Practical AI for businesses that don't have time to waste.

Less
friction.
More
momentum.

We help businesses find exactly where AI creates real leverage — then build it in, together, until it works.

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How a Cradic AI engagement works
Discover
Map your business, understand how work actually flows, and find where the highest value sits. Every opportunity scored by impact, ROI, and risk.
Prioritise
Build a practical plan around what matters most — use cases, integration, ownership, and what success looks like. A roadmap your team can actually run.
Build
Work alongside your team until the systems are running, your people are confident, and the outcomes are real. We stay until it sticks.
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Businesses we work with
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Most businesses are trying AI.
Very few are making it work for them.

There's a paradox at the heart of AI adoption right now: the businesses that most need the time savings don't have the time to figure out how to get them. Cradic AI exists in that gap — curious enough to find the real opportunity, practical enough to build it in, and honest enough to tell you when something isn't worth doing.

65%
of businesses are already using AI in some capacity
36%
of leaders feel they actually know how to get real value from it
90 days
to measurable results — with the right plan and the right help
Source: KPMG / University of Melbourne AI Adoption Research, 2025
The process

Committed to
outcomes,
not deliverables.

We work the way a good collaborator does — curious about your business, generous with what we know, and committed to seeing it through. We don't hand you a document and disappear. We stay until the systems are running and your team genuinely owns them.

01 — Discover
Find what's actually worth fixing.
It starts with a proper conversation. We map how work flows through your business — the systems, the people, the data, the decisions. We look at where AI genuinely fits across your use cases, existing data and systems, governance needs, and what your team will need to get confident. We also surface the AI your team is already using, often without anyone signing off on it, so you can see the risk and the opportunity in the same view. Every opportunity gets scored by impact, ROI, and risk. You walk away with a clear, honest picture of where the leverage sits — and what to do first.
02 — Prioritise
Build a plan worth executing.
From the assessment we build a practical roadmap around your highest-value opportunities — typically the top three to five initiatives. Every initiative includes a quantified business case, a realistic timeline, defined owners, and honest boundaries between what gets automated and what stays human. It also maps the upskilling your team will need. The roadmap isn't a wish list. It's a plan your team can actually run.
03 — Build
Make it work. Then make sure it sticks.
We build working systems alongside your team — not for them, with them. That means designing and automating the workflows from the roadmap, integrating with your existing tools and data, training your people until they're genuinely confident, and staying involved until the outcomes are real. The measure isn't delivery. It's adoption — and what the business can do because of it.
And then
04 — Run

Then we keep it working.

Once the systems are running, we stay on to watch them, report what they are actually delivering — hours recovered, work removed, value created — and find the next opportunity before you have to go looking. You see the numbers every month. The relationship is a partnership, not a project that ends.

The compounding advantage

Efficiency AI
+ Opportunity AI
= compounding
advantage.

AI doesn't change what your business does. It changes how efficiently your business works. Each efficiency gain creates capacity for better thinking — and better thinking finds better opportunities.

Phase 1 — Efficiency AI
Clear the path.
Start by removing the drag — repetitive work, manual steps, decisions that don't need a human. You get time and headspace back. That's not the destination. It's where the real work begins.
Phase 2 — Opportunity AI
Now think bigger.
With the noise cleared, you see the business differently. Better information. Faster decisions. Growth levers that were always there, just invisible. This is where capability genuinely expands.
The compounding advantage.
Stacking these two phases creates the edge. Each efficiency gain creates capacity for better thinking. Better thinking finds better opportunities. The gap between you and competitors widens quietly — and then it becomes very difficult to close.
Where we look

The CRADICS
framework.

We identify where across your business AI creates real, measurable leverage. Six domains. Every one of them practical.

C
Content Creation
Social, LinkedIn, newsletters, and email campaigns produced at scale — maintaining your authentic voice without the time cost.
R
Research
Know more, faster. Competitive intelligence, market analysis, technical research — work that used to take days, done in minutes with greater depth.
A
Automation
Remove the manual steps. Workflows, approvals, triggers, and processes that run themselves — so your team can focus on the work that actually needs them.
D
Data Analysis
Compile, clean, and analyse your data to make it immediately usable for actual business decisions — not just reports.
I
Ideation & Strategy
Stress-test your arguments. Identify strategic blind spots before competitors do. Think faster, decide better.
C
Coding & Systems
Build what you actually need. Custom tools, integrations, and lightweight systems — designed around your real constraints, not a theoretical architecture.
The Audit

Start with the Audit.

The fastest way to find out where AI actually helps your business is not a six-week project. It is a focused audit.

We map how work flows through your business, find where AI creates real leverage, and score every opportunity by impact, ROI and risk. You walk away with a clear, honest picture of where to start and what it is worth — whether or not you do another thing with us.

What you get
  • A prioritised opportunity map across the CRADICS framework
  • The top three to five initiatives, with a business case for each
  • A practical first-90-days plan
Investment Fixed price
By quote, and credited against implementation if you go ahead. A focused engagement — not a six-week project.
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Our commitment

A first working system live inside 90 days. Not a slide deck — something running in your business.

Proof it works

Real work.
Real outcomes.

Examples of AI embedded in actual workflows. All anonymised. The pattern is consistent — outcomes measured in intelligence, quality, and speed, not just time saved.

25hrs
recovered every week — handed back to the team
What changed →
2,000+ handwritten forms entered manually each cycle. No visibility. No benchmarking. Just data entry.
An AI pipeline now ingests, structures, and analyses every form. New cohorts are added instantly. Outcomes are benchmarked in real time. The team stopped doing admin and started doing the actual work.
Data entry → Intelligence pipeline
5,000+
pages of technical data — made instantly useful
What changed →
Thousands of pages of manuals, service reports, and error codes. Locked in PDFs. Accessed by memory or phone call.
A custom knowledge tool now ingests the full library — manuals, service history, fault codes — and returns precise, contextual answers in seconds. Faster diagnosis, fewer repeat failures, scalable across the entire network.
Static documents → Live knowledge system
15min
of manual work eliminated — per image, at scale
What changed →
Every product image required individual manual preparation. Hundreds of images. Repetitive, time-consuming, inconsistent.
A fully automated production pipeline now handles processing end to end. Consistent output, zero manual touch, and the team's time redirected to higher-value work. Output quality improved alongside throughput.
Manual process → Automated pipeline
Nick McGrath
Nick McGrath
Founder, Cradic AI

Built by someone who
runs the business.

Most AI advice today falls into two camps: too abstract to act on, or too technical for the people who actually run the business.

But when AI is applied well, something different happens. Work changes. Decisions get faster. Capability expands.

Nick McGrath saw this firsthand. After 25 years building and running businesses across manufacturing, ecommerce, and services, he came to AI the way operators approach any new capability — by testing it inside real work.

What emerged from that process became the CRADICS framework: a practical way to identify where AI creates real leverage in a business, and then build those systems into the organisation without disruption.

Cradic AI exists to help operators do exactly that. If you run a business and want clear answers and a practical path forward, this work is built for you.

Core Values
01
Stay curious.
Curiosity is where every improvement begins. We ask better questions, explore unexpected solutions, and stay genuinely open to what we find. AI moves fast — curiosity keeps the work useful.
02
Be generous with what you know.
We approach this work the way you'd help a good friend. Share the thinking. Explain the tools. Solve the problem together. The goal isn't to impress people with AI — it's to help them move forward with clarity and confidence.
03
Make work lighter.
The purpose of AI is not more complexity. It's to remove the repetitive weight from work and life so people can focus on the creative, human things that matter. When the work is done well, businesses run better — and people enjoy the work more.
Curious enough to explore. Generous enough to share. Practical enough to make it work.
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