How we work with Perth clients
We do not maintain a Perth office. We are Brisbane-headquartered and we are honest about it. Most modern engineering work happens remote with structured face-to-face for the moments that need it, and pretending otherwise is dishonest. For Perth engagements the cadence we typically run is an on-site kickoff workshop with stakeholders to walk the operational map, key milestone reviews in person (one or two during a typical build), remote day-to-day engineering with daily standups and structured async communication, on-site operational hand-off when the build transitions to operate, and ad-hoc travel for sensitive discussions or stakeholder alignment as the engagement warrants. The travel cost is bundled into the engagement, not invoiced separately at month-end.
The Perth business landscape
Perth's economy is the most resources-concentrated of the major Australian cities, and its AI demand follows. The major miners run significant operations and corporate functions here, including BHP, Rio Tinto, and Fortescue, alongside Woodside and the oil and gas and LNG sector. Around them sits a globally significant mining equipment, technology and services sector, the METS cluster, building and exporting the technology the resources industry runs on. Agriculture and grain are large, with a growing ag-tech segment, and a substantial remote-operations economy runs fly-in fly-out workforces and distributed sites across the state. Perth's time zone aligns with much of Asia, and the resources sector's appetite for operational efficiency makes it a strong fit for production AI rather than experimentation.
Industry mix and AI demand in Perth
Perth's industry mix concentrates AI demand in five areas. Mining and resources, where predictive maintenance, asset performance, autonomous and remote operations, and operational decision-support are common, the same patterns as our Queensland mining work (see AI for mining). Energy and LNG, where operational and safety AI for complex facilities is the typical workload (see AI for energy and utilities). METS, where mining-technology vendors productise and embed AI into what they sell. Agriculture, where harvest, supply-chain, and asset AI return real hours. Remote operations, where decision-support and automation reduce the cost and risk of running distributed sites, often with sovereign and data-residency requirements (see sovereign AI).
What we build for Perth businesses
Same engagement types as our Brisbane and national work, scoped to Perth operational realities.
- AI agents and automation. Agents that read across your stack, decide, and act. Common where a Perth team is spending hours per week on repetitive cross-system work.
- Automate Your Role. A fixed-scope engagement from $12,000 that takes the repetitive part of one person's role off their plate. The fastest way to feel AI working inside the business.
- Custom software development. Operational tools, customer-facing systems, and internal platforms built around how your business actually runs.
- Financial systems. Quote-to-cash, invoicing, reconciliation, board-pack automation, integrated across your finance and CRM stack.
- Security audits and penetration testing. Application, infrastructure, cloud, and process audits, with IRAP-aware variants for regulated Perth clients.
- Cloud infrastructure. AWS, Azure, GCP design, deployment, and operation. AU-region by default.
- Bedstone OS. A private internal AI workspace at your own subdomain, connecting every business system you run.
- Sovereign AI deployment. For Perth clients in government or regulated industries where IRAP-aware infrastructure, AU-controlled data, and on-shore inference are non-negotiable.
Why a Brisbane-headquartered AI agency makes sense for Perth
Perth is the most remote of the major Australian markets from the east coast, but we are remote-first by design, so it changes little about how we deliver. The senior engineer who scopes your build is the engineer who ships it, and we travel for kickoff, key reviews, and operational hand-off. Critically, we already run mining and industrial AI work in Queensland, so the predictive-maintenance, asset-performance, and remote-operations patterns Perth resources operators need are patterns we ship today rather than learn on your engagement. What Perth clients gain over a local provider is that transferable depth plus an engineering bench that can ship into sovereign and IRAP-aware environments. What you give up is a same-city consultant, and given how much resources work is already run remotely, most operators consider that a non-issue.
How we engage commercially
Same engagement types we use nationally. Discovery sprint from $7,500 producing a recommended architecture and fixed-price quote for the build. Automate Your Role from $12,000 to take the repetitive part of one role off your plate. Fixed-price builds from $40,000 (AI agents) or $60,000 (custom software). Monthly retainer from $12,000 per month for continuous build and operate work. Embedded engineering from $25,000 per engineer per month, three-month minimum. Build-operate-transfer where you want eventual ownership but lack the team today. Default payment terms are 100% on signature, with 50/50 staged payment available where procurement requires it. The pricing page covers the full breakdown.
What week one looks like for a Perth engagement
An on-site kickoff workshop in Perth, typically a full day with stakeholders, walking the operational map of the systems and workflows in scope. Identity integration scoped and validated against your existing provider. First system connection completed. Internal test queries running against real data. Pilot user onboarding plan agreed. We leave Perth after week one with the architecture set, the immediate work scoped, and the cadence agreed. Most of weeks two through eight or twelve are remote, and we return for the key milestone review and the operational hand-off.
Common questions about working with us in Perth
Is Bedstone based in Perth?
No. Bedstone is Brisbane-headquartered. We deliver Perth engagements remote-first with on-site travel for kickoff, key reviews, and operational hand-off. We are honest about this because operators value honest delivery over local posturing, and because much of the WA resources sector already runs operations remotely. If you specifically need a Perth-physically-resident provider for a particular reason, we will tell you we are not the right fit on the first call.
Will senior engineers actually work on my build?
Yes. The engineer who scopes the engagement is the engineer who ships it. There is no SDR layer, no junior backfill after the proposal is signed, and no offshore subcontracting. The depth of practice across multiple verticals comes from senior people doing the actual delivery work.
How often will you be in Perth?
Typically on-site for kickoff (one or two days), key milestone reviews during the build (one or two trips), and operational hand-off at the end. Day-to-day engineering runs remote because that is how your own engineering and operations teams work most days. The cadence is agreed during scoping and varies by engagement.
What does an engagement cost?
Engagement cost depends on scope. AI agent builds start at $40,000. Custom software starts at $60,000. Bedstone OS deployments start at $80,000. Automate Your Role engagements start at $12,000. Security audits start at $10,000. The discovery sprint starts at $7,500. We do not cap engagements at the upper end. The figure for your build is set at scoping. The pricing page covers the full breakdown.
Are these engagements eligible for the R&D Tax Incentive?
Most custom AI agent builds and novel software work qualify. We document the technical experimentation that the RDTI requires contemporaneously. See our R&D Tax Incentive piece for the eligibility detail.