Best AI Automation Agencies on the Sunshine Coast (2026): 10 Compared

Ten businesses between Caloundra and Noosa will automate your admin with AI, and they split into two groups: agencies that run the systems for you on a monthly fee, and training that leaves your team able to build and run the work themselves. We rank Sunshine Coast AI Workshops first because the drafting and checking tasks most businesses automate first are the ones your own staff can learn to run in a full day, which means you only pay an agency for the integration work that genuinely needs engineering. Every local option compared below on price, ownership and what happens when the process changes.

Key takeaways

• Best for keeping control: Sunshine Coast AI Workshops. A full day at Avani Mooloolaba, A$495 excluding GST, capped at 15, and the workflow is yours.
• Best for admin-heavy professional services: Blue Seas AI, Buderim, which runs the admin layer and publishes client figures. 1
• Best for trades and job-based businesses: Agentico, Peregian Beach, with a free discovery workshop and builds in three to ten days. 2
• Best for phone coverage: AI Compass, with bundles published from A$1,497 a month. 3
• Best for lead capture and local AI search: XentnexAI, a Sunshine Coast agency covering AI lead generation, an AI receptionist and GEO audits. 5
• Best for systems built on an existing website: Northbase, Sunshine Coast, operating since 2000. 6
• Best published pricing: Tech Horizon Labs, Noosa, with sprint, website and partner figures on the page. 9
• Most local agencies publish no price. Four of the ten do.

How we compared them

Annualised, because monthly pricing hides the commitment. A$1,497 a month is A$17,964 a year. A partner tier at A$2,000 a month is A$24,000 a year. A training seat is A$495 once, and every workflow your team builds afterwards costs nothing further. Those are different purchases, and doing the cheap one first tells you which of the expensive ones you actually need.

1. Sunshine Coast AI Workshops

Best for: businesses that want the skill in the building.

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 with a safe example and build the workflow in the room with hands-on help.

Sort your automation list into two piles before you spend anything. Pile one is draft-and-check work: quotes from site notes, replies to familiar enquiries, the weekly report you rebuild from figures you already hold, a client update from recorded activity. That pile needs clear instructions, your own source material and a review step, and your staff can learn to build it. Pile two is integration: systems talking to each other, processes running unattended, phone calls answered, data written back into Xero or your job management software. Pile two is what an agency is for.

The method is five inputs: Context, Task, Source, Rules and Output. Rules is the step vendors skip, because it is where you tell the assistant to flag missing information instead of inventing it. Read the five-input method.

Brenden House runs the sessions, and the workflows come out of implementation work: internal process automation at Radiant Roof Repairs, blog, SEO and custom 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 Maroochydore, Caloundra, Mooloolaba, Buderim, Birtinya, Nambour, Coolum and Noosa, scoped for roughly 4 to 20 people with a fixed quote. Request a team quote, or register now for the next public date.

2. Blue Seas AI

Best for: law firms and professional services drowning in admin.

Based in Buderim, Blue Seas maps the business, builds the AI systems and runs them, with the stated aim of getting teams out of email, admin and data entry, starting from an AI Scan. 1 They publish client figures including A$1.3 million a year recovered for a named law firm client, a 2x revenue target and 87% time saved, and a 2025 Sunshine Coast Business Award. 1 Those are their published numbers rather than independently audited results. Their founder also appears on a local expert panel alongside the Sunshine Coast mayor at a Business Chamber Queensland event in Mooloolaba. 1

Trade-off: they run the systems for you, so the capability and the fee both stay with the agency.

3. Agentico

Best for: trades, construction and hospitality operators.

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. 2 The sequence is an intake form, a free one to two hour discovery workshop with a senior engineer, a proposal inside 24 hours, a build in three to ten days, then testing, training and documentation, with extra agents in one to five days. 2 They also run their own construction and trades operations platform. 2

Trade-off: migrating operational data onto their platform deepens the relationship, so settle ownership and exit terms first.

4. AI Compass

Best for: businesses losing revenue to missed calls.

Voice agents, chat agents and automation across the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, with bundles published from A$1,497 a month, live demonstration agents you can talk to before booking, and named deployments including Kawana Chamber and Brokers for QLD. 3 They cite 27% of business calls going unanswered and 75% of those callers never calling back. 3 The same business offers independent advisory covering strategy, process discovery and vendor selection. 4

Trade-off: a monthly subscription, and the advisory and the build sit under one roof.

5. XentnexAI

Best for: local lead generation and being found in AI search.

A Sunshine Coast AI agency helping local businesses automate lead generation, answer every call and get found in AI search, with services covering AI automation, an AI lead generation system, an AI receptionist, AI website design and GEO audit reports, positioned on local market knowledge and Australian compliance, with a free strategy call as the entry point. 5

Trade-off: no published pricing, and the offer spans marketing and operations, so scope the engagement tightly.

6. Northbase

Best for: automation built onto the website and systems you already run.

A Sunshine Coast and Melbourne digital agency established in 2000, building custom AI automation for Australian businesses to remove repetitive work, cut response times and scale without adding headcount, with named automation targets including lead capture and follow-up, client onboarding, reporting and data movement, and customer support triage. 6 They work Australia-wide with no lock-in contracts. 7

Trade-off: the core business is websites, software and marketing, with automation as one service line.

7. aiEnhance

Best for: an audit before any spend.

Noosa based, evolved out of the digital agency iEnhance, stating more than 20 years of digital experience. Every engagement starts with an AI Healthcheck that reviews workflows, systems and marketing processes, identifies bottlenecks, assesses AI readiness and produces a roadmap, followed by strategy, implementation, training and enablement, then ongoing support. 8

Trade-off: no published pricing at any tier, and AI sits alongside marketing and web work.

8. Tech Horizon Labs

Best for: automation plus AI visibility, with the price on the page.

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. 9 They report 15 or more systems deployed into client accounts and publish category benchmarks with method and corpus dates. 9

Trade-off: a small team, so capacity and timing matter.

9. Sunburnt AI

Best for: businesses worried about where their data goes.

Strategy-led AI consulting and development for Australian businesses, built on the argument that companies experimenting with public AI tools send sensitive information offshore and create hidden risk, covering business transformation, industry use cases and adoption on the client's own terms. 10

Trade-off: national positioning with a 1300 number in place of a local landline, and no published pricing or session format.

10. AI Mastering Hub

Best for: marketing, lead follow-up and CRM.

Helps SMEs and marketing agencies improve strategy, scale content and manage leads through connected CRM systems, across three pathways covering marketing automation, CRM solutions and a business strategist engagement, with a discovery call as the entry point. 11

Trade-off: marketing and CRM automation, so operational workflows outside that scope need another provider.

Which model suits your business?

Three questions to ask any of these agencies before money moves. Who holds the accounts and logins. What a process change costs in six months. What happens to the automation if you stop paying. The answers tell you whether you are buying an asset or renting one.

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