10 AI startups fight to fix Australia's problems
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the future, and it's just getting started.
It's more than automating tasks—AI has the potential to completely transform industries, improve decision-making, and create personal experiences at scale.
Australia’s AI Sprint is an initiative aimed at accelerating AI development to tackle some of the country's biggest challenges.
Here’s a look at the ten finalists in the AI Sprint, each using AI to redefine their fields.
Conja
People are not getting assessed for the care they need, when they need it. In fact, 68,000 people are currently waiting over a year for aged care assessment.
Saviour Buhagiar of Uniting says that “they are suffering, deteriorating, or worse, dying as they wait for assessment and care”.
The bottleneck is a lack of skilled assessors.
Conja allows timely home care assessment and specification of home modification by using video-assisted AI and smart technology to allow health professionals to conduct assessments remotely.
Removing the tyranny of distance relieves the bottleneck, accelerates modifications and helps people recover, live and age safely at home.
CX Guardian AI
Cxguardian.ai (CXG) is an AI governance platform that will deliver responsible, fair and transparent governance for AI use case prioritisation and AI system deployments.
CXG makes it easy to:
• Identify and prioritise use cases across the organisation • Quantify risks and benefits of AI system adoption • Navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment • Educate teams on AI Ethics and Responsibility • Explore and apply AI regulations, policies and best practices from around the world.
Dragonfly Thinking
Dragonfly Thinking is pioneering a new frontier in Think Tech—technology to help people think in less siloed and polarised ways when navigating complexity.
Dragonfly Thinking harness generative AI to apply novel structured analytic techniques to complex policy and business problems.
This AI tool offers rapid analysis and systemic insights by integrating diverse perspectives into coherent vision, enabling decision-makers to act with greater awareness and strategic foresight.
The AI tool integrates a Risk, Reward and Resilience framework to provide a simple yet powerful and flexible model, guiding people through more holistic and integrative decision-making approaches to provide clarity amid complexity.
Empathetic AI
Luna is Australia’s first AI tax copilot, designed specifically for tax professionals in both accounting firms and corporate tax teams, powered by the entire ATO database to revolutionise tax compliance.
It delivers advanced tax scenario analysis, real-time ATO private ruling updates, and automated legislation reference checks.
Featuring secure data handling through desensitisation and encryption, Luna ensures the utmost privacy.
Future enhancements include financial document analysis, tax advice drafting, and custom API integrations, making it an indispensable tool for boosting productivity and compliance in the tax industry.
GetMee
GetMee is an AI-powered software designed to improve employability and communication skills.
The app combines traditional teaching methods with personalised AI coaching to offer tailored feedback and support.
Getmee's innovative patent pending AI-powered self-learning system objectively measures and enhances English language, interview skills and communication skills for individuals to improve their employability skills rapidly.
InsightWise
InsightWise is Australia’s first AI-powered reasoning engine, transforming qualitative data into strategic insights.
You can rely on InsightWise as your own expert strategy consultant partner, helping you make high-impact business decisions.
InsightWise blends deep strategy expertise with cutting-edge AI to:
- Reduce time spent analysing data from 4 weeks to 4 minutes
- Process an unlimited number of documents, interview transcripts, audio and video files
- Generate actionable insights customised for your organisation, industry and audience
- Free up your teams to focus on higher value, meaningful work
InsightWise are on a mission to democratise AI to uncover insights that matter and amplify human intelligence.
Kindship
Kindship proudly presents Barb, an AI-powered navigator revolutionising disability care.
Barb provides personalised, context-aware support through advanced AI, knowledge graphs and machine learning.
Integrating diverse data sources and using proactive data collection, Barb delivers accurate and timely advice to people with disabilities and their caregivers.
With a focus on data security, user privacy, and real-time information for a seamless and supportive experience, Barb is setting a new standard in disability care through innovative technology and thoughtful design.
Kopi Su Studio
Spearheaded by the innovative team at Kopi Su Studio, Koup Music is a community-powered platform for audio artists taking control of their data and IP.
Coined the 'Hugging Face for musicians’, Koup Music enables artists to craft micro-models, fostering experimentation, collaboration and a new frontier of music generation.
The platform features a remix engine to generate new audio samples and a marketplace to unlock new revenue streams.
The Koup Music community will shape the use of AI in music, paving the way for a new equitable era of expression and ownership.
Neo Care
Neo Care empowers people to remain in their own homes, to keep their independence and live their own lives.
For our elders, having a fall, either at home or in care can have catastrophic consequences.
Despite this, existing safety systems are frequently rejected because of the stigma associated with their use.
Neo Care's environmental audio monitoring system detects falls and other events of concern with a discrete device that doesn’t need to be worn or charged, to provide always-on, timely care response.
Planoverse
Planoverse is an enterprise software product that leverages 3D simulation to help retailers plan and predict the impacts of any changes in store layout.
With a vision to help perfect retail stores around the world, Planoverse empower retail businesses to innovate fearlessly.
Final thoughts
These companies reveal the transformative power of AI, applying new technology to solve real-world problems.
As AI continues to evolve, the potential for innovation expands. This promises even more profound impacts on how we live and work.
Australia's AI Sprint program has propelled these promising AI concepts into tangible projects. The future looks bright!
