Homepage

AI Enablement Partner and Forward Deployed Engineering | CPI Consulting
AI Enablement • Forward Deployed Engineering • Melbourne

Your AI Enablement Partner From Strategy to Production

CPI helps organisations turn AI ambition into working, secure solutions. We combine AI strategy, hands-on engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering patterns to build alongside your people and deliver measurable business outcomes.

  • AI strategy and opportunity roadmaps
  • AI agents and custom applications
  • Forward Deployed Engineering
  • Integration, security and governance
Security-cleared consultant
5x published author
Microsoft Partner
The CPI delivery path

From a valuable idea to operational AI

01

Find the right opportunity

Prioritise use cases around value, feasibility and risk.

02

Build with real users

Prototype quickly using your workflows, data and feedback.

03

Engineer for production

Add integration, security, evaluation and observability.

04

Embed and scale

Transfer capability and improve the solution in operation.

20+
Years in technology delivery
5
Published technical books
20+
Microsoft certifications
1
Senior partner from start to finish

AI Is Easy to Demonstrate and Hard to Operationalise

The value appears when AI becomes part of a real workflow, connected to trusted data, protected by the right controls and adopted by the people who use it.

Move beyond experiments without creating another long transformation program

CPI works at the intersection of business, architecture and software engineering. We help you make the right decisions, then stay close enough to the work to turn them into a production outcome.

Too many ideas and no clear priority

Use cases are ranked against business value, delivery effort, data readiness and risk.

A prototype disconnected from the business

The solution is shaped with real users and integrated into the workflow where value is created.

Security and governance added too late

Identity, data protection, evaluation, auditability and human controls are designed in early.

No path from pilot to sustainable capability

Your team receives the architecture, code, documentation and knowledge needed to own what comes next.

The Strategy, Engineering and Foundations Needed to Make AI Useful

Engage CPI for one focused outcome or bring the capabilities together as an end-to-end AI enablement program.

AI Strategy and Roadmaps

Turn broad AI ambition into a practical plan with prioritised use cases, target architecture, investment decisions and a delivery roadmap.

Forward Deployed Engineering

Embed senior engineering capability close to your users, data and operations to solve a valuable problem and ship a working outcome quickly.

AI Agents and Applications

Design and build secure agents, copilots, retrieval solutions and custom AI applications around your processes and systems.

Enterprise Data and Integration

Connect AI safely to APIs, Microsoft 365, line-of-business platforms, documents and structured data using dependable integration patterns.

AI Governance and Security

Establish responsible use, identity, privacy, risk, evaluation and human oversight controls that support adoption without blocking delivery.

AI Platforms and Operations

Build secure cloud foundations with deployment automation, observability, evaluation, cost controls and support for models in production.

Consulting That Stays Close to the Problem and the Code

Forward Deployed Engineering combines solution architecture, product thinking and hands-on software delivery. CPI works alongside your stakeholders and technical teams, learning the environment quickly and adapting the solution as real users expose what matters.

  • A senior engineer embedded with your team
  • Short feedback loops with business users
  • Working software instead of recommendations alone
  • Production architecture, security and operations built in
  • Documentation and knowledge transfer for long-term ownership
01

Discover in the workflow

Understand the users, decisions, systems, constraints and success measures around the problem.

02

Build the smallest valuable solution

Test the core assumptions quickly with real data and a usable product, not a disconnected demo.

03

Harden and integrate

Add enterprise identity, data connections, evaluation, monitoring, controls and deployment automation.

04

Operate, learn and scale

Measure real use, improve the solution and reuse proven patterns across the next AI opportunities.

AI Solutions Grounded in Real Business Work

The technology is selected around the outcome. CPI can work with OpenAI, Microsoft Azure AI, Microsoft 365 and the systems already running your business.

Knowledge and Productivity

Secure assistants over your business knowledge

Help employees find trusted answers, draft content and complete work using approved documents, policies and operational data.

Operations

Agents that coordinate multi-step workflows

Use AI to interpret requests, call business systems, prepare decisions and keep people in control at the right points.

Customer Experience

Customer and service team copilots

Improve response quality and speed with assistants grounded in customer context, product information and service procedures.

Software and Data

Intelligent features inside existing applications

Add document processing, natural-language search, summarisation, recommendations and automation to the tools people already use.

Start With the Engagement That Matches Your Readiness

You do not need a multi-year program to begin. Start with a focused decision, a production pilot or embedded engineering support.

Senior, Practical and Accountable AI Delivery

CPI brings the breadth needed to connect AI with cloud, software, security and the realities of enterprise technology delivery.

Architecture plus engineering

Recommendations are grounded in what can be built, secured, operated and supported.

One senior partner

Work directly with an experienced consultant from discovery through delivery and handover.

Microsoft and OpenAI depth

Combine modern AI capability with deep Azure, Microsoft 365, .NET and integration experience.

Built for your ownership

Receive maintainable code, clear documentation and knowledge transfer without vendor lock-in.

What Could AI Change in Your Business This Year?

Book a practical AI enablement session with CPI. We will discuss the problem, current environment and fastest credible path from idea to production value.

CPI Consulting Pty Ltd trading as CloudProInc.COM.AU • AI Enablement • Forward Deployed Engineering • Melbourne, Australia