AI integration · Web & apps · Melbourne, Australia
Put AI to work in your business.
Studio 17 Designs is a Melbourne studio helping Australian businesses integrate AI into their workflow — custom-built, connected to the tools you already use, and explained in plain English. We still design, build, and look after the websites and apps behind it.
- Free AI workflow audit
- Fixed price to build
- Your data stays private
- Reply within one business day
(01) AI, explained
What is AI, and how can it help?
What is AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is software that can read, write, listen, and make decisions in ways that used to need a person. The AI most businesses meet today is built on large language models — the technology behind ChatGPT and Claude — which can understand plain-English instructions, read your documents and emails, and produce drafts, summaries, answers, and structured data in seconds. It is not magic and it is not a robot employee: it is a very capable assistant that still needs to be set up around your business, connected to your tools, and checked by a human where the stakes are high.
How can AI help my business?
AI pays for itself fastest on repetitive, text-heavy work. Typical wins for Australian small and mid-sized businesses: answering customer enquiries 24/7 from your own pricing and policies, drafting quotes, proposals, and follow-up emails, summarising calls and meetings into notes and tasks, pulling data out of invoices, PDFs, and forms into your systems, and flagging jobs or leads that need attention. The result is hours back each week, faster responses to customers, and fewer things slipping through the cracks — without hiring. We start with a short audit of your workflow to find the two or three places it will make the biggest difference.
What does an AI integration from Studio 17 Designs include?
A workflow audit, a written scope with a fixed price, the build itself (custom assistants, automations, and integrations with tools such as email, your CRM, Xero, and job or booking software), team training, and a monthly plan that covers hosting, monitoring, and tuning as your business changes. Your data stays private and is never used to train public models. You own the setup and can take it elsewhere at any time.
(02) Selected work
Built to be used.
(03) What we do
AI, websites, and apps — one studio.
(04) Website care plans
Already have a website? We'll look after it.
WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or custom — we take over sites we didn't build too. Every plan is month-to-month in AUD, plus GST. Not sure where to start? Ask for a free website health check.
Essentials
$99 /month
Keep your site online, secure, and backed up.
- Fast Australian hosting & SSL
- Daily backups
- Uptime monitoring
- Security & software updates
Growth
$199 /month
Everything in Essentials, plus regular changes.
- Up to 2 hours of content changes a month
- Monthly performance & SEO check
- Google Business Profile tune-ups
- Next-business-day support
Partner
$349 /month
An ongoing web team without the salary.
- Up to 5 hours of changes or new pages a month
- Quarterly SEO & conversion review
- Landing pages for campaigns
- Same-day priority support
(05) How it works
Simple, fixed-price, no jargon.
Talk
A free 20-minute call to understand your business, where the hours go, and which jobs AI could take off your plate.
Quote
A flat, written quote with a clear timeline — no hourly billing, no surprises.
Build & tune
We build it, connect it to your tools, train your team, then keep it tuned and running every month so you never have to.
Let's put AI to work for you.
An AI audit, a new site, or someone to finally look after the one you have. Tell us what you need — we reply within one business day.
Book a free AI audit