AI Agent Development Company in Perth

OT exposure is what moves the number on a Perth agent project. A scoped proof of concept for a Pilbara IOC exception-triage workflow stays on the corporate side of the fence. A production agent rollout for BHP, Rio Tinto, Fortescue, Woodside, or Chevron operational use does not. Scope drivers include OT segregation review, an APM/SCADA integration plan, hallucination evaluation against operator-recorded ground truth, and a hosted demo on AWS ap-southeast-2. AUKUS Pillar 2 and HMAS Stirling adjacent work runs through DISP-cleared partner panels with separate scoping. All proposals are fixed-fee in AUD with no T and M creep.

The SOCI Act 2018 (amended 2022 and 2023) brings most Pilbara iron-ore, North West Shelf LNG, and major coal operations under critical-infrastructure obligations including the Risk Management Programme rule and mandatory incident reporting to the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC). Any operational AI agent that touches autonomous haul, rail control, LNG compressor operations, or major maintenance decisions must be classified against the client's RMP and registered with CISC where applicable. We run the SOCI-aligned threat model, restrict prompt routing to Australian sovereign endpoints (AWS ap-southeast-2 or self-hosted on Pawsey or the client's own infrastructure), and pre-write the CISC notification template for any AI-related cyber incident. We have shipped against patterns publicly disclosed by BHP, Rio Tinto, and Woodside.

Yes, on a project basis through prime contractor relationships. HMAS Stirling is the Royal Australian Navy's submarine base on Garden Island, and the AUKUS Pillar 1 programme will see US Virginia-class submarines and the future SSN-AUKUS class operate from there. AUKUS Pillar 2 covers advanced capabilities (AI, autonomy, hypersonics, quantum, cyber, undersea), and most AI agent demand lands in Pillar 2 rather than Pillar 1. Cleared Australian-citizen engineers (AGSVA Baseline minimum, NV1 for SECRET-adjacent work) source through partner panels in Perth and Adelaide. We will not over-promise on AGSVA backlog — clearances are slow, and we structure project scope so cleared work is bounded to genuinely sensitive components.

The WA Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 1972 (with the 2021 Act repealed and the 1972 Act amendments retained in 2023) governs notice, consultation, and consent for activities affecting Aboriginal sites and objects. Any AI agent that recommends drilling, road-corridor, or pit-expansion actions must surface the AHA 1972 status of the affected land, the registered native title party, and the heritage survey state. We embed this as a hard-blocking guard rail rather than a soft warning — the Juukan Gorge inquiry made it clear that automated decisioning without heritage controls is reputationally and legally catastrophic. Agents that recommend physical actions ship with a documented human-in-the-loop sign-off including the heritage officer at the relevant Joint Venture or operating company.

Perth runs AWST (UTC+8), three hours behind Sydney AEDT in summer, two hours behind AEST in winter. Most major-miner stakeholders work 0600 to 1500 AWST to overlap site rotations and East Coast morning markets. Our Brisbane account team overlaps Perth from 0900 AEST onwards (0700 AWST), and our Chandigarh build hub overlaps Perth from morning IST (0700 AWST onwards). Compared to a Sydney-based consultancy, the Codazz model gives Perth clients more AWST-aligned morning hours rather than late afternoon-only overlap. Defence and AUKUS work stays on AWST entirely, with no offshore touch.

Pawsey is Australia's national supercomputing facility, hosted at Kensington under partnership between CSIRO, Curtin University, the University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, and Edith Cowan University. The Setonix system is among Australia's most powerful research HPC platforms, with significant NVIDIA GPU capacity for AI workloads. Pawsey access is allocated through merit-based research schemes and industry partnerships rather than as a general commercial cloud. For Perth clients running research-grade agent training (Fortescue Future Industries' green-hydrogen process work, Woodside's reservoir modelling) we can structure access through formal industry partnerships with Pawsey. For routine commercial agent deployment, AWS ap-southeast-2 and Azure Australia East are the right answer.

Typical end-to-end for a Pilbara IOC exception-triage agent is sixteen to twenty-four weeks from signed SOW. Weeks 1 to 3 are discovery, SOCI Act scoping, OT segregation review, and stakeholder mapping across IOC, site, and corporate. Weeks 4 to 10 are pilot build with ground-truth labelling against twelve months of recorded operator decisions. Weeks 11 to 16 are evaluation hardening, OT integration testing, and shadow-mode operations alongside operators. Weeks 17 to 24 are graded rollout with go or no-go gates at each escalation tier. For LNG control-room copilots at Karratha or Gorgon, add four to eight weeks for IEC 62443 OT-cyber review and Honeywell/Emerson DCS vendor coordination.

Three reasons. First, AWST coverage from Brisbane and Chandigarh gives Perth clients more morning overlap than Sydney shops that only kick off after 0900 AEST. Second, our resources sector pattern library — Pilbara IOC, North West Shelf LNG, AUKUS submarine sustainment — is materially deeper than fintech-heavy East Coast consultancies. Third, our fixed-fee AUD model with no T and M creep matches WA mining and energy procurement practice better than the East Coast time-and-materials default. We partner with UWA's Centre for Software and Security Practice and Curtin University's School of EECMS for academic collaboration when novel research is genuinely required, and we are upfront when it isn't.