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Australian AI and automation agencys, by the numbers

We checked what 14 Australian AI and automation agencys publish about themselves, and how much of it holds up against an independent source.

Measured 2026-10-03 · free to reuse with attribution

Of 14 Australian AI and automation agencys measured in 2026, 35.7% publish an ABN that can be confirmed against the national register. Of the 4 whose listed phone number was compared with the number on their own website, 25% match and 0% contradict it. 100% of the 4 websites fetched responded, and 100% of the 4 cross-source matches found two or more independent sources. The median Australian AI and automation agency has 23 Google reviews. The comparable national figures across all 78 trades are 21.5% with a checkable ABN and a median of 39 reviews. Source: WhoToHire, 2026-10-03.

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publish a checkable ABN

Too few checked here to publish a rate.

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phone number confirmed against their own site

Too few checked here to publish a rate.

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phone number contradicting their own site

Too few checked here to publish a rate.

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have a website that loads

Too few checked here to publish a rate.

23

Google reviews for the median business

The national median is 39. Review counts track how often people hire a trade, not how well they do it — a trade you call once a decade will always sit lower.

What stands out

AI & Automation Agencies publish a checkable ABN at 35.7%, 66% above the 21.5% national rate — better than most trades, though still under one business in six.

0 AI and automation agencys — 0% of the 4 we compared — list a phone number that contradicts the one on their own website, 100% below the national 7.7%. That is better than the national picture, which is a reasonable sign the trade keeps its listings current.

The median has 23 Google reviews against 39 nationally. That gap says more about how often households need AI and automation agencys than about the standard of the work, which is why the ranking on this site weights review volume on a log scale rather than treating a 5.0 from four reviews as equal to a 4.6 from three hundred.

Method, and what it can't tell you

14 Australian AI and automation agencys. Every one of them gets the same four checks: an ABN lookup against the national register, a comparison of the listed phone number against the number on the business's own website, an HTTP request to that website, and a match against open mapping data maintained separately from Google.

Not all four have run everywhere yet, so the figures above are shares of what has been checked: 4 phone comparisons, 4 website fetches and 4 cross-source matches out of 14 businesses. A check that has not run counts in neither half of a percentage.

This is a census of a directory, not of the trade. It covers businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all, which if anything biases these figures upward — a business too small to appear here is less likely to publish an ABN, not more.

ABN registration is the one figure taken over every business in the group rather than over a checked subset, because an absent ABN is not a failed lookup — read it as a floor. Review counts and averages are held; individual reviews are not, so nothing here can tell you whether a business's reviews arrived steadily or all at once.

Full method and national figures: the state of Australian trade business data.

Common questions

How many Australian AI and automation agencys are in this dataset?
14, drawn from 569,128 scanned records and measured on 2026-10-03. That is a census of the AI and automation agencys in this directory rather than of every AI and automation agency in Australia, and it skews toward businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all.
How many Australian AI and automation agencys publish an ABN you can check?
35.7% — 5 of 14. The national rate across all trades is 21.5%, so AI and automation agencys sit 66% above it. An ABN is free and public, so a missing one is usually a business that never put it on their website rather than a business without one.
How many AI and automation agencys list a phone number that doesn't match their website?
0% of the 4 we compared, or about 0 businesses. This counts only cases where a listed number directly contradicts the number on the business's own site — not businesses with no phone number and not ones the comparison has not run for. It is often a stale listing, and sometimes a lead-reselling service sitting between you and the person who does the work.
How many Google reviews does the median Australian AI and automation agency have?
23, against a national median of 39 across all trades. Half have fewer. Review counts track how often people hire a trade rather than how well it performs, so comparing a AI and automation agency against a trade people call more often tells you very little.

Using these numbers

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WhoToHire, “Australian AI and automation agency data 2026”, 2026-10-03. https://whotohire.com.au/research/trades/ai-automation-agencies

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