Strategy lead
Runs your first call and consultation. Maps the work, prioritises what's worth building, owns the plan.
Discovery Scope Pricing
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Jesse A Mckenzie Founder · Brisbane, QLD
Your business.
My responsibility.
I’m Jesse, founder of Automated Australia. I run the Brisbane studio building websites, systems and AI for Australian businesses. We start with your business, agree the scope, and build around the work your team needs to do.
[ I ] The bench
Three roles, one
workshop.
A studio practice — not a department. Founded and run by Jesse A Mckenzie in Brisbane, QLD. We keep the bench small on purpose. Each role here lives in your engagement; nothing gets handed off to a stranger after kickoff.
Implementation engineer
Builds the website and the agents. Wires them to your stack. Owns observability, rollback, and the on-call rotation when things twitch.
Build Integrate Operate
Reliability engineer
Keeps the fleet boring. Monitors drift, handles upstream API changes, ships quiet patches before you notice anything moved.
Monitoring Drift Patching
Accountable to a name, not a brand: Jesse A Mckenzie, founder — jesse@automatedaustralia.com · +61 468 484 006 · ABN 61 183 020 382.
[ II ] What we believe
A few things we
genuinely believe.
Not a values page. The brief on every project. If a piece of work doesn't pass these reads, it doesn't ship — even if the deadline says it should.
01 / Posture
Boring is the goal.
If our work is the most exciting thing about your week, we've made it wrong. Good infrastructure disappears.
02 / Scope
Solve the workflow, not the demo.
A clean Friday afternoon for the team beats a polished Monday-morning pitch. We optimise for the real thing.
03 / Trust
Reversible by default.
Every system is observable, auditable, and able to be turned off cleanly. You should not need our permission to revert.
04 / Honesty
"Don't do it" is a real answer.
If a spreadsheet is cheaper, we'll tell you on the first call. If a website or an agent is the wrong move, the call ends with that read.
Brisbane / QLD — The workshop
[ III ] How an engagement runs
First call to live system —
weeks, not months.
01 Day 0–1
Free assessment.
A quick free assessment, then a consultation where we map the work and what's worth building.
02 Day 2–4
Blueprint, costed.
Prioritised plan with transparent costs and realistic timelines.
03 Day 5–14
Built & deployed.
Production-grade, observable, reversible. Hand-off includes runbook.
04 Day 15+
Operated, not abandoned.
We stay close. Monitoring, patching, drift handling. Boring on the days that matter.
[ IV ] Begin
Bring us
the bottleneck.
A quick free assessment, on us. No proposal theatre, no slide deck. You leave with a real read on what's worth building in your business — even if the answer is "not yet."
Free
5-min assessment
No pressure
5-min assessment
No pressure