Software Developer & AI Consultant: Find the boring work AI can take off your plate.
I look for the jobs that quietly eat hours, then build a practical way to take them off your team.
If what you need is software without the AI, I build that too.
The hype is loud. The useful bits are quieter.
Most companies are stuck in the same awkward spot: fairly sure they should be doing something with AI to speed up work, much less sure what. The pressure's real: a board member read something, a competitor launched an AI feature that looks annoyingly good. Half the advice on offer is hype. The other half is so vague it might as well be.
Meanwhile the tools have actually become useful. You don't need to ignore AI, and you don't need to rebuild the company around it either. There's a boring middle that usually pays: a handful of jobs where your team would save real hours this month.
I push for AI that earns its keep through real time saved or money made. If I don't think it will, I say so.
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How I help
Which sounds most like what you need?
The same job keeps coming back, and the steps are similar each time.
For example: An enquiry arrives, a reply is drafted and the CRM is updated.
AI workflows
I wire it into the tools you already use so it starts on its own and the result lands in the right place.
How workflows work Or check whether a job of yours is worth itYou want to hand over a job without spelling out every step.
For example: Check the overdue invoices in Xero against the inbox and see who's already promised to pay.
AI assistants
I set up a suitable work assistant, including Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work, or build an autonomous agent when the work needs its own place to run.
Compare assistant setupsYou need a website, app or internal system that doesn't exist yet.
For example: Let customers log in, upload a job and see where it's up to.
Custom software
Websites, web apps, internal systems and the awkward bits between them that no off-the-shelf tool quite covers. I scope it up front and build it myself.
What I build
Why me
I'm Mike, a software developer in Melbourne. For twenty years I've been building, launching and maintaining software that businesses rely on. More of that track record lives on mikeebee.com.
That work has included websites, customer-facing products, internal tools and the connections between systems. I've worked directly with clients, designers and product teams, from the first rough idea through to launch and the years after it.
That experience also extends to integrating AI into real products. I was part of the team that built a customer-facing AI assistant for a global logistics platform. We tailored it to the company’s systems and data, allowing customers to ask complex questions about routes, schedules, shipments, disruptions, emissions and ports in plain English.
A few words from people I’ve worked with
Mike has worked with us a couple of times, the most recent engagement extended half a dozen times as we got very used to the projects he was leading being so reliably delivered. He’s a safe set of hands and delightfully easy to work with.
Mike is undoubtedly one of the best developers I have worked with. He possesses an incredibly rare combination of impeccable technical capability while also being an excellent communicator.
We engaged Mike to build our company website and would definitely recommend him to anyone. He was able to identify our needs for the site, and develop something customised to the way our company works. As an animation company, we spend a lot of time uploading, curating and promoting work, and Mike was able to greatly streamline this process for us; it’s been a huge time saver. Mike was super communicative, and was a wealth of advice and guidance through the process.
What working together looks like
It starts with a free 45-minute call. Often that's enough to see the first move.
A free intro call
You talk about how the business runs and I ask questions. No charge, no obligation.
A scope and a price, in writing
If it looks like a fit, I send a short scope and a fixed price, so you see what you're getting and what it costs before anything starts.
Then it depends which one it is
The three run differently from here, and they're priced differently too.
- A workflow
- Usually live in weeks, with the first month of support included.
- An assistant
- One setup session in a suitable work assistant, or an autonomous agent built around the jobs you hand it.
- A software project
- Scoped as a project, with a timeline agreed before I start.
Not sure AI would earn its keep on a job you have in mind?
Describe one repetitive job and get a plain read in a minute. No email needed.
Let's see if I can help
A couple of sentences is plenty. I read everything and usually reply within a business day or two.