AI consultancy for Australian SMEs and not-for-profits

Responsible AI.Built for production.

I help Australian organisations move from AI curiosity to working systems, with practical training, automation and governance built into the architecture from day one.

Map my workflow Book AI Readiness Audit View proof of work

System map

AI Readiness to Production

Live method

Discover

AI maturity, risks, data quality

Design

Guardrails, workflow and architecture

Build

n8n, Bedrock, RAG, agents, APIs

Deploy

Monitoring, handover and support

2 wks

readiness audit turnaround

90 days

practical implementation roadmap

Prod

systems designed beyond demos

Selected work

Mary MacKillop TodayProfectuseThink SolutionsJC Building Cleaning

Services

Strategy, systems and training in one responsible AI practice.

AI Readiness Audit

A fixed-scope assessment mapped to Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard, with a 90-day roadmap.

View audit

Production Automation

RAG systems, multi-agent workflows, document pipelines, dashboards and CRM integrations built to run.

Map my workflow

Practical AI Training

Plain-English training for teams adopting AI without privacy, compliance or governance shortcuts.

Discuss training

Proof of work

Real systems, courses and automation already shipped.

Full portfolio

Insurance / VoC

Voice of the Customer analytics platform

End-to-end analytics pipeline for insurance call centre transcripts, extracting 16 structured fields per call including sentiment journey, churn risk, topic classification and agent performance.

n8nGemini 2.5 FlashArangoDBDockerTraefik

Video walkthrough

Mortgage / Knowledge retrieval

Enterprise RAG document chatbot

Production-grade RAG system for the Australian mortgage industry, enabling brokers to query operational documents with grounded, source-attributed responses.

AWS BedrockArangoDBn8nClaude AIRAG

View architecture

Defence & Government recruitment

AI candidate matching system

Multi-agent CV ingestion and retrieval system with graph storage, AQL queries, semantic search and a Microsoft Teams conversational interface for recruiters.

n8nArangoDBGPT-4.1 MiniMicrosoft TeamsAQL

View workflow

Course / Australian NFPs

Confident with AI for Not-for-Profits

Self-paced AI training course for Australian not-for-profit teams, with 3 sections and 21 lessons covering strategy, practical tools, governance and ethical adoption.

AI TrainingCourse DevelopmentNFP SectorEthical AI

View course

Featured case study

AI-powered mortgage broker assistant for eThink Solutions.

A RAG system for the Australian mortgage industry, built with AWS Bedrock, ArangoDB and n8n orchestration to search and reason over loan documentation.

95%+

loan document accuracy

80%

less manual lookup time

2 wks

AI Readiness Audit

Architecture snapshot

Documents

Vector + Graph

Agent Router

Answer

Governance layer

Ethical adoption starts with data, risk and human oversight.

This is not a certification claim. The site should be precise: your work is grounded in ethical data practice and Australian adoption needs, while external standards can be referenced where they genuinely apply.

Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard

Australia's AI Ethics Principles

Privacy-aware data governance

Human oversight and safe adoption

Risk, bias and transparency reviews

ISO/NIST/EU AI Act used as references when relevant

Founder-led

James Montoya

Why this is different

Senior data engineering experience behind every AI engagement.

Ethical AI Specialists is a founder-led consultancy based in Sydney. The work combines 15+ years of professional experience, enterprise data engineering background and a Master's in Software Engineering focused on AI.

15+

years professional experience

12+

years enterprise data engineering

compliance and market focus

Start with a two-week AI Readiness Audit.

Fixed scope, A$2,500 indicative price, focused on AI maturity, data readiness, practical risks and a clear 90-day roadmap.

Discuss the audit

Ethical AI Specialists

Sydney / Responsible Systems

Book Audit

AI consultancy for Australian SMEs and not-for-profits

Responsible AI.Built for production.

I help Australian organisations move from AI curiosity to working systems, with practical training, automation and governance built into the architecture from day one.

Map my workflow Book AI Readiness Audit View proof of work

System map

AI Readiness to Production

Live method

Discover

AI maturity, risks, data quality

Design

Guardrails, workflow and architecture

Build

n8n, Bedrock, RAG, agents, APIs

Deploy

Monitoring, handover and support

2 wks

readiness audit turnaround

90 days

practical implementation roadmap

Prod

systems designed beyond demos

Selected work

Mary MacKillop TodayProfectuseThink SolutionsJC Building Cleaning

Services

Strategy, systems and training in one responsible AI practice.

AI Readiness Audit

A fixed-scope assessment mapped to Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard, with a 90-day roadmap.

View audit

Production Automation

RAG systems, multi-agent workflows, document pipelines, dashboards and CRM integrations built to run.

Map my workflow

Practical AI Training

Plain-English training for teams adopting AI without privacy, compliance or governance shortcuts.

Discuss training

Proof of work

Real systems, courses and automation already shipped.

Full portfolio

Insurance / VoC

Voice of the Customer analytics platform

End-to-end analytics pipeline for insurance call centre transcripts, extracting 16 structured fields per call including sentiment journey, churn risk, topic classification and agent performance.

n8nGemini 2.5 FlashArangoDBDockerTraefik

Video walkthrough

Mortgage / Knowledge retrieval

Enterprise RAG document chatbot

Production-grade RAG system for the Australian mortgage industry, enabling brokers to query operational documents with grounded, source-attributed responses.

AWS BedrockArangoDBn8nClaude AIRAG

View architecture

Defence & Government recruitment

AI candidate matching system

Multi-agent CV ingestion and retrieval system with graph storage, AQL queries, semantic search and a Microsoft Teams conversational interface for recruiters.

n8nArangoDBGPT-4.1 MiniMicrosoft TeamsAQL

View workflow

Course / Australian NFPs

Confident with AI for Not-for-Profits

Self-paced AI training course for Australian not-for-profit teams, with 3 sections and 21 lessons covering strategy, practical tools, governance and ethical adoption.

AI TrainingCourse DevelopmentNFP SectorEthical AI

View course

Featured case study

AI-powered mortgage broker assistant for eThink Solutions.

A RAG system for the Australian mortgage industry, built with AWS Bedrock, ArangoDB and n8n orchestration to search and reason over loan documentation.

95%+

loan document accuracy

80%

less manual lookup time

2 wks

AI Readiness Audit

Architecture snapshot

Documents

Vector + Graph

Agent Router

Answer

Governance layer

Ethical adoption starts with data, risk and human oversight.

Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard

Australia's AI Ethics Principles

Privacy-aware data governance

Human oversight and safe adoption

Risk, bias and transparency reviews

ISO/NIST/EU AI Act used as references when relevant

Founder-led

James Montoya

Why this is different

Senior data engineering experience behind every AI engagement.

15+

years professional experience

12+

years enterprise data engineering

compliance and market focus

Start with a two-week AI Readiness Audit.

Fixed scope, A$2,500 indicative price, focused on AI maturity, data readiness, practical risks and a clear 90-day roadmap.

Discuss the audit