AI Automation Blog

Practical strategies and insights for professional services firms looking to automate with AI

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Build a Settlement Date Calculator for Conveyancers With AI

A plain-English walkthrough for building an internal-only date calculator that turns a contract date into key dates, with state cooling-off periods set as inputs you verify — no developer needed.

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AI-Generated Google Apps Script for Real Estate Agents

Paste your sheet's column headings into an AI, describe the email you want, and install the script in minutes. A step-by-step build for agents running listings in Google Sheets.

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Automate PEXA Settlement Date Reminders for Conveyancers

PEXA tracks the settlement, not the lead-up. Here's how to build an automated reminder system that pulls key dates from each matter and alerts staff and clients before deadlines slip.

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Cursor for Non-Developers: A First-Day Small Business Guide

Cursor is a code editor with an AI chat pane built in — and yes, a non-programmer can use it. Here's what it's for, a first build, and when Claude or ChatGPT in the browser is the smarter choice.

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Automate Client Tax Return Checklists With ChatGPT

A practical build for Australian accountants: turn a client's circumstances into a personalised, ATO-aware document-request checklist using a saved ChatGPT prompt and a simple Zapier flow.

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How to Train Staff to Use AI in a Professional Services Firm

A step-by-step playbook for getting your team actually using AI — pilot selection, prompt libraries, guardrails and change management, built for small Australian firms without an IT department.

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Replace Excel Macros With AI-Written Scripts for Accountants

How Australian accountants and bookkeepers can get AI to write the Excel formula, Office Script or Google Apps Script for a real monthly job — and keep it from becoming the next mystery macro.

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Automate Rental Application Screening (Without Breaking the Law)

A practical guide for Australian property managers on automating the admin around rental applications — intake, sorting and shortlisting — while keeping the human decisions human and staying inside tenancy and discrimination law.

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Build a Fee Estimate Calculator for Your Website With AI

You can describe a fee estimate calculator to Claude or ChatGPT in plain English and get working HTML the same afternoon. Here are the prompts, the testing steps, the disclaimer wording, and the point where a developer earns their fee.

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Is AI Safe for Client Data Under the Australian Privacy Act?

What the Australian Privacy Principles actually require when you feed client data into AI tools — plus the questions to ask vendors and the deployment patterns that keep you on the right side of the line.

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How to Automate Client Onboarding in a Law Firm

A step-by-step walkthrough of end-to-end onboarding automation for small firms — engagement letters, ID collection, conflict checks and exception reports — with a partner approving before anything goes live.

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Microsoft Copilot vs ChatGPT for Accounting Firms

An honest comparison for accounting firms already on Microsoft 365 — where Copilot's integration pays off, where ChatGPT is the smarter buy, and when neither is the right tool.

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10 AI Workflows to Save 10+ Hours a Week

Our complete playbook for professional services firms — email triage, meeting prep, proposals, document review, plus a 30-day implementation plan and governance controls.