AI and Automation with Perigon Labs
Taking time and cost out of your business, built on the IT we already look after
Perigon Labs finds the jobs in your business that AI and automation can take off your team’s plate, and shows you the hours and dollars before you spend anything. Everything is built on the Microsoft 365 you already use, in your own tenancy in Australia. In our own business it saved about $100,000 a year, and in one Perth fabrication business we found $76,000 to $111,000 of uncosted labour.
Perigon Labs: automation and AI, alongside Perigon One
Different team, same office, close collaboration.
Perigon Labs is the automation and AI business that sits alongside Perigon One. It finds where AI and automation actually take time and cost out of a business, proves the return before you spend anything, and builds systems your team owns. Perigon One looks after the IT, security and governance underneath every build, and Perigon Labs builds on top of it, from the same office in Welshpool.
AI is already in your business. Someone has ChatGPT open in a browser tab, someone else has tried Copilot, and very few businesses can say where any of it saves time, what it costs, or what information is going out the door with it. Perigon Labs is not selling a tool. Proper automation is a process running in the background, where the system asks your people for approval or input, not the other way round.
What Perigon Labs Does
1. Finding the Return
The use cases worth doing, ranked.
Where the real value is, ranked, with a plain answer on which ideas are not worth doing. Then adoption, pilots and training to get your team using Copilot or Claude well, with guardrails.
- Every use case ranked by hours and dollars
- A plain answer on which ideas are not worth doing
2. Workflow Automation
Approvals that route themselves.
Shared registers, approvals and a morning digest of what is overdue, built on Microsoft 365, and data moved in and out of your ERP, job system or CRM without replacing it.
- Shared registers and approvals that route themselves
- A morning digest of what is overdue
- Your systems connected, with no retyping
3. AI Assistants
Routine work done, with a person approving.
Sorting mailboxes, matching invoices and drafting quotes and reports, with a person approving every step that matters.
- Mailboxes sorted, invoices matched, quotes and reports drafted
- A person approving every result
- Copilot or Claude set up and your team trained to use it well
4. Governance and Support
Visibility, and care after go live.
Which AI tools are in use, by whom and what is being shared, with an audit trail for clients and insurers. Every build gets a tuning period, with an optional monthly care plan.
- Which AI tools are in use, by whom, and what is shared
- An audit trail for clients and insurers
- A tuning period on every build and an optional monthly care plan
What we automate
The repetitive work that slows your team down, so your people spend their day on the work that needs them.
Accounts
Invoices, approvals and reconciliations. Supplier invoices go straight to the bookkeeping platform instead of being keyed in by hand.
Sales
Quotes, proposals and follow-up. A photographed business card becomes a checked contact and deal with the right owner in under a minute.
Reporting
Dashboards and job reports built from data you already have, so you see what a job really earned.
People
Onboarding, handovers and forms, so nothing depends on one person remembering.
Systems
Data moving between your ERP, job system and CRM without replacing any of them, so nobody retypes it.
Practical AI
Copilot or Claude set up so your information stays inside the business, with an onboarding guide, a prompt library and coaching.
What Clients Got Out of It
Real results from real businesses.
TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
About $100,000 a year saved
Accounting automated end to end across 60 clients, with nobody doing that work by hand and no mistakes since.
SCAFFOLDING CONTRACTOR, PERTH
1,100 working hours saved
A day a week taken out of payroll. Three quarters of 540 weekly entries now import straight in, with checks that keep it auditable.
GLOBAL MINING CONSULTANCY
Claude in daily use across the team
Set-up, an onboarding guide, a prompt library and one-to-one coaching, with answers that shaped their AI usage policy.
FABRICATION BUSINESS, PERTH
$76,000 to $111,000 found
More than 1,100 uncosted labour hours, traced through the accounting, job and rostering data.
ACCOUNTING FIRM, PERTH
60 of 61 invoices off the keyboard
An AI assistant clears the shared inbox every five minutes, files each document by client and sends supplier invoices to the bookkeeping platform.
RESURFACING MANUFACTURER, PERTH
Every job tracked for the first time
A 21-stage factory workflow mapped with the owner, so rework and days in the factory can finally be measured and cut.
Find out where AI can give your team its time back
Book a free 30 minute AI Readiness chat. We look at where time is lost in your business, name the opportunity that could make the biggest difference to your team, and tell you plainly what it would take.
Prefer to talk? Call us on 08 6146 3582
How we think about it
- Return first: we only build where the return is clear and written down.
- Sometimes the answer is not AI: plenty of what we build runs on licences you already pay for.
- Built to be yours: documented and handed over, nothing that only we can maintain.
- Governance before scale: know what your people use and share before going further.
Built for you to own
- Built in your own Microsoft 365 tenancy, so nothing breaks when a person leaves.
- Every failure is logged and alerted, never silent.
- Hosted in Microsoft Azure, Australia East.
- Your data is not used to train the AI models.
Backed by Perigon One, a managed IT, security and governance firm working to the Essential Eight and DISP, with offices in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne.
How It Starts
1. Free 30 minute AI Readiness chat:
We find the jobs worth automating and put hours and dollars on each one.
2. Fixed-fee scoping and ROI report:
The hours saved, the dollars saved and a roadmap, before you commit to a build.
3. Fixed-price stages:
Each stage is piloted on real work and accepted on its own.
Is this for you? If your people are using AI but nobody is quite sure how, or the work depends on a few people remembering, there is time and money to win back.
Ready to take time and cost out of your business?
Book a free 30 minute AI Readiness chat with us.
FAQs
A free 30 minute AI Readiness chat. We look at where time is lost in your business and give you a straight recommendation on whether going further is worth it. If it is, the next step is a fixed-fee scoping and ROI report. You can book the chat or call Kat on 08 6146 3582.
Perigon Labs, the automation and AI business that sits alongside Perigon One in Welshpool. We build on the Microsoft 365 you already use: shared registers, approvals that route themselves, a morning digest of what is overdue, and Copilot or Claude adoption with guardrails. Everything is built in your own Microsoft tenancy and hosted in Microsoft Azure, Australia East, and Perigon One looks after the IT, security and governance underneath.
Perigon Labs works with Western Australian, Queensland and Victorian businesses with roughly 10 to 250 computers: mining and METS, industrial and fabrication, construction and engineering, professional services and multi-site operators. We are a Perth team, not a tool reseller. We find the use cases worth doing, build them in fixed-price stages, and tell you plainly which ideas are not worth doing.
Look for work that is repetitive, follows rules, happens often and moves information between people or systems: sorting a shared mailbox, matching invoices, chasing approvals, re-keying data, building the weekly report. List each one with how often it happens and how long it takes, then multiply. The jobs with the most hours and the clearest rules go to the top. That is what the Perigon Labs scoping and ROI report does for you, with hours saved, dollars and a roadmap, so you see the return before you spend anything. A free AI Readiness chat is the quickest way to start.
Kat Murray, co-founder. Director and Chief Revenue Officer of Perigon One, with more than 20 years in client management, and the first point of contact for every new Perigon Labs client.
Jason Willison, co-founder. CEO and founder of Perigon One, which has looked after the IT for Perth businesses since 2011, so every automation Perigon Labs builds sits on IT that is secured and supported.
Simon Peirce, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Simon leads the design and build of every automation, and founded Trapdoor Media, a Perth web design, hosting and AI automation business.
Everything is built in your own Microsoft tenancy and hosted in Microsoft Azure, Australia East. Your data is not used to train the AI models, failures are logged and alerted, never silent, and every build is documented and handed over.
Perigon One, a managed IT, security and governance firm working to the Essential Eight and DISP, sets up the systems underneath every build. Perigon Labs builds the automation and AI on top. Looking for IT support itself? See managed IT from Perigon One, or co-managed IT if you already have an IT person.
Businesses with roughly 10 to 250 computers in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria: mining and METS, industrial and fabrication, construction and engineering, professional services and multi-site operators.
Visit perigonlabs.com.au, follow Perigon Labs on LinkedIn, or call Kat on 08 6146 3582.