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A focused applied Machine Intelligence 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 machine intelligence decision.

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

The goal is not simply to adopt AI or Machine Intelligence. 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 Machine Intelligence.

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 machine intelligence 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.
Turn possibility into evidence
Flagship engagement

Machine Intelligence Prototype Sprint

Turn possibility into evidence.

Build a working machine intelligence 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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Machine Intelligence Opportunity Review

Machine Intelligence Opportunity Review

Find the opportunity worth pursuing

Turn an emerging machine intelligence 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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An ongoing achine intelligence lab partnership

Machine intelligence Lab Partnership

Build lasting machine intelligence capability

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

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

2+ months · Tailored monthly engagement

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Compare the engagements

Machine Intelligence Opportunity Review
Understand
Machine Intelligence Prototype Sprint
Prove
Machine Intelligence 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 machine intelligence 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?
Machine Intelligence research & strategic prototyping

Machine Intelligence research & strategic prototyping

We help organisations explore consequential machine intelligence opportunities.

Machine Intelligence 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.

Discuss a machine intelligence opportunity