For established businesses with 20–200 staff

Your board is asking about AI.
Your staff are already using it.

Essetech rolls AI out across your whole business — safely, compliantly, and with measurable ROI. Audit, secure deployment, staff training and ongoing management, from an established Adelaide IT & cybersecurity firm. Not a course graduate. Not an experiment.

Cybersecurity-first Adelaide-based & on-site Aligned to Australian privacy law
The problem nobody's managing

"Shadow AI" is already inside your business

Right now, someone on your team is pasting client information into a free AI tool to get their work done faster. Nobody approved it. Nobody's checking what goes in. And nobody's sharing the productivity gains with the rest of the team.

That leaves you exposed twice: unmanaged AI is a data and compliance risk, and unadopted AI is a competitive risk — because the firms that roll it out properly are already quoting faster, reporting faster and serving clients faster than you.

The question isn't whether your business uses AI. It's whether anyone is managing it.

75%

of knowledge workers already use AI at work

78%

of those bring their own AI tools — not ones the business provides or controls

52%

are reluctant to admit they use it — so you won't hear about it until something goes wrong

0

controls on what company and client data flows into free public tools — in most businesses we assess

Sources: Microsoft & LinkedIn Work Trend Index (global survey of 31,000 workers). We map your business's own numbers in the audit.

The program

Secure AI Enablement, in three stages

A structured path from "we should do something about AI" to a business where AI is deployed, governed, and earning its keep — without you having to become the expert.

1

AI Readiness Audit

Know exactly where you stand — in two weeks.

$2,950 fixed
Fully credited toward your rollout*
  • Shadow-AI discovery — what your staff are really using today
  • Data & security posture review
  • Top-5 AI opportunity map with hours & dollars attached
  • Board-ready roadmap + draft AI use policy
Start with the audit
The core engagement
2

Secure AI Rollout

AI deployed properly, across the whole team.

from $9,750
4–6 week engagement
  • Enterprise AI deployed securely — Copilot, Claude or Gemini in your own environment
  • Access controls, data governance & adopted AI use policy
  • Hands-on staff training, role by role, on your real work
  • Your 3 highest-ROI workflows automated and live before we leave
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3

AI Managed Service

Your ongoing AI department.

from $2,950 /month
Month-to-month · no lock-in
  • A new automation or custom AI agent built every month
  • Monitoring, governance & policy kept current
  • AI helpdesk for your staff — questions answered same day
  • Quarterly executive roadmap review
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*Proceed to the rollout within 60 days and the full audit fee comes off the price. Prices ex GST.

What actually changes

Small time savings, multiplied by every employee

AI enablement isn't one big magic trick. It's an hour a day saved on quotes, reports, emails, file summaries and admin — multiplied across your whole team, every working day.

Faster client work

Quotes, tenders, reports and correspondence drafted in minutes — reviewed by your people, not replaced by a robot.

Risk brought under control

A clear AI policy your staff actually follow, enterprise tools instead of free ones, and client data that stays where it belongs.

A confident, capable team

Staff trained on real tasks, not theory — so the gains don't depend on one enthusiast who might resign next year.

An answer for the board

A written roadmap, a governance framework, and quarterly numbers on hours saved and value created.

The maths for a 50-person business
Time saved per person, per day 1 hour
Hours back across the team, per week 250 hrs
Equivalent extra capacity 6+ full-timers
At $50/hr fully-loaded cost, per year $650,000

Illustrative estimate — one hour/day is a conservative, commonly reported AI productivity gain for office roles. Your audit maps your real numbers before you spend a dollar on rollout.

Who it's for

Built for established Adelaide businesses

If you have 20–200 staff, client data you can't afford to leak, and a nagging feeling you should be further ahead on AI — this is for you.

Professional services

Accounting, legal, engineering, consulting — drafting, file review, research and client letters at twice the pace, without confidentiality risk.

Construction & trades head offices

Tenders, quotes, safety documentation and project reporting generated from your own templates and job data.

Healthcare & aged care

Admin, rostering support, intake and compliance documentation — with privacy obligations handled properly from day one.

Manufacturing & wholesale

Order processing, supplier comms, product data and management reporting — less rekeying, faster answers.

Not-for-profit & community

Grant writing, reporting and member communications done in a fraction of the time — on a budget that has to stretch.

Under 20 staff?

You probably want our AI Growth System instead — done-for-you AI employees that capture leads and buy back your time from $997/month.

How it works

From briefing to a working AI capability

1

Free AI briefing

30 minutes with your leadership. Where AI fits your business, what the risks are, what comparable firms are doing. Useful whether or not you engage us.

2

Readiness audit

Two weeks. We survey staff, review your data and security posture, and hand you a board-ready roadmap with the ROI attached to each opportunity.

3

Secure rollout

Four to six weeks. Enterprise AI deployed in your environment, policy adopted, staff trained, and your first three workflows automated and live.

4

Ongoing partnership

We stay on as your AI department: new automations monthly, governance kept current, staff supported, and quarterly numbers for the board.

Jonathon Battifuoco, founder of Essetech
Jonathon Battifuoco
Founder, Essetech · Adelaide

"Every week I meet business owners whose staff are quietly using free AI tools on client work. The fix isn't banning it — it's rolling it out properly. That's an IT and security job, and it's the job we've always done."

Based in Adelaide Established IT firm

Why an IT & cybersecurity firm — not an "AI agency"

Security is the whole ballgame

The #1 reason established firms stall on AI is data risk. We already run cybersecurity, cloud and IT for Adelaide businesses — deploying AI safely inside that stack is our home ground.

Vendor-agnostic, stack-first

Copilot, Claude or Gemini — we recommend what fits the systems you already pay for, not whatever earns a commission.

Australian privacy law, taken seriously

Governance, data-processing agreements and policy aligned to the Privacy Act. Your client data never trains public models.

Local, on-site, accountable

We're in Adelaide. We come to your office, train your people in the room, and answer the phone afterwards. Month-to-month — we keep the work by delivering.

Questions, answered

What Adelaide business leaders ask us about AI enablement.

That's exactly what this program exists to fix. Right now, in most businesses, staff are already pasting company information into free public AI tools with no controls at all. We deploy enterprise-grade AI inside your own secured environment, with access controls, data governance and an AI use policy — aligned to Australian privacy law. Your data is never used to train public models.
We're vendor-agnostic. Most rollouts are built on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Anthropic Claude or Google Gemini — chosen to fit the systems you already run, not the other way around. Where a specific workflow needs it, we build custom AI agents on top.
No. Training is part of the rollout — practical, role-by-role workshops using your real documents and tasks, not theory. Staff leave with working skills and clear rules on what's safe to use AI for. Ongoing support is included in the managed service.
Roughly 20 to 200 staff — professional services, construction head offices, healthcare and aged care, manufacturing, wholesale and not-for-profits. Smaller local businesses are usually better served by our AI Growth System.
The AI Readiness Audit is $2,950 fixed (ex GST), fully credited toward your rollout if you proceed within 60 days. The Secure AI Rollout starts from $9,750 depending on team size and systems. The ongoing AI Managed Service starts from $2,950/month, month-to-month. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute briefing — you'll know exactly what you'd pay before committing to anything.
That's usually the strongest reason to act. Unmanaged AI use means company and client data flowing into free public tools, inconsistent quality, and none of the gains being shared across the team. We turn scattered individual use into a secure, managed capability the whole business benefits from.

Book your free AI readiness briefing

30 minutes with your leadership team. We'll show you where AI fits your business, what your peers are already doing, and what an honest first step looks like. No jargon, no obligation.

  • A straight answer on where your business stands
  • The 2–3 highest-value AI opportunities for your industry
  • Honest advice — even if that's "you're not ready yet"

We reply within one business day. No spam, ever.

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