AI Surge

Melbourne firm AI Surge advises organisations in Australia and New Zealand on adopting AI, with a strong focus on Anthropic's Claude. It also works across ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini without tying clients to one vendor. Troy Vertigan founded the firm and leads it as chief executive.

Its full programme moves through six stages: governance and risk, strategy, a roadmap, delivery, staff enablement and deployed agents. Strategy work produces a costed roadmap that ranks use cases by return and sets out a 90-day plan. A fixed-scope adoption offer redesigns, builds and deploys one real workflow over four weeks, with results checked before and after.

Build work includes custom agents that sit inside Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, and MCP connectors that let Claude reach CRM, email and finance systems. The firm also turns quick prototypes into production tools. Training runs from short keynotes and workshops to year-long programmes on prompting, agent building and responsible use. Fractional AI leadership suits organisations without a senior AI lead. Work is delivered on site, remotely or in a mix of both.