AI Consultant · Brisbane
AI CONSULTING
FROM A BRISBANE MICROSOFT MVP.
Frontrow Technology runs AI consulting and advisory services for Brisbane mid-market businesses from Queen Street in the CBD. AI strategy and roadmaps, Copilot rollouts, Copilot Studio agents, Azure AI Foundry workloads, and the governance scaffolding to operate them on a continuing basis.
What Brisbane AI engagements look like
Strategy, build, governance.
Most Brisbane organisations engaging an AI consultant are between curiosity and a first production agent. The work breaks cleanly into three shapes.
Shape 1
AI strategy and readiness
Two to three weeks. Honest read of where AI fits the business now, what to ship in the next 90 days, and the data and identity gaps that will block it. Output is a board-ready plan, not a slide deck.
Shape 2
Copilot rollout or first production agent
8 to 14 weeks. Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout, Copilot Studio agent build, or Azure AI Foundry production workload. Always paired with the SharePoint hygiene and Purview labelling that makes it work.
Shape 3
AI governance program
Standing the Voluntary AI Safety Standard's ten guardrails up inside the organisation. AI policy, model register, human oversight, transparency notices, AI risk register. Ongoing assurance cadence on top.
AI advisory services · Brisbane
The advisory engagements Frontrow runs from Queen Street.
"AI advisory" covers a lot of ground. These are the engagements Frontrow actually sells and delivers for Brisbane businesses — each one scoped, priced fixed, and run by the senior person named on the proposal.
AI strategy and roadmap
An honest read of where AI pays in the business, turned into a phased 12-month roadmap that front-loads quick wins. Grounded in the Microsoft 365 licences already owned, so the plan starts from what is already paid for.
AI Business Transformation Review
The packaged version of that strategy work: a readiness assessment, an expert manual review and a facilitated discovery workshop, ending in a current-state report, a ranked opportunity statement and a costed 12-month roadmap the client keeps — no lock-in.
How the review works →Copilot readiness and rollout
Microsoft 365 Copilot rolled out with the identity, SharePoint hygiene and Purview labelling sorted before anyone types a prompt — then adoption work so the licences get used, not parked.
Agent builds — Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry
Custom agents for specific jobs: Copilot Studio for assistants grounded in company data, Azure AI Foundry for heavier production workloads. Built to ship into daily use, not to live as a perpetual pilot.
AI governance
The Voluntary AI Safety Standard's ten guardrails stood up inside the organisation, layered on the Essential Eight cyber baseline. AI policy, model register, human oversight, transparency notices and an AI risk register — one program, not two, so the same artefacts satisfy the AI question and the cyber question at board level.
Who you'll work with
A Microsoft MVP on the engagement, not on the brochure.
Frontrow's AI lead Daniel Brown is a 5× Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Certified Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect. He leads the Adelaide Microsoft 365 and Copilot User Group. For Brisbane AI engagements he is the lead consultant on the work — not a sales engineer pitching a junior team. Modern Work delivery on Brisbane engagements is led by Simon Aspinall. Cyber and governance is led by Sam Williams (AICD-qualified, with board-level technology risk experience across regulated industries).
AI consultancy, advisory, agency — same question
Whether you're searching "AI consultancy", "AI advisory" or "AI agency" in Brisbane.
Brisbane businesses describe this work in a dozen ways — an AI consultancy, an AI advisory firm, an AI consulting company, even an AI agency. The need underneath is the same: a senior team that can tell you where AI genuinely fits, build it on the Microsoft stack you already pay for, and govern it so the board stays comfortable. Frontrow is a Microsoft Partner-led AI consulting firm in the Brisbane CBD doing exactly that — not a marketing agency bolting a chatbot onto a website.
- AI strategy & advisory — where AI earns its keep, in plain numbers
- Copilot & Copilot Studio rollouts grounded in your own data
- Azure AI Foundry production builds, not perpetual pilots
- AI governance against the Voluntary AI Safety Standard
"Expert team, high service levels, competitive solutions — and real expertise with geographically distributed operations across Australia."
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Microsoft & AI guides, tools and local services.
FAQ — Brisbane AI consulting
The questions Brisbane buyers ask before engaging an AI consultant.
- What does an AI consultant in Brisbane actually do for a mid-market business?
- Three things. First, an honest read on where AI fits in the business right now — not the demo, the workflow that earns its keep. Second, the build itself, whether that is a Copilot rollout, a Copilot Studio agent, or a heavier Azure AI Foundry workload. Third, the governance scaffolding (AI policy, model register, human oversight, transparency) so the business can scale the use without losing the audit trail.
- Is Frontrow a Microsoft-only AI consultancy?
- Mostly. The team is a Microsoft Partner with Modern Work and AI specialisations and the AI lead is a 5× Microsoft MVP. The default stack is Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry. Where Anthropic Claude or another model is the right answer for a specific workload — long-form reasoning, agentic coding, a non-Microsoft data source — Frontrow will say so and integrate it. The aim is the right answer, not the loudest brand.
- Where in Brisbane does Frontrow work from?
- Frontrow's head office is at Level 1, 355 Queen Street, in the Brisbane CBD. AI consulting work is led by Daniel Brown (5× Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect) with Modern Work and Cyber leads on the engagements that need them. On-site at Brisbane clients during pilots and milestones, remote between.
- What do AI advisory services cost in Brisbane?
- It depends on the shape of the engagement, and Frontrow quotes each one fixed after a scoping conversation rather than publishing a rate card. The common shapes: an AI Business Transformation Review is a fixed-scope advisory engagement that runs over a few weeks and ends with a report and 12-month roadmap the client keeps. A Copilot readiness and rollout program is scoped against the tenant — number of staff, state of SharePoint and permissions. A Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry agent build is scoped against the specific workload it automates. None of it requires new platforms; the work runs on the Microsoft 365 licences already owned.
- How is Frontrow different from other AI consultancies in Brisbane?
- Three things. The AI lead on the engagement is a 5× Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect — the senior person does the work, not the pitch. The work is built on the Microsoft 365 and Azure licences the business already pays for, so advisory turns into working software without a new platform purchase. And every build ships with the governance scaffolding — AI policy, model register, human oversight — so the board conversation is covered, not deferred.
- Does Frontrow work with small businesses, or only mid-market?
- The centre of gravity is Brisbane mid-market, but the engagement shapes scale down. A smaller business running Microsoft 365 with a concrete workflow problem — quoting, reporting, document handling — is a good fit for a focused review or a single agent build. The free AI readiness score is the honest place to start either way; it takes a few minutes and shows whether an engagement is worth anyone's time yet.
- How does Frontrow approach AI governance for Brisbane clients?
- Against the Voluntary AI Safety Standard (the ten guardrails published by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources in August 2024) layered on the Essential Eight cyber baseline. The artefacts that come out of the engagement satisfy both the AI governance ask and the cyber posture conversation, run as one program rather than two.
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No call centre and no discovery-call runaround. Send the form and a senior consultant replies the same business day — with an actual view on your situation, not a brochure.
- Brisbane office
- Level 1, 355 Queen Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
- Prefer to call?
- 1300 012 466
- What happens next
- A reply the same business day, from the person who would actually run the work — not a sales queue.
Talk to a Brisbane AI consultant.
Level 1, 355 Queen Street, Brisbane QLD 4000. 30-minute strategy chat, honest answers on where AI fits the business right now and what to ship in the next 90 days.