Australia-wide · Websites, marketing & automation

Get your week back.

We build the website, run the marketing, and automate the admin that eats your time — so you can get back to the actual job.

Book a free 20-minute call or email hello@upgearai.com.au

Fixed prices, published No lock-in contracts You own the code

Tools we build with

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The problem

Small businesses lose a day a week to work nobody pays for.

The quote typed three times

Once on the job, once in the spreadsheet, once into the accounting software. Same numbers, three chances to get one wrong.

The website nobody finds

Built five years ago, slow on a phone, hasn't brought an enquiry in since. Meanwhile the competitor down the road is on page one.

The Monday report

An hour copying figures between files so somebody can look at a number that was already sitting in the system.

What we do

Three gears

Most clients start with one and add the next when it has earned its place.

First gear

A website that brings work in

Fast, modern, built to be found on Google and to turn a visitor into a phone call. Live in days, not months.

Written for your customers, not for you
Built mobile-first — that's where they read it
Google Business Profile set up properly
You own the domain, code and hosting

From $1,500 Fixed price, quoted before we start

Second gear

Marketing that runs itself

Social posts, email campaigns and content written and scheduled every month. You approve it, we publish it.

Monthly content calendar, no surprises
Written in your voice, not a robot's
Email campaigns to customers you already have
A plain-English report on what worked

From $500 / month Month to month, 30 days' notice

Top gear

Automation that removes the job

We find the repetitive work in your week and make it disappear. Not advice about it — the thing, built and running.

Quotes and invoices that fill themselves in
Your systems talking to each other, finally
Reports that build themselves overnight
Enquiries answered while you're on a job

From $1,200 Scoped in the audit, priced before we build

Also available: reporting dashboards · website chatbots · document and quote generation · connecting the systems you already pay for · cleaning up messy spreadsheets · AI training for your team.

How it works

Three steps. You know the price before each one.

STEP 01

A free call

Twenty minutes. You tell us what's slowing you down, we tell you honestly whether we can help. If we can't, we'll say so.

No cost

STEP 02

We come and look

Half a day watching how your business actually runs — on site around Melbourne, or over video anywhere else in Australia. You get one page back: the five things costing the most time, the hours each one costs, and a fixed price to fix each.

$600 + GST

STEP 03

We build it

You pick what you want from that list. Half up front, half when it's working. We sit with your team until they can run it without us.

Fixed price

If the audit finds nothing worth building, we say so plainly — and the fee comes off any work you do with us in the next 12 months.

Recent work

What we've built

Operations software

Customer ordering & billing portal

A production system used daily by staff and customers — ordering, invoicing, stock tracking across multiple sites. Built and maintained end to end, including the billing rules where a wrong number costs real money.

Reporting

Automated operations reporting

Overnight jobs that pull data from several systems, reconcile it, and deliver finished dashboards before anyone sits down. Replaced hours of manual spreadsheet work every week.

This website

The site you're reading

Built from scratch — no page builder, no template. Loads in under a second and scores in the high nineties on Google's own performance test. If we're going to sell you a website, ours should prove we can build one.

Demo

Quote follow-up automation

A working demo, built for this site rather than a client: a quote goes out, and if nobody replies in three days it follows itself up, logs the result, and tells you who's worth a phone call.

Pricing

Published, because you shouldn't have to ask.

Every price below is the starting point for a fixed quote. You'll have the number in writing before any work begins, and it won't move unless you change the scope.

Free discovery call: $0
Automation audit: $600
Website: from $1,500
Single automation: from $1,200
Internal tool: from $4,000
Marketing: from $500/mo
Ongoing support: from $400/mo

All prices in AUD, excluding GST. Payment is half up front and half on delivery. Anything outside the written scope is quoted and agreed before we start it.

About us

A small studio that has run an operation, not just coded one.

Upgear AI is a small Australian studio, based in Melbourne. We build websites, run marketing, and automate the repetitive work that eats a small business's week — for clients anywhere in the country.

We come from an operations background. We've built and shipped production systems that businesses depend on every day — ordering, billing, stock tracking, reporting. Systems where a wrong number costs real money and someone rings you about it.

That's the difference. Most people selling AI have never run an operation. We know what a messy week actually looks like before we try to fix it, which means we fix the thing costing you money rather than the thing that's interesting to build.

We take on a small number of clients at a time. You deal with the person building your work — not an account manager, and not a call centre.

We serve: Australia-wide
Based: Melbourne, VIC
Business size: 1–20 staff
Structure: Sole trader, ABN held
Contracts: None — 30 days' notice
Code ownership: Yours, always
Reply time: One business day

Straight answers

Questions worth asking

You're new. Why would I hire you?

Because you'll get attention a busy agency can't give you, at a price they can't match, from someone who has actually built systems businesses run on. We're upfront about being early — that's exactly why our first clients get our best price and our full focus. If you want a supplier with a hundred case studies, we're not it yet. If you want the person who builds it to answer the phone, we are.

Do you only work with Melbourne businesses?

No. We're based in Melbourne but we work with businesses right across Australia — websites, marketing and most automation never need anyone in the room. If you're in or near Melbourne we'll come to you for the audit. Anywhere else, we do it over video: you walk us through your week on a screen share, which honestly works just as well and costs you less time.

Why is the audit paid, when everyone else's is free?

Because a free look produces a guess, and a guess produces a quote that moves later. Half a day watching how your business actually works is what lets us give you a fixed price we'll stand behind. And if we find nothing worth building, the fee comes off any future work — so the only way it costs you is if we save you money.

What happens if it breaks?

We reply within one business day, and support plans start at $400 a month if you want monitoring and a guaranteed response. We also deliberately don't build things that stop your business if they pause for a day — nothing goes on the critical path to invoicing or site work without a manual fallback.

Do I own what you build?

Yes. The code, the domain, the hosting account, the data — all in your name, all handed over at completion with documentation you can give to anyone else. No hostage situations, ever.

Isn't AI going to do all this for free soon?

AI is why we can build in days what used to take weeks, and why our prices are what they are. What it doesn't do is walk into your business, work out which of your processes is actually worth automating, and take responsibility when it has to work on Monday morning. That judgement is the job.

Tell us what's slowing you down.

Twenty minutes, no cost, no pressure. If we can't help, we'll say so and point you at someone who can.

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