aiagency.nz

AI agency for Australian businesses.

Websites, SEO, marketing and AI tooling for Australian businesses. Designed and shipped by one small team, not handed down a chain of account managers.

AUD billing. AEST and AEDT working hours. One number to ring.

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Services

What we do for Australian businesses.

We work with Australian businesses the same way we work with Kiwi ones: end to end, in plain English, without the agency theatre.

The full stack a modern Australian business actually needs - website design Australia, SEO Australia, AI automation, marketing - every piece designed to feed into the next. No bolted-on tools. No "we'll have to bring in a specialist for that."

Apps we built

Speak in. Polished work out.

How we help

Too many paths.
Not enough hours.

A thousand AI tools. A hundred LinkedIn posts telling you which ones matter. None of it tied to anything that actually moves the needle in your business.

Most Australian SMEs we speak to aren't short on ideas. They're short on someone willing to look at the whole picture, pick the three or four things worth doing, and ship them. That's the job.

Australian business owner facing too many AI tool choices
Location

Working with Australia
from across the Tasman.

We're based in New Zealand. That's worth getting out of the way early, because every Australian business we've worked with has asked about it.

The honest answer: distance hasn't been a problem once in twenty years of doing this work. Sydney is closer to us than Perth is to Sydney. We bill in AUD, we work AEST and AEDT hours, and we use the same Zoom, Slack, Loom and Notion as everyone else. We've shipped websites and SEO programmes for clients we've never met in person and it's never been the thing that mattered.

What does matter:

  • Australian search landscape. Google.com.au, the .com.au TLD signals, Australian intent in queries - "near me" results, suburb-level searches in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide. We've optimised for it before.

  • GST handled properly. Invoices in AUD, GST itemised, ABN on every document. Your bookkeeper won't have to ring us.

  • Australian Consumer Law and Privacy Act. We know what has to be on a compliant Australian website and what doesn't. We're not going to ship you something a Fair Trading complaint can land on.

  • Spam Act 2003. If we're running outbound or email for you, we run it the way the ACMA wants it run. Not the way American agencies tell you to.

If you'd rather work with someone two suburbs away, fair enough. If you'd rather work with the people who actually do the work, we're a video call away.

About

Two humans, end to end.

The people who pitch the work do the work. Gray runs the strategy and client side, Reuben designs and builds. No account handoffs, no agency layers, no twelve-way Slack threads.

Gray Walsh, co-founder, AI Agency Australia strategy lead
Co-founder Strategy & Growth

Gray Walsh

Gray brings two decades of operational experience across digital, marketing and business strategy. He grounds every engagement in the realities of running a business and leads the strategic and client side of the studio.

Reuben Scott, co-founder, AI Agency Australia design and engineering lead
Co-founder Design & Engineering

Reuben Scott

Reuben leads the design and engineering side of the studio. He is responsible for the craft of every site, product and integration we ship, and is the maker behind SpeaktoNotes, SpeaktoFinance and SpeaktoClients.

FAQ

Questions Australian businesses ask us.

Do you work with Australian businesses if you're based in New Zealand?

Yes. About a third of our pipeline is Australian. The only difference clients notice is that we're an hour ahead in winter and on the same clock in summer.

How does billing work? AUD or NZD?

AUD. Invoices come with GST itemised and an ABN reference for your records. Bank transfer or card, your call.

What hours do you work?

AEST and AEDT. Our calendar is set to Sydney time for Australian clients. Meetings, deadlines and Slack responses all land in your working day.

Can you rank an Australian site on Google.com.au from a .nz domain?

We rank Australian businesses on their own domains - usually .com.au or .com. We're the agency, not the website. The site we build or optimise for you is yours, on your TLD, targeted at the .com.au market.

Do you understand the Australian market well enough to do good SEO?

Search intent is search intent. We've worked across UK, US, NZ and Australian markets for two decades between us. The mechanics of ranking in Sydney aren't fundamentally different from ranking in Auckland or Manchester - what changes is the competitor set, the keyword data and the local signals, all of which we research per client.

What about meetings? Will you come to us?

For larger engagements, yes - we'll fly over. For everything else, video calls and Looms do the job. We haven't lost a client over it yet.

Who actually does the work?

The two people you meet on the discovery call. No juniors, no offshoring, no "account team."
Get in touch

Book a discovery call.

Let's talk