You have a project that needs AI, data or integration experience your team does not have yet. We join your team for a defined outcome, do the work alongside your people, and leave it documented so they can run it.
Most AI projects stall in the same place. The business case is approved, the people who know the processes are ready, and nobody on staff has built a production AI system, cleaned a finance data set for it, or connected it to a twenty-year-old line-of-business application. Recruiting a permanent specialist takes months, and the project may only need that skill set for one phase.
Team augmentation fills that gap for a set period. A senior person from Solve8 works inside your team, in your tools and your meetings, on an outcome agreed in writing. Your staff do the work with us, which is how the knowledge stays after we leave.
The readers who get the most from this tend to have one of these problems: several systems that do not talk to each other, invoices and reports still rekeyed by hand, a compliance deadline that depends on better data, a Microsoft 365 rollout with governance questions nobody owns, or an internal IT team that is strong on infrastructure and new to AI. Organisation size matters much less than whether one of those describes you.
Each role is filled by a senior practitioner. We agree which one you need at scoping, and we tell you if the work needs a role we do not cover.
Owns the design of an AI or automation project inside your team: which model, which data, which approvals, and how it gets tested. Useful when you have capable developers or analysts who have not shipped an AI system before.
Process automationBuilds the pipelines and models behind finance and operational reporting: Power BI, Xero and accounting data, spreadsheets that have outgrown themselves, and the data quality work that has to happen before any AI can be trusted.
Plain-English BI agentsConnects AI to the systems you already run: ERP, CRM, document management and older line-of-business applications with awkward APIs or none at all.
System integrationWorks with your administrators on SharePoint permissions, sensitivity labels and pilot design before Copilot licences are switched on, and stays on to run the access reviews afterwards.
Copilot readinessA part-time senior voice for leadership: prioritising use cases, reviewing vendor proposals, setting governance and reporting progress to the board, for organisations not ready to appoint a permanent AI executive.
Do you need a Chief AI Officer?For asset-heavy operations, an engineer who understands historians, tag structures and how plant data reaches business reporting. This is one specialty among the roles above.
Historian to Power BI reportingThe exact list is agreed in the first call. This is the usual shape.
See what this would take in your business
A free 30-minute review on Microsoft Teams. Bring the process you want fixed and leave with a clear first step.
Phase lengths depend on the outcome and the days per week, so we set them at scoping and review them as we go.
If the project is still at the question of what to build, start with AI strategy or a short proof of concept first. Embedding someone before the outcome is clear tends to produce activity without a result. Once a system is live and the team is confident, managed AI services can take over the monitoring and maintenance work.
For a full build delivered end to end, see custom AI development. For the trade-offs between the three main options, our post comparing a consultant, an in-house hire and an agency goes through cost, speed and what you keep at the end.
We would rather tell you this in the first call than three months in.
Choosing any outside help deserves care. Our guide on how to choose an AI consultancy lists the questions worth asking, including of us. Governance matters too when outsiders touch your data, and our AI governance framework guide covers access, approvals and records.
You work directly with senior people. Solve8 is based in Brisbane, and works with organisations across Australia, mostly remotely and on site in South East Queensland when that helps.
Our documented client work is the Tier 1 infrastructure carbon reporting case study, where standardised templates and Power BI replaced manual ESG data collection and the result was handed over for the client's team to run. Carbonly and SupportAgent show the kind of AI systems we build. All of it is listed on our case studies page.
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.
See what this would take in your business
A free 30-minute review on Microsoft Teams. Bring the process you want fixed and leave with a clear first step.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We will talk through the outcome, your team and the gap, then tell you whether embedding one of us is the right answer.