Advanced AI Mechanics

Founder Theodore Panagacos runs Advanced AI Mechanics as a single-principal advisory practice. It gives boards and executive teams senior AI leadership without a permanent C-level hire. Clients are mostly large organisations in regulated sectors such as banking, insurance, government and defence, energy and telecommunications. The practice works in Australia, the UAE and other overseas markets.

There are three ways to engage. A monthly retainer places the founder in the executive team as a part-time Chief AI Officer. Board and committee advice is charged per meeting or cycle and covers briefings and papers. Fixed-scope projects run for four to 12 weeks and deliver a set output, such as a strategy, operating model, governance plan, solution architecture or AI due diligence review. Every engagement starts with a confidential briefing and runs under written terms and a mutual NDA.

The firm's governance framework spans strategy, operating model, oversight, compliance, security and delivery. Compliance work maps client practice to the Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard, ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act and APRA CPS 230 and CPS 234. The practice takes no vendor partnerships or referral fees, so its platform advice stays independent. It also runs private applied research in predictive analytics, fraud detection and decision modelling.