For the Digital Business Advisor role · Melbourne Innovation Centre

Most small businesses now use AI. Very few use it well.

Around 69% of Australian small businesses use AI today, yet only about 5% use it well enough to get real value. I help owners cross that gap with practical digital, marketing and AI advice, and I build and run the tools myself, so the advice is grounded, not theoretical.

Adoption and maturity figures: National AI Centre, 2026.

Book an interview · 30 / 45 / 60 min See what I'd build

Currently running: PolicyAi compliance assistant RAAVA, my AI agency Design portfolio

69%

of Australian small businesses now use AI in some form.

~5%

are "fully enabled" to get transformative value from it. That gap is the job.

54%

of adopters say content generation is their number one use.

Source: National AI Centre, 2026.

What I'd do in the role

What I'd build for your clients.

Each piece maps to a Digital Solutions Round 3 priority area, and each is a repeatable format, not a one-off. Two anchor pages, then the tools and deliverables themselves, ready to open.

The proof

Work and proof

Each client deliverable paired with the real platform capability that proves I can deliver it, mapped to a Round 3 pillar. Advice grounded in what I actually run.

Open the mapping → The plan

Five things I'd build in 90 days

An interactive working plan: three client-facing pilots and two internal ones, filtered by pillar, with 90-day targets. Plus two live voice agents you can talk to.

Open the plan →

Live demos and sample deliverables, built and running:

MIC Advisor

A voice agent that triages a business owner's question and books a session, in MIC's voice.

Voice · liveOpen →
Cafe assistant

An after-hours line for a small business that answers and books. The SME version of the same build.

Voice · liveOpen →
AI tool picker

Twenty seconds from a pain point to one tool to start with this week. The AI Starter, distilled.

InteractiveOpen →
Funnel teardown

A two-minute teardown of a site and funnel, returning three ranked fixes for this week.

InteractiveOpen →
AI Starter deck

The 30-minute session stepped through: intake, pick one tool, first prompt, check-back.

DeckOpen →
Sample brand kit

A mini identity for a fictional cafe: logo treatment, palette and one template. Design at speed.

DeliverableOpen →

The application

Everything, in one place.

  1. 01

    Curriculum vitae

    Advisor-led: SME advisory, digital marketing and AI adoption, with live project links and verified outcomes.

    Read →PDF ↓
  2. 02

    Cover letter

    Addressed to the MIC brief: why this role, mapped point by point to your selection criteria.

    Read →PDF ↓
  3. 03

    Value brief

    A short advisory brief: how I'd help MIC's clients, and MIC's own operations, from day one.

    Read →PDF ↓

A small sign of respect

A brand homage.

This whole site is built in MIC's own brand language, down to an ASCII rendering of your monogram running quietly in the background. The brand page shows how it's made: the logo's vector paths sampled into characters, live in the browser.

See the homage

Let's talk about your clients.

Thirty, forty-five or sixty minutes. I'll come with the pillars in mind and a few things I'd build first.

Book an interview →