Websites · Automation · AI, Melbourne

Rebuilding your website is expensive $299

Having your website look fabulous doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg

A customised website for only $299: five pages, two rounds of revisions, live in about a week. Built by a PhD engineer using AI, which is exactly why it no longer costs $8,000

Launch price: only the first 20 businesses get $299 inc GST
After that it’s from $499 · Care plan intro: $50/mo for 3 months, then $79/mo · No lock-in
STEP 01 · THE DISCOVERY CALL

Tell me about your business

A 15-minute discovery call: in person, on the phone, or over video chat. What you do, who your customers are, what you want the website to make happen. That’s all I need, you never touch anything technical.

STEP 02

I build it and show you

About a week later you see your new site. Up to five pages, looks sharp on phones, ready for Google. Two rounds of revisions included, so it ends up exactly how you want it.

STEP 03

It goes live: $299

Inclusive of GST for the first 20 businesses, then from $499. No surprises. Then you choose how it lives. Option A: I host and look after it on the care plan (intro offer: $50/month for your first 3 months, then $79/month), with a real human (me) who answers. Option B: I hand you the full website files and you host it anywhere, with no involvement from me at all. Your website either way.

What the $299 gets you

Up to 5 pages · looks premium on every phone · your services, photos and story told properly · contact and enquiry forms that work · Google-ready from day one · two rounds of revisions · done in about a week · and it's yours: full website files handed over if you'd rather host it without me.

Need more than that?

Online shop, booking system, more pages, quote forms that chase themselves up, all doable. You get one flat quote before anything starts. The $299 site is where almost everyone begins.

Proof, not promises

Before. After. Built.

Real work for real businesses. Where the client is public, the before and after are both live, click them side by side and judge for yourself. No stock photos of handshakes were harmed.

Coaching College
Case 01 · Website transformation · Education

Coaching College

Helped transform the old Coaching College website into a clearer, more modern and commercially useful education brand presence, one that finally looks like the standard of teaching it represents.

OUTCOME → Dated site to credible commercial brand presence
ACWE
Case 02 · Website transformation · Education

ACWE

Helped modernise the ACWE website into a cleaner, stronger and more credible education website, the kind prospective students and partner organisations take seriously.

OUTCOME → Credibility that matches the accreditation
The Chiro Lab
Case 03 · Growth · Health practice
+70%

The Chiro Lab

Rebuilt this Caulfield chiropractic clinic’s website, online booking, clear services, premium feel, and new bookings went up 70% in the first month. Same clinic, same practitioners, better system.

MEASURED → New bookings, month one vs prior month
Supreme Fence Painting
Case 04 · Website + automation · Trades

Supreme Fence Painting

Built this Melbourne painting business a sharp website plus its own quote tool, customers send photos and job details, quotes come back fast instead of days later. The whole sales front end, done.

OUTCOME → Enquiry to quote: days → minutes
Ordering Portal
Case 05 · Systems · Operations

Custom ordering portal

Built a custom ordering portal where each customer order triggers notifications across three different systems and emails the supplier for fulfilment. Nobody re-keys anything, ever.

OUTCOME → 1 order, 3 systems + supplier notified, 0 copy-paste
Advocacy
Case 06 · Websites · Advocacy

Advocacy organisations

Built websites for advocacy organisations that needed clear public messaging, credibility, speed and conversion, live and persuasive when the moment demanded it.

OUTCOME → Brief to live: days, not months
Mella Fine Jewels
Case 07 · Websites · Retail & boutique

Mella Fine Jewels

Built a polished brand site for a Melbourne custom fine-jewellery studio, engagement rings, heirloom redesigns, consultation bookings, with the elegance the price point demands.

OUTCOME → A boutique presence that matches the craft
Your business?
Case 08 · Reserved

Your business here

This spot is being kept for your before and after. $299, five pages, live in about a week, and then I get to show you off too.

All of this is real work, built by me, shown with the owners’ blessing. The unnamed cases are described without identifying details at the clients’ preference. Specific results (like +70%) are one client’s measured outcome, not a promise, your numbers will be your own.

And once your website’s sorted…

Drag me

Training, systems, and AI growth partnerships for businesses that don’t want to fall behind.

Dr Isaac Balbin.
Engineer. Builder. Operator.
PhD in Engineering · Monash University AI venture builder · founder with an M&A exit 15+ years in deep tech Practical operator · runs real businesses, not just decks Shipped websites · automations · portals · AI systems

Beyond the website

Your website is step one.
Here’s what step two looks like.

Once the website’s earning its keep, most owners ask what else can come off their plate. Everything here ends in something that works on a Tuesday morning, not a strategy deck that dies in a drawer.

01

AI Training & Workshops

Hands-on sessions that take your team from “we should look into AI” to actually using it on your real work, your documents, your customers, your tools. No jargon, no theory-only slides.

Workshops from $1,500 →
02

AI Profit Audits

I go through how your business actually runs, quotes, follow-up, admin, bookings, reporting, and hand you a ranked list of where AI will save time or make money, with effort and payoff for each.

Book an audit →
03

AI Workflow Automation

The unsexy gold: quotes generated from voice notes, orders that notify everyone who needs to know, follow-ups that send themselves, assistants trained on your policies. Built, tested, handed over.

See what I’ve built →
04

AI Growth Partnerships

For selected businesses with real upside, I’ll reduce upfront fees in exchange for equity, revenue share or performance-based upside, and work like it’s partly my business. Because it is.

See if you qualify →

The AI path

Same deal as the website: three steps, no homework.

STEP 01

A 15-minute conversation

You tell me what’s eating your time or capping your growth. I tell you, plainly, whether AI can fix it, and what that’s roughly worth. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so on that call. Free.

STEP 02

The AI Profit Audit

I map how your business actually runs and hand you a ranked list of AI opportunities, each with the effort, the payoff, and what I’d do first. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.

STEP 03

Build, train, hand over

We pick the highest-leverage item and I build it, then train your team to run it. Most clients have working AI inside a month. Keep me on retainer, or wave goodbye. Both fine.

Built for clinics, trades, professional services firms, retailers, education providers and ambitious founders, anywhere admin eats margin.

The practical AI offer

You don’t need an AI strategy. You need Thursday afternoon back.

Most businesses don’t need vague AI hype, a “transformation roadmap”, or a chatbot that apologises beautifully. They need practical systems that remove friction from the work they already do, built around their actual operations.

That’s the whole offer: I find the friction, build the fix, and train your people to run it.

Better admin, fewer hours
Faster quotes, won while hot
Smarter follow-up, on autopilot
Staff trained to use AI properly
Automated workflows end-to-end
Websites that actually convert
Internal AI assistants
Dashboards you’ll actually read
Customer & order systems
Reporting without the spreadsheet fights

The big one

How to train your AI

AI works best when it understands your business, your voice, your customers, your rules, your workflows. Most people prompt AI like a slot machine and hope. I help businesses train AI around their real operations, so it answers like your best staff member on their best day.

Untrained AI gives you generic answers. Trained AI gives you leverage. Here’s what we feed it:

01 Your services

What you sell, how it’s priced, what’s in and out of scope, so it never invents an offer you don’t have.

02 Your tone of voice

How you actually talk to customers, so every email, quote and reply sounds like you, not a press release.

03 Your customer objections

The five things prospects always push back on, and your best answers, baked in, ready to deploy.

04 Your booking process

How enquiries become jobs: steps, rules, exceptions, so AI moves people through it instead of around it.

05 Your staff policies

Leave, procedures, the questions your team asks you every week, answered instantly, consistently, without you.

06 Your documents

Manuals, contracts, product sheets, price lists, turned into a brain your whole team can query.

07 Your sales scripts

What your best closer says, captured and reused, so every follow-up sounds like your best day, every day.

08 Your FAQs

Every question customers ask, answered in your voice, on your website, in your inbox, around the clock.

09 Your reporting needs

The numbers you actually care about, pulled together and explained in plain English, not another export.

Untrained AI

“Write a quote follow-up email.”

“Dear Valued Customer, I hope this email finds you well…”, generic, forgettable, sounds like everyone else’s AI. Deleted in four seconds.

Trained on your business

“Follow up Dave’s decking quote.”

Knows the quote, your margins, your tone, Dave’s objection about timing, and drafts the exact nudge your best salesperson would send. That’s the difference.

The upside model

For ambitious businesses: I’ll sometimes work for upside.

Some businesses need more than a workshop. They need someone who can identify the AI leverage points, design the systems, manage the builders, and help push the whole thing into reality.

For selected companies, I’m open to reducing upfront fees in exchange for equity, revenue share, or performance-based upside. When I take a partnership on, your growth problem becomes my growth problem, which changes how hard it gets solved.

This is not for everyone, and I say no more often than yes. That’s what makes the yes worth something.

Pitch me an AI Growth Partnership
I only consider partnerships where there is:
  • Real growth potential, a genuine market, not a hobby
  • Clean ownership, clear cap table, no messy disputes
  • A serious operator, someone who executes, not just dreams
  • A clear path to value creation, we can both point at the prize

Any partnership is subject to mutual due diligence and a formal written agreement, with independent legal and financial advice on both sides. Nothing on this page is an offer, or financial or legal advice.

The Builder Network

A senior brain, with hands to match.

I work with a network of talented young AI builders, automation specialists, no-code developers, content operators and product-minded implementers.

I manage the strategy, scope, QA and client relationship, and match the right builders to the right problem. You get one accountable person (me) and the build capacity of a small team.

Which means you access serious AI capability without hiring a full internal AI team, or gambling on a freelancer roulette wheel.

AI builders

Assistants, agents, and AI-powered tools trained on your business.

Automation specialists

Workflows that connect your inbox, CRM, forms and systems.

No-code developers

Portals, dashboards and internal tools, shipped in weeks, not quarters.

Content operators

AI-assisted content engines that stay in your voice.

Product implementers

People who think about users and outcomes, not just tech.

+ Me, on top of all of it

Strategy, scope, QA and one throat to choke. Mine.

Dr Isaac Balbin
The person you’d actually be dealing with
  • PhD in Engineering, Monash University
  • 15+ years building and commercialising deep tech
  • Founder with an M&A exit, has sat in your chair
  • Builds AI ventures and systems, currently, daily
  • Melbourne-based · works Australia-wide

Who you’re dealing with

Not an agency. Not a reseller. An engineer who runs businesses.

I’ve spent fifteen years turning frontier technology into commercial outcomes, as an engineer, a founder, and an operator. I build with AI every single day, in my own ventures, with my own money on the line. That’s the experience you’re hiring.

I would rather set up three things that genuinely save you time than dazzle you with twenty you will never touch.

More background at isaacbalbin.com.

Pricing

Simple prices. No surprises.

The website is a $299 launch price. Everything else gets one fixed quote before any work starts.

Start here · Launch price

The $299 Website

A customised website, up to 5 pages, two rounds of revisions, live in about a week. Looks premium, works on every phone, ready for Google. Only the first 20 businesses get this price, then it’s from $499.

$299 inc GSTfirst 20 businesses only, then from $499 · then choose: care plan ($50/mo intro, then $79/mo) or full file handover
Order my website
Then this

AI Profit Audit

A structured review of your operations, ending in a ranked list of AI opportunities with effort and payoff for each. Yours to run with, or hand back to me to build. If I can’t find you real opportunities, I’ll tell you that on the free first call and save us both the fee.

from $950fixed scope · fast turnaround
Book an audit
For your team

AI Team Workshop

Half or full day, hands-on, built around your actual work. Your team leaves with working setups and habits, not notes they’ll never open again.

from $1,500per workshop · on-site or remote
Enquire
Most popular upgrade

AI Workflow Sprint

Two to four weeks. We pick your highest-leverage workflow, quotes, follow-up, orders, onboarding, and I build, test and hand over the automation.

from $7,500scoped & fixed before we start
Enquire
Go deep

AI Operating System Build

The full stack: trained assistants, automated workflows, dashboards, documentation and team training, an AI layer across how your business runs.

POAscoped after an audit
Enquire
Selective

AI Growth Partnership

Reduced upfront fees in exchange for equity, revenue share or performance-based upside. For serious operators with real growth potential.

Application onlyI say no more than yes
Pitch me

Ongoing AI retainers available after any engagement, think of me as your part-time AI person. Website launch price is inc GST; other prices AUD ex GST.

Fair questions

Things people ask before they book.

What does the $299 website actually include?

Up to five pages (home, about, services, gallery, contact, or whatever fits your business), written and designed properly, working on every phone, with forms that reach your inbox and the basics done so Google can find you. Two rounds of revisions, live in about a week. $299 including GST for the first 20 businesses, then from $499.

$299? What’s the catch?

No catch. AI does the heavy lifting on the build, and I’m a PhD engineer who supervises it, so it takes me hours, not the weeks an agency charges for. I make my money when you love the site and stay on the care plan ($50/month intro for 3 months, then $79/month), or come back for the bigger things: bookings, automation, AI assistants. The $299 launch price is how I build my public before-and-after portfolio fast, which is why only the first 20 get it.

Do I own the website? Can I host it myself?

Completely and yes. It's your domain, your content, your website. If you'd rather run it without me, I hand over the full website files and you can host them anywhere, with zero ongoing involvement from me. The care plan is a convenience, not a leash: leave it whenever you like and everything keeps working.

Do I need to be technical?

Not at all. If you can send an email, you can do this. My job is translating AI capability into plain English and working systems, the tech stays my problem.

Is my business data safe?

We set things up so your data is handled deliberately: business-grade AI accounts, sensible access controls, and clear rules about what goes where. I’ll explain the trade-offs of each tool in plain English before anything is switched on.

How fast can we start?

Usually this week. An AI Profit Audit is typically delivered within days of our first conversation, and workflow sprints are scoped to start within a fortnight.

What does a retainer look like?

A monthly arrangement where I keep your AI systems tuned, train new staff, add automations as your business changes, and stay across new AI capability so you don’t have to. Your part-time AI person, without the salary.

How do the upside partnerships actually work?

We start with a conversation and mutual due diligence. If it’s a fit, we agree a structure, equity, revenue share or performance-based fees, documented in a formal agreement with both sides taking independent advice. If it’s not a fit, I’ll tell you quickly and point you to the right cash engagement instead.

Will AI just do all this out of the box?

Out of the box, AI is a brilliant generalist that knows nothing about your business. The gap between “toy” and “leverage” is training it on your services, voice, rules and workflows, that’s the work, and it’s exactly what I do.

Last call

Start with the website. See what I’m about.

$299, about a week, and you’ll have a website you’re proud to put on the van, the shopfront and the fridge magnet. Then, when you’re ready, we talk about everything else AI can take off your plate. Fifteen minutes, plain English, no obligation.

I reply personally, usually the same day. Pitching a partnership? Include what your business does, roughly where it’s at, and where you think the upside is.

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