Cairns  ·  available for training

AI builder & coffee enthusiast.

I help small businesses use AI properly. Built real products inside a real organisation over the last year — now training others to do the same, locally in Cairns or wherever the work takes me.

Duane, sitting at a Cairns café with a cappuccino

What I do

Three ways to work with me, depending on where you're starting from.

01

Train

Half-day and full-day sessions for teams getting started with Claude, ChatGPT, and the rest. Plain language, no jargon.

02

Build

Real working tools — dashboards, agents, integrations — built into your existing systems and shipped to production.

03

Advise

Ongoing support for organisations rolling out AI internally. The honest "what's worth doing, what's not" conversation.

Recent work

What I've actually shipped.

Finance · RAC

Xero financial dashboard

Seven company files consolidated into one — quarterly comparisons, year-over-year, budget vs actuals. Used daily by finance.

Operations · RAC

Mining quarry inventory system

Production tracking, tare weights, pricing by destination. Replaced a spreadsheet held together with hope.

Knowledge · RAC

Grants management app

Two-way Monday.com sync and AI-assisted extraction. Used end-to-end to submit a real funding application.

In partnership · funding pending

Yolŋu Matha Corpus & Preservation Pilot

Building a digital corpus and learning resources for one of Australia's oldest living languages, with community.

Everyone teaches the tools.
That's the easy part.

The hard part is running your real week with AI in the loop — keeping six things moving, knowing what to check, not losing the thread when you put something down. That's what I actually do, and it's what I teach.