Best AI Automation Agencies in Australia (2026): 10 Compared on Price and Control

Every AI automation agency in Australia sells the same promise: the repetitive work disappears. What separates them is who owns the result, what it costs each month, and whether anyone in your business understands the system afterwards. We rank Sunshine Coast AI Workshops first because the cheapest way to get your first automation running is to build it yourself in a full day for A$495 excluding GST, then only pay an agency for the work that genuinely needs engineering. The nine agencies below are compared on published price, delivery model and what happens when you want to change something.

Key takeaways

• Best for keeping control and paying once: Sunshine Coast AI Workshops. A full day, A$495 excluding GST, and the workflow is yours.
• Best published pricing: AI Automation Agency Australia, with managed plans at A$110, A$220 and A$330 a week including GST, A$0 setup, and a A$110 custom workflow audit. 1
• Best for governed production rollouts: ExIQ, Adelaide-based and senior-led, taking pilots through to governed production. 4
• Best for industry-specific builds: Aivy, covering accounting, healthcare, NDIS, real estate, professional services and e-commerce. 2
• Best for trades and construction: Agentico, with a free discovery workshop and builds in three to ten days. 3
• Best for phone and voice coverage: AI Compass, with bundles from A$1,497 a month. 5
• Monthly retainers compound. A A$330 a week plan is A$17,160 a year. Work out what you are renting before you sign.

How we compared them

Annualised, because weekly and monthly pricing hides the real number. AI Automation Agency Australia's tiers are A$5,720, A$11,440 and A$17,160 a year including GST. 1 AI Compass at A$1,497 a month is A$17,964 a year. 5 A Tech Horizon Labs partner tier at A$2,000 a month is A$24,000 a year. 7 A workshop seat is A$495 once. Those are not competing purchases, and that is the point: use the cheap one to find out which automations are actually worth renting.

1. Sunshine Coast AI Workshops

Best for: the first automation, and for staying in control of the ones that follow.

A full day at Avani Mooloolaba Beach Hotel, in The Cove room, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, A$495 excluding GST per seat, capped at 15 paid attendees. You bring one repeated task and a safe example, and you build the workflow in the room with hands-on help.

The reason this sits first on an automation list is arithmetic. Most tasks businesses hand to an agency are a draft-and-check job: quotes from site notes, replies from an enquiry, a weekly report from figures you already hold, a vendor update from recorded activity. Those do not need engineering. They need clear instructions, your own source material and a review step, which is exactly what you build in the session. What genuinely needs an agency is integration: making systems talk, running unattended, handling phone calls, writing back into accounting or job management. Pay for that. Do not pay a monthly fee for a drafting task your team can run themselves.

The method is five inputs: Context, Task, Source, Rules and Output. Rules is the part automation vendors skip, because it is where you tell the assistant what to flag instead of guess. Read the five-input method.

Brenden House runs the sessions and has built these workflows inside operating businesses: internal process automation at Radiant Roof Repairs, blog, SEO and proposal workflows at his own business Searchmaxxed, and SEO, enquiry and admin automation at Glen House Homoeopathy.

Private onsite training runs at your workplace across South East Queensland for roughly 4 to 20 people with a fixed quote. Request a team quote. For the difference between learning it and buying it, read AI training versus AI consulting.

2. AI Automation Agency Australia

Best for: businesses that want a fixed weekly number.

An Australian-owned agency engineering and managing what it describes as self-healing automated workflows, custom API pipelines and business automations for Australian SMEs. 1 Pricing is published in full: a Tier 1 Starter plan at A$110 a week including GST, Tier 2 Growth at A$220, Tier 3 Scale at A$330, with A$0 setup costs and a A$110 custom workflow audit as the entry point. 1 They publish industry pages for tradies and field service, lawyers, accountants and bookkeepers, mortgage brokers, property managers and NDIS providers, plus city pages for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin, and they publish a task usage disclosure. 1

Trade-off: it is a managed subscription. The workflows are run for you, so the capability stays with the agency while the fee keeps running.

3. Aivy

Best for: regulated and document-heavy industries.

A national AI automation agency working across six named industries: accounting, healthcare, NDIS, real estate, professional services and e-commerce. 2 Services cover AI consulting and strategy, finance automation, document automation, custom chatbots, Xero integrations and AI-ready SEO, with free tools including an AI business audit, an AI readiness assessment and an ROI calculator, and a free 30-minute call as the entry point. 2 Positioning leads on security, easy onboarding and audit-ready documentation from day one. 2

Trade-off: no published pricing, so the budget conversation happens after the call.

4. Agentico

Best for: trades, construction and hospitality.

Peregian Beach based, servicing Australia and New Zealand, building custom AI agents that automate quotes, invoicing, scheduling and admin on OpenAI, Anthropic, n8n, Azure, Google Cloud, Supabase, Xero and voice platforms. 3 The sequence is an intake form, a free one to two hour discovery workshop with a senior engineer, a proposal inside 24 hours, then a build in three to ten days, with testing, training and documentation at the end, and additional agents in one to five days once your systems are understood. 3 They also run Consuite, their own construction and trades operations platform. 3

Trade-off: moving onto their platform deepens the relationship. Clarify ownership and exit before you migrate operational data.

5. ExIQ

Best for: organisations that have already run a failed pilot.

Adelaide-based and nationwide, ExIQ describes itself as a senior-led AI automation agency taking work from pilots to governed production through workflow integration and agents. 4 Their published position is unusually specific: “A useful AI automation pilot changes a real queue”, production requires a source-of-truth rule, human review should be designed rather than bolted on, and value measurement continues after launch. 4 The wider service list covers AI strategy, governance and investment case, digital transformation, and process and workflow redesign. 4

Trade-off: built for organisations with process owners and governance appetite, not a sole trader with a quoting problem.

6. AI Compass

Best for: businesses losing money to unanswered calls.

Voice agents, chat agents and automation deployed across the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, with bundled solutions published from A$1,497 a month and live demonstration agents you can speak to before booking. 5 They name Kawana Chamber, Brokers for QLD and Loans Australia among live deployments, and cite 27% of business calls going unanswered with 75% of those callers never calling back. 5

Trade-off: a monthly service relationship with no capability transfer.

7. Spark Interact

Best for: robotic process automation and document processing.

Spark Interact offers RPA, AI chatbots and virtual assistants, workflow integration and orchestration, and intelligent document processing for both enterprise and SME clients, Australia-wide on a 1300 line. 6 Their own marketing describes them as Australia's number one agency for RPA, chatbots and intelligent document processing, which is their own claim, not a measured ranking. 6

Trade-off: the AI automation service sits inside a brand, web and search agency, so confirm who delivers the automation work.

8. Tech Horizon Labs

Best for: builds plus the visibility work around them.

Noosa-based, run by Huxley Peckham with a small bench of specialists. Published pricing covers websites from A$2,000, a Get Found Sprint at A$2,500, builds quoted per phase and a Partner tier at A$2,000 a month, with ownership stated explicitly and most clients owning what gets built in their own accounts. 7 They report 15 or more systems deployed into client accounts and publish category benchmarks with method and corpus dates. 7

Trade-off: a small team, so capacity is finite and timing matters.

9. TT Solutions

Best for: Microsoft-heavy businesses.

TT Solutions offers AI consultants across Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Darwin and Cairns, helping businesses deploy AI agents and bots including Microsoft Copilot and Dynamics 365 AI-driven business solutions, alongside learning and support services. 8

Trade-off: the orientation is Microsoft licensing and platform work rather than bespoke workflow design.

10. The AI Automation Agency

Best for: a done-for-you program with a fixed window.

Offers a done-for-you AI plan, build and deploy inside 90 days, with a stated money-back guarantee carrying its own conditions, and CRM automation among the named systems. 9 They rank in Australian results while publishing a United Kingdom contact number, so confirm where delivery and support actually sit before engaging. 9

Trade-off: verify the local presence, the support hours and the guarantee terms in writing.

Which model suits your situation?

Three questions to ask any agency on this list before you sign. Who holds the accounts and logins, you or them. What it costs when the process changes in six months. What happens to the automation if you stop paying. Vague answers to any of those three tell you what the relationship actually is.

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