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How to tell whether AI actually helped your team
Did AI make the job easier? Include checking, corrections and the next person's work when you compare the results.
For teams already trying AI
Your team is trying AI. What could good look like?
We help you work that out — then build it with you.
You're already trying AI. Let's make it count.
Imagine more time with customers. Ideas that finally get moving. Room for your business to grow.
But where do you focus? And how do you know what's working?
That's where Alongside People comes in.
We help you find the right opportunities, build them into your business, and see what's actually improving.
Practical advice. Hands-on help.
Let's turn a few promising experiments into a better way of working.
Alongside People. Let's see what's possible.
Practical AI advice and hands-on implementation.
For Melbourne companies and government.
Beyond the demo
Imagine your team uses AI to prepare a weekly update. The draft arrives in seconds. But someone still has to find the missing details, check the dates and work out what needs a decision. The useful question is whether the whole job became easier.
We look at that work with the people doing it. Perhaps the next step is a better way to gather information, a clearer brief for the AI, or a change to who checks the result. That gives you something concrete to try, and a way to decide whether it’s worth keeping.
How we can help
You’ve tried a few things and have more ideas. We’ll look at what’s happening, agree what better means and choose a useful next step.
A good demo is a beginning. We’ll build the change with your team and try it on the jobs they actually need to get done.
When a change is useful, help people use it again. We’ll connect the tools, write down what matters and make sure someone can look after it.
What we’re aiming for
Less chasing, copying and repeating the same small jobs can leave more room for a customer conversation, a difficult decision or an idea that needs attention. That’s the kind of progress we look for. We check it with your team rather than assume that adding AI made things better.
How we think about the workMeet Alongside People
We’re an AI consultancy for Melbourne companies and government organisations. We help you make sense of what you’ve tried, choose what deserves another look, and build the changes with the people who will use them.
Our founder and CEO, Paul Volpato, is also co-founder and CTO of Sesimi. His experience spans more than 20 years in software engineering, alongside product and business leadership. It shapes how we work: understand the job, build something useful and follow through to see how it holds up.
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What does an AI agent do? Follow one as it prepares a customer meeting brief, with a clear job, the right access and someone to check the result.
Let’s talk it through
Tell us what looks promising, what’s getting in the way, or what you’re still trying to work out. A few sentences is plenty to begin.