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AI Surge  ·  Australia & New Zealand

Empowering People and Organisations to Confidently Demystify, Navigate and Leverage AI's Transformative Power.

We fuse AI into the DNA of your operations, unleashing breathtaking efficiencies, unstoppable growth, and a winning formula your competitors simply can't replicate.

Strategic Partners
Google for Education Lenovo JB HiFi Noel Leeming HP ASUS Google Anthropic
The Adoption Problem

You don't have an AI problem. You have an adoption problem.


Your teams likely have some AI tools. They've tested prompts, set up chatbots, maybe even attended a webinar. But without structure, strategy, and accountability, AI remains a collection of disconnected experiments -not a system that drives real business outcomes.

Meanwhile, the organisations pulling ahead aren't the ones with the most licences. They're the ones who decided -deliberately, strategically -where AI would earn its keep, and deployed it with speed and discipline.

AI Surge closes that gap. We take you from "we should do AI" to "AI runs 40% of our operations" -in weeks.

The AI Surge Framework

Six stages from uncertainty to unmatched capability.

Every stage builds on the last. Every stage ends in a decision, a deliverable, or a deployment -not another meeting.

1

Governance & Risk Foundation

Establish the guardrails before you build. Privacy safeguards, ethical principles, data handling policies, and governance frameworks that give your organisation the confidence to innovate safely and scale without fear.

2

Strategy & Alignment

Align leadership on where AI drives the greatest commercial and operational impact. We identify high-value use cases, prioritise opportunities, and create shared ownership so AI strategy is fully integrated with your business vision.

3

Outcome-Driven Roadmap

No more pilots without purpose. A phased, actionable roadmap that ties every initiative directly to business outcomes and KPIs. Costed, sequenced, and ready to execute, so AI delivers tangible ROI fast.

4

AI-Led Digital Transformation

Evolve your Microsoft or Google environment from a passive workspace into an intelligent, AI-driven engine. We re-architect legacy workflows and embed intelligent automation to eliminate operational friction across the business.

5

Training & Enablement

Adoption doesn't happen by accident. We equip your teams, from frontline staff to senior leaders, with the mindset, skills, and toolkits to use AI effectively in their daily roles. Confusion becomes confidence.

6

Agentic AI & Continuous Value

Deploy purpose-built AI agents that operate autonomously, managing complex tasks, surfacing insights, and scaling impact across your organisation. This is where AI moves from concept to compounding value, every day, in every department.

3-10x
Typical first-year ROI
4 wks
Kickoff to deployed workflow
80%
Admin tasks agent-automatable
30-50%
Time savings achieved by clients
Two Sectors. One Mission.

AI that transforms how businesses operate and how educators teach.

Business

We help organisations turn AI into a decisive competitive advantage.

Through a structured transformation journey, we align AI to strategy, embed intelligence into daily operations, and build capability to scale with confidence.

  • AI roadmaps tied to ROI and business outcomes
  • Custom agents deployed into your tech stack
  • Governance, ethics, and compliance from day one
  • Team capability that multiplies performance
  • Compounding value through ongoing optimisation
Education

AI education that's accessible, engaging, and responsible.

Tailored programs that empower educators and students with essential AI skills -from classroom integration to administrative efficiency and data-driven decisions.

  • Responsible classroom integration and assessment integrity
  • Admin efficiency and streamlined operations
  • Professional development from half-day to 12-month
  • Student data protection and policy frameworks
  • AI literacy that empowers, not overwhelms
Trusted By

Organisations embracing AI to drive meaningful change.

adidas Airways Catalano Shipping Services The Wharehouse Group vistage FBA Crimson Global Acadmey YMCA Quality Energy PB Tech Fusion Vanguard SEIBA French Electrical NZISA Contemporary Catering Health and Safety 101 Papamoa Remuera Rotorua Intermediate School Victoria Avenue Hasting Girls School Howick College Lemonwood Mairangi Bay School Nelson Intermediate
Why AI Surge

We don't sell strategy. We ship outcomes.

Transformation-first

We start with your P&L and work backwards to the AI. Every engagement is tied to a measurable business outcome.

Multi-platform specialists

Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini -deep expertise across all four. You get the right tool for the job, not the one we resell.

End-to-end delivery

Strategy, build, deploy, train, optimise. One team. Full accountability. No handoffs to offshore implementation squads.

Outcome-guaranteed

If we don't hit the target outcome on flagship engagements, we keep working -at our cost.

Security & governance first

Ethical frameworks, data handling, compliance -documented before a single agent goes live.

Australian-based

Local, responsive, and aligned with how businesses and schools in AU & NZ operate.

Leadership

Built by operators. Led by people who ship.

AI Surge is the vision of two founders who got tired of watching organisations drown in strategy decks that changed nothing -so they built a company that deploys outcomes instead.

Troy Vertigan -Co-Founder, Director and CEO of AI Surge
Co-Founder

Troy Vertigan

Director & CEO

Technology leader and entrepreneur who has scaled businesses across Australia, the USA, and Europe. Deep commercial expertise in software, SaaS, and AI -helping organisations reimagine strategy, streamline operations, and build sustainable competitive advantage as AI-powered enterprises.

Bex Rose -Co-Founder, Director and Head of Impact at AI Surge
Co-Founder

Bex Rose

Director & Head of Impact

Seasoned education leader with over two decades of experience empowering educators to embrace AI's transformative potential. Passionate AI facilitator and mentor -excelling as a leadership facilitator who drives positive change across organisations and school communities.

Frequently Asked

Questions we hear before every engagement.

How does AI Surge deliver real ROI -not just AI ideas?

Every workshop, roadmap, and agent build is designed to improve efficiency, reduce time and cost, and unlock measurable performance gains. We integrate AI directly into daily workflows so organisations see faster decisions, streamlined operations, and returns that compound over time.

What makes AI Surge different from other AI consultants?

We don't sell tools. We build capability. Our approach combines strategy, hands-on deployment, ethical governance, and tailored implementation so AI becomes a sustainable advantage -not a short-term initiative. We stay in the room from first call to compounding returns.

Is AI Surge suitable for organisations just starting their AI journey?

Absolutely. Many of our clients start with uncertainty, limited confidence, or no technical background. We demystify AI, meet teams where they are, and build clarity step by step -from foundational literacy to advanced agent automation.

How do you ensure AI is secure, ethical, and compliant?

Responsible AI is central to everything we do. We design governance frameworks, data security practices, and ethical guidelines that align with your compliance requirements -before any AI goes live. This protects trust and ensures AI enhances human decision-making.

What industries and sectors do you work with?

Professional services, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, trades, education, healthcare, government, SMBs, and not-for-profits. We tailor every engagement to your industry's specific constraints, workflows, and opportunities.

How quickly will we see results?

Most clients have working AI implementations within 2-4 weeks and start seeing tangible outcomes within days. We prioritise high-impact use cases that deliver immediate time savings and efficiency gains, then expand from there.

The Cost of Waiting

Your competitors are compounding. Are you?

Every quarter you spend thinking about AI is a quarter your competitors spend deploying it -cutting costs, moving faster, and pulling ahead. AI Surge gets you from considering to executing in weeks, with every step tied to a measurable outcome.

Stop paying to think about AI. Start banking the returns.

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