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Your outsourced AI department · Geelong & Ballarat

Put AI to Work
in Your Business

UCS finds repetitive work, builds AI and automation to eliminate it, then manages it for you.

Save time. Reduce admin. Improve customer response. Grow without adding headcount.
Book an AI Opportunity Audit → Estimate your savings in 3 minutes →

Already on Microsoft 365? We'll make the technology you already own work harder.

15–30
Costed opportunities per audit
100%
Fixed-price builds
5
Founding partner places

Find it. Build it. Run it.

We find the work that's eating your team's time, remove it, and keep it running. You see the hours and dollars saved every month.

01
Find it

AI Opportunity & ROI Audit

We map where time goes across your business and hand you 15–30 costed opportunities, ranked by impact, difficulty, risk and time-to-value, plus a 12-month roadmap.

Fixed fee confirmed before we start
02
Build it

Fixed-Price Implementation

We build the opportunities worth doing, starting from proven UCS AI Solutions so you're not paying for a blank page. Scope and price are locked before work starts.

Fixed price quoted before work starts
03
Run it

Managed AI by UCS

We monitor, maintain, secure and improve everything we build, and send you a monthly AI Value Report showing hours saved and dollars returned.

Three plans pricing on consultation

Sound familiar?

You don't need "an AI strategy". You need quotes out faster and an inbox that isn't a full-time job. Here's what we fix, department by department.

Sales

Quotes take days to go out
AI Sales Assistant drafts quotes from your pricing and templates, ready for review in minutes.
New leads go cold before anyone calls back
AI Receptionist responds instantly, qualifies the enquiry and books the appointment.
Follow-ups depend on someone remembering
AI Sales Assistant schedules follow-ups and keeps your CRM up to date.

Accounts

Someone spends hours keying in supplier invoices
AI Accounts Assistant reads, codes and queues invoices for approval.
Chasing overdue invoices eats every Friday
AI Accounts Assistant sends polite, escalating reminders and flags the ones that need a call.
The accounts inbox is never empty
AI Inbox Assistant sorts, drafts replies and routes each email to the right person.

Customer Service

Customers wait too long for simple answers
AI Service Desk Assistant answers common questions from your own approved content.
After-hours enquiries sit until Monday
AI Receptionist captures web and phone enquiries around the clock and books the next step.
Tickets land with the wrong person
AI Service Desk Assistant triages, prioritises and assigns every request.

Operations

The same job details get re-typed into three systems
AI Document Assistant extracts the details once and updates each system.
Nobody can find the latest procedure
AI Document Assistant answers questions from SharePoint and OneDrive, with permissions respected.
Meetings end without clear actions
AI Meeting Assistant turns Teams meetings into notes, decisions and assigned tasks.

HR

Onboarding is a different checklist every time
AI HR Assistant runs a consistent onboarding workflow, from paperwork to accounts.
Staff ask HR the same policy questions every week
AI HR Assistant answers from your own policies and escalates anything sensitive.

Management

The monthly report takes a day to pull together
AI Reporting Assistant gathers the numbers from your systems and drafts the commentary.
Marketing keeps slipping down the list
AI Marketing Assistant drafts newsletters, posts and case studies in your voice for approval.
We can't grow without hiring more admin
AI Opportunity & ROI Audit shows where the hours are going and what it's worth to win them back.

Proven solutions, tailored to your business

Each solution is a tested starting point that we configure for your systems, your data and your way of working, usually inside the Microsoft 365 you already pay for.

AI Receptionist

Handles phone and web enquiries, qualifies leads and books appointments.

AI Sales Assistant

Drafts quotes and proposals, chases follow-ups and keeps your CRM current.

AI Service Desk Assistant

Answers common customer questions and triages requests to the right person.

AI Accounts Assistant

Captures and codes supplier invoices and chases overdue accounts.

AI Inbox Assistant

Sorts shared inboxes, drafts replies and routes requests automatically.

AI Document Assistant

Answers questions from SharePoint and OneDrive, with your permissions respected.

AI Meeting Assistant

Turns Teams meetings into notes, decisions and assigned actions.

AI HR Assistant

Runs onboarding and answers staff policy questions from your own documents.

AI Reporting Assistant

Pulls numbers from your systems into a ready-to-read management report.

AI Marketing Assistant

Drafts newsletters, social posts and case studies in your voice, for your approval.

Every build is quoted at a fixed price before we start, with scope and price agreed in writing.

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AI Opportunity & ROI Audit

Find out exactly where AI will save your business time and money, in your numbers, before you commit to a build.

1

Book

Fixed fee, paid upfront. You know the full cost before we start.

2

Discovery workshop

Around two hours, on-site or by video. We map where your team's time goes and what's already in your Microsoft 365 that could be doing more.

3

15–30 opportunities, ranked

Every opportunity is scored on impact, difficulty, risk and time-to-value, and gets its own costed opportunity card.

4

Your roadmap

Within 5 business days: a 90-day, 6-month and 12-month plan showing what to do first and what it's worth. Yours to keep regardless.

5

Fixed-price proposal (if it stacks up)

For the opportunities worth doing, we quote each build at a fixed price, with scope agreed before any work starts.

Book Your Audit

AI Opportunity & ROI Audit

A costed, ranked list of what to automate, and what it will return.

✓ Discovery workshop with your team
✓ 15–30 ranked, costed opportunity cards
✓ 90-day, 6-month and 12-month roadmap
✓ Delivered within 5 business days
✓ Report and roadmap yours to keep
Fixed fee, confirmed in your proposal · Paid upfront · Geelong & Ballarat
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Example opportunity card
Accounts
Accounts inbox automation
DO NOW
Current
18 hrs/mo
After
5 hrs/mo
Saves
13 hrs/mo
Annual value
$14,040
Payback
Under 6 months (illustrative)
Complexity
Low
Risk
Low
Recommendation
Do now
Illustrative example. Annual value = 13 hrs × 12 months × $90/hr loaded labour cost.
Your roadmap
90 days

Quick wins

Low-risk, fast-payback opportunities that free up hours straight away.

6 months

Core workflows

Bigger builds across sales, accounts and service, funded by the early savings.

12 months

Growth capacity

AI embedded across the business, so you can take on more work without adding headcount.

What is repetitive work costing you?

Enter your numbers. See what automation could realistically win back, before you spend a dollar.

Annual Cost of Manual Work
$0
What you currently spend on manual, repeatable work
Recoverable With Automation
$0
Estimate at your coverage percentage

These are estimates. The AI Opportunity & ROI Audit gives you costed figures for your business.

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We run it. You see the results.

Automations need looking after, just like your IT. Every plan includes monitoring, security, governance and a monthly AI Value Report.

AI Care
Pricing on consultation
Keep it running
✓ Monitoring of every automation
✓ Integrations maintained as your systems change
✓ Security and governance controls
✓ Monthly optimisation
✓ Monthly AI Value Report
AI Transformation
Pricing on consultation
Make AI part of how you grow
✓ Everything in AI Growth
✓ Ongoing AI roadmap
✓ Larger monthly build capacity
✓ Executive strategy sessions
✓ Staff adoption and training
✓ Quarterly ROI review

Monthly AI Value Report

Sample report · illustrative figures
47
Workflows executed
126
Staff hours saved
$8,900
Labour value saved
31
Sales opportunities assisted
99.4%
Automation success rate
3
Improvements deployed
2
New opportunities identified

Managed AI Governance

The same discipline we bring to your cybersecurity, applied to AI. Included in every Managed AI plan, or available on its own.

Approved AI apps

A clear list of which AI tools staff can use, and for what.

Data classification

What can and can't go into AI, defined for your business.

Permissions

AI only sees what each user is already allowed to see.

Logging

A record of what the AI did, and when.

Human approvals

A person signs off wherever a mistake would matter.

Privacy

Personal information handled in line with your privacy obligations.

Retention

Rules for how long AI data and outputs are kept.

Vendor assessment

AI suppliers checked before your data goes anywhere near them.

Incident process

A plan for when something goes wrong, before it does.

"Your employees are probably already using AI. The question isn't whether your business uses AI. It's whether you know what they're putting into it."

We'll show you what's in use today, put sensible guardrails in place, and give your team approved tools they'll actually want to use.
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The AI partner you already trust.

UCS is already a trusted managed IT, cybersecurity and Microsoft partner for regional businesses. AI is the next step, from the same team.

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10+ Years of Trust

SCTG and UCS have been looking after IT for Geelong and Ballarat businesses for over a decade. We already know your systems.

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Microsoft 365 First

We'll make the technology you already own work harder before recommending anything new. Teams, Outlook, SharePoint and OneDrive are where most quick wins live.

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Security Built In

Our cybersecurity team is part of every build. Permissions, logging and governance aren't an afterthought.

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Local, Not Remote

We sit with you and see how your business actually runs. We're here in Geelong and Ballarat, not pitching from Sydney or Melbourne.

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Fixed Pricing Always

No hourly billing and no scope-creep surprises. Every build is quoted at a fixed price, with a signed scope, before work begins.

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Outcomes, Not Jargon

We lead with your numbers: what the work costs today, what automation will save, and when it pays back. Then we report on it every month.

⚡ Limited to 5 places

Founding AI Partner Program

Five places for existing UCS and SC Technology Group customers with 20–150 staff on Microsoft 365. It's a working partnership: we build alongside you, measure the results, and turn what works into UCS AI Solutions.

✓
Priority delivery of your audit and builds
✓
Co-design of your AI solutions with our team
✓
Direct access to Jeremy Williams for strategy conversations
✓
Early access to new UCS AI Solutions
What we ask in return

Permission to develop a case study with you, to measure the results, and to reuse successful solutions as UCS AI Solutions. Your data and anything confidential stay yours.

Founding Partnership

5
Founding places available
Who it's for Existing UCS & SC customers
Delivery Priority
Solution design Co-designed with you
Strategy access Direct to Jeremy
New UCS AI Solutions Early access
Your data Stays yours
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Common Questions

What happens in an AI Opportunity & ROI Audit? +
We spend around two hours with you and your key people, on-site in Geelong or Ballarat or by video, mapping where time goes on repetitive work. We then identify 15–30 opportunities, rank them by impact, difficulty, risk and time-to-value, and give each one a costed opportunity card showing hours saved, annual value, build cost and payback. Within 5 business days you get the full report and a 90-day, 6-month and 12-month roadmap. No jargon and no obligation to proceed.
How is the audit priced, and what if we don't go ahead with a build? +
The audit is a fixed fee, and the fee and terms are confirmed in your proposal before we start. If you don't go ahead with a build, the report and roadmap are still yours to keep.
We already use Microsoft 365. Do we need new software? +
Usually not. We start with what you already pay for (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and the automation tools in Microsoft 365) and only recommend something new when it clearly pays for itself.
We're not a tech company. Is this relevant to us? +
That's exactly who we work with. Trades businesses, professional services firms, healthcare practices and real estate agencies are our primary market. The more process-driven your business, the bigger the opportunity. We speak plain English, so no technical background is needed.
What does 'fixed price' actually mean? +
You know the exact cost before any work begins. Every build is scoped in a signed document before we start. If you ask for something outside that scope, we issue a change request with a price, and you approve it before we proceed. You will never receive an invoice for more than what was agreed.
How long does a build take? +
A single UCS AI Solution typically takes 2–4 weeks. Multi-workflow projects take 6–12 weeks. The timeline starts once the Scope of Work is signed and the commencement payment is received.
What happens after a build is delivered? +
Every build includes 30 days of post-launch support. After that, we recommend a Managed AI plan (AI Care, AI Growth or AI Transformation) so your automations are monitored, kept secure and improved over time. Every plan includes a monthly AI Value Report showing the hours and dollars saved.
How do you keep our data safe? +
Governance is part of every build and every Managed AI plan. AI only sees what each user is already permitted to see, its actions are logged, a person approves anything where a mistake would matter, and every AI vendor is assessed before your data goes near it. We can also review the AI tools your staff are already using.
What is the R&D Tax Incentive and does it affect our pricing? +
The R&D Tax Incentive is a government program that subsidises our development costs. It doesn't affect your pricing, as our fees are market-rate. It does let us invest in building reusable tools and frameworks that make our delivery faster and better.
Do you work with businesses outside Geelong and Ballarat? +
Our focus is Geelong, Ballarat and the greater Surf Coast and Western District region. We will consider businesses elsewhere in Victoria where we can deliver without compromising quality. Audits can be run by video for remote clients.

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What Happens Next
1.We review your enquiry and call you to confirm scope and availability
2.You receive an invoice for the fixed audit fee
3.Discovery workshop scheduled within 2 weeks of payment
4.Ranked opportunities and roadmap in your inbox within 5 business days of the workshop
Prefer to Talk First?

Completely fine. Call Jeremy directly or send an email. No forms required.

📞 (03) 5221 2511 ✉ jwilliams@sctechnologygroup.com.au

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