Nearly 100 applications since 1978 — from traffic signals and tunnels to accounting systems and web shops. Now I help Australian businesses and committees put AI to work on the questions, paperwork and processes that slow good people down — built securely, on your own information.
From traffic signals and road tunnels to accounting ledgers and online shops — I've designed and written software for systems where the public, the money or the network depends on it working, every time.
Real-time systems keeping roads moving — live data from the network, decisions in seconds.
Control software for road tunnels, where safety systems and operators must always have the right information.
Management and accounting systems where every cent has to balance and every change has to be traceable.
A long line of business websites and online stores — the public face of the business, taking real orders.
Specialised software to control networks and manage routers — keeping the connections everything else relies on up and configured correctly.
Stock control for vehicle businesses — every car tracked from arrival to sale.
Software agents that move across a network and act on their own — the forerunner of today's AI agents.
Today: an AI-assisted management platform for strata schemes and their committees — bodycorp.ai ↗
Why this matters for AI. AI is only as useful as the systems around it — the data feeds, the accounts, the security, the people who rely on it. After decades building exactly those systems, I know where AI fits into a real business, and where it doesn't.
Not a chatbot bolted onto a website. I look at how your business really runs, find the work AI can take off people's plates, and build it properly.
A plain-English review of where time goes — the repeated questions, the re-keying, the hunting through old emails and files.
Assistants that answer from your own documents, policies and history — and show their sources, so nobody has to take them on faith.
Your data stays yours. Access controls, audit trails and Australian hosting are designed in from the start — not patched on later.
No hand-offs between salespeople, consultants and a distant dev team. You deal directly with the engineer building your system.
Body corporate committees are volunteers carrying real legal and financial responsibility — with decades of minutes, by-laws, contracts and correspondence to keep track of. I know the problem from the inside, and I've built the platform to fix it.
Every Tesla dashcam clip quietly carries the car's speed, steering, acceleration and Full Self-Driving state inside the video file. Nobody was using it. I decoded the format and built TeslaHUD to paint that data over the footage.
It's the same approach I bring to businesses: the information is often already there — it just needs the right engineering to make it useful.
You tell me how the business runs and where it hurts. No jargon, no obligation.
We choose one task where AI will clearly save time or reduce mistakes.
Built on your real information, so you judge results — not a slide deck.
If it pays its way, we build on it. If not, you've lost little and learned a lot.
I wrote my first professional software in 1978 and I've never stopped building. Along the way I've seen every big shift in computing up close — and I believe AI is the biggest of them all. The difference now is that it's genuinely useful to ordinary businesses, if it's built with care.
I'm based in Brisbane. I combine a long engineering career with formal study in computing and security, and hands-on experience in body corporate management — so I understand both the technology and the day-to-day reality of the people using it.
Real-world testing on Australian roads, and a clear engineer's read on where technology is heading.
Tell me what's slowing things down. I'll tell you honestly whether AI can help — and if it can't, I'll say so.
✉️ ian.bennetts@gmail.com