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Red G / Practical AI for small teams

I help small teams save time with practical AI and automation.

I find repetitive work, identify where AI can genuinely help, and give you a clear plan for putting the best opportunities into practice safely.

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Primary service

Find where AI can genuinely save your business time

I review how work currently gets done, identify repetitive tasks and bottlenecks, then give you a practical plan for using AI and automation safely.

Best suited to small businesses and independent professionals who know AI could help but are not sure where to begin.

Fixed fee

$990 AUD ex GST

Where time disappears

Common workflow problems

  • Repeated emailsWriting the same answers and follow-ups again and again.
  • Scattered knowledgeSearching across documents, inboxes and shared drives for the right information.
  • Manual data entryCopying details between forms, spreadsheets, customer systems and task boards.
  • Meeting adminTurning conversations into notes, decisions, tasks and follow-ups by hand.
  • Routine reportingCollecting information and rebuilding similar reports every week or month.
  • Repeated enquiriesAnswering common customer or staff questions from the same source material.

How it works

A clear path to action

  1. 1DiscoverWe walk through a normal working day and identify the tasks that take the most time or cause the most frustration.
  2. 2AssessI examine the bottlenecks, information flows, risks and tools already involved in the work.
  3. 3PrioritiseEach opportunity is compared by likely value, effort, risk and how quickly it could be tested.
  4. 4PlanYou receive clear recommendations, a sensible starting point and a 30-day plan you can act on.

What you receive

A report built for decisions

  • A 60-minute workflow discovery session
  • Three to five practical AI or automation opportunities
  • An impact and effort priority map
  • Recommended tools or implementation approaches
  • Privacy, security and reliability considerations
  • A practical 30-day action plan
  • A 30-minute results walkthrough

Example finding

Customer enquiries

Current problem
Requests arrive in different formats and need to be read, sorted and answered manually.
Possible improvement
Extract key details, classify the request and prepare a response for review.
Human responsibility
A person checks context, accuracy and tone before anything is sent.
Likely benefit
Faster responses and less repetitive administration.

Responsible by design

Sensible safeguards

Privacy

Understand what information enters each tool and where it may be stored.

Security

Limit access, protect credentials and avoid exposing sensitive business information.

Accuracy

Check important outputs against reliable source material before acting on them.

Human review

Keep a person responsible for judgement, approvals and customer communication.

Maintainability

Choose workflows your team can understand, operate and update as the business changes.

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Implementation and support

Put the right opportunities into practice

After the assessment, I can help implement the recommendations that make sense for your business. Most work is scoped and quoted at a fixed price before we begin.

Service option

AI Workflow Implementation Sprint

Turn one prioritised opportunity into a working, documented process.

Fixed scope (quoted after assessment)

Focused BuildPractical Handover
  • How it worksWe choose one clearly defined workflow, configure the right tools, test the result and keep human review where it matters.
  • What you getA working improvement, straightforward documentation, security considerations and a practical handover.

Service option

AI Workflow Partner

Regular working sessions to improve how your business uses AI.

Tailored engagement (enquire to discuss)

Ongoing SupportDone With You
  • How it worksWe meet twice each month to build new workflows, improve existing ones and solve practical problems as they arise.
  • What you getHands-on support, maintained workflow notes and steady progress without taking on a large transformation project.

Service option

Website Build or Refresh

Launch a new website or improve the one you already have.

Fixed scope (enquire for a quote)

New WebsitesSite Updates
  • What I can help withPage structure, design clean-up, mobile usability, performance, contact forms and essential security.
  • What you getA clear, mobile-friendly website, launch support and a simple handover. I confirm the scope and price before starting.

Service option

Application Security Review

Find important risks before they become customer problems.

Fixed scope (enquire for a quote)

Security ReviewPractical Fixes
  • What I reviewA clearly agreed part of your application and setup, including areas such as sign-in, customer data, secrets, dependencies and deployment.
  • What you getA prioritised list of findings, practical recommendations and a walkthrough focused on what to fix first.

Something else?

Already know what needs improving?

Tell me what you are working on. If an assessment is not needed, I will suggest a practical next step.

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Selected work

From unclear problem to working system

These projects show how I approach workflow design, automation, security and practical product delivery.

Featured

Alfie's Almanac

A production surf-planning app that I designed, built, secured, and deployed. It combines location data, weather and marine conditions, original map artwork, and AI-assisted development in a complete consumer product.

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Problem
Surf forecasts are scattered across technical weather sources and can be difficult to turn into a practical decision.
What I delivered
A complete consumer product combining live data, original content, authentication, storage, mapping and production operations.
Why it matters
Proof that I can take a complex, data-heavy idea from early workflow design through to a secure working product.

Financial Admin Automation

A personal workflow I designed and implemented to streamline my own annual financial administration, from collecting and organising documents through to reconciliation, schedules and evidence preparation.

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Problem
Preparing annual financial records involved days of repetitive searching, sorting, checking and spreadsheet work.
What I delivered
A structured automation that collects documents, organises records, extracts relevant information, performs calculations and prepares review-ready deliverables.
Why it matters
Reduced repetitive preparation from days to hours while keeping final checks and decisions under human control.

Hermes Stack

A private AI agent setup using Hermes and local Ollama models over Tailscale. It includes sandboxed execution, independent model review, and Discord and Telegram interfaces for research and community workflows.

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Problem
Useful AI workflows sometimes need more privacy, control and independent checking than a standard hosted chat tool provides.
What I delivered
A private agent environment with local models, isolated execution, remote access and model review workflows.
Why it matters
A practical example of AI delivery that treats privacy, access and output quality as part of the design.

Strategy Factory

An experimental trading platform for testing strategies, monitoring positions, reviewing risk, and tracking system health.

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Problem
Automated decision systems need clear visibility into performance, risk and failures.
What I delivered
A monitoring and testing interface for strategies, positions, risk and system health.
Why it matters
Demonstrates structured automation with human oversight and operational controls.

Yeah Nah Dosh Muncher

A personal and small-business finance app for tracking clients, projects, revenue, expenses, and spending categories. Its informal Australian voice is designed to make routine money management feel less intimidating.

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Problem
Routine money administration can be confusing, repetitive and easy to postpone.
What I delivered
A clear workflow for tracking clients, projects, income, expenses and spending categories.
Why it matters
Shows how technical systems can be made practical, approachable and suited to the people using them.

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About Red G

Practical AI, grounded in delivery

I help small businesses and product teams work out where AI and automation can genuinely save time, then help them put the right improvements into practice.

Experience

Engineering and security background

My background spans software engineering, enterprise integration, DevSecOps and application security. I have worked at Hewlett Packard and helped improve secure software delivery at Swyftx, Officeworks and Belong. That experience means I consider privacy, security, reliability and day-to-day use, not just whether an AI demonstration looks impressive.

  • Engineering: Software and enterprise integration at HP
  • Security: Application security across major Australian organisations

Hands-on delivery

From idea to maintained product

I stay hands-on by building production software, private AI environments and automated systems. Projects such as Alfie's Almanac and Hermes Stack show that I can take an idea from early investigation through to a working, secured and maintainable result.

  • Delivery: Full-stack products and private AI systems
  • Study: Computer Science and Physics
  • Location: QLD, Australia

How I use AI

Useful, responsible, maintainable

Useful

Start with a real workflow problem and a measurable result.

Responsible

Protect sensitive information and keep people responsible.

Maintainable

Build processes the team can operate and improve.

Career history

For my full employment history, roles, certifications, and professional recommendations, visit my LinkedIn profile.

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Capabilities

What I bring to the work

Applied AI and Workflow Automation

Finding useful AI opportunities, designing reliable workflows and building automation with clear human review and security boundaries.

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Product Engineering

Taking products from idea to production across user experience, application code, data, authentication, integrations and deployment.

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Capabilities

What I bring to the work

Application Security and DevSecOps

Reducing practical software risk through threat modelling, secure delivery, automated checks and clear guidance for engineering teams.

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Privacy, Cloud and Governance

Choosing and operating technology with appropriate privacy, identity, secrets, logging, risk and documentation controls.

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Recommendations

Professional recommendations

Feedback from people who have worked with me across application security, engineering and software delivery.

Red joined our team on a contract basis to assist with DevSecOps. He has been a valuable member of our team, assisting with key project deliverables through his extensive technical expertise. Red is a good communicator, professional and has been a fantastic team player. It is a pleasure working with Red and I’d be more than happy to work with him again in future, and to recommend him to others.
Brisbane startup client
Red G and I worked together in Swyftx security. For our entire time together, he was always supremely adaptable, eager to learn, kind hearted, and passionate about making Swyftx great. He has strong technical skills, stretching across a broad range of topics. He was most recently in an Application Security role, in which he was supporting a number of our engineering squads. I will be eagerly following where your career will take you!
Head of Security at Swyftx
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Red G during his time at Swyftx. Given his previous experience at Microfocus with Fortify, I found Red G to have a good knowledge of the AppSec space and was engaged & inquisitive to learn more on Snyk’s approach. During the roll out Snyk, our Customer Success Team who assisted during implementation, found Red G to be a great communicator and his proactive nature resulted in a huge amount of progress in a short period of time. I wish Red G all the best and look forward to seeing what his next move is.
Senior Account Executive at Snyk

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