Repeated emails
Writing the same answers and follow-ups again and again.
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.
Workflow assessmentAI implementationAutomationSecurity-aware delivery
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.
Where time disappears
Does any of this feel familiar?
The assessment starts with ordinary work, not technology. These are common signs that a workflow is worth examining.
Scattered knowledge
Searching across documents, inboxes and shared drives for the right information.
Manual data entry
Copying details between forms, spreadsheets, customer systems and task boards.
Meeting admin
Turning conversations into notes, decisions, tasks and follow-ups by hand.
Routine reporting
Collecting information and rebuilding similar reports every week or month.
Repeated enquiries
Answering common customer or staff questions from the same source material.
The assessment process
A clear path from frustration to action
The process is designed to find useful opportunities quickly, compare them sensibly and leave you with a plan that is easy to understand.
- 1
Discover
We walk through a normal working day and identify the tasks that take the most time or cause the most frustration.
- 2
Assess
I examine the bottlenecks, information flows, risks and tools already involved in the work.
- 3
Prioritise
Each opportunity is compared by likely value, effort, risk and how quickly it could be tested.
- 4
Plan
You receive clear recommendations, a sensible starting point and a 30-day plan you can act on.
What you receive
A short report built for decisions
The report focuses on what is worth doing, what can wait and what should be avoided. It is a working plan, not a long technology document.
Assessment report
- 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
Quick wins
- Meeting actions
- Enquiry triage
Strategic projects
- Private knowledge assistant
Nice to have
- Email templates
Avoid for now
- Complete system replacement
Lower effortHigher effort
Examples are illustrative. Your map will reflect your own business.
Example assessment 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
Useful AI needs sensible safeguards
My security and engineering background is applied to every recommendation, not added as an afterthought.
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.
What happens next
Start with the assessment, then choose what is worth building
You can use the plan yourself, bring it to your existing team or ask me to help implement the best opportunity.
AI Workflow Assessment
Find and prioritise the opportunities.
Implementation Sprint
Build and test one useful improvement.
Ongoing Support
Improve workflows as the business changes.
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 quoted at a fixed price. Advisory and additional work is billed at $200 AUD per hour, excluding GST.
AI Workflow Implementation SprintTurn one prioritised opportunity into a working, documented process.Fixed scope (quoted after assessment)Details
Focused BuildPractical Handover
- How it works: We choose one clearly defined workflow, configure the right tools, test the result and keep human review where it matters.
- What you get: A working improvement, straightforward documentation, security considerations and a practical handover.
AI Workflow PartnerRegular working sessions to improve how your business uses AI.Two sessions each month (monthly fee agreed to suit the scope)Details
Ongoing SupportDone With You
- How it works: We meet twice each month to build new workflows, improve existing ones and solve practical problems as they arise.
- What you get: Hands-on support, maintained workflow notes and steady progress without taking on a large transformation project.
Website Build or RefreshLaunch a new website or improve the one you already have.Updates from $400 (new websites from $2,000 AUD ex GST)Details
New WebsitesSite Updates
- What I can help with: Page structure, design clean-up, mobile usability, performance, contact forms and essential security.
- What you get: A clear, mobile-friendly website, launch support and a simple handover. I confirm the scope and price before starting.
Application Security ReviewFind important risks before they become customer problems.2–4 hours ($400–$800 AUD ex GST)Details
Security ReviewPractical Fixes
- What I review: A clearly agreed part of your application and setup, including areas such as sign-in, customer data, secrets, dependencies and deployment.
- What you get: A prioritised list of findings, practical recommendations and a walkthrough focused on what to fix first.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
About me
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.
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.
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.
- Engineering:Software and enterprise integration at HP
- Security:Application security across major Australian organisations
- Delivery:Full-stack products and private AI systems
- Study:Computer Science and Physics
- Location:QLD, Australia
How I use AI
Useful
Start with a real workflow problem and a result that can be measured.
Responsible
Protect sensitive information and keep people responsible for important decisions.
Maintainable
Build processes the team can understand, operate and improve over time.
AI supports the work. I remain responsible for the architecture, security decisions and finished result.
Career history
For my full employment history, roles, certifications, and professional recommendations, visit my LinkedIn profile.
View experience on LinkedInCapabilities
What I bring to the work
Applied AI backed by practical engineering, security and delivery experience. Tool choice depends on the workflow, privacy requirements and the systems already used by the business.
Applied AI and Workflow Automation
Finding useful AI opportunities, designing reliable workflows and building automation with clear human review and security boundaries.
ClaudeChatGPTGeminiCursorOllamaWorkflow DesignAutomation
Product Engineering
Taking products from idea to production across user experience, application code, data, authentication, integrations and deployment.
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLSupabaseGitHubDockerAPI Design
Application Security and DevSecOps
Reducing practical software risk through threat modelling, secure delivery, automated checks and clear guidance for engineering teams.
Threat ModellingOWASPSCASASTSSDLCCI/CDSecure Code Review
Privacy, Cloud and Governance
Choosing and operating technology with appropriate privacy, identity, secrets, logging, risk and documentation controls.
Privacy ActAWSIAMISO 27001NISTRisk ManagementLocal AI
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.
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!
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.
Contact
Where is your business losing time?
Tell me about the repetitive work, bottleneck or process you would most like to improve. I will let you know whether an AI Workflow Assessment is a sensible next step.