AI consulting for education AI decisions you can stand behind.
And put to work.
Your staff and students are already using AI. We help schools, systems and dioceses, universities, TAFEs and RTOs, associations and departments decide where it belongs, set sensible guardrails and put it to work in ways that hold up in a real teaching week.
01 / The situation
The use is already here.
The decisions are not.
In most schools and institutions, AI adoption started from the bottom up. Staff found tools, students found them faster, and leadership is now working backwards to a position.
- Use you can’t see
- Staff are using personal accounts and free tools for planning, feedback and reports. Nobody has a full picture of what is being used, on what data, for what.
- Policy written for a different moment
- Acceptable use and privacy policies were not written with generative AI in mind. The gaps usually sit around student data, personal accounts and assessment.
- Assessment and integrity pressure
- Teachers are making integrity calls one class at a time, without a shared position to lean on.
- Vendors arriving with AI features
- Platforms you already pay for are adding AI. Someone has to decide what to switch on, and on what terms.
- Uneven capability
- A few enthusiasts, a larger cautious middle and some staff who have opted out. One-off professional learning has not closed that gap.
- Frameworks without a plan
- National and sector guidance sets principles. It does not tell you what to do next term, in your context, with your people.
None of this needs a grand plan. It needs a clear view of where you are, a small number of good decisions and follow-through.
02 / A defined starting point
AI Readiness & Governance Sprint
A fixed-scope engagement, led personally by Dr Brodie McGee, that gives leadership a clear picture of AI in your school or institution and a practical plan for what to do about it. Scoped and quoted after a first conversation.
What we look at
- Leadership and staff views: an anonymous survey and short interviews on attitudes, confidence and current practice
- Current AI use: which tools are in use, by whom, for what tasks and with what data, including AI inside platforms you already license
- Capability: where your people are now, by role, and what they need next
- Governance and risk: your existing policies, decision processes and accountabilities, and where AI falls outside them
- Tools, privacy and data: practical considerations for the tools in use or under consideration, including where student and staff information goes
- Australian guidance that applies to your setting: the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Schools, state and sector guidance, TEQSA and ASQA resources, and the OAIC’s guidance on commercially available AI products
How it runs
- A leadership workshop and interviews to agree goals, concerns and what success looks like
- Diagnostic and review across use, capability, governance and tools
- Priority use cases identified and tested with the people who would use them
- An executive briefing to present findings and agree next steps
What you receive
- A written findings report
- Priority use cases, with rationale and an effort estimate
- Policy and governance recommendations
- A staff capability plan
- An implementation roadmap, sequenced by term or semester
- An executive briefing for leadership or your board
What it is not
The Sprint is a governance, capability and implementation review. It is not legal advice or a compliance audit, and it does not certify that you meet any law, standard or framework. Where findings raise legal or regulatory questions, we flag them for your legal or privacy advisers.
03 / Beyond the Sprint
Four areas of work.
One joined-up approach.
- 01Strategy & readiness
- Know where you stand before you commit.
- AI readiness diagnostics for leadership and staff
- Mapping current AI use across teaching, learning and operations
- Identifying and prioritising use cases worth pursuing, and the ones to leave alone
- AI strategy and roadmaps connected to your strategic plan, not separate from it
- 02Governance, policy & risk
- Guardrails people can actually follow.
- Drafting or reviewing AI policies, guidelines and staff and student expectations
- Decision rights: who approves a tool, who reviews it, who is accountable
- Privacy and data considerations when choosing and configuring AI tools
- Assessment and academic integrity positions
- 03Implementation & adoption
- From decision to working practice.
- Piloting priority use cases with a baseline and a clear decision to stop or continue
- Workflow automation for recurring admin: reporting, communications and data handling
- Configuring and integrating AI within the systems you already run
- Adoption support, so a tool becomes a habit rather than a licence nobody opens
- 04Capability & leadership advisory
- People who can use judgement, not just follow rules.
- Leadership and board briefings on AI opportunities, limits and decisions
- Staff professional learning built around real tasks in your context
- Fractional AI leadership: senior direction over an agreed program, without creating a permanent role
Governance advice, not legal advice. Where a question needs a lawyer or privacy specialist, we will say so and help you brief one.
04 / How we work
Clarity first.
Then delivery.
Every engagement is led and delivered by Dr Brodie McGee. Where specialist input is needed (legal, cyber security or large-scale systems work), we say so up front.
The right shape
for your challenge.
- Focused advisory
- A defined question or diagnostic, such as the Sprint.
- Implementation program
- A scoped outcome delivered in stages, with agreed milestones.
- Retained advisory
- Ongoing AI leadership over a term, semester or year, without creating a new role. A program of priorities, decision support, implementation and capability building, reviewed on a regular cycle.
05 / Questions
Common
questions.
- Do you only work with schools?
- No. Our consulting covers the education sector: schools, systems and dioceses, universities, TAFEs and RTOs, associations and education departments.
- Is the AI Readiness & Governance Sprint a compliance audit?
- No. It reviews how AI is being used, governed and supported in your organisation and gives practical recommendations. It is not a legal or compliance audit and does not certify compliance with any law or framework. Legal questions are referred to your legal or privacy advisers.
- Which Australian frameworks do you work with?
- We review against the guidance relevant to your setting. For schools that includes the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Schools and your state or sector guidance. For tertiary providers it includes TEQSA and ASQA resources. We also consider the OAIC's guidance on privacy and commercially available AI products.
- Will you recommend specific AI products?
- Only when it helps. Our advice is independent of vendors. Sometimes the right answer is a tool you already own, a process change or no new technology at all.
- Can you help implement, not just advise?
- Yes. We pilot use cases, build workflow automation, configure tools within your existing systems and support adoption with your staff. The same person who gives the advice helps deliver it.
- How is professional learning handled?
- Staff professional learning and leadership briefings are designed inside an engagement, so they match your policy and priorities. Ready-made workshops for school staff are also available.
- How much does it cost?
- Every engagement, including the Sprint, is scoped and quoted after a first conversation, based on the size of your organisation and what you need.
Consulting sets direction. Professional learning builds the habit.
Capability work for your staff is scoped inside an engagement, so it matches your policy, your tools and your priorities.
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