Home water. We're in Melbourne, so the first call can be a coffee. Then we sound your business the way you'd sound a bay: where the hours go, which ones an AI can take, and what it costs. Then we build it and run it.
An AI consultant who's actually in Melbourne.
Most AI consulting is a deck from somewhere else. This is a couple of people in Melbourne who build the thing, and stay to keep it running. If you'd rather see us than a calendar link, that's what home water is for: a coffee in the north, a site visit in the west, a walk through the shop wherever it is.
What you get is the same wherever you are: a one-page map of where the hours go, a fixed price to take the first one off your plate, and a build that's live inside a fortnight. The consulting is the map. The agency is the rig. Both of them are us.
What Melbourne businesses start with.
The phone
Trades and clinics first. Every call answered in an Australian voice, booked, confirmed by text. The receptionist.
The money
Invoices out the day the job's done, chased when they're late, reconciled in Xero. The invoicing.
The roof
Everything a tradie's office does, without the office. AI for tradies.
The inbox
Read, sorted, answered where it can be. Supplier delays move the calendar on their own.
The roster
Someone calls in sick at 6am, the shift's covered by 6:15 and you find out at 7.
The week
One page on Friday: what came in, what went out, who's overdue, what needs you. The whole picture.
How to start.
Book the call. Forty minutes, on the phone or over a coffee anywhere on the train network. We walk through how a job moves from first call to money in the bank, and mark where a person is retyping, chasing or waiting. Inside a week you have the map, priced.
Say yes to the first thing on it and it's running inside a fortnight. Then we keep it running, from Melbourne, in your time zone, and add the next thing when you're ready.
Questions people ask.
Do you meet in person in Melbourne?
Yes. We're based here, so the first call can be a coffee, and if it helps to see how the work moves through your shop or site, we'll come to you. After that nearly everything happens on the phone and inside your tools, because that's where the work is.
What does an AI consultant in Melbourne charge?
We charge a fixed price for the map and a fixed monthly price for anything we build, agreed before we start. No hourly billing. The map's price comes off the first month if you go ahead.
Which Melbourne businesses is this for?
Ones with a phone that rings and invoices to send: trades, clinics, salons, cafes, studios, agencies, cleaners, small manufacturers. One to fifty people, and an owner who's doing the admin at night.
Will it sound Australian on the phone?
Yes. The receptionist uses an Australian voice, knows your suburbs, your hours and your prices, and says "no worries" without being told to. Nobody in Reservoir is talking to a call centre.
Do you work with businesses outside Melbourne?
All over Australia. The work is remote by nature; Melbourne just means we can do it over a coffee. There's a Sydney page too, if that's you.
How fast can something be running?
The map inside a week of the first call. The first build, usually the phone, live inside a fortnight after that: drafting for your approval in week one, running on its own in week two.
Photo to come: Cal.
Calum Buchanan.
Melbourne. Ran the systems behind a services business, the phones, the invoices, the marketing, the reporting, and spent the last few years handing them to AI that works. This is that, for yours.