AI, data and analytics · AI Sprint

Find where AI agents and automation fit your business in two days

A fixed-price discovery sprint. You leave with your AI use cases ranked by value, effort and risk, a proof-of-concept scope for the first agent or automation, and a roadmap to production.

A$5,000, two daysOn site or remote, anywhere in Australia. No obligation afterwards. Prices exclude GST.

Book a free 30-minute consult or take the free five-minute AI check

With Ben Jones, practice lead.

What you leave with

Prioritised use casesEvery candidate scored on value, effort, risk and data readiness, whether it is an agent, an automation or a generative tool
Proof-of-concept scopeWhat gets built first, the systems it connects to, the data it needs, the success measure, and what it would cost
Production roadmapFrom the proof of concept to production, with the guardrails and governance steps in order
Workshop board and summary packEverything captured, written up and sent within the week

Fixed price, fixed scopeA$5,000 for two days. You know the cost before you book
Run by our AI practiceWith the engineers who build the agents and would build the proof of concept
Written outputsA ranked use-case list, a proof-of-concept scope and a roadmap
Risk and privacy included in the scoringEach use case is checked against Australia's Guidance for AI Adoption

Who it is for

Two kinds of business book this sprint

Operators

You run a business with manual work in it

Typical examples are documents that staff read and re-key into another system, customer and supplier questions answered from the same sources every day, approvals that wait on a person to check something a system already knows, and finance, HR or operations admin done by hand. The sprint works out which of these an agent or automation can take on end to end, which still need a person to sign off, what it would save, and what it takes to run safely.

Software companies

You are adding AI or agents to a product

Customers are asking for AI features and you need to decide what to build first: an assistant inside the product, an agent that acts on the user's behalf, or a feature built on retrieval. The sprint works through what it should do, which model and tools fit, what it will cost to run, and how you will test it before it reaches customers. Our engineers have put retrieval, agent and evaluation systems into production, and the scope is written with that experience.

Not for you if you already have a scoped use case and a budget; in that case skip the sprint and talk to us about the build. And if you are an SME in a National Reconstruction Fund priority sector, an AI Adopt Centre may give you a free readiness consultation first.

How it runs

Two consultant days, spread over about two weeks

Kick-off call

Forty-five minutes to align on goals, the problems you already know about, who attends and what we need to see beforehand.

Stakeholder interviews

Short one-to-one conversations across the teams involved, so the workshop starts from how the work is done today.

Workshop

A half day with your decision makers: ideas captured and scored, then a deep dive into the top candidates. Which steps an agent can run on its own, where a person stays in the loop, the systems it connects to, data, risks and success measures.

Write-up

The scored use cases, the proof-of-concept scope and the roadmap, written and sent within the week. A review call to walk through it.

Most of what we recommend runs on platforms you already pay for. For Microsoft 365 estates that is Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search; for Google Workspace it is Gemini and Vertex AI. Where an open model, an agent framework or a different vendor fits better, the roadmap says so and why.

Why now

Most Australian businesses are using AI. Few have moved it into the workflow.

42%of Australian SMEs are using AI and a further 14 per cent plan toNAB SME AI adoption survey, April 2026

28%of Australian organisations have moved 40 per cent or more of their AI pilots into productionDeloitte State of AI in the Enterprise, Australia, February 2026

28%of Australian workers using AI say their organisation is clearly aligned on an AI strategy and policyMicrosoft Work Trend Index, Australia, June 2026

Most organisations are using AI in some form, usually people pasting into chat tools. Far fewer have an agent or automation running a workflow end to end, or a plan for which workflow to start with, how to build it and how to measure whether it worked. The sprint answers those questions in two days.

Not ready to book?

See where AI fits first

An indicative view of how far one piece of work could go with AI agents and automation, how far it can safely go, and where a first project would start. Five short sections, about five minutes.

This quick check is a guide based on your answers. It is not an assessment and does not replace advice about your own systems, data or obligations. Scoring adapted from the Cognitive Autonomy Index by Mikkel Bergmann, used with his permission.

Next step

Book a free 30-minute consult

Ben JonesPractice Lead, Coder Trove

You will have the sprint dates and a written scope confirmed the next business day.

No sales pitch. If a sprint is not what you need, Ben will tell you on the call.
Your details are used to set up the call and send the confirmation, nothing else.

Prefer email or phone? Send a note or call +61 2 7200 2554.

Who does the work

Who runs the sprint

The practice

AI and machine learning

Our AI and machine learning practice runs every sprint: the people who design and operate production AI systems, data pipelines and applied machine learning for clients.

The engineers

Retrieval, agents, evaluation

Our engineering team builds retrieval-augmented systems, agents and the evaluation harnesses used to test them, on Azure, AWS and open models. The people who would build the proof of concept review the scope before you receive it.

The firm

Australian since 2010

Coder Trove has worked with mid-sized and enterprise organisations across Australia since 2010, across Dynamics 365, cloud, cyber security and custom software as well as AI.

Read how we think about this work: why AI projects fail on retrieval, why the evaluation harness matters more than the model, and a production AI system in invoice finance.

Common questions

AI Sprint questions, answered

What do we get for A$5,000?

Two days of our AI practice's time and three written outputs: a list of use cases scored on value, effort and risk; a proof-of-concept scope that names what gets built, the data it needs and how success is measured; and a roadmap from the first use case to production. Plus the workshop board and summary pack. A$5,000 excludes GST.

Do we need clean data first?

No. Data readiness is one of the things the sprint assesses. The roadmap sequences any data work alongside the first use case instead of asking you to fix everything before you start.

Is this a Copilot readiness assessment?

No. A Copilot readiness assessment looks at one Microsoft product and your tenant. The sprint looks at where AI fits your processes or your product at all: agents, automations and generative tools, across Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, open models and agent frameworks, and tells you which to use for what.

What is the difference between an agent and an automation?

An automation runs a fixed sequence of steps when something happens, such as a form arriving or an invoice landing in a mailbox. An agent is given a goal and the tools to reach it, works out the steps itself, and can handle cases the sequence did not anticipate. Most first projects are a small automation with one agent step inside it, and a person checking the output until it has earned trust.

What happens after the two days?

Nothing is owed. If the roadmap earns it, the options are further consulting at A$2,200 to A$2,500 a day, or a proof of concept built by our engineering team and quoted from the scope you already have.

Who should attend?

The owner of the process or product, someone who knows the systems and the data, and a person who can make a decision. Ben confirms the attendee list and sends an agenda before the sprint.

Can you run it remotely?

Yes. On site or remote, anywhere in Australia. The outputs are the same either way.

Is AI regulated in Australia?

There is no AI Act. The Government announced Australian Standards for AI in July 2026 with legislation expected in 2027; the mandatory rules so far target large AI data centres. The reference for businesses today is the National AI Centre's Guidance for AI Adoption, and its six practices (accountability, impact, risk, transparency, testing and human control) are part of how we score each use case.

We are a small business. Is there a free alternative?

If you are an SME in a National Reconstruction Fund priority sector, an AI Adopt Centre may give you a free readiness consultation. Most service businesses and software companies are not eligible, and the centres do not scope a build. We will point you there if it fits you better.

What happens to our information?

Interview notes, documents and the workshop board stay yours. We sign a confidentiality agreement before the kick-off call when you want one, and nothing you share is used to train any model.

Start here

Book a free consult

Thirty minutes with Ben, then a confirmed sprint date and a written scope the next business day.

Book a free 30-minute consult