AI Consulting for Australian Professional Services
Strategy, architecture and implementation for firms that need AI to be accurate, citable and defensible — not a demo. Delivered by the engineers and practitioners who build Cassandra's own tax and legal engines.
What Cassandra's Consulting Practice Does
Cassandra offers AI consulting for Australian tax, legal and professional-services workflows. Discuss the research, retrieval, integration and review requirements of your practice before choosing an implementation.
Engagements typically cover one of three things: designing and building retrieval-augmented (RAG) systems over a firm's own precedents and knowledge base; evaluating and integrating LLM tooling into existing practice-management workflows; or establishing AI governance that satisfies professional obligations under the TPB Code of Professional Conduct, APES 110 and the Legal Profession Uniform Law.
Define deliverables, hosting arrangements, acceptance criteria and professional review responsibilities in the agreed engagement scope.
The Problems Professionals Face
Pressure to 'do something with AI' without a clear view of risk, cost or where it actually saves time
→ A scoped opportunity assessment tied to specific workflows, with the professional-obligation analysis done up front
Vendor tools that don't integrate with the firm's document system, email or practice management software
→ Integration design and build against your actual stack — Microsoft 365, Xero, iManage, LEAP, APS and similar
Years of precedents and prior advice that nobody can search reliably
→ A retrieval system over your own corpus with citations back to the source document and paragraph
No documented position on how AI outputs are reviewed before they reach a client
→ An AI governance framework with review gates, logging and accountability mapped to your professional standards
Key Capabilities
RAG & Knowledge Systems
Retrieval-augmented generation over firm precedents, prior advice, and primary sources, with paragraph-level citations
LLM Integration
Evaluate, select and integrate language-model tooling into existing document, email and matter workflows
Document Intelligence
Extraction, classification and summarisation pipelines for contracts, financial statements and regulatory filings
AI Governance
Review gates, audit logging and accountability structures aligned with TPB, APESB and Legal Profession Uniform Law obligations
Data Residency & Security
Architecture planning that addresses processing locations, provider terms, access controls and retention
Adoption & Training
Role-specific training so juniors, seniors and partners each know what to trust, what to check, and what to reject
What to Ask an AI Implementation Provider
- How will citations and the underlying authorities be checked?
- How will the system represent legislative versions, ruling status and court hierarchy?
- How will the implementation fit the document and matter systems used by the practice?
- What professional input and review controls are needed for your intended use?
Why Firms Engage Cassandra
- We run a production tax and legal research engine on Australian primary sources — the consulting practice applies what that taught us
- Discuss the required technical skills, professional input and review responsibilities when agreeing the scope
- Agree source traceability, evaluation criteria and review controls as part of the implementation scope
- Australian-registered company (ABN 70 659 258 367); review the agreed architecture and provider terms for processing locations
- Fixed-scope engagements with a working system as the deliverable, not a recommendation deck
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