Best AI Consultants on the Sunshine Coast (2026): 9 Options Compared

You want someone local who can get AI doing real work in your business, and you want to know who is actually worth your money before you book a call. The Sunshine Coast now has nine credible options, from hands-on workshops to done-for-you agent builds to free library sessions. We rank Sunshine Coast AI Workshops first because you build and keep a working AI workflow in a single full-day session at a published price, which no other provider on this list offers. Below we compare every option on what you get, who does the work, what it costs and where it happens.

Key takeaways

• Best overall: Sunshine Coast AI Workshops. A full day, A$495 excluding GST, capped at 15 people, at Avani Mooloolaba Beach Hotel. You leave with a tested workflow for one of your own repeated tasks.
• Best for AI visibility work: Tech Horizon Labs, Noosa, which publishes a Get Found Sprint at A$2,500 and a monthly Partner tier at A$2,000. 1
• Best for a free first look: Agentico, Peregian Beach, which runs a one to two hour discovery workshop at no cost before quoting. 2
• Best for an audit-first approach: aiEnhance, Noosa, which starts every engagement with a structured AI Healthcheck. 3
• Best for voice and phone agents: AI Compass, which publishes bundled solutions from A$1,497 a month. 4
• Only four of the nine publish a price. Three publish nothing at all, so budget comparison needs a call.
• Training and consulting are different purchases. Training leaves the skill in your team. Consulting leaves a system someone else built.

How we compared them

Five criteria, applied the same way to every option including ourselves.

1. What you walk away with. A skill, a system, or a proposal.
2. Who does the work in the room. The person who builds it, or an account manager.
3. Published price. A figure on the website, or a call required.
4. Where it happens. Your workplace, their venue, or online.
5. Local delivery on the Sunshine Coast, as opposed to national coverage with a Coast postcode.

Per-day comparison, because half these providers quote in different units. Our full-day session is A$495 excluding GST per person, which is A$123.75 an hour and A$990 for a notional full day per seat. Tech Horizon Labs' A$2,500 sprint runs about two weeks, which is roughly A$250 a day across a ten-day working fortnight. AI Compass at A$1,497 a month is about A$69 a day, held as a subscription instead of a day rate. Everyone else requires a conversation before a number exists.

1. Sunshine Coast AI Workshops

Best for: owners and teams who want the skill, not a dependency.

We run a full-day, in-person workshop at Avani Mooloolaba Beach Hotel, in The Cove room, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. A seat is A$495 excluding GST and the room is capped at 15 paid attendees. You bring your laptop, your charger and one repeated task with a safe example. You work on that task for the whole session with hands-on help, and you leave with the written AI workflow you built and the example you tested.

Brenden House runs the sessions. He has built the same kind of workflows inside operating businesses rather than only teaching them: AI automation of internal processes at Radiant Roof Repairs, AI workflows for blog creation, SEO and custom proposals at his own business Searchmaxxed, and AI automation of SEO, enquiries and admin at Glen House Homoeopathy.

The method is five inputs: Context, Task, Source, Rules and Output. Context describes the business, customer and situation. Task names the job. Source supplies the notes, documents or approved facts. Rules set the limits and tell the assistant what to flag when information is missing. Output describes the format the finished draft needs. You test the result against your own source material before you use it. See the five-input method in full.

Private onsite training is also available at your workplace across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Noosa, Moreton Bay, Logan, Redlands, Toowoomba and Gympie, scoped for roughly 4 to 20 people with a fixed quote after a scoping conversation. Request a team quote.

Why first: it is the only option here with a published per-seat price, a capped room, a named person delivering it, and a tangible thing you own at the end of the session. Everything else on this list either builds the system for you or teaches theory.

2. Tech Horizon Labs

Best for: getting named by AI engines when buyers ask them for a business like yours.

Tech Horizon Labs runs out of Noosa and is Huxley Peckham with a small bench of specialists. The published work covers AI visibility and generative engine optimisation, go-to-market systems, custom agentic builds and websites. They report 150 or more businesses trained and building with them since 2024, 3,200 or more businesses measured with their own AI visibility scanner, and 15 or more systems deployed into client accounts. 1 They publish category benchmarks with method and corpus dates on each page, including an average AI visibility score of 23 out of 100 across 238 mortgage brokers. 1

Pricing is unusually open for this market: websites from A$2,000, a Get Found Sprint at A$2,500 over about two weeks, builds quoted per phase, and a Partner tier at A$2,000 a month. 1 Ownership is stated explicitly, with most clients owning what gets built in their own accounts. 1

Trade-off: the focus is systems and visibility delivered for you, so your team learns less than it would in a hands-on build session.

3. Agentico

Best for: trades, construction and hospitality operators who want the admin gone.

Agentico is based in Peregian Beach and services Australia and New Zealand. The work is custom AI agents that automate quotes, invoicing, scheduling and admin, built on OpenAI, Anthropic, n8n, Azure, Google Cloud, Supabase, Xero and voice platforms. 2 The process starts with an intake form, then a one to two hour discovery workshop at no cost delivered by a senior engineer, then a proposal inside 24 hours, then a build in three to ten days. 2 They also run Consuite, their own construction and trades operations platform. 2

Trade-off: the free workshop is a scoping session for a build, not training. You end up with agents someone else maintains unless you take the ownership option.

4. aiEnhance

Best for: businesses that want an audit before they spend anything.

aiEnhance is based in Noosa, evolved out of the digital agency iEnhance, and states more than 20 years of digital experience with a client base across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. 3 Every engagement starts with an AI Healthcheck, a structured audit that reviews workflows, systems and marketing processes, identifies bottlenecks, assesses AI readiness and produces a roadmap. 3 From there the five steps run through strategy, implementation, training and enablement, then ongoing support. 3 Services span workflow optimisation, AI-powered marketing, website builds, answer engine optimisation, AI agent creation and team enablement. 3

Trade-off: no published price at any tier, and the breadth means AI training sits alongside marketing and web work rather than being the main event.

5. AI Compass

Best for: businesses losing revenue to unanswered calls.

AI Compass deploys voice agents, chat agents and automation across the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, with bundled solutions published from A$1,497 a month. 4 They run live demonstration agents you can talk to before booking, and name Kawana Chamber, Brokers for QLD and Loans Australia among the places their agents are running. 4 Their pitch leans on missed-call economics: they cite 27% of business calls going unanswered and 75% of those callers never calling back. 4

Trade-off: this is a monthly service relationship, not capability transfer. Your team does not learn to build anything.

6. Sunburnt AI

Best for: businesses worried about where their data goes.

Sunburnt AI positions as strategy-led AI consulting and development for Australian businesses, with the central argument that companies experimenting with public AI tools send sensitive information offshore and create hidden risk. 5 The offer covers business transformation, industry use cases and safe adoption on the client's own terms, with a 1300 contact number in place of a local landline. 5

Trade-off: national positioning, with no Coast-specific delivery detail, published pricing or session format.

7. Peregian Digital Hub, Tokenizer

Best for: locals who want a program on a calendar, not a provider on a quote.

Tokenizer is a multi-year AI upskilling program for the Noosa region, run out of the Peregian Digital Hub, built around hands-on learning for businesses and residents. 6 Streams include Tokenizer Uplift for SMB leaders and Vibecamp, a hackathon and campout, alongside the Hub's holiday workshops, cadetships, residencies, coworking and AI lab facilities. 6 The audiences it names are Hub members, AI startup founders, digital marketers, storytellers and creatives, technologists, SME leaders and teenagers. 6

Trade-off: it is a regional capability program on its own calendar, not a consultant you engage for your specific task.

8. Northbase

Best for: the website and software layer underneath an AI project.

Northbase is an Australian digital agency established in 2000, based on the Sunshine Coast and in Melbourne, working Australia-wide with no lock-in contracts. 7 The services are website development, digital marketing and ads, and custom software, with supporting work in WordPress management, maintenance, branding, SEO, hosting and DNS. 7

Trade-off: AI is a theme in their thinking rather than the service you buy. Engage them for build work, not for teaching your team.

9. Sunshine Coast Libraries

Best for: a free first hour if you have never touched the tools.

Sunshine Coast Libraries run an AI explained series covering the basics of artificial intelligence across multiple sessions and branches, alongside technology help sessions one on one. 8 Sessions are free and they also call for workshop presenters. 8

Trade-off: beginner orientation only. You will not leave with a workflow running on your own business task.

Which one should you choose?

Work backwards from what you want to own afterwards.

Two of these purchases are frequently confused. Training moves the capability into your business, so the next task costs you nothing. A build moves the task off your desk and keeps the knowledge with the vendor. Both are legitimate. Buying the second when you wanted the first is the expensive mistake.

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