NETGATE

Custom AI Agents That Actually Get the Job Done

We design, build and operate AI agents trained on your business — answering customers, qualifying leads, processing documents, surfacing the right answer at 3am. Not a chatbot template. A real system that runs the work a person used to do.

30 minutes. No pitch. No obligation.

  • Sydney-based
  • Custom-trained on your data
  • End-to-end in-house
  • You own the code

What we deliver

AI Agents We Build for Australian Businesses

Every agent we ship is custom-trained on your services, your tone and your data. No off-the-shelf chatbot that hallucinates your pricing — a real system designed for the workflow you actually have.

AI Voice Agents

AI Voice Agents

Conversational voice agents that handle inbound calls, qualify leads, book appointments and send SMS confirmations — without a human on the line. They sound natural, follow your script logic, and hand off to a real person when it matters. Live 24/7, no rollover, no voicemail, no after-hours staffing cost.

Benefits: Zero missed calls, qualified leads only, available at 3am Christmas Eve.

AI Chat & Customer-Service Agents

AI Chat & Customer-Service Agents

Website chat and in-app agents that answer technical questions, generate quotes from your price list, and create leads in your CRM — custom-trained on your services, FAQs and tone of voice. Customers get instant answers at 11pm. You get a qualified lead in your inbox by morning.

Benefits: After-hours conversion, instant answers, no live-chat staffing.

Lead-Qualification Agents

Lead-Qualification Agents

Inbound forms, voice calls and chat conversations all run through an agent that scores, tags and routes the lead — pulling in context from your CRM, your website history and your pricing logic. Sales only sees the leads worth their time. The rest get handled (or politely declined) without a human touching them.

Benefits: Sales focus on hot leads, fewer wasted calls, faster response times.

Document & Invoice Agents

Document & Invoice Agents

Agents that read incoming PDFs, supplier emails, contracts or invoices — extracting the data, classifying it, and pushing it into your accounting, CRM or quoting system. Stop having a person re-type figures from a PDF every Monday morning. Stop missing line items. Stop quoting from stale supplier prices.

Benefits: Zero data entry, fewer pricing errors, hours back per week.

Internal Knowledge-Base Agents

Internal Knowledge-Base Agents

Your team asks a question — pricing, policy, procedure, how-do-I — and gets the right answer from your internal docs, SharePoint, Notion or wiki, with the source linked. New starters get up to speed in days, not months. Senior staff stop being interrupted by questions they've answered fifty times.

Benefits: Faster onboarding, less interruption, knowledge stays in the business.

Workflow Orchestration Agents

Workflow Orchestration Agents

Agents that sit across your existing tools — CRM, calendar, email, accounting, quoting — and run multi-step workflows end-to-end. 'New lead lands → check calendar → draft personalised reply → schedule follow-up → log to CRM.' One agent, the whole sequence, no human prompting in the middle.

Why NetGate

Why Choose NetGate to Build Your AI Agents?

Plenty of agencies will demo a chatbot and call it AI. We're the Sydney team that designs, builds and operates production AI systems — and ships our own.

Custom-Trained, Not Templated

Custom-Trained, Not Templated

Every agent is trained on your business — your services, your pricing logic, your tone of voice, your edge cases. We don't drop a generic chatbot template into a widget and rebrand it. We design the conversation, curate the training data, and ship an agent that sounds like your business — because it was built around your business.

We Operate What We Build

We Operate What We Build

Leado is our quoting and invoicing app for Australian tradies — live on the App Store today (au.leado.app). We run AI and automation systems for clients in production every day. When you hire us, you're hiring the team that operates this stuff — not advisors who hand you a spec and walk away.

End-to-End, In-House

End-to-End, In-House

We don't outsource. The same Sydney-based team that designs your AI agent also trains it, ships it and supports it. One point of contact for the life of the system. When the agent needs new behaviour, you ring the developer who built it — not a ticket queue routed offshore.

Outcomes, Not Buzzwords

Outcomes, Not Buzzwords

We measure success in calls handled, leads qualified, documents processed, hours saved. Not in 'GenAI synergies' or model-name flexing. Before we start, we agree the metric. After we ship, we report against it. If the agent isn't moving the number, we change the agent.

No Vendor Lock-in

No Vendor Lock-in

You own the agent we build for you. Code, training data, prompts, integrations — all yours. We're an agency, not a SaaS subscription you can never leave. Hand-over documentation and access at the end of every project. If you want to take it in-house in three years, you can. If you want us to keep running it, we will.

Safe by Design

Safe by Design

Every agent we ship has guardrails: no hallucinated pricing, no off-script answers, no leaking customer data into training. We test edge cases before we deploy and we monitor production behaviour after. AI is powerful, but it has failure modes — we engineer around them so your customers never see them.

What Could an AI Agent Do for Your Business?

Free 30-minute strategy call. Tell us the workflow that's eating your team's day — calls, quoting, customer queries, document processing — and we'll show you what an AI agent could take off the plate.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What's a 'custom AI agent' — and how is it different from a chatbot?
A chatbot follows a fixed decision tree: customer clicks an option, bot reads a scripted response. An AI agent has judgement — it understands the question, looks up the right answer from your data, decides what to do next, and can take action across your tools (book the call, draft the reply, raise the quote). Custom AI agents are trained on your business specifically, so the answers are accurate to your services and pricing — not a generic FAQ. See business automation for the broader picture of how agents fit alongside rules-based automation.
What kinds of AI agents do you build?
Voice agents (inbound and outbound calls), chat agents (website and in-app), document/invoice processing agents, lead-qualification agents, internal knowledge-base agents, and workflow orchestration agents that run multi-step processes across your existing tools. We've shipped variations of all of these to Australian businesses. If your workflow has a clear input, a clear desired output and a person currently doing the in-between — there's a good chance an agent can do it.
How is this different from just using ChatGPT or Copilot?
Off-the-shelf assistants are generalists — they don't know your pricing, your customers, your policies or your tools. Ask one to quote a job and it will hallucinate. A custom AI agent is grounded in your data, integrated with your systems (CRM, calendar, accounting, quoting), and constrained to behave the way your business needs it to. We also engineer the safety guardrails — so the agent doesn't go off-script, leak data, or make up answers when it doesn't know.
What does a custom AI agent project cost?
Projects typically range from $8,000 to $60,000+ depending on scope. A focused single-purpose agent — say, an after-hours customer-service chat agent trained on your FAQs — usually sits at the lower end. A multi-tool orchestration agent that handles voice, leads, quoting and CRM end-to-end sits higher. We scope every project against a fixed deliverable list before quoting, so there are no surprises. Many clients also choose ongoing operations — a flat monthly fee to run, monitor and refine the agent on their behalf. Get in touch for a proper quote.
How do you make sure the agent doesn't make things up?
Three layers. First, the agent is grounded — it only answers from your curated data, not from the open internet. Second, it's constrained — when it doesn't know, it says so and hands off to a human, rather than guessing. Third, we monitor production — every conversation is logged, edge cases get flagged, and we tune the agent in response. AI hallucination is a real failure mode, but it's one you engineer around. We do.
Will the agent integrate with our existing tools?
Yes — that's where most of the value comes from. We integrate with CRMs, calendars, accounting platforms, quoting systems, ticketing tools, knowledge bases, email and SMS gateways. If it has an API, we can connect to it. If it doesn't, we'll often build the connector. The agent isn't an island — it's a layer that sits across the tools you already use, and makes them work together without a person in the middle.
Do you work with businesses outside Sydney?
Yes. We're Sydney-based but we work with clients in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and across regional Australia. The build process runs over video call and screen-share — distance has never been an obstacle. We've delivered AI and automation systems for businesses we've never met in person, and the outcome is the same: a system that fits the workflow and ships on schedule.

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Ready to put an AI agent to work?

Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We'll look at your highest-friction workflow — calls, quoting, document processing, customer queries — and show you what a custom AI agent could take off the plate. No pitch, no obligation.

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