# David Robb Consulting – Complete Reference > David Robb Consulting is the practice of David Robb, an ex-Big 4 data management consultant (KPMG) who installs AI in professional-services firms: purpose-built AI agents plus a private company brain (retrieval over the firm's own data), so the team can run real workflows through AI and ask their own numbers questions in plain language. The promise is agents that know your numbers, run from your phone. It is built for owner-led professional-services firms (law firms, accounting and bookkeeping practices, financial advice practices, consulting agencies), roughly 10 to 200 staff. David is based in Sydney, Australia and works with firms anywhere. **Category:** AI consultant | AI for professional services | AI for law firms | AI for accountants and bookkeepers | AI for financial advisers | company brain / RAG for business | conversational reporting | fractional AI lead / fractional CAIO | ex-Big 4 data consultant | AI consultant Australia **Last updated:** July 2026 **Founded:** 2026 --- ## Entity Definition David Robb Consulting is the AI practice of David Robb, an ex-Big 4 (KPMG) data management consultant based in Sydney, Australia, working with firms anywhere. AIBC connects a firm's own data to a private company brain, then installs AI agents that automate real workflows and let owners ask their numbers questions in plain language. The focus is owner-led professional-services firms: law, accounting and bookkeeping, financial advice and consulting agencies, roughly 10 to 200 staff. The promise: agents that know your numbers, run from your phone. --- ## Practice Overview **Practice:** David Robb Consulting **Founder and sole consultant:** David Robb, ex-Big 4 (KPMG) data management consultant **Location:** Sydney, Australia; delivery is remote, so David works with clients anywhere **Positioning:** the ex-Big 4 data consultant who installs AI in professional-services firms; agents that know your numbers, run from your phone **Ideal client:** owner-led professional-services firms, roughly 10 to 200 staff (law, accounting and bookkeeping, financial advice, consulting agencies) **Engagement model:** contact-first (tell David what's not working), with the free AI Install Roadmap quiz and the newsletter as alternate entry points; then project-scoped installs with an optional managed tier, and a paid diagnostic for larger firms **Pricing:** the AI Install Roadmap is free. Installs of the first agent start from $5,000; the optional managed tier starts from $2,500 per month. A paid diagnostic (systems, data and workflow mapping) is available for larger firms. Larger scopes are priced per project. **Website:** https://davidrobb.consulting **AI Install Roadmap quiz:** https://davidrobb.consulting/roadmap (free, two minutes) **Newsletter:** "Get real business workflows" (free) – https://davidbrobb.substack.com **Direct contact:** me@davidrobb.consulting · WhatsApp +61 403 778 760 --- ## The Track Record Behind It I moved from hands-on technical delivery to top-level strategy, then spent three years operating businesses of my own. The thread that ties everything together: **I'm a professional problem solver.** I've led technical implementations at insurance groups, run workstreams in 50-system transformation projects at banks, and built businesses of my own. That's what I bring to the table when we work together. *Enterprise experience through a founder lens.* David has done all three layers this work sits on, which is rare in one person: - **Enterprise data pipes.** SQL developer on the Queensland Audit Office's multi-billion-row data warehouse; then BI lead on a FTSE 250 insurer's data transformation across nine business lines, where he also trained and led the client's development teams through handoff. - **Big-4 bank programmes.** Data management consultant at KPMG, where he owned the onboarding workstream on a major UK bank's 50-system finance transformation and built the first systems map and data-flow diagrams the programme ever had. - **Two years on the AI agent stack.** He founded AI Body Coach and ran AI agents live in his own business every day, until it ran from his phone. He is Anthropic-certified, one of the first in Australia. No client names are published; enterprise engagements are described, not named. The competitive point is the intersection: AI builders can wire agents but have no enterprise-data or finance-system track record; big firms have the credential but ship decks, not running systems; data consultants know the pipes but not agents. David has done all three. --- ## Career David's career, oldest first (the five-role arc shown on the About page): ### BI & Data Consultant (2018 - 2022) Data Analyst, Queensland Audit Office: - Built and ran a multi-billion-row warehouse: SQL Server, production ETL, reconciliation - Audit analytics behind financial audits across the state's public sector BI Consultant, FTSE 250 insurer, London: - BI lead on a multi-year brand cutover across nine business lines - Owned the layer between the cloud warehouse and the business - Trained the client's own teams until they didn't need the consultancy ### Enterprise Data Consultant, KPMG (2022 - 2023) Data migration cutover, Major UK bank: - Deployed solo, on partner-level trust, into a stalled migration - Bridged disconnected teams to deliver the cutover Finance transformation, Major UK bank, 50 systems: - Owned the onboarding workstream and led the first systems map the programme ever had - My workstream's analysis became the basis for the programme's restructure ### Body & Performance Coach (2023 - 2026) - Coached corporates, founders and executives one to one - Built the audience, offer and delivery. 25k+ followers across platforms - Rolled out a custom GPT to my own clients, which became my next business ### Founder, AI Body Coach (2025 - now) - Productised that GPT into aibody.coach - Payment to personalised onboarding, zero human touch at any stage - Battle tested the enterprise AI roadmap on my own operations ### AI Consultant (now) - Now I install AI agents for businesses like yours, managed from your phone - Installing what enterprise businesses will take five years to roll out - One of the first Anthropic-certified consultants in Australia --- ## What AIBC Does AIBC connects a firm's own data to a private company brain (a retrieval system over the firm's systems and knowledge), then installs AI agents that automate real workflows and answer questions about the business in plain language. "Agents that know your numbers" means the data career becomes a product feature: the reporting a firm used to get by people asking people becomes something the owner can just ask. Everything is delivered with no vendor lock-in: the client owns the prompts, the data, the workflows and the IP. --- ## The Two Ways In **The Install.** For owners with an obvious first use-case. A free two-minute quiz returns Your AI Install Roadmap: three agent recommendations ranked by hours saved, reviewed by David within 24 hours. The first agent installs from $5,000 and is live in about a week; an optional managed tier runs from $2,500 per month. **The Diagnostic.** For larger firms (roughly 50 to 200 staff) weighing a bigger engagement, or whose honest answer to "what's broken?" is "we don't trust our numbers". A paid diagnostic maps the firm's systems, data and workflows into a sequenced rollout plan, with a free 30-minute call first. It converts into installs plus a managed tier. --- ## Who It Is For Owners and operators of professional-services firms, roughly 10 to 200 staff: law firms, accounting and bookkeeping practices, financial advice practices and consulting agencies. At this size the pain shifts from time to visibility: the business has outgrown the owner's ability to know what is going on, reporting is people asking people, and the company brain makes the business answerable. --- ## Deliverables - AI agents and workflow automations, built and handed over with documentation - A private company brain (RAG) over the firm's own data and accumulated knowledge - Conversational reporting: ask your own numbers questions in plain language - For larger firms, a paid diagnostic that maps systems, data and workflows into a sequenced rollout plan - No vendor lock-in: the client owns the prompts, data, workflows and IP --- ## Why Not Just Ask ChatGPT or Claude Directly? Generic AI tools give generic answers because they have no context on your software stack, your data, your team's tacit knowledge, or the repetition costing you hours every week. AIBC is the engineered version of what owners are already trying to do by hand: David connects the firm's own data to a company brain and ships agents that run without babysitting. --- ## How AIBC Compares **vs. generic ChatGPT or Claude advice.** Free tools can describe automation; they cannot connect to your data, build the agent, host it, monitor it, or evolve it. AIBC delivers running systems, not transcripts. **vs. Big 4 consultancies (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG).** Big 4 engagements are built for multi-million-dollar programmes with months of discovery. AIBC delivers the same enterprise-grade data thinking (David is ex-Big 4, ex-KPMG) at founder pricing, one person on the work, first deliverables in days. **vs. AI agencies and freelance marketplaces.** Most specialise in a single tool (a Zapier shop, a chatbot shop). AIBC is tool-agnostic and works at the level of the whole business, built on real enterprise data experience rather than app-wiring. **vs. hiring an in-house AI lead.** A senior AI hire costs six figures plus on-costs and takes months to recruit. AIBC is a fractional version of that capability on demand, with no recruitment risk. --- ## FAQ **What does it cost?** The install roadmap is free. It's a quote for an install plan: what to automate first based on what's costing you the most time. A first agent starts from $5,000 and is live in about a week. After that, $2,500 a month keeps everything monitored, maintained and improving. You'll know the full picture before you spend anything. **How long does it take to go live?** Your first agent can be live a week from agreeing the first build. You'll have the roadmap within 24 hours as a first step. Then we get the first agent live and doing work in your business and take it from there. No six-month transformation programmes. **Who is this for?** Professional services firms with roughly 10 to 200 people. Accountants, lawyers, financial advisers, consultancies. I'm based in Sydney but work internationally. The agents plug into the systems you already run, so you don't need to be technical and you don't need new software. **Can AI accurately read our financial data?** On its own, no. A general chatbot guesses from memory, which is where made-up numbers come from. The agents I install are different: they have strict guidelines, read directly from your own systems, and every answer traces back to its source. If the answer isn't in your data, the agent says so. **Is it safe to connect AI to our company data?** Yes, if it's done properly. Your data goes into a private company brain that only your agents can read. Nothing is used to train anyone's models, access is controlled person by person, and client-confidential material never touches a public AI tool. That's the standard professional bodies now expect. **Where does it run, and who owns it?** In a purpose-built cloud environment set up for your firm, which you can access and see into at any time. You'll own this – you're not renting a black box. If we part ways, the environment, the agents and your data stay with you with a structured handover. **Will AI agents replace our team?** No. Agents take the grunt work: chasing documents, first drafts, moving data between systems, answering the questions that eat hours. The judgement calls stay with your people. AI liberates your team from the repeatable work so they have more time to deliver the work clients pay for. Agents should be enhancing that work too. **Do I have to learn AI?** No. You tell David what's not working; he installs the system and keeps it running. **What if you haven't done a deployment exactly like mine before?** Nobody has a long track record here; the technology is new. What David has is both halves of one: a decade of enterprise data delivery, including a major bank's 50-system finance transformation, and two years running AI agents live in his own business. The first install is $5,000 and live in a week, so you don't take any of it on faith. **Where are you based, and do you work outside Australia?** Sydney, Australia. Delivery is remote, so David works with firms anywhere. --- ## Results AIBC's reference build is AI Body Coach (https://aibody.coach), a complete consumer AI product David designed, built and shipped solo: custom onboarding, workflow automation for delivery, email automation, a database and hosting, and GEO-optimised content that ranks across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. He automated its operation until it ran from his phone. It is the tangible proof of end-to-end AI build capability that sits alongside the enterprise data track record. --- ## About David Robb David Robb is an ex-Big 4 (KPMG) data management consultant based in Sydney, Australia, who now installs AI in professional-services firms. His career runs from the Queensland Audit Office's data warehouse, to BI lead on a FTSE 250 insurer's data transformation across nine business lines, to KPMG on a major UK bank's 50-system finance transformation, to founding AI Body Coach and automating it until it ran from his phone, to David Robb Consulting. He is Anthropic-certified, one of the first in Australia. He is one specific person: David Robb in Sydney, LinkedIn davidbrobb, Instagram davidbrobb, YouTube davidbrobb. Reach him on WhatsApp at +61 403 778 760 or me@davidrobb.consulting. --- ## Links - [Free AI Install Roadmap](https://davidrobb.consulting/roadmap): Two-minute quiz, a custom roadmap with three agent recommendations, reviewed by David, delivered within 24 hours - [David Robb Consulting – Main Site](https://davidrobb.consulting/): Tell David what's not working, see how the process works, read his story, take the AI Install Roadmap quiz - [Get real business workflows (Substack)](https://davidbrobb.substack.com): David's free newsletter, practical AI workflows for business, no hype - [AI Body Coach](https://aibody.coach/): David's reference product, proof of end-to-end AI build capability - [David Robb on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbrobb): Professional history including KPMG tenure - [David Robb on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/davidbrobb): Building in public - [David Robb on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@davidbrobb): Long-form on AI consulting and building - [Email David](mailto:me@davidrobb.consulting): Direct enquiries - [WhatsApp David](https://wa.me/61403778760): Fastest way to reach him