Automate through their Microsoft licences. Often a flow is the right tool, and we will say so in the scoping call. This is the test we apply.
Many good designs use both. A flow moves the data between systems, and a model handles the one step that needs reading or judgement. For the wider tool choice, see our comparisons of AI and RPA and of Zapier, Make and n8n. If an agent is the answer, our notes on running AI agents in production cover the monitoring and ownership it needs after go-live. Where the job calls for something no platform offers, we take it on as custom AI development.
Queensland's economy leans on mining, processing, energy, agriculture and ports, and much of it runs a long drive from Brisbane. Those operations hold years of historian and SCADA data that rarely leaves the control room.
We work on the IT side of the boundary, reading from historians and plant databases without writing back to control systems. Typical work includes reconciling historian production figures with the ERP, cleaning up OT tag naming so data can be reused across sites, and building the data foundation industrial AI needs before anyone trains a model. If you are choosing a historian or visualisation platform, our PI System and Ignition comparison is a useful start.
Our principal consultant spent 18 years on projects for resources and energy companies including BHP, Rio Tinto and Senex Energy, gained while working with previous consulting employers. These companies are not Solve8 clients.
Beyond the south east we work in Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns and the Bowen and Surat basins. See our manufacturing and processing work for the plant side.
Queensland organisations handle personal information under the Privacy Act 1988, and many also under sector rules. AI raises questions those rules did not anticipate: where a prompt is processed, whether a vendor trains on it, and who can explain an automated decision to the person it affected.
We default to Australian cloud regions. For sensitive workloads we deploy open models on your own servers or private cloud, so prompts and documents stay inside your environment. See Australian compared with offshore AI development.
From 10 December 2026, amendments to the Privacy Act require privacy policies to describe substantially automated decisions that significantly affect individuals.
Privacy Act rules for automated decisionsThe systems we build log inputs, outputs and the person who approved each exception, so an auditor can trace a figure back to its source and see who signed it off.
AI agent governance and human overrideQueensland suppliers to New South Wales agencies may be asked to support assessments under the NSW AI Assessment Framework.
Engagements are scoped and fixed per phase, so stopping after discovery is a legitimate outcome and you are never locked into a build you have not approved. We work on site across South East Queensland, and remotely or on site for organisations anywhere else in Australia.
A free 30 minute call, then a written scope with a fixed fee for the first phase. You decide before work starts.
Workshops with the people who do the work, on site in Brisbane or over video. We map the process, pull sample data and recheck the business case.
Short build cycles against your real data, in your environment or an Australian region. One process is piloted before any rollout.
Documentation, training and admin access stay with you. Your team can run it from there, or we can keep looking after it under a managed service.
After handover, some organisations keep us on through managed AI services for monitoring and changes, and teams with their own developers sometimes prefer team augmentation, where we work inside their delivery process. Our AI consulting buyer's guide and how to choose an AI consultancy list the questions to ask any firm, including us.
We are local, so we can sit in the room with your operations team, and we say no to automation candidates that will not pay for themselves.
We are in Beenleigh. Workshops, site walks and steering meetings happen in person anywhere in South East Queensland.
The consultant who scopes the job also builds it, with no account manager in between.
We build and operate our own software, including Carbonly for emissions data and SupportAgent for on-premise incident investigation. Both are the founder's own products.
Australian business, Queensland based
Australian regions or your own servers
Governance written into every scope
9/86 City Rd, Beenleigh QLD 4207
Our principal consultant brings 18 years of enterprise delivery experience from projects for BHP, Rio Tinto and Senex Energy, delivered with previous consulting employers. These companies are not Solve8 clients. You work directly with senior people, not a sales team handing you off to juniors.
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