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AI transformation advisory · Sydney

Take your time back.

We help leadership teams win back the time lost to work about work, around 60% of the knowledge-work week, through AI transformation.

A woodblock print: colleagues share ideas around a sunlit table while quiet ink currents carry the paperwork.
From routine to possibilityA study in time, in four movements
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  • Fri 13 Nov
  • 9–11am or 11am–1pm
  • Greenhouse, Salesforce Tower, Sydney
  • A$60 + GST
  • 8 seats per session

60% of the knowledge-work week goes on work about work, not the work itself1

1. Asana, Anatomy of Work Index 2021, n > 13,000 knowledge workers.

What we believe

AI transformation is what unlocks measurable productivity improvement.

Belief A · The levels

Four levels of AI-native work

  1. Level 4: Operate

    Agents across teams on a living knowledge base, with dynamic reporting.

  2. Level 3: Delegate

    Custom agents, and a team chief of staff running loops.

  3. Level 2: Capture

    A team second brain; one-off tools per function.

  4. Level 1: Assist

    Chat for everyone; meeting notes summarised.

    Most organisations are here

L3 and L4 change how work gets done.

L1 and L2 are tool adoption.

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What we offer

Three ways in, in order of commitment.

01 A morning

AI Productivity in Teams, 13 Nov

For people running strategy, growth and other knowledge-work teams. Benchmark your own practice against four levels of AI maturity, see what tool training leaves out, and leave with a plan for one team.

When
Fri 13 Nov, 9–11am or 11am–1pm
Where
Greenhouse, Salesforce Tower, Sydney
Seats
A$60 + GST · 8 seats per session
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02 Two to six weeks, then ongoing

AI diagnostics & advisory

A precise read on where your top team or your whole organisation stands, what to build first, and the operating model to get there. Written findings and first working agentic systems, not a deck that gathers dust.

Executive AI Diagnostic
2 weeks · report, debrief and agentic systems · top team or individual
Company AI Readiness Diagnostic
6-week sprint · readiness map and sequence · whole organisation

03 Every day

VG

The system we build and run the firm on. Agents draft the decks and documents; people review, mark up and approve them; the review goes back to the agent as structured work.

Built for
Business work: decks, documents, reviews, decisions
Used by
qubit, every day, on client and internal work
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Who we are

Two operators who build what they advise on.

qubit is a partnership of two firms, Sapphire Advisory and Ikigai AI Ventures. Both of us trained at McKinsey and coach senior people, and both of us build and run AI agents on our own companies every day.

Lucas Zhu

Lucas Zhu

Co-founder · Agentic engineer & operator

Runs Ikigai AI Ventures, his agentic engineering & venture-building studio, and built Frollie OS, the system the FMCG company Frollie now runs on, largely solo in about 60 days by directing a swarm of AI agents. Open-sourced the tooling, spoke at Sydney's AI Mini-Con, and writes it all up in the open.

Ikigai AI Ventures · ex-McKinsey · HelloFresh ANZ, Dir. Strategy ($1B+ business)

Nick Pinidiya

Nick Pinidiya

Co-founder · Investor, academic & builder

Runs Sapphire Advisory, his advisory firm, and teaches AI to executives as guest faculty at AGSM (UNSW); currently works at ARENA, while building and shipping his own agentic products, ClimatePulse among them. Oxford-trained.

Sapphire Advisory · ex-McKinsey · Oxford · AGSM (UNSW) guest faculty · ARENA

We are company zero. qubit runs on the same agents and the same VG we build for clients. What we recommend, we run on ourselves first.

Advisory

Tell us where the time goes.

A few details and a line on what you want to change. One of us will reply personally.

A sentence or two is plenty.