Tech Horizon Labs - AI Solutions for SMBs

Tech Horizon Labs - AI Solutions for SMBs Tech Horizon Labs builds practical AI systems for Australian businesses that are growing fast.

We also run Tech Horizon Academy: a platform with prompt libraries, ready-to-use tools, resources, and live workshops for teams using AI day-to-day.

09/09/2026

Six checks happen before an AI recommends a business.

The schema page. The llms.txt file. Page speed. The business register match. The same name everywhere. The directories and reviews the engines read.

Grow your organic traffic with AI search: areyoufoundbyai.com

07/09/2026

SEO, GEO, AEO, XEO. Huxley explains how businesses become easier for AI to find, understand and recommend. Watch the full explanation.

06/09/2026

Spoke at Noosa Business Collective about what AI actually tells your buyers when they ask for someone in your category.

We'd measured 3,952 businesses at that point. A third of them never get named by any engine.

Good room and good questions. Thanks for having me Business Collective

19/08/2026

Connect your AI to what the other AIs say.

Our seventy second launch film for Are you found by AI. Every monitored site now has a private MCP URL your own AI reads live.

areyoufoundbyai.com

There's An AI For That
19/08/2026

There's An AI For That

Anthropic just wiped $285 billion off the stock market.Claude Cowork launched industry-specific agents for legal, sales,...
23/02/2026

Anthropic just wiped $285 billion off the stock market.

Claude Cowork launched industry-specific agents for legal, sales, and finance. Wall Street panicked. The enterprise software sector bled. Here are the numbers:

• Atlassian: -47% YTD (down 80% from 2021 highs)
• Salesforce: -25% YTD (45% below 52-week high)
• Workday: Price target slashed from $285 to $230

Morgan Stanley named Claude Cowork specifically as the catalyst. Not "market headwinds." A specific product from a specific company.

Here's why:

The incumbents built their empires on rigidity. Atlassian charges per seat for Jira workflows that haven't changed in a decade. Salesforce locks you into annual contracts for CRM fields you can't modify without a consultant. Workday takes 6 months to implement because their codebase predates the iPhone.

AI agents just made all of that optional.

Task boards are dead.

Not deprecated. Not "enhanced with AI." Dead.

Why would any business pay $15/seat/month for a Kanban board when an AI agent can custom-code a workflow perfectly matched to their actual process in 20 minutes? Not a template nor a plugin. Rather, a system built specifically for how your team works.

This is what we've been building at Tech Horizon Labs.

Mission Control: our open-source agent orchestration platform — doesn't bolt AI onto legacy project management. The entire way we interact with computers has changed. If it doesnt have a purpose in the age of ai we cant use it. The buttons and cards you know and love have changed forever. Why do you need a task board. Now ai fills it our for us and we dont need to see it. Your agents don't live inside someone else's task board. Rather, they run your operations directly.

OpenClaw — our open-source AI infrastructure — runs locally on your hardware or connects to the models you choose. No vendor lock-in. No data leaving your jurisdiction. No praying the API doesn't change next quarter.

We architected both from the ground up for one purpose: maximum customisation.

• Local AI for sensitive data (contracts, HR, financials)
• Cloud AI for heavy lifting (research, analysis, generation)
• Agent swarms that hand off tasks based on context
• Custom workflows that evolve as your business does

While the SaaS giants scramble to add "AI features" to their 20-year-old codebases, we built agent-native infrastructure.

The Australian SMBs we work with don't care about Atlassian's market cap. They care that their invoices get processed, their leads get followed up, and their compliance documentation gets generated without them touching it.

They want systems that fit their business. Not businesses that fit the system.

The $285B question: Are you retrofitting AI into legacy workflows? Or building operations that were only possible once AI became infrastructure?

I know where we're placing our chips.

Noosa born and raised. Lived other places, always came back. This is home.Joined Tourism Noosa this week because I want ...
16/02/2026

Noosa born and raised. Lived other places, always came back. This is home.

Joined Tourism Noosa this week because I want to see local businesses thrive — actually build systems that give them leverage, and hold strong throughout the tourism season.

Their Summer 2025 forecast shows why this matters now:

→ 78% occupancy over Christmas (up from 68%)
→ School holidays up 10% year-on-year
→ More visitors = more pressure on operations

The businesses I grew up around are drowning in admin, delivery, and "keeping up." AI won't fix everything, but it can buy back 10-15 hours a week for the owners who need it most.

Running AI workshops for Noosa businesses next month. ACS member, been in IT for over a decade, 300+ Aussie SMBs already trained — but more importantly, I'm local. I know what this town needs because I live here.

Running an AI workshop for Noosa businesses next month — first one listed with Tourism Noosa here: https://www.visitnoosa.com.au/members/events/ai-workshop-2026

If you're local and drowning in the busy season, let's talk.

I built an AI system that creates client-ready pitch decks from a 2-line brief.Before: 4 templated decks with zero perso...
16/02/2026

I built an AI system that creates client-ready pitch decks from a 2-line brief.

Before: 4 templated decks with zero personalization. Looked like everyone else.

Now: 12 custom decks this month. Each one feels like we spent 3 days on it.

The workflow (tested by us):

Path 1: Google Stack

• Brief → Claude (narrative structure) → Google Slides → Manual brand/colour application (Claude Support) → "Beautify this slide" (Gemini) for visuals
• Best for: Speed, flexibility, most startups
• Reality: You still need to beautify each slide. Claude writes it, you style it.

Path 2: Microsoft Stack

• Brief → Copilot using Claude models (text only, Designer is terrible for this) → Canva or manual PowerPoint (If you absolutely need to)
• Best for: Enterprises locked into M365 with strict AU data residency
• Reality: Copilot Designer isn't there yet. Claude does the heavy lifting.

Note: Claude can be hosted in AWS cloud for AU data residency if needed. For technical teams there is a workflow with Figma.

The alternatives we tested:

• Kimi Slides: Great output, but Chinese-owned. Compliance risk for AU businesses.
• NotebookLM: Good for simple decks, not client pitches.
• ChatGPT: Still stuck in "generic template mode." Doesn't understand full narrative flow.

What's coming:
Higgsfield Vibe Motion will change this game. When it drops, the design layer automates. Until then, Claude + manual styling is the fastest path to deck that actually wins.

The time math:

• Before: 6 hours staring at blank page + 4 hours formatting = 10 hours
• Now: 2 hours total (Claude does narrative, you do final polish)

How we know this works:
We test every workflow in the Academy before recommending to our clients. When something better drops, we migrate the stack and tell you exactly what changed.

The systems we build are agnostic of the tools so you can adapt without breaking everything.

AI streamlines the work before/after human review is required.

Want the full workflow with prompts? Comment "DECK" and I'll send you what we're using right now.

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