AI CONSULTING · BRISBANEAI consulting in Brisbane: know where AI pays off before you spend, from a team founded here in 2018

Why does a Brisbane-founded AI partner matter?

Quantana started in Brisbane in 2018 and grew from here to 250+ projects in 25+ countries, with a regional office in San Ramon and an engineering hub in Hyderabad.

For a Queensland buyer that means three practical things:

• An Australian contracting entity. Quantana Pty Ltd, ABN 59 637 056 574, registered here.
• Your time zone. Workshops and reviews run on Brisbane time.
• A delivery bench that can scale when a pilot turns into a programme, with ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified delivery.

Which Queensland industries is AI changing?

Queensland’s economy leans on a few large sectors, and each has a clear AI use.

Mining and resources

Mining added A$43.8 billion, or 8.8% of Queensland’s gross value added, in 2024-25 and was the state’s second largest industry. [1] Compliance, tenement management, maintenance and lab data are strong AI candidates because the records are large and repetitive.

Our published work here: for PX4 Software Resources we built a tenement compliance platform now used by mining companies including Glencore, Fortescue and Aurelia Metals, with GIS integration to ESRI and TENGRAPH and 35% cost savings in mining project planning. For a global enterprise we are building a laboratory performance platform with AI downtime analysis and trend forecasting.

Health and life sciences

Health care and social assistance is Queensland’s largest industry, at A$48.5 billion or 9.8% of gross value added in 2024-25. [1] Clinical and administrative documents are sensitive, which is why private, on-premises AI suits much of this work. Our published life sciences example is CasX.ai, an autonomous pharmacovigilance platform with a reported 50% to 80% reduction in pharmacovigilance cost.

Agriculture

The Queensland Government forecast a record A$26.79 billion gross value of production for the state’s primary industries in 2024-25. [2] Remote sites with weak connectivity suit offline AI that runs on local hardware. We do not yet have a published Queensland agriculture case study, so we will show you comparable work from other sectors rather than claim one.

Government

Queensland agencies now work under a mandated AI governance policy (below). Our published public-sector experience comes from major government projects across nine Indian states, under a governed model of defined scope, milestone reviews and documented acceptance.

Local services

In Brisbane we designed and developed BookJoy, a booking app that reduced no-shows for service businesses.

What does Queensland Government AI policy require?

If you are a Queensland agency, or you supply one, two documents matter.

• The Artificial Intelligence Governance Policy (version 2.0.0, mandated, effective August 2026) applies to departments under the Public Sector Act 2022 and to statutory bodies under the Financial and Performance Management Standard 2019. Agencies must set up AI governance with regard to ISO 38507 and prepare a Foundational AI Risk Assessment (FAIRA), or an agreed equivalent, when evaluating AI solutions. A shorter FAIRA LITE is allowed for low-risk uses such as proofs of concept and trials. [3][4]
• The Use of generative AI in Queensland Government guideline (non-mandated) says official information, including Sensitive and Protected material, and personal information should not go into generative AI tools your department has not approved. [5]

The Queensland Audit Office’s report Managing the ethical risks of artificial intelligence (Report 2: 2025-26) found limited visibility of AI use across government and recommended stronger assessment and monitoring, including for AI assistants such as QChat. [6][7]

What this means in practice: build the FAIRA into the business case from day one, record which data classes each tool may touch, and keep evidence that a person can review and override. Our AI roadmap includes a risk screen per use case, and our private AI guide covers keeping data on approved infrastructure.

General information, not legal advice. Policy position as at 8 November 2026, with links to the primary sources.