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Tomas Klimes

AI Strategist

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

AI Strategy
Diagnosis, Right-Fit Tools and Automation
Web Development
Design, Build and Embed
Analytical Rigour
Deloitte Audit Analyst Background
Brisbane-Based
A Business Built From Scratch

Tomas Klimes is an AI Strategist and web developer based in Brisbane, and his job is a simple one to describe and a hard one to do well: he helps founders work out what AI to use, what to ignore, and what to automate, so that their teams actually adopt it. In a field crowded with hype and half-finished tools, that clarity is genuinely rare. Tomas cuts through the noise and focuses on the handful of things that will make a real, measurable difference to how a small business runs.

His method is grounded and practical. Tomas begins every engagement with a workflow diagnosis, mapping where a business is quietly losing time and revenue, before guiding clients toward right-fit tools, AI agents, and simple automations that fit the way they already work. Depending on what a client needs, that might start with a focused 15-minute AI Clarity Call, extend into a full AI Workflow Roadmap, or move all the way through to Build and Embed implementation with hands-on team training. The goal is never technology for its own sake. It is technology that gets used.

That practical instinct is backed by real analytical depth. Tomas has worked as an Audit Analyst at Deloitte, where he learned to read a process carefully and take nothing on face value, and as a social media manager at Natom Visuals, where he learned how a message actually reaches and moves an audience. Alongside his AI strategy work he is a capable web developer, which means he can not only recommend the right build but design and deliver it. Few people sit as comfortably across the strategy, the technology, and the communication as Tomas does. There is also a personal story behind the professional one. Tomas moved across the world and built his business here from scratch, with no connections, no referrals, and no knowledge of the local market. He arrived, worked it out, and made it happen anyway. That experience gives him a deep and genuine empathy for the founders he works with, because he knows exactly what it feels like to start from nothing and back yourself to figure it out.

⚠️  A NOTE FROM TOMAS

I would like to go on the record with a minority opinion. Eric’s dad jokes are excellent. When I arrived at SBAAS I did not know many people or understand much of the local humour, but the jokes landed immediately, and they have not stopped landing since. I have asked Eric to mentor me in the craft. He agreed without hesitation. We now workshop material together, and I consider it one of the most rewarding professional relationships I have.

I understand this puts me alongside Johnson, and I understand what that means. I have also noticed that Trudi, Valeria, Ashleigh, and Savannah have, between them, developed a remarkable set of expressions that appear the moment Eric and I begin. I have not decoded all of them. I choose to read them as encouragement. Johnson has advised me not to. 😄

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Practical AI, Grounded in Real Business

  • AI Strategy Consultant and Web Developer
  • Audit Analyst – Deloitte
  • Social Media Manager – NatomVisuals

  • AI Clarity Call – a focused 15-minute starting point
  • AI Workflow Roadmap – mapping time and revenue leaks to right-fit tools
  • Build and Embed – implementation with hands-on team training

  • Workflow diagnosis and process automation
  • Right-fit AI tools and AI agents
  • Web design and development
  • Team training and genuine adoption

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