AI Solution

AI Agent Development Services Australia
for Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane businesses.

Custom ai agent services and business ai agent development for Australian companies. AI agents that read a request, check your systems, decide what to do, and take action. Not chatbots. They do the actual work.

We build AI agents for Australian businesses. They connect to your CRM, accounting, job management, email, and internal data. Your team handles the complex stuff. The agent handles the volume.

  • AU-wide Perth-based · servicing Australia
  • 18+ yrs Building business software
  • Enterprise Grade security
  • Fixed Price scopes, no surprises
How it runs

Your ai agent implementation services project, end to end

Three stages. No surprises. Every custom ai agent services project is delivered personally by the founder. Your live operations stay untouched until cutover.

  1. Week 0

    AI Agents Audit

    15-minute scoping call. We map your current process, the documents/data the agent will work with, and the systems the agent must act in. Fixed-price quote inside 48 hours.

  2. Weeks 1–N

    Build & Parallel-Run

    AI agent built and parallel-run against your live operations for two weeks. Every decision, action and integration validated before production. Human-in-the-loop where confidence is lower.

  3. Cutover

    Go-Live & Handover

    Production cutover on a planned window. Team training, monitoring active, 30 days post-launch support. Documentation, prompts and source code handed over in full.

Founder profile

Kasun Wijayamanna

Founder · Perth, WA · Started HELLO PEOPLE in 2008

18+ Years running HELLO PEOPLE

Founded in 2008. Two decades of technology-driven business transformation across Australia.

100+ Projects delivered

Startups to government agencies across mining, healthcare, legal, education and more.

HDR Researcher · Curtin University

Postgraduate research in Artificial Intelligence and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

MBA Oil & Gas

Deep technical expertise combined with strong business and financial acumen.

Perth Based in WA

Serving businesses across Western Australia and nationally.

AU+TH International experience

Professional background in Bangkok, Thailand before migrating to Perth.

PHF Paul Harris Fellow · Rotary

Former President of Rotary Club of Booragoon. Over a decade of community service.

Read the full bio — research, career, community involvement and how HELLO PEOPLE runs projects.

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What We Build

AI agent development services australia, by agent type

Six agent types cover most Australian business needs: sales, customer service, admin, accounts, operations and internal knowledge. Real projects usually combine two or three. Pick a tab to see how yours would work.

Sales Agents

Responds to website enquiries and incoming leads the moment they arrive. Asks qualifying questions, collects budget and timeline, checks your CRM for existing records, and books discovery calls. Creates the lead in HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive with all the details already captured.

Your sales team picks up warm, qualified leads instead of raw enquiries. No more leads sitting in a queue for hours. The agent handles the first response and the qualification. Your people handle the relationship.

Sales & service agents

Customer Service Agents

Answers common support questions, checks order or booking status, processes returns, and updates account details. Connected to your CRM and business systems so it gives real answers, not generic ones.

Complex issues get escalated to your team with the full conversation history and any data the agent already collected. The customer does not have to repeat anything.

Customer support agents

Admin Agents

Reads incoming emails, extracts key details, updates your records, and sends reminders. When a document is missing or a form is incomplete, the agent follows up automatically.

Think of the admin work that eats up your team's mornings. Opening emails, copying details into your system, chasing people for missing information, sending confirmations. The agent handles the pattern. Your team handles the exceptions.

Internal AI assistants

Accounts Agents

Reads invoices and payment emails, extracts the data, checks for missing fields, and pushes the details into Xero or MYOB. Purchase orders get matched. Account codes get applied. Exceptions get flagged for human review.

No more staff re-typing invoice details from PDFs into your accounting system. The agent handles the reading, the matching, and the data entry. Humans handle the approvals and the exceptions.

Operations & data agents

Operations Agents

Monitors jobs, tasks, and workflows. Updates staff when something changes. Follows your business rules to route work, trigger alerts, and flag delays.

A job request comes in by email. The agent reads it, extracts the details, checks the calendar, creates the job in ServiceM8 or SimPRO, assigns a team member, and sends a confirmation. What used to take 15 minutes takes 30 seconds.

Operations agents

Internal Knowledge Agents

Answers staff questions from your company documents using agentic RAG. Finds policies, procedures, job notes, technical instructions, and any internal information your team needs. Gives sourced answers so people can verify.

This is not a search engine. The agent understands context, follows conversation threads, and knows what document to cite. It cuts the time staff spend hunting for information from minutes to seconds.

Internal AI assistants
Sales AI agent qualifying a website enquiry and creating a CRM record
Customer service AI agent checking order status and responding to a customer
Admin AI agent processing emails and updating business records automatically
Accounts AI agent extracting invoice data and pushing it into Xero
Operations AI agent creating a job from an email request and assigning it to staff
Internal knowledge AI agent answering a staff question with sourced references
Capabilities catalogue

AI agent services we deliver

Every capability below has been delivered for a real Australian business — from a single customer-support agent to a full multi-agent operations stack. If your scenario is not listed, ask — we build bespoke.

Customer support AI agents

  • Customer support AI agents
  • Tier-1 customer support automation
  • Order, booking & invoice status AI
  • Returns / refund handling AI
  • Multi-channel support (web, WhatsApp, Messenger)
  • Customer self-service AI portals
  • Support agent + helpdesk integration

Sales & service AI agents

  • Sales & service AI agents
  • Lead qualification & routing AI
  • Quote & proposal generation AI
  • Renewal & retention AI
  • Sales playbook / coaching AI
  • Outbound prospecting AI
  • Sales agent + CRM integration

Operations AI agents

  • Operations AI agents
  • Job dispatch & scheduling AI
  • Inventory & reorder AI
  • Quality / inspection AI
  • Approval workflow AI
  • Cross-system operational AI
  • Operations agent + ERP integration

Internal AI assistants

  • Internal AI assistants
  • Internal helpdesk / IT AI
  • HR & onboarding AI assistants
  • Finance / accounting AI assistants
  • Slack / Teams native AI agents
  • Knowledge-base-grounded internal AI
  • Document drafting & summary assistants

Multi-agent orchestration

  • Multi-agent orchestration architectures
  • Agent handoff & escalation design
  • Supervisor / planner agent patterns
  • Tool-using agent design (function calling)
  • Long-running agent state & memory
  • Cross-agent observability & audit trail
  • Cost & latency optimisation for agent stacks

Agent integration with Xero/MYOB/CRM/job platforms

  • AI agent ↔ Xero (invoices, contacts, payments)
  • AI agent ↔ MYOB (jobs, invoices, payments)
  • AI agent ↔ HubSpot / Salesforce / Pipedrive
  • AI agent ↔ ServiceM8 / Simpro / Tradify
  • AI agent ↔ SharePoint / Drive / Teams
  • AI agent ↔ custom database / API
  • AI agent + workflow automation hybrid
Pricing

How we price ai agent development services australia

No hourly billing. No vague estimates. Here is how business ai agent development gets scoped, from a free 15-minute call to a fixed-price quote.

Free 15-minute call

Tell us what problem you are trying to solve. We will give you an honest answer on whether AI is the right fit and what it would involve.

Fixed-price quote

After discovery, you get a fixed price for the project. No hourly billing that spirals. You know exactly what it costs before we build.

Staged delivery

PoC first, then production build in phases. You see real value early, give feedback, and pay in milestones.

Why HELLO PEOPLE

AI Agent Development
HELLO PEOPLE vs the alternatives

ChatGPT Enterprise, no-code AI tools and an in-house AI team all solve pieces of the problem. Here is how HELLO PEOPLE compares on the things that actually matter to an AU SMB.

Concern HELLO PEOPLE ChatGPT / Off-shelfNo-code AI (Zapier)In-house AI hire
Fit to your business workflow Agent scoped to your real ops Generic assistant, no tool useFine for trivial tasks onlyDepends on who you hire
AI agent live in 6-10 weeks + tool use Live agent with real system access Chat only, no actioningYou wire every tool callMonths of hiring, then build
AU privacy + data sovereignty fit AU-region hosting + PII controls US-hosted, opaque data flowsUS-hosted by defaultYou brief the hire on privacy
Ongoing cost One-off + optional support plan Per seat/token, per monthPer-run + prompt engineeringSalary + super + overhead
When models or APIs change We swap models, keep it running You wait for vendor updatesYou rebuild the prompt chainYour team owns the rebuild
Direct access to the builder Email Kasun, get Kasun OpenAI support tierCommunity forumInternal AI team
Agent code + retrieval data ownership You own the code and the vector store Vendor holds prompts + logsYou own the flow (self-hosted)Your team owns it
Enterprise knowledge management system
Case Study

Enterprise knowledge search that cut research time by 85%

We built an enterprise knowledge management system powered by RAG. Unified search across 50,000+ documents delivers answers in seconds instead of hours.

Read the full case study
50,000+ Documents indexed
85% Faster knowledge retrieval
< 8s Average answer time

Our after-hours enquiries used to go to voicemail. Now our AI agent handles 70% of them end-to-end. Booking jobs, answering questions, sending confirmations. We wake up to a schedule that is already full.

Operations Manager Perth home services · 18-person team
Key Benefits

What autonomous ai agents australia actually change for your business

Less repetitive work, instant responses, nothing missed, connected to your systems, and smart escalation to humans. Here is what an AI agent delivers day to day, not what a demo video promises.

Business team freed from repetitive work by AI agent automation

Your team stops doing work the agent can do

Your staff are spending hours on tasks that follow a pattern. Answering the same questions, looking up order status, entering data from emails into your CRM, chasing missing documents. An AI agent handles these jobs so your team can focus on work that actually needs a human.

This is not about replacing people. It is about stopping your best people from doing data entry and basic admin all day. The agent handles the volume. Your team handles the exceptions and the relationships.

One client had three staff processing enquiries full-time. The agent now handles 80% of those automatically. Same team, four times the capacity.

AI agent responding instantly to a customer enquiry outside business hours

No queues, no wait times, no Monday morning backlog

Enquiries come in at midnight, on weekends, over public holidays. Your AI agent handles every one the moment it arrives. It responds in seconds, gathers the information it needs, and takes action.

Speed matters as much as accuracy. The customer who gets a response in 30 seconds is far more likely to convert than the one who waits until Monday morning. An AI agent never clocks off.

If the agent hits something it cannot handle, it escalates to your team with full context. No customer has to repeat themselves.

AI agent tracking outstanding tasks and following up automatically

Follows up without being told

Dropped leads, forgotten follow-ups, missing documents that nobody chased. These are the things that cost small businesses real money. An AI agent does not forget.

The agent tracks what is outstanding, sends reminders, follows up missing information, and alerts your team when something needs attention. It does not wait for someone to remember.

This is where agents are different from automation. Automation runs when triggered. An agent monitors, checks, and acts when something needs doing. It is proactive.

AI agent connected to CRM, accounting, and business systems

Connected to the tools your team already uses

Your AI agent connects to your CRM, Xero, MYOB, ServiceM8, email, calendars, SharePoint, booking systems, helpdesk tools, and custom databases. When it needs to check a customer balance, it queries your accounting system. When it needs to update a record, it writes to your CRM.

This is not a standalone tool. The agent works inside your existing workflow, pulling data from the systems you already have. No manual copying between platforms.

We handle the integration work. You tell us what the agent should do. We connect it to whatever it needs.

AI agent escalating a complex query to a human with full context

Knows when to stop and get a person

No agent handles everything. The best ones know exactly when to stop and get a human. Our agents are built with clear escalation paths. When the request is complex, sensitive, or outside the agent's scope, it hands off cleanly.

The human gets the full conversation history, any data the agent retrieved, and a summary of what was tried. No customer repeats themselves. No context is lost.

You set the rules. Define which topics always go to a human. Set confidence thresholds. Add override options for customers who prefer human contact.

How We Build It

How our enterprise ai agent development actually runs

Every project is different, but the four-step structure stays the same. Define the job, connect the systems, train and test, then deploy with full monitoring. You know exactly what to expect at each stage.

Define the Agent's Job

We map out exactly what the agent should do. Which tasks, which systems, which decisions, which escalation paths. You define the business rules; we translate them into agent behaviour.

Connect Your Systems

We integrate the agent with your CRM, accounting, job management, email, and other tools. The agent needs access to real data to do real work.

Train & Test

We test the agent against real scenarios from your business. Common enquiries, edge cases, escalation situations. You review the outputs and we refine until accuracy meets your standards.

Deploy & Monitor

The agent goes live with full logging, conversation tracking, and performance monitoring. We track accuracy, resolution rate, and escalation patterns, then iterate to improve.

FAQs

Common questions about AI agents

What do ai agent development services australia actually deliver?

A working software agent built for your business. It reads a request, checks your CRM or accounting system, makes a decision based on your rules, and takes action. Real examples: qualifying leads and writing them into HubSpot, extracting invoice data into Xero, booking jobs in ServiceM8, chasing missing documents. You get the agent itself, all integrations, prompts, logs and source code.

How is business ai agent development different from a chatbot or Zapier automation?

A chatbot answers questions from a script. Zapier follows fixed if-this-then-that rules. An AI agent understands intent, picks a plan, uses tools to check your systems, and acts. Most real business ai agent development projects combine all three: the agent for the thinking, Zapier or n8n for the plumbing, and API integrations for the data.

How much do custom ai agent services cost in Australia?

Depends on scope. A single-task agent with one or two integrations sits at the lower end. A multi-task operations agent with Xero, HubSpot and ServiceM8 hooked in costs more. We always start with a proof of concept so you see it working before committing to the full build. Fixed price after discovery, no hourly billing.

How long do ai agent implementation services take?

A proof of concept runs 3 to 5 weeks. Full production build with integrations, testing and deployment runs 6 to 12 weeks depending on complexity. We deliver in phases so you see working results by week 4, not week 12.

Is it safe to let autonomous ai agents australia access our business systems?

Yes, when built properly. Each agent gets scoped credentials to only the systems and data it needs. Every action is logged and auditable. Human approval steps sit on sensitive operations like payments or refunds. Data stays in your environment, hosted in Australian data centres if you require it.

What happens when the agent cannot handle something?

It escalates to a human on your team with full context. The person sees the conversation history, any data the agent retrieved, and what was tried. Customers do not repeat themselves. You set the escalation rules: which topics always go to a human, confidence thresholds, and customer opt-out for human contact.

Which systems do enterprise ai agent development projects connect to?

Any system with an API. Common ones: HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive for CRM. Xero and MYOB for accounting. ServiceM8, SimPRO, Tradify for job management. SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence for documents. Plus email, calendars, booking tools, helpdesk, SMS, WhatsApp, and custom databases. If a system has no API, we can often work with direct database or file-based connections.

Which AI models do you use under the hood?

We pick per project. OpenAI GPT-4 and GPT-5 for general reasoning, Anthropic Claude for careful long-context work, open-source models on your own infrastructure when privacy is critical. The choice comes down to your data sensitivity, budget, and the task the agent is doing.

Tell us what your AI agent should do

Describe the task, workflow, or team the agent should support. We come back with an honest assessment, realistic scope, and a fixed-price quote within 48 hours.

Prefer a quick chat? Call 0425 531 127. We answer the phone in Perth.