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// High Impact Group
We turn AI disruption into advantage.
A portfolio of AI-native platforms, from data pipelines to AI coaching personas to front-end interfaces. Real data, AI that interprets and design that respects the intelligence of the people using it. We don’t talk about the future. We build for it.
Most professionals formed their view on AI eighteen months ago. That view is already outdated. Roles are broader. Expectations are higher. The gap between those who adapt and those who don’t is no longer theoretical. It’s commercial.
High Impact Group
// How We Build
Three principles behind every AI platform we build.
AI as architecture, not add-on
Every platform is built with AI at the core, not retrofitted onto legacy tools. The intelligence came first. The interface was built around it.
Connected intelligence
Strategy shapes commitments. Commitments drive scorecards. Execution feeds intelligence. Intelligence informs coaching. Every layer knows about the layers above and below it.
Designed for the person using it
No training manuals. No implementation consultants. Every platform works on day one with opinionated defaults and adapts to the person in the chair, their role, their context, their decisions.
// What We Build
These ventures are not a list. They are a line.
High Impact Group was built on a thirty year arc. Its founder started as a telecommunications engineer in the energy sector, spent fifteen years as a Partner at KPMG, then ran customer and digital for a state government where the first public sector AI platform in Australia was delivered. gridIQ is energy market intelligence. myAIstrategy is AI disruption strategy. advantAIge is leadership capability. They are not separate bets. They are one thesis built into software: energy and infrastructure, transformation at the highest level and AI engineered by the firm rather than bought from someone else.
A portfolio of ventures built at the intersection of AI, capability and competitive advantage.
Each venture solves a different problem. Together, they form a system designed to help individuals and organisations move faster, decide better and compete harder in the age of AI.
Future Readiness System, Available for Licensing
advantAIge
A 30-scenario assessment places each leader in one of four readiness bands (Exposed, Developing, Capable, Future-Ready) and surfaces perception gaps between self, manager and peer views. Four specialist AI coaches (Alex, Danni, Marcus, Miles) deliver structured coaching grounded in each leader’s results and development plan. A 12-month roadmap with weekly momentum scoring. An EOS-inspired execution layer with quarterly commitments, weekly scorecards and AI intelligence briefings. White-label available.
Four AI coaches, each with a distinct leadership specialisation, draw on your assessment results, development plan and organisational context before the conversation begins. Intelligence briefings connect engagement patterns to business performance. Every layer of the system informs the layers above and below it.
- Readiness Assessment
- Four AI Coaches
- 12-Month Roadmap
- Execution System
- Intelligence Briefings
- White-Label Ready
AI Strategy Platform
myAIstrategy
Paste a URL and six AI advisors, each modelled on a C-suite archetype, analyse your organisation's AI disruption exposure in minutes. A scored assessment across eight dimensions with named peer research, threat and opportunity mapping and a maturity radar. Go deeper with a structured workshop, then receive five board-ready deliverables including a 20-slide executive presentation. Entity-aware for businesses, government, universities and NFPs.
Six specialist AI advisors scan your organisation in parallel, score exposure across eight dimensions with named peers identified through live web research, then conduct a structured strategy workshop. Each advisor brings a different lens.
- AI Disruption Score
- Six AI Advisors
- Named Peer Research
- Strategy Workshop
- Five Deliverables
- Free Tools
Energy Market Intelligence
gridIQ
Replaces $20,000-a-seat desktop software and five-figure consultant Scope 2 reports with one subscription covering all six NEM and WEM regions. Watt, an AI analyst with 72 specialist tools, answers plain-English questions from live and historical AEMO data and writes fresh market briefings every morning. ASRS-aligned Scope 2 with native NEM12 meter file ingestion. PPA backtesting across four contract structures, load shift optimisation, smart alerts, professional analytics and a REST API.
Watt has 72 specialist tools covering live prices, generation, carbon, FCAS, interconnectors, weather, load windows, PPA evaluation and more. Daily market briefings at 06:30 AEST and a free weekly newsletter (Watt's Week) every Monday.
- Live NEM + WEM Prices
- Watt AI (72 Tools)
- ASRS Scope 2
- PPA Backtesting
- REST API
- Smart Alerts
Civic Initiative, Social AI
AustraliaMetrics
How is Australia actually performing? 50 metrics across eight categories (economy, housing, health, society, government finances, business, demographics and innovation), scored, traffic-lighted and charted back to 2000. A free, non-partisan dashboard co-stewarded with an Australian not-for-profit partner as part of our Social AI commitment. Updated weekly from ABS, RBA, AIHW and other authoritative sources. No accounts, no paywalls, no spin.
Bob, the platform’s AI data concierge, answers questions about Australia’s performance using specialist database tools. Every number traceable to a specific government source. No hallucinated statistics.
- 50 National Metrics
- Traffic Light Scores
- State Comparisons
- Bob AI Concierge
- Staples Basket
- CSV Export
// Advisory
Advisory
Advisory Services
Board-level and executive advisory for organisations navigating AI strategy, digital transformation, leadership capability and technology-enabled growth. Selective, relationship-based engagements with CEOs, boards and investors who want judgement, not just frameworks.
- Board Advisory
- AI Strategy
- Executive Mentoring
- PE Portfolio Support
// Inside advantAIge
Not a learning platform with AI bolted on. An operating system where AI is the architecture.
advantAIge measures where each leader sits across four readiness bands (Exposed, Developing, Capable, Future-Ready), surfaces perception gaps between self-assessment and manager observation and tracks momentum week over week. Assessment, AI coaching, development planning, strategic tools and business execution connect into one platform where every layer informs the layers above and below it.
A Commercial Platform, Available for Licensing
advantAIge is available as a white-label platform for universities, corporates, government agencies and training providers. Load it with your content, your coaching personas and your programmes. We operate the infrastructure. You own the brand and the relationship with your learners.
Licence advantAIgeThe Connected Spine
Company Compass
Vision, values and strategic direction
Quarterly Commitments
90-day priorities with owners
Weekly Scorecard
Key metrics with trending
Issues & To-Dos
Structured resolution and accountability
Weekly Plan & Journal
Personal focus with AI-guided reflection
Development Plan
12-month roadmap from assessment
Intelligence Briefing
AI-generated operational insight
Assess
30 real-world scenarios across 10 capabilities and 6 themes, scored against seniority level. Manager observation and 360° peer feedback overlay on the same radar chart, surfacing perception gaps. Leaders retake every 90 days to track growth. A context interview captures role and environment so AI coaching is personalised from day one. Not self-reported confidence. Demonstrated judgement.
Plan
AI-recommended priorities from assessment scores. A guided planning wizard that generates a personalised 12-month development roadmap with monthly learning, application and reflection milestones. Plan drift detection alerts you when weekly activity diverges from priorities. Not a to-do list. A development architecture.
Coach
Four specialist AI coaches: Alex (executive leadership), Miles (enterprise sales), Danni (strategy and transformation) and Marcus (digital and AI). Each personalised to your assessment results, development plan and organisational context. 42 interactive AI tools spanning strategy, risk, stakeholder management, negotiation, execution and personal effectiveness. Upload documents for structured AI review. An AI-guided interactive journal deepens weekly reflection.
Execute
Company Compass anchors the strategic direction. Quarterly commitments with ownership and status tracking. Weekly scorecards with trending analysis. Issues list with structured IDS resolution. Rolling to-dos with roll-forward accountability. Ownership Map clarifies who owns what. Weekly Pulse meetings with timed segments keep teams disciplined. Leaders run their business through it, not alongside it.
Three Lenses at Every Level
Execution: are we delivering? Development: are our people growing? Alignment: is development driving execution? Capability gaps mapped against off-track metrics. AI-generated alignment insights that connect people performance to business performance.
Intelligence Briefings
AI-generated briefings at company and team level. Readiness profiles, engagement patterns, strategic alignment, scorecard trends, commitment progress and recommended actions. Managers get a coaching prep brief before every conversation. Aggregated, anonymised and actionable.
Content, Challenges & Community
Masterclasses, courses, video briefs, toolkits and resources, all mapped to assessed capabilities with personalised recommendations. Team challenges build capability through action with peer visibility. Micro-credentials recognise progress automatically. A private community, live events and included human coaching sessions on higher tiers.
White-Label & Enterprise Ready
Custom brand, domain, content, coaching personas and company knowledge base for AI coaching. Enterprise roll-out with admin dashboards, team cascading, feature flags and coach assignments. Channel partners license the platform under their brand. Production-ready today. Not a roadmap.
Running on advantAIge
Our own practice runs entirely on advantAIge. Every feature on this page is deployed in production: real content, real coaches, real assessments. When you license advantAIge, you’re not buying a roadmap. You’re licensing the same platform we use ourselves.
Enterprise & Mid-Market
Roll out across leadership teams with admin dashboards, team cascading, intelligence briefings, AI coach personas informed by your company’s context and coach assignments.
Channel Partners
License under your brand with your content, coaching personas and client management. Custom knowledge base for AI coaching. We handle infrastructure.
Coaches & Consultants
Offer clients a structured system with AI coaching, assessment, planning and a coach dashboard with full visibility into coachee progress.
Individuals
Self-directed development with four AI coaches, scenario-based assessment, weekly planning, an interactive journal and the full content library.
// Inside myAIstrategy
Every leader knows AI is coming. Almost none know how exposed they are.
myAIstrategy scans any organisation and delivers a multi-perspective AI disruption assessment in minutes. Not weeks. Six AI advisors, each modelled on a C-suite archetype, analyse your exposure across eight dimensions, identify peers by name through live web research, score your readiness and generate five board-ready deliverables including a 20-slide executive presentation. Then they stay to answer your questions.
AI Disruption Score
A 0–100 score across eight weighted dimensions: workforce replaceability, competitive displacement, digital exposure, market velocity, proprietary data advantage, switching costs, regulatory moat and brand strength. Calibrated rubrics with hard boundaries mean the score is reproducible, not an LLM picking a number.
Six AI Advisors
Six advisors modelled on C-suite archetypes (strategy, technology, revenue, leadership, people and finance), each bringing a different lens to your AI challenge. They know your industry, your scan data and your maturity profile. Ask anything. A quality review checks every deliverable across ten failure modes before release.
Named Peer Research
Threats and opportunities reference your actual competitive landscape. Peer organisations identified by name through live web research, with AI adoption signals extracted from current news, job postings and web content. Severity ratings, timeframes and categories. Not generic industry trends. Specific to your organisation.
AI Maturity Radar
Key dimensions of AI readiness, data, technology, talent, governance, culture and strategy, scored against industry benchmarks. See exactly where you lead, where you lag and where to invest first. Refine with a structured AI interview and document uploads.
Five Board-Ready Deliverables
AI Disruption Snapshot, AI Disruption Analysis, AI Strategy Canvas, AI Transformation Roadmap and a 20-slide AI Executive Presentation. Four documents and a slide deck, each serving a different audience and purpose. Generated from your scan data and workshop conversation. Not templates.
Strategic Initiative Prioritisation
AI-generated initiatives mapped on a value-vs-feasibility matrix. Each with a clear owner, horizon, dependencies and rationale. Know what to do first, what to sequence and what to park, with the strategic logic behind each call.
Free Standalone Tools
Free tools that don't require a scan. Hire vs Agent analyses any role for AI automation potential. AI Readiness Scorecard benchmarks your organisation across key dimensions. AI Cost Savings Calculator maps your tech spend against AI alternatives.
Entity-Aware Analysis
Purpose-built for businesses, government departments, universities and NFPs. Language, frameworks, benchmarks and recommendations adapt to your entity type, because a government department's AI exposure looks nothing like a retailer's.
CEOs & Managing Directors
Understand your organisation's AI exposure in minutes. Get a board-ready brief and a prioritised action plan without hiring a consulting firm.
Board Members & Investors
Independent AI disruption assessment for portfolio companies, investees or board-level strategic planning. Downloadable reports for governance packs.
Strategy & Transformation Leads
Maturity radar, initiative prioritisation and a 100-day action plan. Chat with specialist advisors to pressure-test your approach.
Government & Universities
Entity-aware analysis with adapted language, benchmarks and frameworks. Understand AI exposure across service delivery, workforce and operations.
When You Need More Than Analysis
myAIstrategy delivers an AI disruption assessment, a maturity radar and a 100-day action plan in minutes. For leaders who need the next step: judgement, not just analysis. High Impact Group Advisory works with CEOs, boards and PE firms on the decisions that matter.
Explore Advisory// Inside gridIQ
Australia’s electricity grid is one of the most data-rich systems in the country. Nobody built the commercial intelligence layer.
Until now, businesses had two options: basic visualisation tools with no commercial layer, or $20,000-a-seat desktop software built for wholesale analysts. gridIQ covers every NEM and WEM region, turning raw AEMO data into decisions for energy managers, sustainability teams and trading desks. An AI analyst, audit-defensible Scope 2 reporting and PPA evaluation displacing five-figure consultant engagements.
Full Market Coverage
Every NEM and WEM region with live dispatch prices, generation mix by fuel type, market health scores and AI-generated regional outlooks refreshed every morning. Weather-driven demand signals and renewable curtailment estimates across all regions.
Scored Market Dimensions
Key market dimensions: price stability, renewable penetration, grid stress, carbon intensity and a composite score. Each updated in real time with green/amber/red banding. One number tells you whether the market is calm or stressed.
Load Shift Advisor
Weather-aware recommendations for the cheapest, cleanest windows to run flexible loads. Combines pre-dispatch price forecasts with weather data across all regions. The first Australian tool to translate market forecasts into operational decisions for commercial buyers.
Scope 2 Emissions Tracker
GHG Protocol-aligned emissions tracking with dual-method reporting: location-based and time-matched market-based, side by side. Native NEM12 meter file ingestion, DCCEEW emission factor version stamping and an immutable audit trail. A four-step ASRS disclosure wizard generates audit-ready reports. Replaces $5,000–$15,000 consultant engagements.
NEM Event Database
Automated detection of price spikes, negative price events, high renewable penetration periods and network constraints. Every event gets an AI-generated causal analysis explaining what happened and why. Searchable history with filtering and export.
Smart Alerts
Threshold-based alerts for price spikes, carbon intensity, pre-dispatch warnings and cumulative price thresholds. Delivered via email, webhook or native Slack Block Kit formatting. React to market movements in minutes, not on next month’s bill.
Professional Analytics
Interconnector flows and binding constraints, frequency control services pricing, generator-level bid monitoring with real-time rebid detection and curtailment risk analysis with weather-adjusted forecasting. Constraint probability modelling based on historical binding frequency.
Watt, AI Energy Analyst
An AI analyst with 72 specialist tools covering live prices, generation mix, carbon intensity, FCAS, load windows, interconnectors, weather, generator bids, gas prices, carbon credit prices, Scope 2 calculations, PPA evaluation and demand response modelling. 14 daily market briefings at 06:30 AEST and a free weekly newsletter (Watt’s Week) delivered every Monday with a public archive.
Enterprise Tools
PPA valuation and backtesting across four settlement profiles and four contract structures (fixed, CfD, cap-and-floor, hybrid composite) with IRSR spread analysis and DNSP network tariff cost stack. Multi-site portfolio management with consolidated Scope 2 reporting. Demand response revenue modelling. Peer benchmarking across facility categories.
API & Integrations
Programmatic REST API with bearer token authentication and key management. Watt AI API for integrating market analysis into custom workflows. Branded PDF exports for stakeholder presentations. JSON data export for portability.
Flexible Plans
Free access to real-time prices, market scores and daily Watt queries with a free Professional trial. Paid tiers unlock load shifting, Scope 2 tracking, alerts, professional analytics, API access and enterprise portfolio tools.
Energy Managers
Weather-aware load shift recommendations, smart alerts for price spikes and demand response revenue modelling. Shift flexible loads to cheaper, cleaner windows.
Sustainability Teams
Time-matched Scope 2 emissions with dual-method reporting, audit-ready PDF export and peer benchmarking. GHG Protocol aligned and ASRS ready.
Trading Desks
Interconnector flows, FCAS pricing, generator bid monitoring, real-time rebid detection, curtailment analysis and REST API access for programmatic integration.
Renewable Developers
Curtailment risk analysis, constraint probability forecasting, grid congestion monitoring and renewable penetration tracking across potential project locations.
// Inside AustraliaMetrics
Australia publishes the data. Nobody makes it usable.
AustraliaMetrics pulls from authoritative government and international sources, scores metrics across key national categories, tracks every state and territory and serves it all through a free, non-partisan dashboard that a minister, a journalist, a CEO or a year-12 student can actually use. No accounts, no tracking cookies, no advertising. Just data.
50 Metrics, 8 Categories
Economy, housing, health, society, government finances, business, demographics and innovation. Each with scored metrics, sparklines and full time-series charted back to 2000. A “Getting Better” and “Getting Worse” homepage that surfaces what is improving and what is deteriorating across the whole country. Historical charts overlaid with political context: Labor and Coalition terms shown for reference, not blame.
Traffic Light Scores
Every metric gets a green, amber or red rating based on its 10-year baseline and recent trend. Economy, housing, social outcomes, government finances, business, demographics and innovation, each with sparklines, full time-series and drill-down detail. No jargon, no interpretation required.
State & Territory Comparisons
All eight states and territories compared across key metrics with leaderboard rankings. See which jurisdictions are leading, which are lagging and on what. State-level drill-downs with the same traffic-light scoring and charting as the national view.
Observed Staples Basket
Monthly shelf prices of everyday grocery items from Coles and Woolworths. Basket price trends, year-on-year change and item-level comparison. Real prices observed on shelves. Not modelled, not seasonally adjusted. A ground-level complement to official CPI figures.
Bob, AI Data Concierge
Ask Bob anything about the data in plain English. “How is unemployment trending?” “What’s happening with housing costs?” Bob pulls the numbers and explains what they mean, in plain language, in seconds. Hard guardrails: no financial advice, no political commentary, no forecasting. Dry Australian wit included.
Authoritative & Transparent
Data from the ABS, RBA, AIHW, ASIC, World Bank, OECD and more. Automated weekly pipeline with carry-forward handling for quarterly and annual data. A dedicated Data Status page shows exactly when each metric was last refreshed. Full methodology documentation and configurable scoring weights.
Derived Metrics & Breakdowns
Calculated indicators you can’t get from a single source: mortgage repayment burden, rental burden, net business formation. Where available, metrics break down by gender, country of origin, crime type and other dimensions. The granularity that reveals what aggregate numbers hide.
CSV Export & Accessibility
Download any metric as CSV for your own analysis, monthly or native-frequency observations. Font size controls and a high-contrast mode for accessibility. Built for everyone who needs the data, however they need it.
Social AI: A Civic Commitment
AustraliaMetrics is stewarded as a civic asset. High Impact Group co-stewards the platform with an Australian not-for-profit partner to ensure it remains free, non-partisan and in the public interest, regardless of commercial or political pressure. It is the first initiative under our Social AI commitment: applying the same architecture we build for commercial clients to initiatives that serve the public good.
// Advisory
High Impact Group Advisory
Board-level and executive advisory for organisations navigating AI strategy, digital transformation, leadership capability and technology-enabled growth. Selective, relationship-based engagements with CEOs, boards, private equity firms and investors who want judgement, not just frameworks.
This is not a framework from someone who read about transformation. Chris McLaren spent fifteen years as a Partner at KPMG in Australia and the US, where he led the transformation of business units measured in billions. As Chief Customer and Digital Officer for the Queensland Government he ran a $675 million, 1,850-person group, lifted the state’s digital readiness from ninth to fourth and his team built Australia’s first public sector AI platform. He has been an interim CEO, chaired the North American Advisory Board of UTS and teaches this at Duke Corporate Education.
Advisory engagements are selective, confidential and relationship led. You work directly with that judgement on the decisions that matter, not a deck prepared by a team you will never meet.
What we advise on
- AI strategy and transformation for boards and executives
- Digital transformation programmes with technology-enabled growth
- Leadership capability at the executive and board level
- Private equity portfolio support and value creation
- Executive mentoring for CEOs and senior leaders
// Founder
Chris McLaren, Founder
High Impact Group was founded by someone who has been on both sides of the decision. Most people advising boards on AI have never built it. Most people building it have never run the organisation that has to live with the result. Chris McLaren has done both, for twenty five years.
He was a Partner at KPMG across Australia and the United States. As Chief Customer and Digital Officer for the Queensland Government he ran a $675 million, 1,850-person group accountable for digital, customer, cyber and critical infrastructure for the state. Under that tenure Queensland’s digital readiness moved from ninth to fourth, a $200 million Digital Economy Strategy was launched and his team built Australia’s first public sector AI platform.
He has been interim CEO of a US technology company, chaired the North American Advisory Board of UTS and teaches executives at Duke Corporate Education. He studied digital transformation at MIT and holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours.
That record is the standard the firm runs to. High Impact Group builds its own AI rather than reselling someone else’s behind a brand. The intelligence is engineered first and the platform built around it. The conviction behind every venture is the one that career produced: AI restructures organisations, and the bottleneck is leadership judgement, not technology.
We do not talk about the future. We build for it.
// Advisory Meets Capability
Advisory handles the strategic decisions. advantAIge builds the organisational capability to execute them.
Board-level strategy without capability is theatre. Capability without strategic direction is drift. We do both and they’re explicitly designed to work together. The firm builds and licenses platforms at scale. The advisory practice is deliberately selective, a relationship-only tier that sits on top of them. That separation is intentional.
Executive education programmes delivered through advantAIge, available for institutions who want to run their own programmes on it.
The gap between those who adapt and those who don’t is already commercial.
If you’re a board, investor, CEO or professional who wants to move, not just talk about moving, let’s go.