AI consultant for Melbourne businesses

Melbourne runs on a mix you don't see anywhere else in the country: a hospitality scene that sets the standard, big health and education employers, a serious professional services community in the CBD and Southbank, and manufacturers and distributors across the south-east and the west. Plenty of these businesses have tried AI. Fewer have it working day to day.

I'm Sam Thompson, and through Attua I help Melbourne businesses with roughly 50 to 500 staff close that gap. I'm based in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. I work in person in Melbourne as often as you need me there, and the rest happens remotely.

How I work with Melbourne businesses

Workshops in your space. I'll come to your office, venue, clinic or warehouse, from the CBD and Docklands out to Richmond, Cremorne or the south-east. Seeing how the work actually happens is half the job. I'm in Melbourne as often as your project needs, and travel is charged at cost from Brisbane.

Remote between visits. Setup, testing and follow-up run over video between visits.

Daylight saving, handled. From October to April Melbourne is an hour ahead of Queensland. I work to your calendar.

Same person throughout. You won't be handed from a partner to a graduate. I do the workshop, the setup and the training.

The Melbourne businesses I'm built for

Hospitality groups with several venues. Cafes, restaurants and bars where rosters, supplier orders, reviews, menus and marketing take hours across every site. Fix a workflow once and every venue benefits. See AI for hospitality and multi-site businesses.

Health, aged care and allied health providers. Organisations with heavy documentation, intake and scheduling, where any AI use needs clear rules about patient information and a person checking the output.

Education and training providers. Schools, RTOs and training businesses working out an AI policy for staff, and practical ways to cut admin without cutting corners.

Professional services firms. Accounting, legal, property and consulting teams in the CBD and Southbank who already pay for Copilot or ChatGPT and want real use, not a pilot that fades out.

Manufacturers and distributors. Businesses in the south-east and the west with strong operations and paper-heavy back offices: quoting, purchase orders, compliance and reporting.

Common first projects in Melbourne

• A hospitality group drowning in admin. Map the weekly admin across sites, pick the two jobs that eat the most hours and set them up properly with the managers who'll use them. AI implementation
• An AI policy before the tools spread further. Clear rules on what's allowed, which accounts to use and where a person must check the work, plus training so staff actually follow it.
• A leadership team that wants a plan. A focused AI strategy: where AI fits in the business, what to do first, what it costs and what to ignore.

What working together looks like

1. Book a call. 30 minutes on where you're at.
2. On-site session in Melbourne. Leadership plus the people doing the work, ideally where the work happens.
3. A clear proposal. Clear scope, with the cost agreed up front.
4. Get it running. Setup, testing and training, with support agreed up front.

Data, privacy and guardrails

Every engagement starts with agreeing what data AI tools can use, where it goes and what stays out of scope, in line with the Privacy Act and any health-record obligations you already have. Business-grade accounts, minimum access and human review for anything customer-facing, clinical or financial.

Cost

Every engagement is scoped up front, so you know the cost before we start. Read the AI consulting cost guide.

Why I care about getting AI right

I run a medium-sized business myself and I've had to make AI pay its way there: what's worth the subscription, how to bring a team along, where a person's judgement has to stay. That's the experience I bring into your business. More about me

Talk to an AI consultant who'll come to Melbourne

Book a call. Also working in Sydney, Brisbane and across Australia.

Frequently asked questions

Are you based in Melbourne?
No. I'm based in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane and work in person in Melbourne as often as you need, with travel charged at cost from Brisbane. Day-to-day work is remote.

Do you work with hospitality groups in Melbourne?
Yes. Multi-site hospitality is one of the areas I focus on, because one well-set-up workflow pays off at every venue.

Can you help us write an AI policy?
Yes. A short, practical policy plus team training is a common first project, especially for health and education providers.

Do you charge for travel?
Yes. Travel is charged at cost from Brisbane.