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Brisbane and South East Queensland

AI consultants and AI advisory services in Brisbane

Solve8 is a Brisbane AI consultancy, founded in 2016 and based in Beenleigh, helping mid-sized to enterprise, multi-site Queensland organisations automate the work their best people do from memory.

Meet our team in Brisbane

Looking for an AI agency in Brisbane?

Most people searching for an AI agency in Brisbane want one thing: someone who will look at how the organisation runs, pick the work AI should take on, build it and stay accountable once it is live. Agencies, consultancies, IT providers and freelancers all answer that search, and each suits a different job. The comparison further down this page sets out which is which.

Solve8 works as an AI consultancy with its own engineers. Our consultants run AI advisory with your leadership team, and the same team builds the result into the systems you already run, from Xero and MYOB to Pronto, SAP and simPRO. Each phase has a fixed fee agreed before we start, and you can stop after any phase.

For Queensland organisations that usually means AI-assisted services on the work that queues today: quotes, supplier invoices, job sheets, compliance evidence and month-end reporting, with a person approving each result before it reaches a customer or the ledger.

What Brisbane organisations ask us to fix

Field service across SEQ
Fire, HVAC and facilities groups where quotes wait on two people and every branch differs.
Construction and infrastructure
Contractors on Queensland's transport and 2032 Games pipeline rebuilding subcontractor and ITP records by hand.
Professional firms
Law, accounting and engineering practices retyping intake and matter details between systems.
Resources head offices
Bowen Basin and Surat Basin site data that never matches the board report.
Health and aged care groups
Intake and compliance evidence assembled by hand across sites.
The board wants an AI plan
A ranked roadmap with the governance questions answered in writing.

How to choose an AI consultancy in Brisbane

Eight checks you can put to any Brisbane firm, ours included. Each one says what to ask and how we answer it. The full twelve-question buyer's guide is linked at the end of this page.

Who owns the code and data
Ask who holds the repository and admin rights after handover. We build in your environment and hand over the code, documentation and admin access, so nothing depends on us to keep running.
Where your data is processed
Ask for the location in writing, including backups and support access. Our builds run in your own cloud or on your servers in Australia, and no model is trained on your data.
Fixed-fee phases with stop points
Ask what you keep if you stop early. We agree a fixed fee for each phase before work starts, and you keep everything delivered if you stop after any phase.
Systems running in production
Ask to see work that is live today. Ours includes a workforce app still used by a company of more than 1,500 staff, our own products Carbonly.ai and RootCauseAI, and anonymised client case studies.
Depth with your ERP
Ask which of your platforms they have connected before. Our engineers integrate Xero, MYOB, NetSuite, Dynamics, SAP and Pronto, plus CRM and field systems such as ServiceM8 and simPRO.
On site in Brisbane
Ask how often they can be in the room. Our base is in Beenleigh, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, so workshops from Ipswich to the Sunshine Coast are a drive away.
Handover and support
Ask who checks accuracy after go-live. We hand over runbooks and train your team, and our managed AI service can keep monitoring the system if you prefer.
Independence from vendors
Ask whether the advice is tied to a product. Our roadmaps can recommend keeping what you already run, and you can deliver them with us, your own team or another firm.

AI agency, AI consultancy, IT provider or freelancer?

Four kinds of firm answer the same Brisbane searches. Each is a sound choice for some work.

AI agency, AI consultancy, IT provider or freelancer?
	Usually good for	Watch for	A fit when
AI agency	Chatbots, content and marketing automation, often on a packaged platform	Whether it connects to your ERP and who supports it after launch	The job is customer-facing and self-contained
AI consultancy	Choosing the first process, building it into your systems and governing it	Whether the people who scope the work also build it	AI has to touch finance, operations or field data
IT managed service provider	Helpdesk, devices, networks, licences and security operations	Whether AI work gets specialists or is added onto support hours	You need ongoing IT operations more than a new build
Freelancer	A defined task, such as a prototype or a single integration	Cover for leave, documentation and who maintains it later	The scope is small and your team will own the result

Team mapping a process on a boardroom wall

AI automation for Brisbane organisations

No rip-and-replace. AI sits beside the systems you already run and does the first pass on documents and data, and your staff sign off each result before it is posted to a customer record or your ledger.

AI strategy and a costed roadmap
Less retyping and fewer errors between systems
Power BI reporting and data models
Copilot readiness and private AI

AI in Queensland: industries, rules and first projects

South East Queensland's economy leans on construction and infrastructure, health and aged care, professional services, logistics through the Port of Brisbane, and the head offices of resources companies working the Bowen and Surat basins. Cross River Rail, the wider transport program and preparation for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games keep project teams and their subcontractors under steady reporting pressure.

Three sets of rules shape most Brisbane AI projects. Private organisations work under the federal Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles, overseen by the OAIC. Queensland Government agencies, and suppliers bound to them by contract, work under the Information Privacy Act 2009, which adopted the Queensland Privacy Principles and a mandatory data breach notification scheme from 1 July 2025, with councils added from 1 July 2026. Builders and subcontractors also deal with the QBCC and the payment deadlines in the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017.

Brisbane organisations tend to automate document-heavy steps first: supplier invoices into the ERP, quotes built from defect and job records, progress claims and payment schedules, and carbon data for AASB S2 climate reporting. Our work for a Tier 1 infrastructure contractor automated carbon and ESG reporting in Power BI, and the defect quoting engine we built for a national fire protection provider is entering shadow mode beside its quoting team.

How we work in Brisbane

Free 30-minute review
A call to check there is a project worth scoping, then a fixed fee for phase one.
Workshops on site
In person anywhere from the Gold Coast to Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast.
Build remotely
Short build cycles on your real data, under your access controls.
Run alongside your team
Proven accurate before go-live, with a person approving each result.

Facts you can check

2016The year Solve8 was founded
1,500+Staff at a company still running a workforce app we built
Fixed feeAgreed for each phase before we start
30 minFree first review with our team

Work you can look at

Across Queensland

Some of the organisations we have worked with

Great company to work with. Assisted with AI automation.

Square1 Property Group Google review

Questions

Who are the best AI consultants in Brisbane?

The best AI consultants in Brisbane for your organisation are the ones who can show systems running in production, fix one process for a fixed fee and keep your data in Australia. Shortlist two or three firms and put the same questions to each about code ownership, where data is processed, ERP integration and support after go-live. Solve8, a Brisbane-region consultancy founded in 2016, answers each of those in writing before any work starts.

What does an AI consultant in Brisbane do?

A Brisbane AI consultant finds the process worth automating, proves AI on your own data and builds it into the systems you already run. Our consultants work face to face with Queensland teams from our Brisbane-region base, so workshops and follow-up visits need no flights.

What do AI advisory services in Brisbane include?

AI advisory services in Brisbane should leave you with a ranked list of processes worth automating, a business case your CFO can test and the governance questions answered in writing. Ours also cover the Queensland rules that apply to each process and end with a costed roadmap you own and can deliver with any firm, including ours.

How much does an AI consultant cost in Brisbane?

There is no standard price for an AI consultant in Brisbane, because the effort depends on your systems, your data and how many sites are in scope. We quote a fixed fee for each phase after a discovery session, agreed in writing before work starts, and you can stop after any phase. Being based in the Brisbane region also means SEQ workshops carry no flights or accommodation.

Do the Queensland Privacy Principles apply to AI projects?

The Queensland Privacy Principles apply to any AI project that handles personal information for a Queensland Government agency, and they have been in force since 1 July 2025. They cover collection, use, disclosure and security whatever system does the processing, and contracted suppliers can be bound to them. We record which principles each AI data flow touches in the design document.

Which business processes do Brisbane organisations automate first?

Most start with document-heavy work: supplier invoices, quotes, job sheets and compliance forms retyped between systems. We automate one of those inside your existing platforms, run it beside your staff until the accuracy is signed off, then extend it to the next process.

Can you build Power BI reporting for a Brisbane organisation?

We design Power BI data models and reports for Brisbane and Queensland organisations, joining finance, job and operations systems so month-end figures come from one place. Each measure gets a written definition, which is what stops two reports disagreeing.

Can your AI consultants work on site across Queensland?

Our consultants work on site across South East Queensland and travel to Toowoomba, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns for workshops, with build work done remotely between visits.