Private AI for Canberra,
on your own network.
Most of what a Canberra consultancy writes belongs to somebody else. A machine you own can search approved files and draft from them locally; each connected exception is recorded separately.
Your hardware · your network · connected exceptions recorded in writing
The document problem here has a particular shape.
An enormous number of Canberra businesses write, all day, about work that is not theirs.
What sits in the folders
Tender and panel responses. Draft submissions and briefs. Evaluation material. Reviews and evidence bundles. Discovery and correspondence. Deliverables written under contract terms that name exactly who may hold them and where.
A hosted assistant may be unsuitable for material covered by a client agreement. The buyer still needs a practical alternative for approved drafting, retrieval and transcription work.
What a local machine does with it
Indexes the approved engagement folder, shows the source passage beneath retrieval answers, drafts against your house structure, and turns a recorded workshop into notes for review.
What we claim, and what we leave to you.
In this city that distinction is worth stating up front rather than in a footnote.
What we are
A small Australian business that builds the machine, loads it, sets it up with you and answers the phone afterwards. We hold no clearance, no IRAP assessment, no certification and no panel listing, and we will say so on the first call rather than let you find out later.
What that leaves you holding
A server in your building, under the physical access, network, backup and account controls your organisation chooses. Your assessor decides whether the delivered design meets the engagement requirements.
The base local workflow has no hosted model service in its processing path. Connected research, integrations, remote support, updates and off-site backups are separate exceptions. ASD publishes the Essential Eight maturity model; your security advisers decide how it applies.
Where this sits alongside the obligations your practice already carries is covered in what a private AI server actually is, in ordinary language rather than a datasheet.
Canberra is not only consultancies.
Health
Canberra Hospital at Garran carries the regional referral load, with North Canberra Hospital in Bruce, the Barton medical precinct and specialist and allied health rooms across Woden, Deakin and Belconnen. For approved transcription workflows, processing can stay on the appliance.
Education and research
The Australian National University at Acton and the University of Canberra at Bruce, plus the independent research and policy institutes around them. Unpublished drafts, ethics submissions and grant rounds, all of which have the same objection to being pasted into a website.
Trades and everything practical
Builders, engineers and services contractors working out of Fyshwick, Mitchell and Hume, with an inspection and defect-reporting load that comes back as photographs and voice notes and has to leave as a written report the same week.
Configured here, brought up with you there.
- First
- A Teams demonstration using a redacted or non-sensitive example, obligation free
- Before it ships
- Your security people get the service list, the ports, the encryption and backup detail and the account model
- Delivery
- Built, loaded with your templates and your ACT knowledge pack, tested, then freighted ready to plug in
- Setup
- A booked screen share with your IT provider or internal team, completed against the acceptance steps in the quote
- Ongoing
- Remote support by phone and screen-share, and an optional $600 yearly service run the same way
The setup call covers the agreed staff, network checks and acceptance examples. Use redacted or authorised material. What the purchase covers is on the pricing page, and the five planning tiers show the hardware options.
Shipped anywhere in the territory.
Test the boundary during the demonstration: ask where each approved workflow runs, which connections it needs and what happens if remote support is unavailable.
Canberra uses configured supply and remote setup by default. On-site travel can be discussed and quoted where practical. The ACT page covers the territory, and the areas page explains the national service model.
Canberra questions.
Do you hold a security clearance, or has this been through IRAP?
No. We hold no security clearance, IRAP assessment, certification or government-panel listing.
The machine is your property and sits behind your controls. In the base local workflow, we do not hold a copy of customer material. Remote support, connected services, updates and off-site backups are separate exceptions to assess and record.
Our client agreements say the material stays on our systems, in Australia. Does this satisfy that?
Read the clause with us on the call and we will show you exactly where the data sits. In the standard local document-search setup, indexing and inference run on the appliance in your office. Any integration, remote-support session, web research, update or off-site backup is recorded as a separate exception.
The privacy guide covers how that maps onto the obligations you already carry.
Can our IT and security staff inspect it before it touches the network?
Yes. Before dispatch, your IT or security staff can review the stated services, ports, encryption, backup design, accounts and roles. Requested changes are either added to the written scope or identified as out of scope before the system is connected.
We're a twelve-person consultancy with a heavy tender load. What size machine?
Headcount alone is not enough to size it. Document length, chosen models and simultaneous use matter. We test the agreed workload, then quote the smallest tier with suitable headroom. The machines page shows the planning options; there is no per-user Harness fee.
Book a Teams demonstration.
Twenty minutes, obligation free. Bring a redacted contract clause about data location and we will explain the proposed processing path on the call.
Bring us one job your team repeats every week. We will show you the system doing it →