Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
AI, security and hosting for organisations that have outgrown guesswork.
Ey3 is a Brisbane consultancy for organisations whose website and systems stopped being optional some time ago. We put AI to work inside the business, secure what you already run, host it on our own hardware in Sydney, and build what is not on the shelf.
Who we work with
Built for organisations that already depend on the web.
Our clients are not starting out. They run a firm, a practice, a manufacturer, a not-for-profit or a group of brands, and somewhere between twenty and a few hundred people rely on what the systems do each day. The website takes the enquiries, the bookings, the payments or the members. And something behind it has been bothering someone for a while.
Usually one of these
- An existing WordPress build that has grown past the people who made it.
- A security incident, or a near miss nobody has properly explained.
- A board, an auditor or a regulator asking what the organisation’s position on AI is, and no answer yet.
- Hosting that was cheap, right up until the day it mattered.
- A backlog a small team cannot get to, and a sense that AI should be doing some of it by now.
If you are a one or two person business looking for a first website, we are probably not the right fit, and we would rather say so now than after an invoice. A good local freelancer will serve you better and cost less. If you are past that stage and something is not right, ring us.
What we do
Four practices. One standard.
AI that does a defined job, with a person holding the pen.
We put AI into the way your organisation already works: intake, reporting, reconciliation, drafting, and finding the one document in ten years of files that actually matters. Agents built to do one job well and stay inside it. AI policy and governance written for your board rather than copied from a template, including what the Privacy Act will ask of automated decisions from 10 December 2026. And a fractional CTO for when the decisions are bigger than the team.
AI at Ey3 →
Security for the internet as it is, not as it was.
Small targets are still targets. We audit what you run, from the site to the server to the logs to the edge, fix what we find, clean up when it has already gone wrong, and keep watching afterwards through our own Ey3 Sitrep monitoring: people looking at real signals, not a plugin with a green tick.
Our own server in Sydney, and backups we have actually restored.
Your site runs on hardware we control, not a reseller account three layers deep. Backups are kept in three copies across two locations, one of them off-site, and restores are tested on a schedule rather than assumed. Monthly maintenance keeps the software current so that audit findings stay fixed.
When it is not on the shelf, we build it.
WordPress development, migrations off platforms that have become a liability, custom plugins, and the integrations between the website and the systems behind it. Built properly, documented, and handed over in a state somebody else could maintain. We have been doing this since 1996 and, oddly, we still like it.
Web development →
AI Human Love
AI does the drudgery. People keep the judgment.
Every person at Ey3 works AI first. The first draft, the first pass over the logs, the first read of a contract, the first cut of the code: a model does it, quickly, and a person who has seen thirty years of the same mistakes decides whether it is right. That order matters. AI without judgment is a liability with a monthly subscription. Judgment without AI is slow and expensive, and in 2026 it is also a choice.
Most people are afraid of the machine. We are not, and we do not think you should be. What we teach clients is not how to use a chatbot. It is where to put the human.
The era of easy security is over. That suits us.
For twenty years an Australian business could get by on a cheap host, a firewall plugin and luck. That has finished. The attacks are automated, they do not care how big you are, and the first you hear of one is a customer, a bank or a regulator. Security through obscurity is dead.
So we do the unglamorous things properly, on a schedule: patch, harden, back up, restore, watch. The watching is done with our own tooling, Ey3 Sitrep, by people who know what the signals mean. We do not publish how any of it is defended. Not because secrecy is the defence, but because there is no reason to help.
Where the judgment comes from
Thirty years of watching the same mistakes.
Ey3 is led by Luke Elin. The organisations below are where he did the work that shapes how we do ours. They are his history, not our client list, and we say so because the difference matters.
Client work is under agreement or is not ours to name. Ask on the phone and we will tell you what we can.
Straight answers
The questions we get before the phone call.
Do you work with sole traders and one-person businesses?
Our site was built by someone else. Will you take it on?
Where is our data, and who can see it?
You work “AI first”. Does our data go into a model?
What does the first conversation cost?
Writing
Notes from the field.
Why cheap hosting and abandoned plugins put Brisbane businesses at risk, and three questions to ask your provider this week.
Thirty-five years of watching Australian businesses repeat themselves.
What the Privacy Act changes ask of you, and who in your organisation is supposed to answer.
Next step
Start with a phone call.
Twenty minutes with someone who has seen it before. No deck, no discovery workshop, no obligation. If we are not the right fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Ey3, PO Box 69, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006. [email protected]