Guides
Guides on building and buying AI and custom software in Australia: what the systems have to do, what the obligations require of them, and where the work actually is.
- What AI software development costs in Australia Nobody can quote your AI project, and the published ranges prove it Australian vendors publish AI software development ranges running from fifteen thousand dollars to over a million. Read enough of them and the pattern is clear: they are not disagreeing about price. They are describing different projects under one name. 22 October 2026
- Build versus buy for AI software Build versus buy is the wrong unit of decision Everyone answering this question answers it about a system. The decision is actually made about each step in a workflow, and once you break it up that way the answer stops being a judgement call and starts being a count. 22 October 2026
- Choosing an AI software development partner Every list of the best AI development companies in Australia was written by a company on it Search for AI software development in Australia and page one is ranking lists, almost all of them published by firms that appear in their own rankings. There is a better set of questions available, and the Australian government has already written it. 22 October 2026
- AI systems and Australian privacy law Your privacy policy has to describe a system that cannot describe itself From 10 December 2026, Australian privacy policies must disclose the automated decisions that significantly affect people. Every explainer written about it so far is a summary of the law. This one is about the software, because that is where the work actually is. 22 September 2026