The role title is "Applied AI". So is the name of the unit at CSIRO CMIS where I worked on autonomous agents in 1999. Sixteen years of pre-sales since then: from founder-led BWUnit sales in 2010 through to Senior Architect (Manager Level) pre-sales at Endava today. Eighteen years inside ANZ regulated financial services. Applied AI shipping in production today (Voder on the OpenAI Connections marketplace, agent-plugins in production). A drafted research paper on LLM cognitive biases and an ISO 31000 risk scorer for AI coding workflows. The arc reads as authentic because it is.
ANZ enterprises (the APRA-supervised banks, the federal and state government departments, the resources majors) are about to do the largest commercial AI rollouts in the region's history. The technical leader Anthropic puts in front of them has to be credible in the regulator-facing room. I have been in that room. I have led 50+ person programs through it.
First 90 days, the shape (not the answer; the room is where the detail lands): name three foundational ANZ regulated customers and the technical thesis that lands each. Hire the first Solutions Architect and Product Engineer against named-account-aligned needs. Stand up the safety-and-evaluation pattern Anthropic Solutions Architects in ANZ use end-to-end, drawing on the wr-risk-scorer / bAIs / CLAIMS-ledger playbook. Let's talk.