We turn fragmented information and costly manual work into clearer decisions, better service and dependable operations. From the first assessment to a system your team can run.
Sydney based. Built around your business.Strategy / Data / Delivery
Where we help
The work between your systems.
The same question answered in five places. An order chased through three systems. A promising prototype that still needs to work with real customers. Start with the friction your team already knows.
01 / Data & insight
A shared picture of the business.
Connect systems, spreadsheets and documents. Reconcile the records, agree what the numbers mean and build reporting around the decisions your team makes.
Data pipelines, commercial reporting and ongoing analytics
02 / Customer service & voice
Answers that lead somewhere useful.
Connect phone and digital enquiries to approved knowledge and the systems behind the answer. Define what an assistant can do and how a person takes over.
Product questions, order updates and service follow-through
03 / Connected operations
Less chasing. Clearer responsibility.
Join up orders, supplier updates and team handoffs. Identify exceptions, prepare the next step and route it to the person or system responsible.
Procurement, member support and fulfilment exceptions
04 / AI decisions & prototypes
A practical route into everyday use.
Compare the tools you already have with new products and bespoke work. If your team has built a prototype, help it become a tested, connected system they can operate.
Tool selection, pilot delivery and production readiness
What useful can look like.
Illustrative workflows we can scope around your business.
Customer experienceFrom an enquiry to a useful answer.
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Customer enquiry
“Can you help me find my order?”
01
Find the context
Use authorised customer and order records.
02
Prepare a useful response
Ground the answer in current information.
03
Keep a person in the loop
Pass unresolved cases to the right team.
An answer with context. A clear path to help.
Internal operationsFrom an exception to an owned action.
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Delivery exception
An expected dispatch needs follow-up.
01
Bring the records together
Compare the order, dispatch and supplier update.
02
Prepare the next action
Draft a follow-up with the relevant context.
03
Route it to an owner
A person reviews and approves the next step.
Less chasing. A visible next step and owner.
Our approach
Start with one worthwhile improvement.
A focused assessment leads to a clear decision and a scoped pilot. We work alongside the people responsible for the result, from understanding the problem to running the solution.
01
Understand the business
Trace a real workflow with your team. Establish the service gaps, manual effort and decisions involved, then identify the owner and the baseline against which improvement will be measured.
02
Choose what is worth doing
Compare what you already own with specialist products, process changes and bespoke work. Assess the likely value, data readiness and full operating cost before recommending a build.
03
Build into the operation
Connect the data, define permitted actions and test one workflow against representative cases. Include difficult exceptions, human review and a practical fallback before expanding.
04
Make the improvement last
Measure completed work, quality and ongoing cost. Train your team and hand over the system, or agree managed operation with clear responsibilities and regular reviews.
Agree what better means.
Success measures belong in the scope.
Useful work
Requests completed and exceptions resolved
Quality
Accuracy, review and appropriate escalation
Time & cost
Manual effort and the full cost of running the work
The foundations matter
Better models. Dependable foundations.
AI will keep changing. Your business still needs trusted records, clear permissions and a dependable way to get work done. We build those foundations so new capabilities can be evaluated as they arrive.
We use AI for language, context and ambiguity. We use rules, conventional software and people where precision or accountability calls for them. The simplest effective approach wins.
A system built around the work
Business knowledgeOperational dataExisting software
One defined workflowThe right information. A useful next action.
A person accountableA result you can measure
The experience behind ACH
A career across very different businesses.
Customer businesses, member networks, industrial operations and research institutions. That range helps us understand a business on its own terms and recognise useful patterns from elsewhere.
Ahmed Saeed
Founder, AIConnectHub Enterprise data leadership, consulting and product building
Ahmed’s work spans data and analytics leadership at Nearmap, Kayo, Fox Sports and Office Brands, consulting and advisory engagements and building AI products through GetWorkforce and WerkX. ACH brings that commercial and technical experience into the same engagement.
The organisations and brands below reflect Ahmed’s employment, consulting and project experience, including work before ACH. Related group brands and product environments are shown together.
Media, streaming & publishing
Foxtel · Fox Sports · Kayo SportsRelated media and streaming experience
News Corp Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Customer journeys, subscription businesses, digital products and commercial analytics. Product environments also include Streamotion, WatchNRL and WatchAFL.
Retail & member networks
Office Brands · Office NationalCorporate office and member-store context
Office Depot
Kmart
Understanding how head office, stores, suppliers and e-commerce depend on consistent information and coordinated decisions.
Technology & connected products
Nearmap
Spacetalk
Navman Wireless
Geospatial information, connected devices and software businesses. Connecting product, customer and operational perspectives.
Resources, utilities & industry
Ok Tedi Mining
Minemax
Sydney Water
GWA Group
Operational data in asset-heavy and product businesses, where planning, reliable records and business context matter.
Higher education & institutions
University of Sydney
University of Wollongong
Project experience in complex institutions with distributed stakeholders. Additional sector experience includes aged care and NDIS services.
Financial services
IAGInsurance Australia Group
Next FinancialEarly-career data analyst internship
Experience across strategy, claims, finance and business intelligence, alongside broader fintech and lending work.
Consulting, advisory & earlier experience
Royal CyberConsulting and advisoryGuidepointData and AI technical advisorySMEC AITechnical AI and data advisoryMesh AIAdvisory board experiencePositive GroupDigital marketing advisoryEasy Being GreenEarly-career sales
Built from the founder’s side, too.
Products, customers and the responsibility to keep improving.
Founder
WerkX
Building voice and operational AI products. Practical learning from customer conversations, onboarding, everyday exceptions and ongoing support.
Founder
GetWorkforce AI
Building and selling AI tooling for business workflows. Experience connecting a product idea to what a customer can adopt and use.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Antler
Founder-program experience developing an analytics venture, bringing problem selection and commercial validation into the building process.
This breadth matters when a problem crosses departments: a customer enquiry can be a data problem, a procurement issue can be a service problem and a good AI idea can still need a simpler operating process.
The depth behind the range
Selected areas of hands-on work
Commercial & customer data
Data strategy, business intelligence and analytics across customer, product and commercial information in media, geospatial technology and member retail.
Procurement & source integration
Ingestion and transformation of procurement records, contract values and milestones, turning inconsistent source information into records that can support reporting.
Knowledge & AI workflows
Preparing source material for retrieval, structuring records and handling validation and exceptions before information reaches an assistant or an operational workflow.
How we can work together
Your team. Your way forward.
Work with us to choose a first project, strengthen an internal prototype or deliver a complete solution. We agree ownership, cost and ongoing responsibilities from the start.
01
Configure & connect
Make more of the software and infrastructure you already have. Configure suitable products, including WerkX or GetWorkforce components where they fit, and connect the missing pieces.
02
Build & hand over
Build alongside your team or prepare an existing prototype for real use. Agree code and licence terms, then transfer the documentation, tests and practical knowledge needed to run it.
03
Operate & improve
Keep a workflow, data pipeline or analytics service running. Agree support, monitor quality and cost and review improvements as the business and available technology change.
Start with the business
Tell us what keeps getting in the way.
Bring a recurring problem, a pile of disconnected information or a prototype you want to put into use. We’ll work through the business case, the available options and a sensible first step.