AI Automation for Local Businesses

Most businesses across Mornington, Frankston, Narre Warren, Dandenong, Hastings, and Carrum Downs know AI could help , they just don’t know where to start or who to trust with it. That’s fair. There’s a lot of noise out there, and not much of it is practical.

Extreme Networks identifies the repetitive, time-consuming tasks already costing your team hours each week and shows you exactly which AI tools can take them off your plate with proper governance frameworks so your data stays secure and your AI use stays ethical and compliant. We’ve done this for content creators, marketing teams, and our own business. Every recommendation ties directly to measurable productivity gains, not tech for the sake of tech.

James Eling on practical demonstration of AI tools

OUR AI CONSULTING SERVICES

Four Pillars of Practical AI Adoption

We don’t just talk about AI , we help you understand it, use it, and benefit from it. Every pillar is designed for businesses starting out, not big tech companies.

AI Automation

Whether it’s scripting or using OpenClaw or Agentic AI, there’s a large range of workflows and processes in every business that can be automated with AI. We help you identify those processes in your business and then automate them so that you and your team can be more productive.

AI Applications

Tools like Claude and Gemini dramatically decrease the barriers of entry to create small applications to automate your workflows. For the workflows that are too complicated, we have a team of developers who use AI tools to deliver process automations a lot more quickly and cost effectively.

AI Training

Most people aren’t resistant to AI; they’re just unsure how to use it without breaking something. Our hands-on workshops are built for real staff in real roles, not developers. We walk your team through the tools they’ll actually use day-to-day, so they leave the session confident, not confused.

AI Governance

Before any tool gets switched on, your team needs to know the rules. We create clear, plain-English policies covering data handling, acceptable use, and compliance with Australian Privacy Principles so your business is protected before automation begins. This isn’t a document that sits in a drawer. It’s a working framework your team actually follows.

Not Sure Where to Start?

That’s exactly why we’re here. Most of our clients felt the same way before their first call with us.

Book a free 30-minute call, and we’ll map out your first steps together – no pressure, no upsell, just an honest look at where AI can help your business right now.

Real AI Wins — Real Case Studies

Case Study—Principles of war

How AI Slashed Post-Production Time by 92% for the Principles of War Podcast & YouTube Channel

Producing the Principles of War podcast and YouTube channel demanded serious hours of deep research, scripting, recording, and then a mountain of post-production work that added no creative value but was essential to getting each episode published. Editing, formatting, metadata, descriptions, timestamps, social assets , it all stacked up to around 4 hours of post-production per episode, creating a bottleneck that limited how often new content could go out.

By implementing AI-enabled scripting across the post-production workflow, we cut that 4-hour burden down to less than 20 minutes per episode — a 92% reduction in time spent on tasks that used to drain the schedule. That freed-up time went straight back into what actually matters: producing more episodes, improving research quality, and growing the audience.

The YouTube channel has grown to more than 16,000 subscribers, and the podcast has surpassed 1.2 million downloads. What once took around four hours per episode now takes about 20 minutes, allowing the team to produce more content without increasing workload.

 Result: 92% reduction in post-production time — from 4 hours to under 20 minutes per episode
Principles of War You Tube Views
Principles of War Podcast Views
Case Study — extreme marketing

How a Single Pane of Glass  Dashboard Gave Us More Time Driving  Smarter Campaign Results

The biggest challenge in managing marketing for clients isn’t running campaigns; it’s knowing which ones are actually working. Reviewing performance across multiple platforms, pulling reports from different dashboards, and piecing together what’s driving results used to consume hours that should have been spent on strategy and creative thinking.

We built a Single Pane of Glass application that consolidates all of a client’s marketing data into one unified view, allowing us to review performance and spot growth opportunities in seconds instead of hours. That shift has fundamentally changed how we work — instead of spending meetings walking clients through analytics, we now walk in with the insights already in hand and spend that time where our real strength lies: planning their next campaign and generating ideas that actually move the needle.

More time on creative strategy, faster identification of what’s working, and clients who see results sooner.

Result:60–75% reduction in analysis time and  more meetings spent on strategy, fewer on spreadsheets
Case Study—Extreme networks

How We Use Power BI to Run Our Own Team In Full Visibility

Like most growing teams, we had a problem: our data was scattered across Xero, our line of business application, and multiple other systems, which meant nobody had a complete picture of how we were performing on any given day. Team members were wasting time switching between platforms trying to figure out what jobs needed attention, where we stood against our KPIs, and how to prioritise their workload. So we built ourselves a solution — using Power BI, we connected all of those disparate data sources into a single set of digital dashboards that the entire team can access in real time.

Now everyone knows exactly how the team is tracking, what needs to be done, and where to focus before they even start their day. The result has been a genuine uplift in productivity because our people spend less time searching for information and more time doing meaningful work. This is exactly the kind of transformation we build for our clients, and the reason you can trust us with your AI and automation journey.

We’re not selling theory, we’re sharing what’s already working inside our own business every single day.

 Result: 80% less time chasing information , every team member starts the day knowing exactly where to focus
Sample Power BI Dashboard

AI Solutions We’ve Built

These aren’t mockups or demos; they’re real tools we’ve built and use every day.

Extreme Networks Single Pane of Glass
SinGle Pane Of Glass Dashboard

We created a single pane of glass for our marketing campaigns. This means that we can see our Facebook, Google, MailChimp, and Eventbrite results all in one pane of glass. We used Claude Code to create the code and to assist with its setup.

This enabled our web developer to come up with a very sophisticated tool. Which means that our marketing team is now saving time because they can, in thirty seconds, work out what the low-hanging fruit is for each account that we’re working on

 

Website Audit Tool

We regularly perform website audits for businesses that want more traffic, more leads, and a better understanding of how their website is performing. In the past, these audits were completed manually and typically took around an hour to produce.

Rather than repeating the same process over and over, we took the methodology we had developed internally and automated much of it using Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Ahrefs and Google’s PageSpeed Insights. The result is a faster, more consistent audit process that allows us to spend less time gathering data and more time identifying opportunities for improvement.

Meta Campaign Tracker

Managing multiple Meta advertising campaigns can make it difficult to quickly identify where advertising budgets are being spent and which campaigns are delivering results. To solve this, we developed a Meta Campaign Tracker that consolidates campaign spend and performance data into a single dashboard, giving our team a clear view of advertising activity across all managed accounts.

Rather than manually reviewing individual campaigns, the dashboard helps us quickly identify high-performing campaigns, underperforming ads, and opportunities to improve budget allocation. By combining automated data collection with AI-assisted development, we created a tool that enables faster decision-making and more effective management of client advertising spend.

AI Workshops

Practical AI Training Session Empowering SMEs

Hands-on demonstration of AI tools in real-world applications

Local Business Using AI to Streamline Workflow

You Don’t Need to Be an Expert.
We’ll Guide You.

By 2027, almost every SME will need to have at least one expert in AI automation; otherwise, they’ll fall behind and become less productive than their competitors.