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Wollongong firms, and the
archive nobody can search.

Big-firm document volumes, sensible-firm budgets. One machine on your own floor can search approved document sets, draft from them and cite the source. Connected exceptions are recorded separately.

Illawarra-wide, Bulli to Kiama · no per-user Harness fee · connected exceptions recorded

The archive

A steel town keeps steel-town records.

Port Kembla built a professional layer that documents everything and can retrieve almost none of it.

Structural and civil consultancies, fabricators, testing houses and the trades that orbit the steelworks all carry decades of specifications, inspection and test plans, site reports, weld procedures and standards. It is the most valuable thing in the office and the least reachable. Every firm tells the same story: whoever knew where the 2011 job sat has retired, and the drive is searchable only by whatever the file happened to be called.

A local LLM that has read the whole lot changes the question you can ask. Not "what is this file named" but "what did we specify for that structure, and did anyone ever raise a non-conformance about it".

"What grade did we call up on the 2011 job?"
spec-rev-C.pdf · section 4.2source
Anything sent offsite to answer itnone

Also true of

Legal and accounting practices along the Crown Street mall, with client files going back to the eighties and a partner who remembers most of them.

Freight and terminal businesses at Port Kembla, which lands more imported motor vehicles than any other port in the state and takes over eight hundred ships a year — every one of them trailing consignment, inspection and compliance paperwork.

Same machine, same afternoon of setup, different documents pointed at it.

The other half

The hospital, the campus and the rooms between them.

Health and education are now as much of the Illawarra economy as steel is.

Rooms around a tertiary referral hospital

Specialist, imaging and allied health practices carry a large correspondence load. An approved local workflow can turn a lawfully recorded consult into a draft letter for review. Consent, retention and every connected exception still need to be set by the practice.

Research groups and the Innovation Campus

Up at Fairy Meadow, teams may work with datasets under ethics conditions. Local processing can simplify the data path, but the research team and ethics reviewers still decide whether the delivered controls are suitable. There is no per-user Harness fee; capacity still applies.

The maths

Thirty licences, or one purchase.

The Firm
from $17,500 ten or more people, installed
Staff accounts
no per-user Harness fee machine capacity still applies
Service visit & maintenance
$600 per year, optional
Custom tools
$200 per hour, quoted first
Fine-tuning on your documents
from $2,000 fixed quote
GST
registered; see current quote treatment

A consultancy of thirty pays for thirty seats whether the graduates use them or not. Everything we charge is published, a separate guide does the three-year sum against a per-seat licence, and the smaller machines start at $2,900 if one department wants to try it first.

On site

Crown Street to Kiama.

Wollongong CBD North Wollongong Fairy Meadow Port Kembla Unanderra Dapto Shellharbour Kiama

Install timing and required staff are confirmed in the quote. The machine joins the agreed network, staff reach it in a browser, and handover covers the written acceptance examples. Your IT provider keeps ownership of the wider network and staff devices.

Offices further up the coast are covered too — Sydney has its own page, Lake Macquarie takes the northern end, New South Wales is written up as a state, and the areas hub lists the lot.

Before you buy

Test the boundary and the output.

Use a redacted or non-sensitive example. Ask what runs locally, what needs a connection, what ongoing costs remain and how your data and configuration can be exported. The written quote should name the boundary and acceptance checks.

FAQ

Illawarra questions.

We are an engineering consultancy with twenty years of reports. Can it really find things in them?

Yes, and finding is the part people underrate. It reads the reports, drawings registers, specifications and inspection records you already hold and answers questions about what is inside them, quoting the document and the section. It is not a keyword search over filenames, which is the thing everybody already has and nobody uses.

Most of our work sits under client NDAs. Does any of it get uploaded?

None of it. The model runs on the machine in your office, so there is no third party in the chain to name in a disclosure and no processing agreement to negotiate. Read how this lines up with Australian privacy law if you want it in more detail than a sales page can hold.

Our people are split between the CBD, Shellharbour and Kiama. Does everyone get the same thing?

Potentially, if the sites have a suitable private link and the access design passes the agreed checks. Performance depends on that link and simultaneous use. Any network work is identified before ordering and assigned in the written scope.

We pay per seat for AI now. What does buying instead look like?

Use your own headcount, workload and time period. There is no per-user Harness fee, but capacity, electricity, backup, support and connected services still count. Custom work is $200/hour when quoted. Prices exclude GST; see current registration and quote treatment.

Book a 20-minute chat.

We arrive with a working machine, point it at a folder you choose, and you watch it answer. Then you get the price.

Bring us one job your team repeats every week. We will show you the system doing it →