The criteria that matter when selecting an AI partner or consultant in Australia.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Choosing an AI consultant or integration partner in Australia is mostly about finding someone who scopes honestly and respects your obligations. Here is what to look for.
What good looks like
A good partner starts with your problem, scopes a measurable first use case, is honest about what AI can and cannot do, and gives you a path to own the result — rather than selling a big transformation upfront.
Questions to ask
How do you scope the first project? Who owns the code, data and models? Can the setup keep data in Australia if needed? Are you tied to one AI vendor, or model-agnostic? Honest answers matter more than a polished deck.
The independence point
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet. Independence means advice about whether you even need a custom build, not a push toward one product. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer an Australian managed region. For data that must stay in Australia, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside an Australian cloud region such as AWS (Sydney or Melbourne), Microsoft Azure (Australia East, Australia Southeast or Australia Central in Canberra) or Google Cloud (Sydney or Melbourne), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Australian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.