Cloud Inn
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LocalAI systems, built on the Gold Coast

Your business, working
after hours.

Cloud Inn designs, builds and runs practical AI systems for local businesses - enquiries answered at 9pm, documents drafted before you sit down, deadlines chased without you. AI automation and custom software expertise on a fixed fee, no hires required.

Book a 30-minute call(opens the booking calendar)Or describe the workflow that annoys you

Last night, while the office was closed

  • 6:47 pmPortal enquiry answered and qualified
  • 9:14 pmInspection booked into Saturday’s calendar
  • 11:02 pmMaintenance request triaged as non-urgent
  • 6:05 amMorning digest drafted: 3 warm leads, ranked

Illustrative example of an after-hours enquiry system - every client setup is scoped to their own workflow.

Deep expertise, not a reseller

Led by an AI automation and custom software expert who has designed and run production systems at real scale - long before AI made building software look easy.

Based on the Gold Coast

We meet you at your office, not on a ticket queue. Local, accountable, and around next quarter when you need us.

Human oversight by design

Every system ships with explicit approval points. AI drafts and drudges; your people decide.

Fixed fees, plain English

Scope agreed before we start, no open-ended hourly billing, and reporting your accountant could read.

The uncomfortable truth

AI made building software look easy. It didn’t make it easy.

Anyone can generate an app in an afternoon now. The bill comes later: customer data in tools nobody vetted, automations that fail silently for weeks, and “assistants” that confidently tell clients the wrong thing.

Get a straight answer on yours(opens the booking calendar)The hidden risks of DIY AI

  • Vetted, not vibe-coded

    Every system is engineered, tested and monitored like the production software it is.

  • Your data, handled like it matters

    Designed around Australian privacy law, with data kept in accounts you control.

  • Humans stay in charge

    Explicit approval points on anything that touches a client, a contract or a dollar.

How we work

Start small. Prove it. Then compound.

Three steps, each one de-risking the next. Every engagement is a fixed fee agreed before we start - the starting prices are right here, so the call is about your workflow, not haggling.

01

AI Opportunity Audit

Know exactly where AI pays off in your business

From $2,500AUD + GST

We spend time inside your actual workflow - inboxes, phones, spreadsheets, software - and map where the hours and leads are leaking. You get a prioritised, costed plan in plain English.

  • Workflow walkthrough with you and your team
  • Prioritised list of automation opportunities
  • Honest feasibility and risk assessment for each
  • Fixed-fee proposal for the highest-value first system

Fixed fee, agreed before we start. The plan is yours to keep - even if you build it with someone else.

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02Recommended first build

Quick Win Build

One working system, live in weeks

From $8,000AUD + GST

We build the single highest-return system from your audit - like after-hours enquiry handling - connect it to your existing tools, train your team, and stay until it demonstrably works.

  • One production system, built around your tools
  • Human approval points wherever you want them
  • Team training and plain-English documentation
  • 30 days of tuning and support after go-live

Fixed fee, priced from your audit. Deliberately sized so the maths is obvious.

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03

AI Partner

A technical team on retainer, without the hires

Monthly retainerScoped after your Quick Win

Ongoing partnership: we run and improve your systems, ship the next automations from your roadmap, and act as your technical department - for less than a junior hire.

  • Monitoring, maintenance and improvement of every system
  • New automations shipped from your prioritised backlog
  • A named expert who knows your business
  • Monthly plain-English progress and value reporting

Cancel any time. Offered after a successful Quick Win.

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How an engagement looks

What we’d build for an agency like yours

Illustrative scenarios showing scope and approach - labelled as exactly that, because your five-star reviews should be real.

The 9:14pm buyer who didn’t get away

Representative scenario
The problem
A mid-sized sales agency was losing evening portal leads: median first-response time was 14 hours, and follow-up depended on who remembered.
What we build
An AI enquiry assistant connected to the agency’s portal inbox and CRM: instant, natural replies that qualify budget, timeframe and finance status; inspection bookings straight into agents’ calendars; a morning digest for the sales team.
The result
First response in under two minutes at any hour, every lead qualified and logged, and agents starting the day with a ranked call list instead of a cold inbox.

A property manager’s Monday, halved

Representative scenario
The problem
One property manager handled 180 doors and spent most of Monday relaying maintenance emails between tenants, owners and tradies.
What we build
A maintenance triage system: tenants lodge issues conversationally with photos, the system classifies urgency, drafts owner approvals and tradie work orders, and chases outstanding responses automatically.
The result
Routine maintenance handled end-to-end with human sign-off at the approval points only - freeing the manager for inspections, arrears and owner relationships.

Who we build for

Real estate in South East Queensland first - and a few more industries, one at a time, properly.

The founding client offer

We’re new. Here’s why that works in your favour.

You won’t find a wall of five-star reviews here yet - we’d rather earn them than invent them. So our first clients get founding-client terms: a meaningful discount on the audit and first build, direct access to the expert doing the work, and priority on our calendar. In exchange, when the system delivers, we’ll ask you for the testimonial that goes in this spot.

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Limited to a handful of businesses per quarter - we build everything ourselves, properly.

Who you’ll work with

Senior engineering, not sales

Gold Coast, QLD - AI automation and custom software

Years spent designing, building and running production software that has to work at 2am, with real money and real customers on the line. The expert on your first call is the one who builds your system - no account managers, no offshore handoffs.

Talk to us(opens the booking calendar)More about Cloud Inn

Bring us the workflow that annoys you most.

30 minutes with the expert who’d build it. Pick a time below - if we can’t help, we’ll tell you that too.

  • Whether the workflow is worth automating at all
  • Roughly what it would cost to fix
  • What we would build first - or which cheap tool to buy instead
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Know a business drowning in admin? Introduce them and we’ll pay you 10% of their first engagement fee - cash, no cap.

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