StartCloud (through its StartAI practice) designs and builds custom AI agents for Australian small and medium businesses at a fixed price per agent. Agents are built on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI, and Anthropic Claude, integrated with business systems such as Microsoft 365 and line-of-business applications, and delivered with security controls and human oversight built in.
Software That Does a Job, Not a Chatbot
StartCloud (through its StartAI practice) designs and builds custom AI agents for Australian small and medium businesses, delivered at a fixed price per agent.
Agents are built on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI, and Anthropic Claude, integrated with your business systems, and delivered with security controls and human oversight built in.
Where Agents Pay Off Fastest
The agents we build take real work off your team: reading inbound documents and filing them correctly, drafting quotes from job details, answering staff questions from your policies, or triaging service requests.
Document Processing
Invoices, delivery dockets, and compliance paperwork read and actioned automatically.
Internal Knowledge
Staff ask questions in plain English and get answers from your own procedures and documents.
Client Service
First-line responses drafted from your knowledge base, with a human approving before send.
Quoting and Admin
Structured outputs generated from unstructured inputs, ready for review.
How We Build
Every build inherits the same security-first approach as our managed services. An agent with access to your systems deserves the same scrutiny as a new employee.
Defined Boundaries
Every agent has a clear job and clear limits. It does what it was built to do, nothing else.
Logging Built In
Every action an agent takes is recorded, so you can always see what it did and why.
Human Checkpoints
Where the stakes require one, a person approves before anything goes out the door.
Pricing
Fixed price per agent
Quoted after a scoping session, so you know the full cost before we build. Ongoing hosting, monitoring, and improvement is available under our Agent Care recurring service. Book a scoping session.
Common Questions
How much does a custom AI agent cost in Australia?
StartCloud builds custom AI agents at a fixed price per agent, quoted after a scoping session. The price depends on complexity and how many systems the agent needs to work with.
What is the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot?
A chatbot answers questions. An agent completes tasks: it can read documents, update systems, draft outputs, and follow a workflow, with human approval where needed.
Which AI platforms do you build on?
Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, and Anthropic Claude, chosen per use case. We recommend what fits your business, not what is fashionable.
Is our data used to train AI models?
No. We configure commercial AI services with data protections so your business data is not used for model training.
Got a Job an Agent Could Do?
Tell us about the work that eats your team's week. We'll tell you honestly whether an agent is the right fix, and what it would cost.
Book a Scoping Session