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Practical guides to AI, automation and the way you work.

23 guides to explore

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Consulting & professional services

Client onboarding automation for consulting firms

Connect an accepted engagement to a delivery team that has the right context. Includes a proposed workflow, handover fields and practical acceptance tests.

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Trade business workflows

Plumbing enquiry follow-up: a practical workflow

Before adding another lead source, check what happens to the enquiries already coming in. Here’s a practical process for getting each request to a clear next action.

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Choosing a supplier

How to choose an AI implementation partner

A useful proposal should make the work easier to understand. These questions help you compare suppliers and see what you would actually be buying.

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Using AI day to day

Check an AI-drafted reply before you send it

AI drafts go wrong in the same few places, and they are the places Australian consumer law cares most about. Here is a two-minute check you can keep beside the screen, with a worked example of a flawed draft and its fix.

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Using AI day to day

Does your privacy policy need an automated-decisions section?

From 10 December 2026, Privacy Act–covered businesses must explain in their privacy policy when computer programs make, or substantially help make, significant decisions about people. Here is how to work out whether that is you, and what to write.

AppliedAgents11 min read
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Enquiries & follow-up

Are your website enquiries actually arriving?

A contact form can look fine and still lose enquiries quietly. Here is a test you can run yourself, a template for recording what happens, and where enquiries usually go missing.

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Growth & capacity

Automate it, fix the process or hire someone?

Before you price a person or a piece of software, look at what the work actually is. A one-week log, three questions and a worked example show which tasks need a process fix, an automation or a person.

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Reviews & reputation

How to ask for Google reviews

Most happy customers will leave a review if you ask at the right time and make it easy. Here is wording you can copy, a routine you can automate, and the rules that catch businesses out.

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Enquiries & follow-up

AI receptionists in Australia: cost and testing

AI receptionists are cheap and quick to set up, and they can still take a garbled message from your best customer. Here is what they cost, how they compare with the alternatives, and how to test one properly.

AppliedAgents9 min read
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Using AI day to day

A one-page AI policy for small businesses

If your team uses ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude, you already have AI in your business. Here is a one-page policy you can adapt this week, the settings that make it real, and how to introduce it.

AppliedAgents9 min read
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Using AI day to day

How to make AI writing sound human

AI drafts give themselves away with the same few words and sentence shapes. Here is what to cut, what to write instead, and a ten-minute routine to make a draft sound like you.

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Choosing AI tools

ChatGPT Business vs Copilot (Australia)

Copilot and ChatGPT Business cost, store data and fit into your day differently. Here are the Australian prices, the privacy details and a simple way to trial both.

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Enquiries & follow-up

The SMS Sender ID Register for small businesses

If your booking reminders or job updates started arriving as “Unverified”, here is what changed on 1 July 2026, how to register your sender ID and which rules apply when a text is selling something.

AppliedAgents9 min read
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Getting found online

How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT

Customers now ask ChatGPT who to call. Here is what you can actually control, what the platforms say, what practitioners are finding, and a free check to see how your business shows up.

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Planning & preparation

Automation readiness checklist for your business

Use one real task to work out what’s ready, what needs clarifying and what to bring to a supplier conversation. Includes a worksheet you can keep and edit.

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Planning & costs

AI implementation costs in Australia: how to budget

A useful AI budget starts with one business process. Here’s how to compare quotes, account for ongoing work and decide whether the improvement is worth paying for.

AppliedAgents9 min read
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Trade business workflows

ServiceM8 quote follow-up: native or custom?

For plumbing, HVAC and other trade businesses, the first question is whether the tools you already pay for can handle the follow-up. Start there before buying another system.

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Using AI day to day

How to prompt AI for better answers

Most disappointing AI answers come from short prompts that leave the AI guessing. Here is how to brief it properly, with examples, a template and what the tests say about popular tricks.

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For plumbing businesses

From a new enquiry
to a clear next action.

Explore where AI and automation can help with intake, follow-up and the office handover. Try a sample workflow with three different customer requests.

Explore the plumbing workflow
Emoney Home Loans website built by AppliedAgents

From our work

A better handover starts with the first enquiry.

How the Emoney website and AI assistant carry a visitor’s context through to a broker.

Explore the Emoney project

Make it work for your business

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that keeps coming back.

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