The Spare Mind ring: a dark machined ring with an orange dot sitting in its gap

Custom AI systems for Perth businesses

Give your business a spare mind.

We build AI systems around the way your business actually runs: tender responses assembled from your past wins, a website that keeps itself up to date, reports written from your own numbers, and the admin that eats into every week. Built on Claude, and measured on your own work before you spend more.

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What goes into a build

Five layers, built around how your business works.

The Spare Mind ring taken apart into five layers, with the orange dot lifted out of its gap
  1. Skills

    How you work, written down once

    The way you quote, tender, report and reply, captured once so Claude follows it every time.

  2. Connectors

    Plugged into your tools

    Outlook or Gmail, Xero or MYOB, ServiceM8 or simPRO, SharePoint or Google Drive.

  3. Agents

    Jobs it does for you

    Assembles the tender response, keeps the website up to date, drafts the quote, writes the monthly report.

  4. Data rules

    Rules it never breaks

    What stays private, who sees what, and what a person checks and signs off.

  5. Handover

    Your team runs it

    A one-page guide for every automation, a recorded walk-through and a month of support.

The spare mind your business has been missing.

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What we build

Systems shaped around your work, not a product off the shelf.

Every business runs its own way, so every system is designed around yours. These are the places we usually start.

  • Tendering and proposals

    Tender responses and proposals assembled from your past wins, your capability statements and the tender's own requirements, ready for you to review and sign.

  • Website automation

    A website that keeps itself up to date: new projects, posts and updates published on schedule, without a developer.

  • Quoting and estimating

    Quotes drafted from your rates, your supplier prices and the job's details, checked before they go out.

  • Reporting

    Weekly and monthly reports pulled together from your own systems and written up in your words, with every number checked against its source.

  • Document control and compliance

    Safety, quality and compliance paperwork prepared, filed and tracked, so nothing goes out of date.

  • Customer replies and inbox triage

    Enquiries sorted, drafted replies waiting for your OK, and nothing left sitting unanswered.

  • Admin and follow-ups

    Meeting notes and actions, supplier chasers, invoice reminders and the follow-ups that eat into every week.

  • Your own processes

    Whatever your business does its own way. If you do it the same way more than once, we can usually build a system for it.

Who we help

Built for businesses that quote, build and deliver.

Any business of 5 to 100 people can use this. We know these four best, because an engineer has worked alongside them for years.

  • Builders and fit-out contractors

    Tenders, quotes, variations, site diaries and the paperwork that follows every job.

  • Electrical contractors

    Quotes, compliance certificates, job notes and chasing approvals and payments.

  • Plumbing and mechanical contractors

    Service reports, maintenance schedules, quotes and customer follow-ups.

  • Fabricators and small manufacturers

    Estimates from drawings, purchase orders, quality records and delivery updates.

How it works

Measure first. Build second. Prove it with the same measurement.

  • Measure

    Your team logs how long the everyday jobs really take, for a week. No estimates, no guesses.

  • Build

    We build in your own accounts and test against your real work, so it fits how you already operate.

  • Prove

    Thirty days later the same people log the same jobs. The difference is the result, and it is yours to keep.

The audit guarantee

If the AI Opportunity Audit doesn't find at least 5 hours a week of work that can be saved, you don't pay for it.

How we work, step by step

Start small

Fixed prices. Climb only when the last step has paid for itself.

  • AI Opportunity Call

    Free

    A free 30-minute call. We look at how your business runs and name two quick wins before we hang up.

  • AI Opportunity Audit

    From $1,950

    Your team logs 3 to 5 processes for a week. You get a written roadmap with the hours each change saves and its payback. If it doesn't find at least 5 hours a week of savable work, you don't pay.

  • First Automation Sprint

    From $4,500

    One working workflow, live in about 3 weeks, measured before and after, with a 30-day fix window.

  • Claude operating-system build

    From $10,000

    Claude set up across your business and designed around how it runs: your processes written down once, connected to your tools, 3 to 5 automations or agents (tendering, website updates, reporting, quoting or your own processes), data rules and a handover guide.

Prices are AUD, excluding GST. Every price is fixed before work starts; there is no hourly billing.

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Proof

Already built, and running every day.

One person, working around a full-time job, runs a media business through a production line of Claude systems: research, scripts, packaging, a website that publishes itself, and the checks in between.

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Results log

No client results are published yet. The first measured client before-and-after is due in March 2027, and every result goes on the results log with how it was measured, including any that fall short.

Tomas Panak, founder of Spare Mind AI

Who you work with

An engineer, not a sales team.

I'm Tomas Panak, a Chartered Chemical Process Engineer with 19 years in engineering and infrastructure. I design these systems the way I was trained to design plant: map the process, find where the time goes, build with checks in place, and measure the result.

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Questions

How much does an AI consultant cost in Perth?

Our prices are fixed and published. The AI Opportunity Call is free, the AI Opportunity Audit starts from $1,950, a First Automation Sprint from $4,500 and a full Claude operating-system build from $10,000, all AUD, excluding GST. Care plans start from $650 a month.

Will Claude work with the software we already use?

Usually, yes. Claude connects to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and many common business tools. We check that a connection exists for your accounting or job-management software before we quote, and price any custom connection as its own line.

Where does our data go?

Into your own Claude account, which you hold in your business's name, on business terms that don't use your data to train models by default. If your data has to stay in Australia, we can build on an Australian-hosted route instead.

What happens if something breaks?

Every automation is built to fall back to the way you do it now, so work never stops. Care plan clients get a reply the same evening and a fix within two business days.