AI automation in Brendale, built by someone who works out of Brendale
I'm Michael. I run Kindra AI out of Brendale, five minutes from South Pine Road, and I've been building software professionally for 22 years — thirteen of those on the ops side of Aussie small businesses, the rest deep in AI systems. Kindra is what I do full-time now.
What I build for Brendale businesses
If you're running a business anywhere between the Brisbane CBD and Burpengary — a trade, a services firm, a wholesaler in one of the industrial estates off Kremzow Road — I probably drive past your yard. That matters more than it sounds. When we sit down for a Leak Check, you're talking to a local who'll answer the phone if something breaks — not an offshore agency or a CBD consultancy who ghost you after the invoice clears.
The rest of this page is what I actually build, who I actually build it for, and what it usually costs.
Not chatbots. Not another SaaS you rent per seat until the pricing changes. Custom apps built around the person doing the job. One for your bookkeeper still chasing invoices at 9pm. One for the person answering client messages across four inboxes. One for you, if you're the owner and Monday morning is still a fog of "what happened last week."
Three most common jobs I take on for northside businesses:
- Books & follow-up automation — reads unpaid invoices, drafts chase emails in your voice, ranks by what earns back most first. Not templated — trained on the replies you've already sent. Cuts average days-sales-outstanding by around a quarter for the businesses running it.
- Ops & scheduling desk — every job, every crew, every promise on one screen. Reads Xero, MS 365, HighLevel, whatever you already run on. Nothing to relearn.
- Owner's weekly briefing — four-minute Monday read, written like a chief-of-staff wrote it. Wins on top, worries in the middle, one clear ask at the bottom. Not a dashboard, not a KPI wall.
The suburbs I actively work across
I don't say "we service all of South-East Queensland." That's the line every offshore-fronted AI shop uses, and it means nothing.
How the Leak Check works — the honest version
Twenty minutes on the phone, or in person if you're in the northside band. No pitch deck. You show me the six or seven apps your business actually runs on today — accounting, jobs, calendar, comms, whatever it is. I show you the one screen it turns into, and where AI would multiply your team, and where it wouldn't.
You leave with a a straight read either way, whether you hire me or not. That's the whole thing.
If we go ahead, I quote a fixed price — no hourly, no scope creep, no per-seat rent forever. When it's live, you own the app. If I ever get hit by a bus, you can hand the code to another developer and they can pick it up. No hostage software.
Why "local" matters for AI work specifically
Most AI builds fail not because the model's bad but because the person building it doesn't understand the business. I can't fix that at a distance.
When I take on a Brendale roofer or a Burpengary earthmoving outfit, I already know what a typical week looks like, what the WHS paperwork actually is, when the invoicing crunch hits, and what the tradespeople will actually accept on a phone. That's the local premium. It's not "we care more" — it's "we get to the useful bit faster because the context is already loaded."
Before you ask.
How much does custom AI cost a Brisbane SMB?
Do you work with businesses south of the river?
What tools do you integrate with?
How long does a build take?
Are you actually one person?
Brisbane
Moreton Bay
Strathpine
Kallangur
North Lakes
Burpengary
Chermside
Stop bending.
Start shipping.
Tell us what's going wrong. Michael calls you back — usually the same day — twenty minutes, no pitch, no charge.