AI consulting that ships, not slides. Working prototype in 48 hours.
Delivered by Gibson Sandbox. Brighton-Le-Sands HQ. Since 2006. ISO 27001 certified platform platform infrastructure. NSW Government Registered Supplier.
from $1,000
Starting price · prototype build
48 hrs
Working AI in your stack
1 week
Production-grade
Free
30-min diagnose call
The problem
You have an operational bottleneck. Maybe it's CRM hygiene. Maybe inbound enquiries pile up overnight. Maybe your team does the same 30-minute admin task 50 times a week. You don't have a software team. The local AI consulting agency wants $30,000 and 8 weeks. The off-the-shelf SaaS tool doesn't quite fit your workflow.
Gibson Sandbox builds the working AI in 48 hours. From $1,000 for the prototype. Production-grade in a week. Built on Claude plus your existing stack (Zoho, HubSpot, Salesforce, GoHighLevel, Xero). No slides. No discovery phase. No 8-week timeline.
Why AU + NZ operators pick Gibson over an AI agency Sydney retainer
Gibson is an AI consultant Sydney teams shortlist alongside any AI agency Sydney based incumbent. Different offer: AI for business shipped as a working AI prototype in 48 hours, not a 12-week retainer. AI consultant Melbourne, AI agency Sydney, AI for small business engagements all start at the same from $1,000 AI prototype tier.
What gets built in Sandbox is the practical end of AI for business: an AI agent, an AI phone agent, an AI sandbox environment your team can iterate inside, AI automation between SaaS tools, AI workflow automation across departments, AI marketing automation for outbound campaigns. Build AI agent flows that classify, route, draft replies, score conversations, or take inbound AI phone calls. Built on Vertex AI plus the Claude API. ChatGPT for business consoles, Claude API integrations, and the best AI tools for business stack: all standard, no extra license fees.
AI for real estate, AI for real estate agents, AI for trades, AI for dentists are all live Sandbox patterns. Each gets the same 48-hour AI prototype shape: brief in, working build out, from $1,000. AI for small business pricing scales to enterprise via the $5,000+ production engagement tier. Best AI for marketing builds (AI marketing automation, AI phone calls for lead qualification) ship on the same Vertex AI plus Claude API stack as the enterprise builds.
What gets built
How the 48-hour promise actually works
Most AI consulting promises break because the consultancy is using AI like a junior copywriter. One model, one prompt, ship the code, hope it works. Gibson runs a real software development lifecycle on every build.
Layer 01: Spec
A multi-specialist planning pipeline reads the brief and produces a validated build package: requirements, data model, security boundaries, build sequence, test cases. The expensive surprises die before code is written.
Layer 02: Build
The build runs through dual-model review: a second AI cross-reviews every change so the gaps the first model missed get caught before merge.
Layer 03: Ship
A modern CI/CD pipeline handles lint, type-check, unit tests, integration tests, staged deploy, smoke checks, production. Every build ships with an evaluation harness that proves it works.
The result: a working prototype in 48 hours, production-grade in a week, with a test and review history the client can audit. See How We Ship in 24 Hours for the proof block.
What you get (from $1,000)
- +A 30-minute diagnose call where we name the bottleneck and confirm it's a 48-hour build, no charge.
- +A scoped brief, written by us, agreed by you before the build starts.
- +A working AI agent or automation, deployed on your existing stack, delivered inside 48 hours of the brief being agreed.
- +An end-of-day demo with you on screen.
- +One week of iteration toward production-grade.
- +Handover documentation your team can run, or a managed-service plan if you'd rather not touch it.
Built on your systems. Owned by you. Full stop.
Gibson does not host your AI or keep it on our infrastructure. Every build ships onto your own accounts - your Google Cloud project, your Anthropic API key, your billing. If you stop working with Gibson tomorrow, the AI keeps running. You own it completely.
Your accounts
Google Cloud, Anthropic, or whatever stack fits the job - all provisioned under your own login and billing.
Your data
Nothing passes through Gibson infrastructure. Your CRM data, your customer records, your content - stays in your systems.
Transparent running costs
You pay API providers directly at published rates. A focused agent typically costs $20-100/month in API and hosting. No Gibson markup on running costs.
No lock-in
The build is yours. If you outgrow Gibson or want to take it in-house, you already own everything needed to do that.
Two ways we work
Install Claude or Codex in your business
If your team already knows the job - and needs an AI assistant wired into your workflow - we install and configure Claude, Codex, or similar directly into your existing tools. Faster, lower cost, your team runs it day to day.
Build custom tooling to your spec
If the job needs something purpose-built - a bespoke AI agent, a custom phone agent, a workflow automation nobody sells off the shelf - we build it on Google Cloud Vertex AI and the Claude API, scoped to exactly what you need.
The 30-minute diagnose call is where we work out which one fits.
What we will not build in 48 hours
The promise burns if one bad case ships late. So we're explicit about the boundary.
- ×Anything that needs multi-stakeholder sign-off inside the 48-hour window.
- ×Custom hardware integrations.
- ×Regulated data flows that need compliance prep work first.
- ×Full enterprise SaaS rebuilds.
- ×Anything where the brief is not clear by the end of the 30-minute diagnose call.
For those projects we scope a proper engagement before you commit a dollar. See the full Sandbox Builds page.
The receipts
Gibson Sandbox builds for ourselves as well as for clients. The full case studies sit on the Sandbox page. The short version:
Demand Reactivation Engine
AI-driven dormant relationship recovery, productised as a multi-tenant platform. $9,415 of confirmed jobs from a 130-prospect pilot. 98% SMS open rate. Live across multiple Gibson clients.
Mr Jobs Recruitment Engine
AI-led interviewer portal. Resume parsing, AI screening interviews, structured candidate scoring. BETA - working prototype built in 1 week.
Mr Jobs Telephony
Browser-based softphone built on Twilio. Over a thousand tests green. Live in production and operational. Around $5/month at normal call volume, hard fraud ceiling at the carrier layer.
Daily Sync Agent
CRM hygiene agent that fixes the data leaks every operator has. 6 hours of admin per week eliminated. Built in 11 days.
Claude Agents Power Mode
The AI-first planning pipeline that runs before every Gibson build. Productised methodology.
This website
Full rebuild on a modern app framework. AEO-optimised. 100/100 Lighthouse SEO. Built by Albert plus Claude.
Book the diagnose call.
30 minutes. No slides. No charge. You describe the bottleneck. We tell you on the call whether it's a 48-hour build, a one-week engagement or something bigger, and what each option would cost.