Sydney AI practice

AI that earns its place in your business

We build practical AI systems. No buzzwords, just a clear focus on solving business problems.

Mid-market · enterprise · government/ Sydney, Australia

What we do

We help businesses build a competitive advantage

We find the friction in your business, remove it with AI, prove the commercial return, then hand the capability back to your team.

Reduce costs

Automate the manual work that quietly drains hours and budget.

Increase productivity

Get faster answers and free up capacity for the work that matters.

Protect margins

Do more, and do it better, with the team you already have.

Unlock growth

Build the capacity to take on more and outpace the field.

Why we do it

AI is changing business. We exist to make sure that change works in your favour.

Whether it's a first step or scaling AI across the organisation, the goal is always the same: a lasting competitive advantage.

Why

A lasting edge

AI is reshaping how business gets done. We help good businesses turn that change into a real competitive advantage, and the capability to keep it.

How

Alongside your team

We work shoulder to shoulder with your people: find the opportunities, embed practical AI and leave your team able to run and scale it.

What

Practical AI that performs

We design and build secure, practical AI systems that help your business perform, day in and day out.

Our promise

Every solution we build creates measurable value

Built for measurable returns

Every solution is designed to reduce costs, improve performance and deliver measurable commercial returns.

Secure, and yours to own

Your data stays in your control. Every system is built to keep you compliant, and built so your team can run it with confidence.

More time for what matters

Success is measured by the time we give back, freeing your people to focus on higher-value work that drives your business forward.

How we work

A clear path to commercial return

Four steps take you from the first conversation to a capability your team owns, with the commercial case proven before you scale.

01

Find the friction

We map your workflows and pinpoint where AI will move a commercial number.

02

Build the solution

We deliver production-grade AI, working in your environment alongside your team.

03

Prove the return

We measure the commercial outcome, in time, cost and growth.

04

Hand it over

We train your team and leave them able to run, trust and scale the capability.

What we bring

Advice you can trust

A clear strategy for where AI fits, what it's worth, and how to deploy it with confidence.

Strategy & use-case roadmappingGovernance, risk & complianceROI roadmaps

Solutions that deliver

We design, build and ship production-grade AI systems that fit your stack, your data and the way your team works.

Custom application developmentAutonomous & orchestrated agentsRAG & enterprise knowledge searchData-layer architectureModel fine-tuning & optimisationAI integration & automation

Training that unlocks potential

We leave your team more capable than we found them, with the training and change management that makes AI stick.

Hands-on team trainingChange managementAdoption & ownershipDocumentation & handover

The biggest unlock

You've handed your team the keys to a spaceship. We teach them to fly it.

Training is the single biggest unlock for most businesses. The tools your people already have, like Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT, can transform their day-to-day right now. We run hands-on programs for all the major AI platforms.

Programs for
Microsoft Copilot Claude ChatGPT Tailored team programs

Our journey

Built on results

We built and continue to manage the AI solution for one of Australia's leading alternative asset managers. The results, and our focus on commercial value, soon had others asking for the same.

Secure, practical AI for a leading alternative asset manager.

DATA SOVEREIGNTY: AU · COMPLIANCE: RETAINED

100+use cases identified
150+hours saved / month
100%secure & compliant
50+ hours saved / month Contract Review Agent Reviews complex investment contracts at scale with a full audit trail, cutting spend on external counsel.
30+ hours saved / month Investment Memorandum Agent Generates investment memoranda to Alceon's standards in a fraction of the time, so deals move faster in competitive processes.
80% reduction in manual effort Accounts Payable Agent Processes invoices and payment requests with high accuracy, taking the bulk of manual data entry off the team.
What we built
  • Kingfisher, a bespoke GenAI solution

    OpenAI's flagship models, run locally on Alceon's own infrastructure.

  • An army of agents

    Autonomous and orchestrated, spanning over 100 mapped use cases.

  • Enterprise knowledge search

    A retrieval system trained on Alceon's data, templates and workflows.

  • Integration and automation

    Custom MCP servers tying every core system together.

  • Governance

    AI usage policies and risk management frameworks built around Alceon's obligations.

  • Training and enablement

    So Alceon's team can run and scale what we deliver.

The people

We build AI solutions with an operator's instinct

Sze Ding and Joel Deakin, co-founders of Level26

What sets us apart

We're operators first. We've been business partners since 2012, building and exiting startups, working in private equity and running companies day to day. So when we build AI, we build it knowing what actually moves a business.

That's a rare lens to bring to AI. We understand business and the pressures your team is under, we know where the technology genuinely earns its place, and we build every solution to count commercially, not just to impress.

Sze Ding

Co-founder & Principal Consultant

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Joel Deakin

Co-founder & Principal Consultant

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