AI consulting, Melbourne
Creative Milk is a Melbourne-based AI consulting and integration partnership. We scope one business problem at a time, build the system in a fixed 4–6 week window, and measure it by the outcome it delivers — hours recovered, decisions improved — not by hours billed.
The short answer
AI consulting is the work of finding a specific, repetitive, or error-prone part of a business and designing an AI system that fixes it — then building, integrating, and (optionally) maintaining that system. It is not a strategy deck and it is not a generic chatbot bolted onto your website.
Creative Milk works with small businesses — solo operators, small teams, and agencies — across Melbourne and the rest of Australia. We deliberately don't chase enterprise accounts: we want projects we can scope, ship in weeks rather than quarters, and hand over, so the next business gets the same attention the last one did.
How an engagement runs
Every Creative Milk engagement follows the same structure, whichever phase you start at. Full detail on the services page.
Phase 01
AUD $5,000–$15,000
1–2 weeks · Stands alone
A process audit, system design, and success metrics for the one workflow worth fixing first — ending in a go/no-go decision and a fixed Phase 2 price. The plan is yours; there's no obligation to proceed with us.
Phase 02
AUD $30,000–$120,000
4–6 weeks · Needs Phase 1
The production AI system, built and integrated into your existing tools, with full IP transfer, team training, and 30 days of post-launch support. Price is fixed at the end of Phase 1 — no surprises.
Phase 03
AUD $5,000–$15,000/mo
Ongoing · 3-month minimum
Optimisation, monitoring, reporting, and strategic advisory once the system is live — with direct access to Craig and Darryn, not a support queue.
In Melbourne, in person
Our first in-person workshop — “Automate your business: put time back in your pocket” — runs Friday 7 August 2026, 3–5pm, at the Elwood + St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre. $39, 24 seats. You leave with a working AI email-reply system, a repeatable pattern for spotting automatable workflows, and a 12-week measurement plan. Not useful in the first 30 minutes? Full refund on the spot, no questions.
Who this is for
Common questions
An AI consultant scopes one real business problem, then designs and builds (or advises on) the AI system that solves it — measured by an outcome like hours recovered or decisions improved, not by hours billed or a slide deck. Creative Milk is a Melbourne-based AI consulting and integration partnership run on a three-phase model: Discovery Sprint, Build & Integrate, and — if you want it — an ongoing Managed Partnership.
Creative Milk publishes its pricing. A Discovery Sprint — process audit, system design, and a fixed Phase 2 proposal — is AUD $5,000–$15,000 over 1–2 weeks. Build & Integrate — the production system, full IP transfer, and team training — is AUD $30,000–$120,000 over 4–6 weeks, priced fixed at the end of Phase 1 so there are no surprises. A Managed Partnership for ongoing optimisation runs AUD $5,000–$15,000 a month, three-month minimum.
No. Creative Milk is based in Melbourne and works with small and mid-sized businesses across Australia. Being local means discovery sessions and workshops can happen in person if that's useful to you — but the three-phase engagement runs the same whether you're down the road or interstate.
If Phase 2 (Build & Integrate) doesn't hit the success metrics set at the end of Phase 1, Creative Milk stays involved until it does — that's the guarantee attached to every Build & Integrate engagement.
Yes — the “Automate Your Business” workshop. The first cohort runs Friday 7 August 2026, 3–5pm, in person at the Elwood + St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre in Melbourne ($39, 24 seats). You leave with a working AI email-reply system, a repeatable pattern for spotting automatable workflows in your own business, and a 12-week measurement plan — not useful in the first 30 minutes, full refund on the spot.
Tell us the workflow that's costing you the most hours. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth building — and what we'd expect a Discovery Sprint to find.