Melbourne office · serving all of Australia

From Strategy to Production:
Governed AI That Ships for
Australian Enterprises.

Perform Digital is an AI consultancy with its Australian office in Melbourne. We help companies across Victoria, New South Wales and the rest of Australia design, build and govern agentic workflows that make it out of the pilot phase.

What we do ↓
Melbourne
VIC 3150

The Australian AI picture right now

35%

of large Australian businesses now use AI, up from 9% three years earlier. Adoption is no longer the hard part.

ABS Business Characteristics Survey, 2026

21%

of Australian organisations have a mature agentic AI governance model, while 69% already run agentic AI.

Deloitte State of AI in the Enterprise, 2026

$116bn

the upside EY puts on AI for Australian GDP by 2036, if adoption turns into governed production systems.

EY-Parthenon, August 2026

Australia is adopting fast and governing slowly. The distance between a pilot and a governed workflow in production is exactly the part we do.

What we do

AI enablement, end to end.

The same operating model Perform Digital runs for enterprise clients worldwide, delivered from Melbourne in Australian business hours.

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AI readiness assessment

A fixed-price, two-week diagnostic of one workflow: the map of handoffs, decisions and exceptions, a context and data audit, a governance baseline mapped to Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard, and a per-workflow ROI model. Credited in full against a build within 60 days.

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Agentic workflow build

One workflow redesigned and staffed with a governed fleet of specialist agents, grounded in deterministic context. First working version live in two weeks, hardened over six to ten. Written success criteria in the SOW, or we keep working without further fee.

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Governed AI operations

The retainer that runs the fleet: monitoring, evals, guardian reviews, kill switches, quarterly retrains, and a cost-per-outcome dashboard your CFO can read. Built for the governance bar regulated Australian clients face under APRA CPS 230.

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Enablement, training and martech AI

Hands-on AI training for engineering, marketing and operations teams, plus the platform depth most AI consultancies lack: Adobe Experience Platform, Braze, and Salesforce including Agentforce.

Built for Australia

Your data stays onshore.

Working with an offshore AI vendor means explaining the US CLOUD Act to your board. Working with us means not having to.

✓ Australian data residency

We deploy inside Australian regions, so data covered by the Privacy Act stays in Australia. Deploying within the client's regulatory region has been our standard since 2019, worldwide.

✓ Built to the local rulebook

Governance baselines mapped to the Voluntary AI Safety Standard guardrails from the National AI Centre, aligned with the National AI Plan, and aware of APRA CPS 230 obligations when we work with banks, insurers and super funds.

✓ Melbourne office, your timezone

The Australian office is in Melbourne, Victoria. Stand-ups in AEST, on site in Melbourne and Sydney where it helps, and a global specialist bench behind the local team.

✓ We build, not just advise

Strategy decks do not move revenue. Every engagement ends in a working, instrumented system with architecture decision records, evaluation results and runbooks handed over.

Where we work

From Melbourne, Australia-wide.

AI consultants on the ground in Victoria, working remotely with companies in every state and territory in Australian business hours.

OFFICE

Victoria

Home base. AI consulting from our Melbourne office, for manufacturers, universities, retailers and the city's startup belt.

New South Wales

AI consulting for Sydney's enterprise headquarters, banks and insurers, where APRA CPS 230 makes governed AI operations non-negotiable.

Queensland

Brisbane and the south-east corridor: logistics, health and tourism operators automating service-heavy workflows.

Western Australia

Perth's resources and energy sector, where agentic workflows meet maintenance, safety and scheduling data.

South Australia

Adelaide's defence, manufacturing and wine industries, with data-sovereignty requirements we already design for.

Canberra, ACT

Public-sector and gov-adjacent teams that need AI governance evidence, not promises, before anything goes live.

Questions Australian buyers ask

Straight answers.

How much does AI consulting cost in Australia?
Most engagements start with a fixed-price AI readiness assessment, a two-week diagnostic credited in full against a build within 60 days. Budgets are agreed in writing before any work starts, so there are no surprises after the fact. Request a call and we will put numbers on your exact workflow.
What is agentic AI?
Systems of AI agents that carry out multi-step business workflows rather than just answering questions. A governed agentic workflow pairs those agents with deterministic context, evaluation against written success criteria, monitoring and kill switches. That combination is what makes it safe to run in production.
Does our data stay in Australia?
Yes. We deploy inside Australian regions, so data covered by the Privacy Act stays onshore. Deployment inside the client's regulatory region has been our standard globally since 2019, and Australia is no exception.
How long from pilot to production?
The first working version of a redesigned workflow is live in two weeks, then hardened over six to ten. Every engagement carries written success criteria recorded in the SOW. If the agreed bar is missed by the named milestone, we work without further fee until it is met.
Do you work with companies outside Melbourne?
Yes. The office is in Melbourne, and we work Australia-wide: Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and regional centres, remotely in Australian business hours and on site where it helps.
What is an AI readiness assessment?
A fixed-price, two-week diagnostic of one business workflow: a map of handoffs, decisions and exceptions, a context and data audit, a governance baseline mapped to Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard, and a per-workflow ROI model. It ends with a build-or-do-not-build recommendation you can act on either way.

Ready when you are.

Start with
one stuck workflow.

Bring the process that eats time and gives nothing back. In 20 minutes we will tell you what a governed agent fleet could do with it, and what it would cost.