A dedicated AI team for Melbourne, shipping production agents this quarter
AI Teams in Melbourne
Typically start in 14 days
Why Cipher Projects
Built for how Melbourne actually operates
Perfect Time Zone Overlap
AEST (GMT+10 / AEDT GMT+11)
Melbourne afternoons (11am-4pm) overlap with our Vietnam and Singapore delivery hubs for daily standups
Daily standups that work for both teams. Same-day communication every business day.
Local Melbourne Understanding
Tailored to Melbourne's fintech, health and enterprise sectors — scale scarce AI talent without Melbourne salaries
We understand Australian business culture and Melbourne'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.
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
Melbourne ML salaries up. Available ML engineers down
The Cipher way
A full AI team, live in two weeks
The core team includes
AI Teams starter pack: 5 members
Lead ML/AI Engineer
×1Leads architecture, agent design and model strategy
Data Engineers
×2Build and maintain data and retrieval pipelines
MLOps Engineer
×1Handles deployment, evals and monitoring
QA Engineer
×1Tests 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
Real AI systems, in production
A sample of what dedicated Cipher teams have already shipped for regulated and high-output businesses.
AI agents · Financial services
Secure internal agent platform
SSO · RBAC · Full audit logging
Internal AI agents for a regulated firm, wired into core systems with access control and governance built in from day one — not bolted on after launch.
Workflow automation · Media
AI ad-video production pipeline
$0.40/hr GPU · 3 inputs to finished video
Automated synthetic UGC for an advertising agency. Presenter, script and voice in; social-ready video out — no studio, actors, or manual editing.
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Compare costs for Melbourne vs dedicated teams
Local Melbourne Hiring
$1008k
per year (incl. overheads)
Dedicated Team
$475k
per year (all-inclusive)
Your Annual Savings
$533k
That's approximately 53% savings
* Calculation includes superannuation, payroll tax, leave loading, recruiter fees, and office overheads for local hiring
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Build Your AI Teams in Melbourne
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