We Don't Sell AI Strategy. We Ship AI Outcomes.
Most consultancies bill you to think about AI. We bill you to deploy it, into your workflows, your tools, and your P&L. AI Surge is an Australian-born AI consulting company that helps businesses move from experimentation to execution, with measurable results in weeks.
The AI revolution isn't coming. It's already here. Most businesses are still watching.
Organisations everywhere are buying AI subscriptions, running pilots, and attending webinars, yet nothing sticks. The tools sit unused. The pilots never scale. The strategy deck gathers dust. Meanwhile, the businesses pulling ahead aren't the ones with the most licences, they're the ones who decided where AI would earn its keep and deployed it with structure, speed, and accountability. That's the gap AI Surge fills. We take organisations from "we should do AI" to "AI runs 40% of our operations", with governance, training, and measurable ROI built in from day one.
End-to-end AI transformation. Not advice. Not decks. Deployed outcomes.
Six connected capabilities that take you from strategy to deployed, governed, optimised AI. Explore each below.
Strategy & Roadmaps
Costed, sequenced AI roadmaps built around your workflows and P&L. Ranked use cases, ROI modelling, 90-day execution plans, and platform alignment across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini.
See AI Roadmaps →Implementation & AI Agents
Custom AI agents embedded into your tech stack: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, CRM, ERP. Trained on your data, aligned to your workflows, deployed in weeks, not months.
Explore Custom AI Agents →Training & Professional Development
From one-day workshops to 12-month programs. Practical, role-specific AI capability building that turns hesitation into confidence and experiments into embedded, daily workflows.
See Training & Development →Governance & Compliance
Privacy safeguards, ethical frameworks, data handling policies, and access controls, documented before a single agent goes live. Responsible AI isn't an afterthought. It's our foundation.
See Our Framework →Ongoing Optimisation
AI doesn't stand still. Neither do we. Monthly performance reviews, prompt library maintenance, new feature rollouts, and continuous ROI improvement. A fractional AI team without the overhead.
Explore Fractional AI →AI & Innovation Summits
Exclusive, invitation-only events where leaders connect, explore cutting-edge AI, and share real-world implementation stories through workshops and hands-on demonstrations.
Browse Workshops & Events →Most consultancies bill you to think. We bill you to deliver.
The AI consulting market is full of generalists who hand over an 80-page deck and move on. We're not that. We stay in the room, from first strategy session through to deployed agents, trained teams, and compounding returns.
What we do differently
- Start with your P&L, work backwards to the AI
- Outcome-guaranteed flagship engagements: if we miss, we keep working at our cost
- Multi-platform specialists across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, with no vendor bias
- One team: strategy, build, deploy, train, optimise. No offshore handoffs
Who we're built for
- Australian and NZ SMBs and mid-market, 20 to 200+ employees
- Professional services, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, trades and industrial operators
- Founder-led and owner-operated businesses with margin pressure and a fragmented stack
- Leaders who want results in weeks, not quarterly reviews
Six reasons organisations choose us over every other option.
Transformation-first
We start with your P&L, not a tool demo. Every engagement is tied to a business outcome.
Multi-platform specialists
Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini. Deep expertise across all four. No vendor lock-in.
End-to-end delivery
Strategy, build, deploy, train, optimise. One team. One relationship. Full accountability.
Outcome-guaranteed
If we don't hit the target outcome on flagship engagements, we keep working, at our cost.
Security & governance first
Data handling, compliance, ethical frameworks, documented before a single agent goes live.
Based in Australia & NZ
Local, responsive, and aligned with how businesses in our region operate. No offshore handoffs.
AI that transforms how businesses operate, compete, and grow.
Bespoke AI transformation for organisations that are done experimenting and ready to embed AI into the way they operate. We work with the decision-maker, move at your speed, and design every engagement around your operating model and budget.
- AI roadmaps tied to ROI, not hype
- Custom agents deployed into your tech stack
- Team training from frontline to C-suite
- Governance, security, and compliance built in
- Fixed-scope engagements measured against your P&L
- Fractional AI leadership as your program scales
- 3-10x typical first-year returns
Built by an operator. Led by someone who ships.
AI Surge was founded by Troy Vertigan, who got tired of watching organisations drown in AI strategy decks that changed nothing, so he built a company that ships outcomes instead.
Troy Vertigan
An accomplished technology leader and entrepreneur who has scaled businesses across Australia, the USA, and Europe. With deep commercial expertise in software, SaaS, and AI, Troy empowers organisations to reimagine strategies, streamline operations, and accelerate growth. He helps executives elevate leadership impact and align teams around transformation, enabling businesses to unlock efficiency, capture new revenue, and build sustainable competitive advantage as future-ready, AI-powered enterprises.
Proven playbooks across the industries where AI matters most.
From heavy operations to high-precision professional services, we help leaders replace manual processes, sharpen decisions, and build organisations engineered for the next decade.
Manufacturing
Predictive demand, leaner supply chains, and connected production, logistics and sales.
Explore Manufacturing AI →Industrial
Automated QA and compliance, predictive maintenance, and standardised processes across sites.
Explore Industrial AI →Mining & Heavy Industry
PLC, SCADA and ERP unified into one operating picture, with failures predicted before they cost a shift.
Explore Mining & Heavy Industry AI →Construction
Faster estimating, real-time site visibility, and risks predicted before they escalate.
Explore Construction AI →Trades & Field Services
Instant enquiry response, automated scheduling, and streamlined quoting, invoicing and reminders.
Explore Trades & Field Services AI →Agriculture
Yield prediction from environmental and soil data, optimised resource planning, real-time monitoring.
Explore Agriculture AI →Professional Services
Standardised document creation, higher billable utilisation, and institutional knowledge on tap.
Explore Professional Services AI →Wealth & Financial Advisory
Onboarding cut from weeks to days, automated client reporting, and advisers freed to advise.
Explore Wealth & Financial Advisory AI →Healthcare & Aged Care
AI rostering and shift-fill agents, digital rosters staff actually use, compliance handled quietly.
Explore Healthcare & Aged Care AI →Property & Mixed-Use
Access, CRM, payments and events connected into one revenue layer with a single source of truth.
Explore Property & Mixed-Use AI →Shipping & Marine
Vessel telemetry, parts supply chains and crew data in one view, with issues caught before they ground a vessel.
Explore Shipping & Marine AI →Stop funding experiments. Start banking returns.
Tell us what outcome you want, and we'll show you the fastest path to get there. One team, from first strategy session through to deployed agents, trained teams, and compounding returns.