Custom dashboard
Cash flow in one view.
See what is due in, what is due out and where cash may run short.
Mac Sweeny Consulting / Practical AI help
Used by 80+ businesses
Not sure where to start with AI?
Practical help.
Reasonable prices.
Work directly with a software engineer with 10+ years of development experience. Clear advice and practical help, without layers of agency overhead.
Book Your Consultation
AI. Made practical.A useful starting point.Learn. Build. Get on with it.
A useful starting point
Less figuring it out alone.
More making it work.
AI help, directly from Mac.
You know your business. I know how to build software.
Let’s work out where AI can actually help.
1:1
You and the person doing the work.
10+ years
Of development experience.
80+ businesses
AI implemented through my separate development business.
// MAC SWEENY
Plain-English advice. Reasonable prices. One useful problem at a time.
What we can work on.
Starting points to explore together.
Ideas to discuss, shaped around your business.
01 / AI learningMake Claude useful.
Work through your own tasks, write better instructions and learn what to check.
02 / Workflow automationJoin up the busywork.
Map the repeated steps between your inbox, documents and business systems.
03 / Dashboards & reportingSee the whole picture.
Bring scattered information into a useful view, with the gaps clearly marked.
04 / Documents & estimatingGive the quote a head start.
Turn notes into a draft. Keep rates, scope and final approval in your hands.
05 / Custom tools & CRMsKeep the next step in sight.
Explore a clearer way to track work, follow up and keep the context together.
How I help
From the first question to the thing you want built. Start where you are.
Practical AI.
A person in
your corner.
Book Your Consultation001AI Consulting
Clarity on what to build.
A call each fortnight to work out what to build in Claude or ChatGPT and how to do it. A$1,195 a month + GST, with no lock-in.
- A prioritised plan for your business
- Practical instructions and prompts
- Written next steps after your calls
002Custom Development
Built around your operations.
Financial dashboards, operations dashboards and custom tools. A$150 an hour + GST, with scope and estimated hours agreed before starting.
- Agreed data sources and integrations
- Testing against your requirements
- Documentation and handover
Mac SweenySoftware engineer & AI consultantA little about me
I like making
things useful.
I’m Mac, a software engineer with ten years of experience. I help business owners learn AI, make practical decisions and get agreed work built.
My work through my separate development business includes quoting, scheduling, CRMs and reporting. That experience shapes how I approach the work here.
You deal with me directly. We talk about your business in plain English, then choose something specific to do next.
Case studies.
Screens from software I built.
Demonstration workspace, not a client result.
Custom dashboard
The operating result, explained.
Revenue, expenses and net result in one place, with the trend behind the month.
Figures are sample data from a demonstration workspace. Dashboards, data sources and integrations are agreed in your project scope. Explore custom development
From the work.
Feedback from client work through my separate development business. These are individual experiences, not a promise of your results.
“That was the most useful 45 minutes of my entire life. I’ve just saved myself minimum 14 hours a week in admin work.”
Greg BlackabyCEO, Acquire Strategic Accounting
“Holy s*** this is so good”
SteveCEO, The System
01 / 02
Tools that serve the work.
Useful by design.
Human by choice.
You make the decisions. AI helps with the work.
How we work together
One real problem.
A sensible next move.
// 01Show me the work.
Understand
Start with a discovery call. Tell me what you want to learn or get done, which tools you use and where things get stuck.
// 02Agree a useful starting point.
Scope
We choose the right service and agree its scope, deliverables and what a useful result looks like. Custom development includes an estimate of hours.
// 03Learn, build or do both.
Do the work
Work alongside me to learn the tools, or have me handle the agreed implementation. The approach follows the task.
// 04Check it on real work.
Review
Review the result against what we agreed. For a build, test the normal steps and the exceptions before deciding what comes next.
Start small. Agree what matters.
Check the result before adding more.
Direct access. Clear prices.
Consulting and custom development.
No agency fees.
01 / Clarity. A plan. Someone to ask.
AI Consulting
A$1,195/ month
+ GST
Know what to build in Claude or ChatGPT, why it matters and how to do it. Practical guidance for your business, with no lock-in.
Book Your Consultation- One advisory call each fortnight
- A prioritised list of what to build next
- Step-by-step guidance for Claude and ChatGPT
- Prompts and workflow instructions for your tasks
- Written next steps and a review of your progress
You do the building, with my guidance. Custom development is scoped separately.
Explore this service02 / Software around your business.
Custom Development
A$150/ hour
+ GST
Financial dashboards, operations dashboards and custom tools that bring your information and workflows together. Work directly with the engineer building it.
Book Your Consultation- A written scope and estimated hours
- Financial or operations dashboards
- Agreed data sources and integrations
- Custom workflows, tools and automations
- Testing against the agreed requirements
- Documentation and a practical handover
Deliverables depend on the agreed project. Software, hosting and usage costs are discussed before work starts.
Explore this serviceAll prices are in Australian dollars, plus GST. We agree your scope and deliverables before starting.
Do I need to know anything about AI?
No. We can start with the basics, using a task you already understand. You don’t need a technical brief or a list of tools.
Can you teach me, or just build it for me?
Either, or a mix of both. I can help you learn AI, work through a decision or scope something to build. We agree the work and estimated hours first.
How much does it cost?
AI Consulting is A$1,195 per month with no lock-in. Custom Development is A$150 per hour. All prices are + GST. We agree the deliverables before starting. Website and AI SEO agents are a separate one-off service.
Do I work directly with you?
Yes. I’m the person on the call and the engineer doing the agreed work. No agency fees or handover to an account manager.
Can you work with the tools I already use?
That’s where I’d start. We check what your current tools can do and what access is available before recommending something new. Some steps may still need a person.
Can we work together outside Brisbane?
Yes. I work online with business owners across industries. We find a time that works across our time zones.
The reading room.
Plain-English guides to useful AI.
Start with the question on your mind.
