Profiles and analysis of Australian companies building AI — from homegrown LLMs and medical imaging to fintech, workplace tech, and global exits.
We put ten AI assistants through their paces in our Series 2 round, nine questions, nine categories, ten models. One of those questions asked each assistant to recommend AI tools an Australian small business should actually use. Nine of the ten came back with the usual suspects: global platforms, US-centric SaaS, tools that barely know…
The Missed Call Problem A tradie misses a call at 2pm. By the time they’re off the tools, it’s 6pm. The lead is cold. The quote never goes out. The job goes to whoever answered first. Buildcrew is built around that gap. Not answering the call itself, the AI admin assistant doesn’t pick up the…
What Is Excite Cyber? Excite Cyber is a North Sydney-based managed security services provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Excite Technology Services (ASX: EXT). The company came together from the merger of three IT businesses, Brace168, Excite IT and VITCS, and has been operating under the Excite Cyber brand since Excite Technology Services…
Australia now has its first ASX-listed company whose entire business is running AI inference, and it doesn’t use GPUs to do it. SCX.ai (ASX: SCX), trading as Southern Cross AI, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 21 August 2026 after a fully underwritten $40 million IPO. The Sydney-based company was founded by David Keane,…
Aivy is a Melbourne-based AI automation agency building custom chatbots, voice agents, and workflow automations for mid-market Australian businesses — with Australian compliance built in.
Most Australian small businesses don’t have a tech problem. They have a busywork problem. Enquiries arrive and go cold. Invoices sit unpaid until someone chases them. Missed calls become missed revenue. Reports land after the decision has already been made. The owner ends up doing it all, not because they want to, but because there’s…
What Is Otivo? Otivo is an Australian-built AI financial advice platform that gives personal, regulated financial advice for a fraction of what you’d pay a traditional adviser. It was founded in 2015 by Paul Feeney, a former private banker and financial planner who watched millions of Australians get priced out of the financial advice market…
Comparing the best AI receptionists for Australian small businesses in 2026: Hooroo.ai, Hey Jodie, Valory AI, Chime Labs, Chaty.ai, and Vertical AI. Pricing, features, and who each tool suits.
Most AI receptionist services hand you software and leave you to figure it out. Valory AI works differently. Valory AI is a fully managed AI receptionist service built for Australian businesses. You pay a monthly fee and Valory’s team designs, builds, configures, and runs the whole thing for you. There’s no dashboard to learn, no…
A phone that answers itself, any time of day If you’re a tradie or solo operator, you already know the problem. You’re halfway up a roof, or under a sink, and your phone rings. You miss it. Maybe the caller leaves a voicemail. More often, they don’t. They call the next business on the list…