A dedicated AI team for Melbourne, shipping production agents on a fixed roadmap
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, scaling 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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