--- title: "Slo Labs: Make your company AI-first" description: "The Slo Labs home page as markdown: the gap, the path (start, set up, build and stay), client work, the AI Audit, the studio, and the FAQ." canonical: "https://slolabs.studio" last-updated: "2026-10-19" --- # Slo Labs: Make your company AI-first > Slo Labs helps businesses become AI-first and grow with the team they have. We get your team up to speed with AI, then build what's worth building. Every price is fixed and published, and you own what we build. AI transformation studio · Sydney · Australia and beyond Source page: https://slolabs.studio ## Become AI-first. Grow with the team you have. We get your team up to speed with AI, then build what's worth building. Every price is fixed and on this page, and you own what we build. **Book an intro call:** https://slolabs.studio/contact ## Your team uses AI every day. Your company still runs the same way. ChatGPT is open in every browser tab. Someone ran a pilot. Someone bought a tool. And the way work actually moves through the company has not changed. That gap is the opportunity, and it closes with decisions, systems, and adoption. Not another subscription. - **The tools are not the problem.** The company has not decided what to change. - **Fifty things you could do.** The hard part is picking the two that matter this quarter. - **Nobody shows the work.** Your feed is full of transformations. Almost none of them are real. ## Find the right AI projects before you start building. The most common start. We study your goals, workflows, systems, knowledge, team capability, and current AI use. You receive a prioritised AI transformation roadmap, clear implementation scopes, and a leadership decision session. **AI Audit: $3,000 for up to 10 people. $5,000 for 11 to 30 people. AUD, fixed price.** ### Why not just start building? Because most AI projects fail before they change anything, and they fail at the start, not the end. Guessing the best thing to build is how a company buys a pilot that goes nowhere. - **80%+** of AI projects fail, twice the rate of other IT projects. The top cause: the people involved misunderstood what problem they were solving. ([RAND Corporation, 2024](https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html)) - **95%** of company generative AI pilots show no measurable effect on profit and loss. The 5% that do measure the change in the workflow, not the licences. ([MIT NANDA preliminary report, 2025](https://web.archive.org/web/20250818125035id_/https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf)) - **42%** of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% the year before. On average they scrapped 46% of proofs of concept before production. ([S&P Global Market Intelligence, 2025](https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/research/ai-experiences-rapid-adoption-but-with-mixed-outcomes-highlights-from-vote-ai-machine-learning)) Before anyone writes a line of code, we map how work moves through your company and assess the systems behind it. We rank each opportunity by value, effort, risk, and dependency, so you know what to build first and why. ### What the audit gives you. A practical plan for what to change first, what to leave alone, and what your team should do next. 1. A clear view of current AI use, capability, systems, and constraints 2. The best opportunities ranked by value, effort, risk, and dependency 3. A prioritised AI transformation roadmap 4. Clear scopes for the first builds We credit the audit to Foundation or a build. ## Client work Seven ANZ businesses run on systems we built. Here is what the work replaced, what we built, and what the team can do now that they could not before. ### Mode Upload · Christchurch, NZ **A product workflow rebuilt around AI, run by the team every day.** Product uploads ran through external editors, CSV exports, and a separate image upload. Now one AI-assisted pipeline takes a photo to a live CSCart listing, and the team runs it themselves. > “We were paying people overseas to copy products across by hand. Now it happens in one place.” > > Joel Kendall, Owner, Mode Upload ### Tidy Bins · Christchurch, NZ **One system replaced the manual admin that capped growth.** Onboarding, billing, payment follow-up, collection schedules, and run sheets all depended on manual work. They now run through one operating system the team uses every day. AI reads the same data, and the team is being set up to use it. > “We used to spend so much of our week on billing, payments, and run sheets. Now the tedious admin happens automatically, and we have our time back.” > > Lynnette Creagh, Owner, Tidy Bins ### Proload · Christchurch, NZ **We also build the product when the roadmap calls for one.** Proload is Joel's next company: the Mode pipeline turned into a product of its own, taken from idea to a working MVP by the same engineer who runs the transformation work. ## Audit first. Then build. Then keep it running. Most clients start with an audit. We scope the work, quote each build upfront, and keep the systems running once they ship. - **AI Audit: from $3,000 AUD.** Your goals, workflows, systems, and current AI use, turned into a prioritised AI transformation roadmap with clear scopes for the first builds. $3,000 for up to 10 people, $5,000 for 11 to 30. We credit the audit to Foundation or a build. - **Builds: from $5,000 AUD.** Automations and agents from $5,000, custom tools from $10,000, and custom systems from $25,000, each built around one useful business outcome. You receive a written scope and fixed quote before we start. Larger platforms are delivered in stages. - **Care: quoted per build.** Care comes with every build, so someone is always responsible for keeping it running. We quote it as one annual figure before the build starts. Software subscriptions and usage costs are billed separately. - **AI Team Training: from $3,000 AUD.** Practical AI training built around your team's real work. $3,000 for up to 10 people, $4,500 for up to 30, on-site or remote. Can be booked on its own. Travel is billed at cost. Every build has a written scope and fixed quote. Software subscriptions and usage costs are separate. All prices are in AUD. ## Led by a software engineer. Slo Labs is led by Luke Stynes, a software engineer who works directly with founders on AI strategy, implementation, and adoption. He shapes the roadmap, designs the change, and makes the important technical decisions. Slo Labs takes on a few companies at a time. Luke runs your audit, builds your system, and answers your messages. Luke builds AI systems every day, for Slo Labs and for clients. What you see on LinkedIn is the same work. Based in Sydney. Working across Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. More about Luke: https://lukestynes.com ## Common questions about working with Slo Labs. ### Do we have to start with an audit? No. The audit is the usual start when the opportunity is broad or unclear. If you want your team using AI first, start with AI Workspace Setup, AI Team Training, or Foundation. If the problem and scope are already clear, we can quote the build directly. ### Who owns what you build? You own the bespoke implementation. After final payment, we assign its client-specific code to you in full. Slo Labs retains its toolkit and reusable, general-purpose components, including components developed during the project. Any embedded components are licensed to you permanently and royalty-free. You can hand the implementation to another developer tomorrow and owe Slo Labs nothing. ### What happens after a build ships? Care comes with every build, so someone is always responsible for keeping it running. We quote it as one annual figure before the build starts. Software subscriptions and usage costs are billed separately. ### Do you train teams? Yes. AI Team Training costs $3,000 for up to 10 people and $4,500 for up to 30, and it uses your team's real work. A Leadership AI Session for the owners costs $1,500. ### We are not in Sydney. Does that matter? No. Most work is remote. On-site sessions travel at cost. ## See how your business could grow with the team it has. Free 20-minute call. Tell us how your business works today and where AI feels underused. We’ll tell you where to start. **Book an intro call:** https://slolabs.studio/contact Email: hello@slolabs.studio