A perspective for Australian executives

The hard part was never the technology

Enterprise AI adoption that runs on the security and infrastructure you already own. Powered by Claude. Secured by Microsoft.

Thirty minutes
One session with your leadership team. No procurement, no commitment.
Your existing stack
Runs on the Microsoft tenancy and controls you already pay for.
Two accountable firms
The AI and the security around it, under one engagement.
Accredited on both halves of the problem
01 / Who to talk to

The team hosting the session, across both firms.

GB
Garth Baker
Head of Growth
Digital61
inLinkedIn
SB
Sunny Bhatia
Chief Information and Digital Officer
Digital61
inLinkedIn
SD
Saju Daniel
Managing Director
DeepWeaver
inLinkedIn
TE
Tamilselvan Easwaran
Co-founder and Managing Director
DeepWeaver
inLinkedIn
02 / The case

Most organisations do not have an AI problem.

They have a governance, security and operationalisation problem. The platforms are proven. What separates the organisations getting value from the ones still piloting is whether the workforce is enabled, governed and trusted to use them.

The activation gap
Businesses that own AI43%
of Australian small businesses now use AI. Ownership is mainstream.
Seats actually used28%
of licensed AI seats are actively used. Licences are not outcomes.

Two different bases, shown separately rather than as one comparison.

Two years ago we blocked generative AI outright. Getting to board priority was not a technology decision. It was governance, evidence and trust, in that order.
Oliver Sebastian Chief Information Officer, Landcom

The shift is from rollout to enablement. AI woven into how work gets done, governed inside the security stack you already own.

03 / The two firms

Two specialisms, one engagement.

DeepWeaver brings the AI. Digital61 secures and operates the environment it runs in. You deal with one team, and the handover problem between the two disciplines never lands on your desk.

The AI partner

DeepWeaver is an Australian AI consultancy and an Anthropic Claude partner. The practice exists because most organisations that buy an AI platform never get past the pilot, so the work is deliberately built around adoption rather than procurement: get the technology into the hands of the people who do the work, prove it on real processes, then keep going until agents are running in production.

The team comes out of enterprise software delivery and applied AI engineering, and works embedded alongside client teams rather than at arm's length. Certification under ISO 42001, the AI management standard, means the governance side is documented rather than improvised.

What they do
  • Claude enablement, from executive literacy to role-based hands-on labs
  • Rollout and activation, including MCP connectors into your systems of record
  • Forward-deployed engineers building skills and agents alongside your teams
  • Long-running agentic development, with evaluation and production monitoring
Anthropic Claude partner
ISO 42001 certified, NAIC-listed
The security and infrastructure partner

Digital61 is a Canberra-headquartered managed security and managed services provider working with Australian government, critical infrastructure and enterprise. The day job is running the controls other people only write policies about: identity, endpoints, cloud platform and a 24/7 security operations centre.

That matters here because the reason AI programmes stall is rarely the model. It is the unanswered question about where data goes, who can reach it, and who is watching. Digital61 answers those in the tenancy you already run, with the clearance and assurance posture to back it: DISP membership and an IRAP PROTECTED-assessed managed SOC.

What they do
  • Identity and device posture through Entra and Intune
  • Data governance, classification and retention through Purview
  • Detection and response through a 24/7 managed SOC on Sentinel
  • Azure landing zones, compliance evidence and assurance reporting
Microsoft Solutions Partner: cloud, security, workplace
DISP member, IRAP PROTECTED-assessed managed SOC
04 / Where it sits

Nothing new to secure.

Identity, deployment, data governance and detection stay exactly where they already are. The AI layer sits on top of your Microsoft tenancy rather than beside it, so there is no second control plane, no second audit surface and no new vendor to assess.

Your people, every role
The AI-enabled workforce layer
AI to the desktop
Claude in everyday tools, with no context switching.
Intelligence layer for search
Internal knowledge and the web, answered in context.
Day-to-day assistant
Drafting, analysis and decisions across every role.
AI-enabled SDLC
Claude Code from design to review to deployment.
Your existing Microsoft stack
EntraIntuneTeamsAzureSentinelPurview
Entra
Single sign-on, conditional access and the same joiner-mover-leaver process that governs everything else.
Intune
Deployment and update of the desktop client to managed devices, with compliance policy enforced.
Teams
Where the work already happens, so adoption does not depend on people learning a new place to go.
Azure
The landing zone, networking and private connectivity the AI services run across.
Purview
Sensitivity labels, DLP and retention applied to what goes into and comes out of the model.
Sentinel
Usage and anomaly signals into the SIEM your SOC already watches, alongside everything else.
05 / Five integrated service layers

From executive literacy to agents running in production.

The layers are sequential but not all-or-nothing. Most organisations start at one or two, prove the value, and pull the rest forward once the governance position is settled.

  1. 01

    Claude enablement and training

    Executive literacy sessions that settle what the technology is and is not, then role-based workshops and hands-on labs so each function leaves with work they can actually do differently on Monday.

    You geta trained cohort, role-specific prompt and workflow libraries, and an internal champion network.
  2. 02

    Claude rollout and activation

    Packaged deployment through Intune to managed devices, MCP connectors wired into the systems your people work in, and security guardrails set before the first licence is handed out.

    You geta managed deployment, connected data sources, and activation tracked as a number rather than assumed.
  3. 03

    Claude governance

    Acceptable use standards, usage controls and a responsible AI framework mapped to your existing compliance obligations, with the evidence a board or auditor will ask for already assembled.

    You getSOPs, a control mapping, and reporting that stands up in an assurance conversation.
  4. 04

    Forward-deployed engineering

    Claude experts working onsite with your teams, turning the ideas that surface during enablement into production-grade skills and agents rather than demos that stall after the workshop.

    You getworking automations in your environment, and your own people able to extend them.
  5. 05

    Agent build and AIOps

    Long-running agentic development against real processes, with evaluation harnesses, monitoring and a defined operating model so agents are run like production systems, not experiments.

    You getagents in production, measured performance, and a support model that does not depend on one person.
What clients see
30%
faster decision-making
40%
process efficiency gains
Zero
new security overhead, governed in your existing stack
06 / How engagements start

A short, low-commitment first step.

01
Executive session
Thirty minutes with your leadership team on where AI is genuinely useful in your organisation, and where the governance exposure actually sits.
02
Readiness and use case review
A look at your tenancy, controls and candidate processes, returning a shortlist ranked by value against effort.
03
Scoped pilot
One function, a defined measure of success and a fixed timeframe, run inside your existing security boundary.
07 / Why these two

One partner for the AI. One for securing the environment it runs on.

DeepWeaver
AI depth
Platform, agents and skills
Digital61
Security depth
Governance, SOC and assurance
Your workforce
The point

One engagement, one accountable team, and no gap between the AI capability and the controls around it.

08 / Questions that usually come up
Does our data train the model?
No. Enterprise use of Claude does not feed your prompts or documents back into model training. That position is contractual, and it is one of the first things worth confirming in writing for your own records.
Where does the data sit?
Data residency and the connectivity path are set during rollout, and documented as part of the governance layer so the answer exists before anyone has to ask for it under pressure.
Do we need a new security tool?
No. Identity, device compliance, classification and detection stay in Entra, Intune, Purview and Sentinel. The AI layer is monitored through the controls you already run.
What if adoption stalls again?
Activation is measured, not assumed. Seat usage by function is reported from the start, so a stall shows up as a number early enough to do something about it.
How long before anything is real?
The executive session is thirty minutes. A scoped pilot in one function is typically weeks rather than quarters, because nothing new has to be procured or secured first.
Who owns what we build?
You do. The skills, agents and configuration are built in your environment and handed over with your teams able to extend them.
Take the brochure with you
The printed version of this argument, as a folding three-panel PDF. Useful to forward to a colleague, or to bring to the conversation internally before a session is booked.
Download the brochure (PDF)
Behind the numbers
43% National AI Centre, SME AI Pulse (Dec 2025 to Feb 2026). Published through the AI Adoption Tracker and the SME business briefs.
28% Stackmatix, AI seat adoption trends (2026).

Source links point to the publishing bodies. Confirm the exact report before quoting these figures in a proposal.

Anthropic Claude partner  ·  ISO 42001 certified, NAIC-listed
DISP member, IRAP PROTECTED-assessed managed SOC
Microsoft Solutions Partner across cloud, security and workplace
09 / Book the executive session

Thirty minutes that tells you whether this is real for your organisation.

Not a demo and not a pitch deck. A working session with your leadership team on where AI is genuinely useful in your organisation, what it would run on, and where the governance exposure actually sits. You leave with a view either way.

01
You send the form
Under a minute. Four fields, nothing else.
02
We reply within one business day
A short note with two or three times that suit, and who from each firm would join.
03
The session runs
Onsite or over Teams, whichever is easier for your team.