AI Teams

A dedicated AI team for Perth, shipping production agents this quarter

Production AI agents with SSO, RBAC and audit trails
RAG and knowledge systems over your own data
Australian-led, near-perfect AWST time zone overlap
Model evaluation dashboard live by Day 21
AI and machine learning development team working on models

AI Teams in Perth

Typically start in 14 days

Why Cipher Projects

Built for how Perth and WA actually operate

Perfect Time Zone Overlap

AWST (GMT+8)

Perth business hours align almost hour-for-hour with our Vietnam and Singapore delivery hubs

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

Local Perth Understanding

Tailored to WA's mining, resources, energy and government sectors, where security, governance and uptime are non-negotiable

We understand Australian business culture and Perth'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 Perth

The Cipher way

Two weeks to deploy a full AI team

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.

Secure AI agent platform with access control and audit logging

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.

AI UGC video automation pipeline

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.

Cost Calculator

Calculate your savings

Compare costs for Perth vs dedicated teams

3 members12 members

Local Perth Hiring

$878k

per year (incl. overheads)

Dedicated Team

$475k

per year (all-inclusive)

Your Annual Savings

$403k

That's approximately 46% savings

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

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FAQ

Questions Perth teams ask

Ready when you are

Build Your AI Teams in Perth

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