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AI Rising: why this moment is different

Denver Naidoo on why the Gold Coast, of all places, is a fine place to build the AI workforce from.

Denver Naidoo 8 min

I have spent twenty-four years in enterprise technology and I have seen three waves that were supposed to change everything. This one is different, and the difference is not the intelligence. It is the labour.

From software budgets to labour budgets

For every dollar a business spends on software it spends roughly six on services: people doing work with the software. Previous waves competed for the software dollar. This wave competes for the six. That is why the companies being built now sell work, not tools, and why the winners will be the ones that package that work as something a business can hire, trust and audit.

Why here

The Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct sits beside a hospital, a university and a growing cluster of AI companies. Our first customers are minutes away. Our data stays in Sydney. And a Californian venture firm made its first Australian investment here because the interview experience we built was better than what they had seen in the Valley.

What we are building

Zeli is the first co-worker. Hiring is the wedge. ZARE is the engine that lets us build the next co-worker as a configuration, not a company. Every employee in the world will have an AI co-worker. Some of them will be built on the Gold Coast.

About Denver Naidoo

Denver is Zeligate’s founder and CEO. He writes about AI co-workers and building Zeligate’s hiring platform.

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