500+ systems delivered ★★★★★ Trusted by 100+ teams 40+ hrs recovered per client / week Accepting new clients
AI Automation & Consulting, Brisbane

Brisbane Businesses Run on Manual Processes.
Yours Doesn’t Have To.

Most Brisbane businesses still run on spreadsheets, email threads, and gut feel. We replace that with AI systems built around how your business actually operates.

Fixed pricing - scoped before we start
2–6 week delivery
Own your AI outright
Zero lock-in
500+
Systems Delivered
40+
Hours Recovered / Client / Week
2 wk
Average Delivery Time
100%
Client IP Ownership
Trusted by Brisbane teams at
AI AUTOMATION, BRISBANE

Brisbane has the businesses. What’s missing is the system underneath.

Talk to us about your workflows

When you’re running a growing business in Brisbane, whether it’s an accounting practice in Milton, a recruitment agency in Fortitude Valley, a financial services team in the CBD, or a hospitality operation in Newstead, picking the right AI agency is one of the most important calls you’ll make this year. Brisbane’s economy crossed $200 billion in 2025. Nearly 146,000 businesses are competing in it.

Most of what’s out there is bolt-on automations. A tool that sends reminders. A chatbot on the website. Small wins that add another platform to manage without touching the actual problem. The retainer keeps running. The manual work doesn’t stop. The process underneath stays exactly the same.

What Brisbane businesses actually need is different. Not automations bolted onto old workflows. A system built at the centre of how your operation runs, one that handles entire process chains from intake to execution to reporting, with nobody touching them in between. Only 10% of Queensland businesses use AI that way. That number doubled from 5% in 2024. The gap between the firms building and the ones watching is widening fast.

The 10% of Queensland businesses using AI properly didn’t get more tools. They rebuilt the process underneath. That’s the whole game.

We audit before we build. Every Brisbane business we work with gets a complete picture of where time leaks, what the right system looks like, and a fixed price to build it. No retainers. No scope creep. Build it once, it runs forever. With the 2032 Olympics driving a $25 billion infrastructure pipeline, Brisbane’s construction, tourism, and professional services sectors are scaling fast. The firms that build operational systems now won’t be scrambling to hire when demand spikes.

The work tends to follow a pattern. Accounts payable automation for hospitality groups in South Brisbane. Workflow systems for consulting firms in the CBD. Lead qualification for recruitment agencies in Fortitude Valley. Compliance reporting for financial services teams near the river. The industries differ. The problem is the same.

Featured Build, Queensland

Young Australian Hotel had the right staff. Their ordering process didn’t.

Every week: check stock across bar and kitchen, decide what’s low, contact suppliers, wait for invoices, cross-check each one against what was actually ordered, flag discrepancies, file everything. Across dozens of product lines. Young Australian Hotel had capable people running all of that. The problem was it was never meant to run on human hours. We rebuilt the whole chain as one system. It monitors stock levels and generates purchase orders automatically when items hit reorder thresholds. Supplier invoices get ingested as they arrive, matched to the original orders, and flagged if anything doesn’t add up. Nobody touches an order manually, nobody chases an invoice, and management spends their time running the venue.

8+ hrs
Saved per week on ordering
95%
Of invoices processed automatically
Zero
Missed exceptions
Live System Demo
Cellar Stock
Coopers Pale AleDraught
78%
House ShirazWine
38%
Four Pillars GinSpirits
16%
Press Run to begin
System Events
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Young Australian Hotel
Brisbane, QLD · Hospitality · 2025
END-TO-END AI

What Brisbane’s growing businesses are building with us.

AI Workshops & Training

Your team has AI tools they barely use. We run workshops until the tools stick. In-person across Brisbane or remote. You leave knowing what’s worth building next.

GTM Systems

Leads come in, get qualified, and land with the right person. Nobody touches it. Brisbane SaaS firms use this to outpace competitors still running manual pipelines.

Back-Office Automation

Invoice processing for hospitality groups. Document generation for CBD professional services. Compliance workflows for financial services. Build it once, it runs forever. Your team does the work you hired them for.

Data & AI Infrastructure

None of the other three services work without clean data. We build the pipelines, dashboards, and analytics underneath. Most Brisbane firms start here because their data is scattered across tools that don’t talk to each other.

PROOF, NOT PROMISES

Same-size teams. Different output.

Fitness & Martial Arts, Brisbane
Meta ads running, no tracking. Leads sat in email until someone chased them. We connected ads to CRM, automated follow-up sequences, and synced new members into their gym system. The manual queue is gone.
< 5 min
lead to CRM
100%
leads captured
6 hrs
saved / week
Manufacturing, Brisbane · 8 Regions
Brisbane hemp manufacturer, 8 global regions, no clear picture of how anything connected. We ran a Solutions Workshop and mapped every CRM pipeline, workflow, and deal process. Two days, full blueprint.
8 regions
mapped
40+
workflows
2 days
full blueprint
CONFIDENTIAL
Enterprise SaaS · $100M+ ARR
Built an AI system that turns customer call transcripts into RFP responses. Replaced $30K/year in RFP software. Solutions team stopped being the bottleneck. The system drafts, they review.
4.1x
first-year ROI
60%
faster RFPs
$30K
saved / year
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Derek T.
Derek T.Co-Founder
Bradley brought structure and focus to what had been a very open-ended AI discussion internally. He helped us pinpoint the areas where AI could create meaningful impact across our internal operations and customer experience, while filtering out low-value ideas. The result was a clear, prioritised roadmap grounded in ROI.
James M.
James M.Founder
Solaris turned our chaotic growth spurt into a smooth ride by streamlining workflows and freeing our team to focus on customers.
Kate C.
Kate C.Global Head of Customer Success
If you’re considering bringing Brad in, you’ll get someone who thinks fast, works with purpose, and builds things that genuinely help. He creates value quickly, and you feel the impact right away.
Derek T.
Derek T.Co-Founder
Bradley brought structure and focus to what had been a very open-ended AI discussion internally. He helped us pinpoint the areas where AI could create meaningful impact across our internal operations and customer experience, while filtering out low-value ideas. The result was a clear, prioritised roadmap grounded in ROI.
James M.
James M.Founder
Solaris turned our chaotic growth spurt into a smooth ride by streamlining workflows and freeing our team to focus on customers.
Kate C.
Kate C.Global Head of Customer Success
If you’re considering bringing Brad in, you’ll get someone who thinks fast, works with purpose, and builds things that genuinely help. He creates value quickly, and you feel the impact right away.
BRISBANE CLIENTS

Industries we build for in Brisbane.

Hospitality & Venues, Brisbane CBD & Valley

Inventory managed manually means stock-outs and over-ordering. Invoices processed by hand means hours gone and exceptions missed. Brisbane’s venue operators have the margins to care about this. There’s a version where stock and payables run themselves.

8+ hrssaved per week on operations

Professional Services, CBD & Milton

Accounting, consulting, and legal firms in Milton and the CBD where every hour recovered goes straight back to billable work. Proposal generation, client onboarding, document workflows. Senior staff doing admin they shouldn’t be touching.

40+ hrsfreed per month

Financial Services & Accounting, CBD & South Brisbane

Month-end close dragging past 10 days. Finance teams building reports that should take minutes. Exceptions caught after money has already moved. Suncorp and Bank of Queensland call Brisbane home. The supporting firms servicing them need the same operational edge.

60%faster month-end close

Construction & Infrastructure, Olympic Pipeline

$25 billion in infrastructure across South East Queensland. Construction firms scaling for the 2032 Olympic pipeline need operations that scale with them. Document control, compliance reporting, subcontractor management. Volume is coming.

2xvolume, same team
ENGAGEMENT MODEL

From audit to autonomous execution.

No 18-month discovery phases. No 200-slide decks. No armies of junior consultants billing hours. We ship working systems, not recommendations.

01

Solutions Workshop

We map your operational topology to identify the highest-value friction points. You get a prioritised roadmap with ROI projections and fixed pricing for every build. Keep it whether you work with us or not.

02

Architecture

Design of the AI system, including deterministic guardrails, data flows, and human-in-the-loop protocols. We spec exactly how AI agents will read, write, and execute inside your existing stack. No migration required.

03

Development

Agile build against your real data. Production-grade, not a demo. Rigorous testing against edge cases. Weekly updates so you always know where things stand.

04

Deployment

Handover with full documentation. Deployed in your environment. You own the system outright. 30-day warranty and ongoing updates.

Bradley Bonanno, Founder of Solaris Automation
Bradley Bonanno
Founder, Solaris Automation

Picking the wrong agency costs you the invoice and a few months of your team’s time while they get up to speed on your operation.

I studied at the University of Queensland and built my career across Brisbane. CBD professional services firms, Fortitude Valley recruitment agencies, and hospitality businesses across South East Queensland. I still live in the SEQ region. Every single time, the tools weren’t the problem. The workflow underneath was never built for them.

We audit before we build. Every engagement starts with a Solutions Workshop where we map where time leaks and what it would cost to fix. Fixed price, scoped upfront. You get that roadmap whether you go ahead with us or not. If we build, you own it outright. 500+ systems delivered. We work with professional services firms, hospitality operators, financial services teams, and construction businesses across Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. If you’re spending hours on things a system should handle, let’s talk. Fifteen minutes. I’ll tell you straight.

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QUESTIONS BRISBANE BUSINESS OWNERS ASK

Questions you probably have.

Everything is fixed price, scoped before work starts. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Most engagements start with a Solutions Workshop where we map your operations and identify the highest-value builds. From there, each build is quoted individually before we touch anything. Full builds run $5,000–$50,000 depending on scope. Most firms make the Workshop back in their first month from time savings alone.
Professional services, hospitality, financial services, and construction. Brisbane has one of Australia’s densest professional services sectors. Accounting practices in Milton, recruitment firms in Fortitude Valley, consulting businesses in the CBD. Every hour those teams recover goes straight back to billable work. With the 2032 Olympics driving a $25 billion infrastructure pipeline, construction and project management firms are scaling fast and need operational systems that can handle the volume.
The 10% of Queensland businesses using AI extensively are automating CRM updates, lead qualification, document generation, compliance reporting, invoice processing, and pipeline analytics. Most firms we work with in the Brisbane CBD, Fortitude Valley, and Milton start with one high-value build, usually something that saves 5–10 hours per week, then expand once they see the return. The other 90% are still doing it manually. That gap is closing faster than most people realise.
Systems, not chatbots. CRM automations that update themselves from call transcripts. Invoice processing that ingests documents and flags exceptions automatically. Document generation that handles proposals, compliance paperwork, and onboarding in minutes. Pipeline reports that run overnight instead of taking someone a full day. Internal knowledge bases your team can query in natural language. The output is a working system deployed in your environment that you own outright. Not a subscription to our platform.
Yes. We’re based on the Sunshine Coast and deliver for businesses across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and nationally. Most builds are done remotely. The integrations and deployment don’t require anyone sitting in your office. For Solutions Workshops and team training sessions, we come to you in person. Brisbane CBD is 90 minutes from us and we’re there regularly. Young Australian Hotel, Hempblock International, and Crown Kickboxing are all Brisbane clients we’ve delivered for.
Average delivery is 2 weeks. Simple workflow automations can be done in days. Complex multi-system builds take 4–6 weeks. Every project has a fixed timeline agreed upfront. Weekly updates throughout so you always know where things stand. No open-ended engagements.
READY TO BUILD?

Give your Brisbane team the systems that compound.

Tell us what your Brisbane team is spending time on. We’ll tell you straight whether we can help and what it’ll cost.

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