A focused applied AI engagement taking shape through working artefacts

Understanding. Evidence. Capability.

Different questions require different kinds of evidence.

Every Flink Labs engagement is designed to reduce uncertainty around an important AI decision.

Whether you’re identifying a promising opportunity, proving one through a prototype or building long-term AI capability, each engagement generates what you need to decide what happens next.

The goal is not simply to adopt AI. It is to discover where intelligence can materially improve a product, workflow or decision—and generate the evidence needed to act with confidence.

The work is most valuable when

Flink Labs works with product, innovation, digital, data and operational leaders facing consequential questions about AI.

The right direction is not yet obvious, and the cost of building the wrong thing is significant.

Typical situations include:

Complex evidence or proprietary knowledge could become a valuable new capability.
Existing products or services could be fundamentally reimagined through AI rather than simply automated.
Expert workflows need to be extended in genuinely new ways.
Several promising directions exist, but it isn’t yet clear which deserves investment.
A concept needs to be experienced through a working prototype before confident decisions can be made.
Significant investment depends on answering a small number of important technical, product or organisational questions.

Flagship engagement

AI Prototype Sprint

Turn possibility into evidence.

Build a working AI prototype that answers the questions worth answering.

Test the opportunity in a realistic context, generate meaningful evidence and leave with the confidence to proceed, refine or walk away.

4–8 weeks · A$30,000–A$60,000 + GST

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AI Opportunity Review

Find the opportunity worth pursuing

Turn an emerging AI opportunity into a clear, evidence-backed direction.

You'll leave with a clear recommendation on what should be prototyped, investigated further or deliberately set aside.

Five business days · A$9,000 + GST

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AI Lab Partnership

Build lasting AI capability

An ongoing collaboration combining senior AI research, technical judgement and rapid prototyping.

Identify emerging opportunities, investigate important questions and generate the evidence needed to guide confident AI investment.

2+ months · Tailored monthly engagement

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Compare the engagements

	AI Opportunity Review Understand	AI Prototype Sprint Prove	AI Lab Partnership Evolve
Best when	The opportunity needs clarification	One specific opportunity needs proving	There is an evolving portfolio of opportunities
Primary outcome	A defensible direction	Prototype-driven evidence	Enduring AI capability
Duration	5 business days	4–8 weeks	2+ months
Investment	A$9,000 + GST	A$30,000–A$60,000 + GST	Tailored monthly engagement
Working output	Evidence-backed recommendation	Evidence-based prototype	Recurring experiments and prototypes
Decision supported	What, if anything, should we pursue?	Should we build this for real?	What should we explore next?

AI research & strategic prototyping

We help organisations explore consequential AI opportunities.

AI will not reshape organisations through a single breakthrough. It will reshape them through thousands of decisions about where to explore, what to build and what to ignore.

Every Flink Labs engagement exists to help you make those decisions with greater clarity, stronger evidence and growing capability.

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