We close the gap
between AI strategy
and production

Smart Tech Ventures is Australia's leading AI architecture consultancy. Axurcio is our Forward Deployed Architect product — senior architects who embed in your teams to design, build and govern production AI, rather than hand over a deck and leave.

Every Axurcio engagement runs on Arckit.org, the governance harness that keeps every AI-accelerated artifact template-driven, traceable and audit-ready — so you move fast without losing accountability or regulatory alignment.

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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
vector

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
vector

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
vector

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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