A Smart Tech Ventures product

Axurcio: a Forward Deployed Architect, embedded in your team

Axurcio places a senior AI architect from Smart Tech Ventures — Australia's leading AI architecture consultancy — inside your business to close the strategy-to-execution gap. We don't just advise: we design, build and ship production AI alongside your people, governed end-to-end by Arckit.org.

Forward Deployed Architect embedded with your team

Architecting on the platforms you already run

Microsoft
AWS
Google Cloud
GitHub
Dynamics 365
Salesforce

What Axurcio does

An Axurcio Forward Deployed Architect runs a technical track and a consulting track in parallel — discovering the real problem, designing the architecture, and building it shoulder-to-shoulder with your team. Every engagement spans these six capabilities.

AI Strategy & Discovery
Use cases | Value cases | Roadmap
Agentic Solution Design
Architecture | Evaluation | Patterns
Embedded Build
Code | Debug | Deploy with your team
Governance & Compliance
Arckit | Audit-ready | Traceable
MLOps & Reliability
Monitoring | Evals | Production SLOs
Enablement & Handover
Upskill | Operate | Scale
Let’s ship AI that lasts
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Powered by Arckit

Every Axurcio engagement runs on Arckit.org — the enterprise architecture governance harness that wraps your coding assistant. It gates unsafe operations, generates artifacts from templates, applies jurisdiction-specific overlays, and stamps everything with provenance and traceability. AI accelerates the first draft; Arckit keeps it audit-ready.

The Governance Harness

Intercepts AI tool calls to gate unsafe operations and generate template-driven artifacts — requirements, risk registers, design reviews — every one traceable.

GDS-aligned workflow

Commands map to the five phases of the UK Government's Agile Delivery framework, from Planning through to Live operations.

Works with your assistant

Identical outputs across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot — no lock-in to a single tool.

Multi-jurisdiction overlays
Australia (AU)EU / GDPRUK Government (GDS)UK Finance — paymentsUK NHS — clinical safetyCanadaUAEFrance & Austria

Outcomes

Real production AI, shipped inside our clients' teams — not slideware. A sample of recent Axurcio engagements.

Agentic automation
For a national insurer, Axurcio designed and shipped a claims-triage agent to production in 11 weeks — cutting average handling time by 40% with full audit trails generated by Arckit.
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Governed AI platform
For a WA government department, we stood up an AI governance harness and review gates so internal teams could ship generative AI safely against the Australian regulatory overlay.
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RAG & reliability
For an energy retailer, Axurcio built a retrieval-augmented assistant over operational data, with evals and monitoring, lifting field-team self-service resolution to 70%.
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The FDA engagement

Six steps from ambiguous AI ambition to governed, production-grade systems your team owns.


Axurcio embeds with your stakeholders to find the real problem — mapping AI use cases against business value, data readiness and risk. We replay our understanding so everyone is aligned before a line of code is written.


We design the solution architecture, evaluation strategy and deployment patterns — and capture it all as template-driven, audit-ready artifacts in Arckit, with the right jurisdictional overlay applied from day one.


Embedded in your environment, Axurcio codes, debugs and deploys the bespoke agentic solution alongside your engineers — not over the fence. Governance gates run on every change through the Arckit harness.


We stand up evals, monitoring and reliability SLOs so the system behaves in production — with full provenance and traceability for every decision and artifact.


We move the solution into live operations against your compliance baseline, closing the strategy-to-execution gap that stalls most AI initiatives.


We upskill your team to own and extend what we built, leaving behind documented, governed, audit-ready architecture — so capability stays in-house when the engagement ends.

Team

Meet the senior architects and engineers we embed in your teams to deliver production AI

Chris McKelt
Principal Forward Deployed Architect
Chris McKelt
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20+ years architecting and shipping production systems. Leads embedded AI engagements end-to-end, from discovery to live operations.

Tracy Dallas
Talent Partner
Tracy Dallas
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15+ years in delivery leadership. Matches the right Forward Deployed Architect to your domain and assembles embedded squads.

Lachlan James
Forward Deployed Engineer — Data & AI
Lachlan James
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12+ years in data architecture, MLOps and agentic systems. Builds the evals, pipelines and monitoring that keep AI reliable in production.

Ready to embed Axurcio in your team?

Tell us where you're stuck on AI. Smart Tech Ventures will scope an engagement and put a senior architect inside your team.

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