AI, data and automation

We fix the workflows that cost your team the most

Your best people lose hours every week re-keying numbers, chasing approvals and rebuilding the same reports. We automate that work, connect the systems behind it, and teach your team to run it.

Teams we have worked with
Cromwell Property GroupSentinel Property GroupSyncLift EngineeringMovement4Hiya Health
In their words
20+ hours saved a week
They built automations for our HR and scheduling teams that save us 20+ hours every week.
Brian LynchBrian LynchDirector · SyncLift Engineering
Time saved
We'd bought licences to Claude but gone nowhere. Impact First taught our team how to use it to actually save us time.
Dan O'DriscollDan O'DriscollCOO · Sentinel Property Group
What it costs to leave it

Your highest-paid people are stuck on busy work

Not because they’re slow. Two things trap them there:

01
Systems that don’t talk to each otherSo your people move the data by hand.
02
Tools nobody was taught to useSo the AI you already pay for sits idle.
What is the manual work costing you?
A year of manual work$264,960
Roughly 1.3 full-time people doing work a system could do.
Your numbers, not ours. Based on 46 working weeks and a 1,700-hour year.
What we do

Fix the workflows. Connect the data. Train the team.

Most of the cost sits in three places: work that still runs by hand, data scattered across systems that don’t talk, and AI tools nobody was taught to use. We work on all three, usually together.

01Fix your costliest workflowsAutomation and AI that take the repeat work out of sorting requests, data entry, reporting and approvals.
02Connect and manage your dataOne set of numbers behind every report and dashboard, so nobody has to stitch them together by hand.
03Train your teamYour people fluent in Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude on their real work, with 30 days of support.
Where we go deepest

We work across industries. These are the two areas where we’ve done the most work.

Finance teams · a good first target

Why finance is often where to start

Finance work repeats every month, follows clear rules, and still runs on a lot of manual effort: coding invoices, matching bank lines, chasing accruals, rewriting the same commentary. Work like that is easy to check, so a fix proves itself quickly.

Month-end close · Bank reconciliation · Invoice coding · Variance commentary · Investor reportingPreview of the invoice demo: 40 invoices read, 37 coded to the right account, property and fund
Property funds · live demos

What separates the winners from the strugglers

Why most property funds get nothing back from their AI licences, what the winners do differently, seven real builds, and a research agent you can try yourself.

Preview of the AI agents page: demos for research, deals, finance and investor relations
In practice

What this looks like in real businesses

One source of truth for the numbers
Property funds · Australian fund managerOne source of truth for the numbers

Their data lived in disconnected systems and spreadsheets, moved by hand. We built a single data layer underneath it: trusted numbers, and live dashboards every team can see.

Numbers everyone trustsRead the property funds briefing
Repeat documents, drafted the right way
Law firm · Boutique practiceRepeat documents, drafted the right way

We embedded their SOPs and best practice into an AI skill that drafts their repeat documents the way their best people write them, in a fraction of the time.

Hours off every document
An analyst watching the inbox around the clock
Investment · Investment firmAn analyst watching the inbox around the clock

An AI agent that watches the deal inbox, screens every new opportunity, runs the first-pass analysis, and files it all in one dashboard.

Always-on screening
Council applications, watched around the clock
Property development · Development teamCouncil applications, watched around the clock

An AI agent that watches council websites for new development applications near their existing sites, flags what matters, and surfaces opportunities and issues early.

Nothing relevant slips past
Lease details, extracted automatically
Finance · Mid-market finance teamLease details, extracted automatically

An AI that watches the inbox for new leases, pulls out the key terms, and has them ready for their system in minutes instead of an afternoon of re-keying.

Key terms in minutes
The CV pile that ate HR's week
Mining services · WA firm · ~200 staffThe CV pile that ate HR's week

A tool that reads every CV that comes in, shortlists the best people for the job, and explains why.

15 hours a week back
How we work · The Impact First Method

Seven steps from your costliest workflow to a fix that works

01
Target
02
Prioritise
03
Map
04
Ideate
05
Validate
06
Business case
07
Build and deploy

A business case before any build.

If the numbers don’t work, you stop there, for a fraction of what a failed build costs.

The right fix, not the fashionable one.

Sometimes AI, sometimes data, sometimes just a better process.

Nothing goes live untested.

You watch it run on your own work first.

Ways to start

Three ways to start

Pick the one that matches your biggest problem. You can add the others later.

Easiest first step

Get your team using Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude on real work

Hands-on sessions on your own documents, in groups of up to 12, with 30 days of support while the habit forms.

Guaranteed: every participant builds a working AI workflow within 30 days, or we keep working free.

From $5,995Up to 12 people. $8,995 up to 25.
Connect your data

Connect your systems so the numbers agree

We connect the systems you already use into one trusted set of numbers, so reports, dashboards and AI tools all start from the same figures.

Built in your own Microsoft environment. You own the data and everything we build.

Scoped on a callWe run it for you, or build it and hand it over.
Start here · The Impact First Sprint

Fix your most expensive workflow first

We take the workflow that costs you most and build a working version of the fix in your own tools, so you see it run before committing to anything bigger.

If it isn’t worth building in full, you stop there and owe nothing more.

Fixed priceA few weeks, scoped on a call.

All prices ex GST. No hourly billing. After a build, you can keep us on for monthly support to maintain and improve what we’ve built.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

How long does the first project take?+

A few weeks, not months.

We scope the Impact First Sprint on a short call, so you know the price and the timeline before you start.

Do we need our data sorted first?+

No. Connecting it is usually part of the work.

Most teams start in exactly that state: data in too many places, nothing reporting properly, a person in the middle holding it together.

What does it cost?+

Fixing a workflow is priced per engagement, agreed up front, with no hourly billing. It starts with the Impact First Sprint: a fixed price scoped on a short call.

After the build, you can keep us on for monthly support to maintain and improve what we’ve built. That’s optional, and the price is agreed up front too.

AI Fluency training is priced by team size: $5,995 for up to 12 people, $8,995 for up to 25. All prices ex GST.

Who actually does the work?+

Regan and a small senior team.

The person you meet on the first call is the person who builds. No juniors learning on your invoice, no handoff to a bench you never meet.

Who owns what you build?+

You do.

Everything runs in your tools, on your accounts, documented so your team owns it. Nothing stops working if we stop working together.

Is our data secure?+

Security is one of the first things we discuss.

Where possible we work with the AI platform your business has already approved, whether that’s Microsoft Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT Enterprise. We’ll always explain where your data goes before we build anything.

Regan Kirk, founder of Impact First AI
The founder

Regan Kirk

I won’t pretend AI can do everything. But the boring, repetitive stuff that wears your team down? Hand it over.

Regan has spent ten years in innovation, the last five building AI into Australian businesses including Cromwell, Sentinel Property Group and SyncLift Engineering. He’s trained 3,000+ people, taught at QUT and the University of Amsterdam, and wrote “Don’t Get Left Behind”. He runs every engagement himself, with a small senior team.

Brisbane · works Australia-wide

Find out where your time is going

Answer a few questions about how your team works. We send back the three places AI and data would save you the most time, and roughly how many hours each would give back.

Free · sent back as a short report within 48 hours

0468 372 398 · regan@impactfirstai.com.au

AI Opportunity Map

Prepared for: Your firm

Quoting & proposalsest. 6–9 hrs/wk back
Accounts inbox triageest. 4–6 hrs/wk back
Monthly reportingest. 3–5 hrs/wk back

Prepared by Regan Kirk · Impact First AI