Useful Engine

How do I make AI part of my business?

Your own AI team.
Built around your business.

Meet your AI chief of staff and specialists. Share your business context, brief the team and review useful work together in one place.

Build my AI team

14 days · 30 briefs total · No card · No automatic conversion.

From $99/month + GST. See plans and limits.

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Built in Australia. For businesses everywhere.

More capacity for your ambition

Your ambition deserves a team behind it.

You bring the ideas, resourcefulness and customer knowledge. Useful Engine brings a ready-to-use AI team, with specialist roles and a shared workspace. You shouldn’t need to build your own AI department to put powerful AI to work.

An illustrated metaphor for your AI team. You direct the work.

01

A chief of staff

Start with Daisy. Shape a clear brief and keep track of what needs your attention.

02

Specialists for the work

Bring different roles to proposals, reports, research and the everyday work behind your business.

03

One place to bring it together

Keep business knowledge, briefs, progress and prepared work together. Review and decide what happens next.

Meet your AI team

From ambition to a useful first brief

Give the team a job already on your desk.

A proposal to finish. A customer to update. A decision to prepare for. Start with the work that would give you room to move today.

Illustrative Correspondence

Client updates

Discovery is complete. Here is what comes next.

Turn meeting notes and project progress into a clear update.

A visual metaphor for prepared work. Review the actual result before use.

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Read all the work types

  1. Client updates

    Turn meeting notes and project progress into a clear update.

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  2. Proposals

    Prepare a first draft from the client brief and your past work.

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  3. Reports

    Pull the supplied facts into a report with gaps clearly flagged.

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  4. Research

    Organise findings and sources for a decision you need to make.

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Illustrative demonstration · fictional notes

One brief. A coordinated team. A useful result.

Meet Daisy and the specialist roles around her. Follow a brief from your direction to a result you can review.

The team as an engineExample organisation · 14 AI teammates including Daisy
You set the direction

Help me turn these client notes into a clear proposal.

Daisy, AI teammate
DaisyChief of Staff · AIShape the brief
The result takes shapeProposal draftContributions, evidence and open questions
Elliot, AI teammateElliotOperations & deliveryAI specialist
Priya, AI teammatePriyaClient growthAI specialist
Rowan, AI teammateRowanQuality & governanceAI specialist
Ava, AI teammateAvaFinance & performanceAI specialist
Noah, AI teammateNoahCustomer successAI specialist
Sofia, AI teammateSofiaPeople & capabilityAI specialist
Nina, AI teammateNinaService improvementAI specialist
Amara, AI teammateAmaraBusiness systemsAI specialist
Leo, AI teammateLeoMarketingAI specialist
Maya, AI teammateMayaResearch & evidenceAI specialist
Felix, AI teammateFelixProduct strategyAI specialist
Zoe, AI teammateZoeKnowledge & documentationAI specialist
Arun, AI teammateArunPerformance analysisAI specialist
The relevant branch for this brief
Priya · Client growthUnderstand the requirements
Elliot · Operations & deliveryDevelop an approach
Rowan · Quality & governanceKeep the gaps visible
01

Shape the brief

Daisy turns your notes into a shared brief: the audience, the outcome and the constraints.

Illustrative workflow · fictional briefs · not a live product run.

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A client proposal

  1. Shape the brief

    Daisy turns your notes into a shared brief: the audience, the outcome and the constraints.

  2. Develop contributions

    Priya shapes the scope. Elliot develops the delivery approach. Rowan identifies evidence gaps.

  3. Refine together

    The proposed scope meets the delivery plan. An unconfirmed date is flagged, and the draft is refined.

  4. Bring it together

    Daisy brings the contributions into one proposal draft, with the assumptions kept visible.

  5. Your review

    A proposal draft, delivery approach and open questions. You check the facts and decide what to use.

A delivery decision

  1. Shape the brief

    Daisy frames the decision around the delivery notes, your priorities and the supplied results.

  2. Develop contributions

    Elliot works through capacity. Ava considers resource assumptions. Arun organises performance evidence.

  3. Refine together

    Capacity options are compared with the supplied evidence. Resource assumptions are made explicit.

  4. Bring it together

    Daisy prepares a decision note with options, trade-offs and questions that still need an answer.

  5. Your review

    Options and a proposed sequence, ready for your judgement. You decide whether to change the plan.

A research shortlist

  1. Shape the brief

    Daisy shapes the research question using your customer requirements and the sources you supply.

  2. Develop contributions

    Maya organises the evidence. Noah defines the customer workflow. Amara considers system constraints.

  3. Refine together

    The findings are tested against the customer requirements. Missing integration details stay visible.

  4. Bring it together

    Daisy assembles a shortlist with the source notes, practical differences and unresolved questions.

  5. Your review

    A sourced shortlist, ready to investigate. You verify the details before choosing a tool.

The example organisation

Daisy, Chief of Staff, plus 13 AI specialists. Roles and reporting relationships vary with your organisation.

  • Elliot — Operations & delivery
  • Priya — Client growth
  • Rowan — Quality & governance
  • Ava — Finance & performance
  • Noah — Customer success
  • Sofia — People & capability
  • Nina — Service improvement
  • Amara — Business systems
  • Leo — Marketing
  • Maya — Research & evidence
  • Felix — Product strategy
  • Zoe — Knowledge & documentation
  • Arun — Performance analysis
Watch the recorded example

The same illustrative scene, recorded. A text version is available above. Open the video separately.

Make it your team in three steps.

  1. 01

    Make the team yours

    Share who your customers are, your priorities, relevant documents and your way of working.

  2. 02

    Give a clear brief

    Describe the result, audience and constraints. Review the request before work starts.

  3. 03

    Review the result

    Check facts and sources, request in-scope revisions, then decide how to use the work.

How it works

Built around your business

Your customers. Your priorities. Your way of working.

Share the customer needs, goals, tone and documents you want the team to use. Keep that knowledge alongside your briefs and work, so the team has context beyond a single request.

Customer needs and tone give the team a starting point.

An illustrated metaphor for shared business knowledge.

You know the business. You keep the final say.

  • Choose the business context you share.
  • Review facts, assumptions and sources before using a result.
  • Keep responsibility for client advice and consequential actions.

Model setup, handled.

Useful Engine selects configured AI models to suit the task. We manage the model setup, so you can focus on the brief and the result.

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Choose the capacity you need

Your team. A plan for where you are now.

The same core quality and capabilities. Choose the user and brief allowance that fits.

14-day trial · 30 briefs total · No card · No automatic conversion. Annual options and cancellation details are on the pricing page. Existing customer contracts are preserved.

a few questions before you start.

Why use this alongside ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is useful for many kinds of work. Useful Engine gives you a ready-to-use business AI team, shared knowledge, coordinated briefs and a place to review work, so you don’t have to assemble that system yourself.

What is a brief?

One accepted request for work. Internal collaboration and in-scope revisions are included. Your monthly allowance is separate from the number of people on your account.

Will it replace my judgement?

No. Use the team to prepare work, then check the facts and decide how to use it. Professional advice and client commitments remain yours.

Will the trial charge me automatically?

No. The trial needs no card and does not convert automatically. You choose whether to subscribe.

Build my AI team

Connect & grow

Your business team, in your everyday world.

Bring your business team closer to everyday conversations, or help another business discover theirs. Register interest while these pathways are being prepared.

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