AI Teams

A dedicated AI team for Adelaide, shipping production agents on a fixed roadmap

Production AI agents with SSO, RBAC and audit trails
RAG and knowledge systems over your own data
Australian-led, with working-hours overlap for daily standups
Model evaluation and guardrails from early sprints
AI and machine learning development team working on models

AI Teams in Adelaide

Typically start in 14 days

Why Cipher Projects

Built for how Adelaide and South Australia actually operate

Perfect Time Zone Overlap

ACST (GMT+9:30, ACDT GMT+10:30 in summer)

Adelaide 10:30am-3:30pm equals Vietnam 8am-1pm

Daily standups that work for both teams. Same-day communication every business day.

Local Adelaide Understanding

Built around defence and space programmes, wine and agtech, advanced manufacturing, health and medtech, and SA government digital, where governed AI has to work with operational systems, not sit in a slide deck

We understand Australian business culture and Adelaide's unique requirements.

Australian Legal Framework

Australian contracts. Invoiced from Australia. Legal comfort for your CFO and board.

Full compliance with Australian business standards and expectations.

AI Capabilities

The AI capabilities you actually get

Not a chat-window demo. Production-grade AI built on the same secure foundations we use for cloud infrastructure.

Production AI agents

Agents wired into your real systems with SSO, RBAC and audit trails, governed and observable, not bolted on after the fact.

RAG & knowledge systems

Retrieval pipelines over your documents and data so models answer with your context instead of guessing.

Model evaluation & guardrails

Eval harnesses, regression tests and guardrails so quality is measured and proven before anything ships.

MLOps & monitoring

Deployment, versioning and drift monitoring on AWS and Azure so models stay reliable in production.

The old way

Six months to hire one ML engineer in Adelaide

The Cipher way

A full AI team, live in two weeks

Team Structure

The core team includes

AI Teams starter pack: 5 members

Lead ML/AI Engineer

×1
Senior

Leads architecture, agent design and model strategy

Data Engineers

×2
Mid

Build and maintain data and retrieval pipelines

MLOps Engineer

×1
Mid

Handles deployment, evals and monitoring

QA Engineer

×1
Mid

Tests models, agents and data quality

Seniority Mix

60% mid, 40% senior

Balanced team with the right mix of experience and cost efficiency

Scale Path

Expand to 8-12 with additional data engineers, a data scientist and labeling specialists

Data ScientistML Platform EngineerApplied AI Engineer
Proof of work

Real AI systems, in production

A sample of what dedicated Cipher teams have already shipped for regulated and high-output businesses.

Insurance broker go-to-market platform with AI agent

Financial services · Full platform · AI assistant

Insurance broker go-to-market platform

20 pages · lead funnel · AI client support

A complete launch platform for an Australian insurance broker: marketing website, lead qualification funnel, client portal backed by a database, and a secure AI assistant for first-line client questions.

Sports membership platform cloud engineering

Sports & membership · Platform build · Security hardened

Sports membership platform as embedded engineering team

8 months · scaled infrastructure · security closed

Eight months embedded with an Australian sports membership app: secure member accounts, scalable video delivery, fixes after independent security testing, and monitoring the internal team can run day to day.

AI UGC video automation pipeline

Advertising · Video automation · Applied AI

AI ad-video production pipeline

Low-cost compute · 3 inputs to finished video

A repeatable video production workflow for an Australian advertising agency. Add a presenter, script, and voice description; get social-ready videos back. No studio, actors, or usage fees.

Secure AWS agent environment for data analysis

Research · Document automation · Private cloud

Secure analysis environment with AI agents

Private environment · automated triage · full audit trail

A private cloud workspace for an Australian research firm. AI reads incoming documents and email, pulls out structured findings, and hands them to the internal team. All data stays in the client's own environment.

Cost Calculator

Calculate your savings

Compare costs for Adelaide vs dedicated teams

3 members12 members

Local Adelaide Hiring

$845k

per year (incl. overheads)

Dedicated Team

$475k

per year (all-inclusive)

Your Annual Savings

$370k

That's approximately 44% savings

* Calculation includes superannuation, payroll tax, leave loading, recruiter fees, and office overheads for local hiring

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FAQ

Questions Adelaide teams ask

Ready when you are

Build Your AI Teams in Adelaide

Join Australian businesses who've already made the switch. Typically start in 14 days with ~40% cost savings.

2-week replacement guarantee

Zero risk on team quality

Australian contracts & invoicing

Legal comfort for your CFO

99.9% uptime SLA

Reliability you can count on