--- title: "Slo Labs: Make your company AI-first" description: "The Slo Labs home page as markdown: the gap, the AI Transformation Audit, proof, the three ways to work, how we work, the studio, and the FAQ." canonical: "https://slolabs.studio" last-updated: "2026-09-10" --- # Slo Labs: Make your company AI-first > Slo Labs helps ambitious founder-led companies become AI-first. We find the best opportunities, build the systems, educate the team, and stay involved as the company changes. AI transformation studio · Sydney · Australia and beyond Source page: https://slolabs.studio ## We help founder-led companies become AI-first. We work directly with founders and their leadership teams to find where AI changes the business, build the systems, and get the team using them. Then we stay on as your AI partner so the company keeps getting faster and more capable. **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. Start here. 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 Transformation Audit: $2,000 AUD, fixed price. Founding rate for our first clients. Standard rate: $3,000 AUD.** The normal starting point when the opportunity is broad or unclear. ### 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 full audit investment towards a build of $5,000 or more. ## 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 host the systems that need to stay running. ### AI Transformation Audit **Fixed $2,000 AUD.** Your goals, workflows, systems, and current AI use, turned into a prioritised AI transformation roadmap with clear scopes for the first builds. We credit the full audit investment towards a build of $5,000 or more. ### Custom System Builds **Typically $5,000–$20,000 AUD.** Agents, automations, internal tools, and integrations built around one useful business outcome. You receive a written scope and fixed quote before we start. Larger platforms are delivered in stages. ### Managed Hosting and Support **$300–$500 AUD per month.** Hosting, monitoring, backups, maintenance, and routine technical support for systems we build. Software subscriptions and usage costs are billed separately. You can also book a team workshop on its own. ### Team workshop **Typically $1,500–$2,500 AUD.** Practical AI training built around your team's real work. Choose a focused session or a tailored half day, on-site or remote. 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. ## How we take AI from idea to daily use. We work with the founder and team to choose the right changes, implement them, and build the habits that make them stick. 1. **Discover.** We work with the founder and team to understand the company, its goals, its systems, and how people use AI today. 2. **Design.** We choose the few changes with the most value and design the future workflow, system, ownership, and adoption plan. 3. **Implement.** We build and configure the agents, automations, integrations, internal tools, and team practices required to make the change real. 4. **Embed.** We train the team, measure use, improve the systems, and keep the company moving as the technology and business change. ## 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. We take on a small number of companies at a time. Trusted specialists join when the work needs them, while Luke stays close to the founder and the transformation. 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? Usually, yes. The audit helps us understand your situation and your systems, and define a safe first build before either side commits to a larger one. We skip it when the problem, scope, and technical requirements are already clear. A team workshop is the other way to start, when you want learning before diagnosis. ### 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? Managed Hosting and Support keeps the system running for $300–$500 AUD per month. It includes hosting, monitoring, backups, maintenance, and routine technical support. Software subscriptions and usage costs are billed separately. ### Do you run team workshops? Yes. Team workshops typically cost $1,500–$2,500 AUD. We can run a focused session or a tailored half day, built around your team's real work. ### We are not in Sydney. Does that matter? No. Most work is remote. On-site workshops travel at cost. ## See how your company could become AI-first. Free 20-minute call. Tell us how your company works today and where AI feels underused. We’ll explain where Slo Labs can help. **Book an intro call:** https://slolabs.studio/contact Email: hello@slolabs.studio