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AI developers & AI governance specialists

AI you can trust.
Impact you can measure.

We plan, design, build, operate and govern full-stack AI systems in high-stakes and regulated industries.

Measured outcomes

270% return per annum AI workflows
90% reduction in service backlog AI strategy
120% return per annum AI systems engineering
  • Information security & AI management
  • Certified social enterprise
  • 10+ years In regulated environments

What we run for you

Designed With You - High Reliability

Managed AI Workflows

In regulated, high-stakes work, AI only earns its place if it's dependable and defensible. Cadent's enterprise AI workflow orchestrator lets you put AI in the processes you can't afford to get wrong. The payoff is AI your risk, compliance and security teams will say yes to, and the confidence to scale it into the work that matters most.

  • Durable execution that resumes after any failure
  • Automatic retries, timeouts and concurrency control
  • End-to-end observability and a complete audit trail
  • Runs onshore in our secure data centre or the cloud of your choice
  • No credentials in AI transcripts

From $990 per month

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You Drive - We Keep It Safe

Managed AI Agents

In sensitive, regulated settings, autonomy is only worth having if it stays under your control. Cadent's advanced AI agents let you hand real work to AI while staying firmly in command, so you get the upside of autonomy without the exposure. They grow more valuable the more you use them, and you decide the balance of capability, cost and security each task calls for.

  • Captures repeatable tasks as reusable, reviewable skills
  • Persistent memory and context across sessions
  • Agent uses its own computer in our secure onshore data centre
  • Model tiers you control, from onshore frontier to cost-optimised open-weight
  • No credentials in AI transcripts
  • Oversight and guardrails at every step

From $349 per month

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AI capability development

Training and Enablement

Train your team to work well alongside the AI that runs in your operations - whether we run it or you do.

From $99 per session

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What we've always done

The discipline behind the AI.

Strategy, governance and systems engineering - the foundations we were built on, long before generative AI.

Strategy

An AI roadmap prioritised by value to your organisation against the resourcing each move really takes, so you invest where it compounds.

Governance

Policies, procedures and enablement, built with your decision-makers into one robust approach, designed to identify opportunities, manage risks and add value to your AI operations. We've implemented ISO 42001 AI management systems, the Voluntary AI Safety Standard and the AI.gov.au Essential AI Practices across the public and private sectors.

Systems Engineering

A decade building AI systems means we understand, and control for, how AI and machine learning behave in your processes. We fine-tune and build models across structured data, text, vision and audio - handed to your team to run, or kept running on our managed AI infrastructure.

Who we work with

Organisations where AI must earn its keep, and be run with care.

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Legal, finance and accounting firms. Every output has to be defensible.

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Aged care, disability and NDIS, allied health. Staff hours are the most precious thing you have, and the people you serve can't carry the cost when AI gets it wrong.

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Not-for-profits, peak bodies and government agencies. You answer to members, funders and the public, so anything AI touches has to be transparent and accountable.

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Four steps from conversation to compounding ROI

How it works

Every managed service engagement starts the same way: an honest look at what's worth doing. Then we prove it works small, deploy it for real, and run it for as long as it earns its place.

  1. Discovery

    Two to four weeks together: we look at your operations, identify the workflows worth automating, and build the ROI case. You leave with a prioritised plan whether or not we go further.

  2. Pilot

    Two to four weeks to build and run a small version of the workflow against your real data. You see the outcome before you commit to a managed service. If it doesn't earn its place, we both walk away.

  3. Deploy

    Production-grade build on our private infrastructure, integrated to your systems, governed to ISO 27001 standards. Documented, monitored, ready to scale.

  4. Run

    We operate the workflow, watch the metrics, tune the models, manage the incidents, evolve it as your business changes. You see what's running, what it's costing, and what it's returning. Transparent contract terms.

The first conversation is the same whether you end up with a managed service or just a clearer plan.

The same faces from Discovery to Run.

Who runs your AI

Behind every managed service is a small, dedicated team - a principal accountable for the outcome, engineers who build and operate it, and a designer making sure it shows up well to your team. You meet them during Discovery, and they stay with you for the life of the service.

James Gauci, Founder of Cadent

From our founder

“We only deploy AI when getting it right adds value and builds trust. When we're able to align the performance of our systems with the priorities of our stakeholders, we can't not make massive positive impact.”

James Gauci · Founder

Questions

Common questions

What does Cadent do?
Cadent puts AI into the operations of regulated and mission-led organisations and stays accountable for how it runs. The same small team handles everything from the first conversation to ongoing operation - strategy, governance, systems engineering, and managed AI services.
How much do Cadent's managed AI services cost?
Managed AI Agents from A$349/month + GST; Managed AI Workflows and Managed AI Infrastructure from A$990/month + GST; training from A$99/session. Every engagement begins with a Discovery call.
Which sectors does Cadent work with?
Public sector, peak bodies and membership organisations, large not-for-profits, regulated professional services, heavy industry and manufacturing, and food and agriculture.
Is Cadent's AI safe and well governed?
Yes. Cadent works to ISO/IEC 42001 and 27001, the Voluntary AI Safety Standard, and the AI.gov.au Essential Practices, with an ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor on the team and 10+ years in regulated environments.
Where is Cadent based?
In the Moreton Bay region of Queensland, Australia, working with organisations Australia-wide.
How do engagements start?
Every managed-service engagement starts with a Discovery call - an honest look at what's worth doing - followed by Pilot, Deploy, then Run.

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