Recommendation
Compare the Controls, Not the Feature List
Choosing between ChatGPT Business, Claude Team and Microsoft Copilot is a controls decision, not a features decision.
Where AI and data actually help
Independent, senior advice for Microsoft-based organisations in South East Queensland, so you know which AI and data work is worth doing, and what to do first.
What we do
Reports you cannot trust, scattered artificial intelligence (AI) experiments, or projects with no clear priority? Start with the decision you need to make.
MDE helps Microsoft-based organisations decide where AI and data will genuinely add value, with human accountability and a clear, sustainable next step.
Rory McCluskey does the work himself. You speak directly with the person advising you, including when the answer is to do nothing yet.
Ways to work with MDE
Start by clarifying the decision. Choose further work only where it is useful; these are options, not a required sequence.
Start here
Discovery Review
When the direction is unclear, get an independent view of your current state, the material choices and a written next step before further spend.
Design Sprint
When the direction is agreed, turn it into a practical plan with alternatives, named owners and the first delivery steps.
Delivery Sprint
When a clear plan needs delivery, get a working outcome with agreed scope, evidence of acceptance and a handover your team can use.
Workshop, Training & IP
When your team needs to adopt an agreed approach, get reusable material to use it well and sustain the intended benefit without relying on MDE.
Embedded Advisory & AI Assurance
When architecture and AI decisions keep arriving, get recurring senior advice, decision records and adoption checks without a full-time hire.
Our approach
How we partner
Each step is transparent, evidence-first and limited to what you actually need.
- Step 1
Review goals and systems
Review the goals, current systems, constraints and owners so the work targets the real problem.
- Step 2
Design the path
Set out the options, the evidence behind them and the acceptance checks, then agree the next practical step.
- Step 3
Deliver & evolve
Where delivery follows, move in small, agreed increments, keep the evidence visible, and hand over so your team can sustain it.
Insights
Evidence before advice.
Notes from Rory McCluskey, MDE’s Principal Consultant / Enterprise Architect, on the evidence behind Microsoft, data and AI decisions.
Insight
Read → Draft → Stage → Write
Before connecting AI to SharePoint or a CRM, decide which of four actions it may take. That boundary sets the controls, ownership and acceptance checks.
Fact
Training Disabled Does Not Mean Private
A non-training commitment answers one question. Five others stay open, and they are the ones that matter.
Technology ecosystem
Capability areas
Background detail on the platforms and practices MDE works across. The offers above are the simplest way to start.
Not sure whether the platform is really the problem?
Bring the decision you are facing, the systems involved and the risk you want to reduce. If the platform is not the problem, you will hear that too.