AI advisory for organisations with environmental obligations.
Environmental advisory for the AI era.
A senior environmental practitioner who uses AI daily in live project delivery, co-chairs the industry's AI special interest group, and turns national AI policy into procedures that hold up under regulator and audit scrutiny.
Governance expectations are arriving ahead of the law, and adoption is running well ahead of oversight.
The NSW Audit Office has called for AI governance to be in place before deployment; a national AI framework is moving from announcement toward legislation. Procurement clauses and QA expectations arrive ahead of the law.
NSW councils already operate 100+ AI tools, yet only a minority hold an AI policy, strategy or tool inventory. The same pattern holds across the environmental consulting sector.
In the sector's own survey, cost ranks last among barriers and trust concerns rank first: professionals use AI for efficiency but will not rely on it where the stakes are highest. Closing that gap takes validation standards and a qualified human in the loop.
Executive and elected-member briefings, staff seminars, facilitated round-tables. Plain English, live demonstrations, material drawn from real projects. Formats from a 45-minute executive session to a full-day workshop.
Current-state scan, use-case pipeline, risk screen and a 90-day plan. Scoped to what a council or mid-tier firm can actually resource.
AI-use policy, tool inventory and oversight, validation and QA standards for AI-assisted work, disclosure practice. Localises the national frameworks into procedures a practitioner can follow. Vendor-neutral.
Workflow redesign and pilot support for environmental teams: data analysis, monitoring and trend reporting, document review, report drafting with verification protocols. Built by someone who does this work daily.
Contaminated land and groundwater strategy, PFAS and emerging contaminants, technical review and due diligence, regulator and auditor engagement. The deep technical knowledge and thirty-year practice that keep the AI advice grounded.
AI advisers rarely know what an EPA notice means in practice; environmental consultants rarely run AI deeper than a chat window. This closes that gap.
AI-augmented workflows running daily in live contaminated-land delivery — data analysis, EPA-facing trend reporting, drafting and review. Organised the AI panel and presented on AI agents in contaminated-land reporting at EcoForum 2025.
Founding member and co-chair, ALGA Special Interest Group on AI; co-designed the 2025 industry AI Readiness Survey that now anchors the sector's adoption debate.
Hundreds of contaminated sites across Australia, New Zealand and Europe, working with EPAs, auditors, councils, industry and private clients throughout.
Sustainability advisory lead within a global engineering firm's transformation program; governance advisory to a national health charity.
Grounded Intelligence advises, designs and validates. Enterprise builds sit with trusted partners — we scope them and keep them vendor-neutral.
| Service | Typical outputs | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Briefings & seminars | Executive briefing, staff workshop, round-table facilitation | A shared baseline and informed decisions |
| Readiness & roadmap | Current-state scan, use-case pipeline, 90-day plan | Lower delivery risk and a costed, sequenced plan |
| Governance, applied | AI policy, tool inventory, validation/QA standard, disclosure practice | Oversight that stands up to audit and procurement |
| AI-enabled practice | Workflow redesign, pilot brief, verification protocols | Efficiency gains that keep deliverables defensible |
| Environmental advisory | Investigation review, options assessment, decision brief | Clear liabilities and regulator-ready decisions |
Thirty minutes on where AI meets your obligations, and the most useful place to start.
