AI adoption for media businesses: agencies, publishers and platforms

Your people are already using AI. Nobody has agreed how.

Cadencia helps Australian media businesses, agencies, publishers and platforms, turn scattered AI use into safe working rules, one shared setup and one proven workflow. Four to six weeks, fixed fee, yours to keep and run.

Fixed fee, fixed scope

You know the price and the finish line before we start.

Yours to keep and run

The rules, the setup and the proven workflow belong to you.

We advise, never operate

We set things up and step back. You are never dependent on us.

The problem

Training does not fail. Adoption does.

Most media businesses have already had the AI session. Six months later, not much has actually changed about how the work gets done.

The training faded

People were shown what AI can do, not how it applies to their own job. Two weeks later everyone was back to working the way they always had.

Everyone is improvising privately

Client briefs, plans and numbers are going into whatever tool each person found first. Nobody has written down what is allowed, so nobody is sure.

No one picked a first workflow

There are twenty things AI could help with, so nothing gets improved properly. A busy team needs one, chosen on evidence and proven.

The first step

The AI Foundations Sprint

Four to six weeks. One price agreed before we begin, paid in stages. One workflow proven on your own work, and everything we build is yours.

01

Safe working rules

A one page position your leadership actually signs. What is allowed, what is not, and what happens with client information.

02

One shared setup

One approved workspace for the whole team, set up by role, so people stop working around six different tools in private.

03

Team launch session

Half a day, live, on the team's own real work. Not a demo of what the technology can do in theory.

04

Shortlist and pick one

We map where the time actually goes, rank the candidates, and pick the one worth proving first.

05

Build it and prove it

The workflow gets written down, tested and measured, so you know whether it worked rather than whether it felt good.

06

A thirty day plan

Owners, rhythm and measures for after we leave, so the change holds once the attention moves on.

The handover pack

What you keep

Six written pieces and one proven workflow. All of it yours to run without us.

AI Rules CardV1.0ALLOWEDNOT ALLOWEDCLIENT DATASIGNED, LEADERSHIP
AI Rules CardOne page. What your team can and cannot do with client information.
Workflow ScorecardCANDIDATE / VALUE / EFFORTCHOSEN, WITH A MEASURE ATTACHED
Workflow ScorecardEvery candidate ranked. One chosen, with a measure attached.
30-Day PlanACTION / OWNER / MEASUREWEEK 1WEEK 2WEEK 3WEEK 4
30-Day PlanActions, owners and measures for the month after we leave.

Illustrative previews of the templates. The structure is real, the content is deliberately blurred. Your versions are filled in with your own decisions and your own work.

No login to us. No licence to us. No thread that runs back to us.

In practice

What the four to six weeks actually look like

So you can judge whether your business has the room for it before you commit to anything.

WK 1

Leadership decides the rules

We meet your leadership team and draft the position and the rules card. You will be asked to make the decisions about client data that most businesses have been quietly putting off.

WK 2

The shared setup goes in

One approved workspace, configured by role. Your team stops improvising with whatever they personally signed up for.

WK 2-3

The team session

Half a day on live jobs, not examples. This is where people either buy in or do not, which is exactly why we do it on real work.

WK 3-4

One workflow is chosen

We shortlist, rank and pick. It is usually something unglamorous that happens every week rather than the exciting thing someone saw at a conference.

WK 4-6

Built, measured, handed over

We build it, run it on real work, measure it and write it down so somebody else can run it. Then the thirty day plan, and we step back.

Named client results will be published here as clients approve them. Until then, ask on a fit call and we will talk you through the work in detail.

How this usually starts

Four ways in, in order of commitment

Each one stands on its own. None of them commits you to the next.

FREE AI Readiness Check Where you actually stand with AI today 90 MINUTES Executive AI Decision Session What needs to be decided first 2 TO 3 WEEKS AI Workflow Proof Can one real job work differently 4 TO 6 WEEKS AI Foundations Sprint Rules, setup, training and one proven workflow
Free, ten minutes

AI Readiness Check

Thirty six questions, answered by each member of your leadership team. Where your leaders disagree is itself a finding. You keep the scorecard whether or not we ever speak.

Take the Readiness Check
Ninety minutes, online

Executive AI Decision Session

What needs to be decided first? Your leaders' own Readiness Check results on screen, where the team agrees and where it does not. You leave with a written priority, the boundaries, a named owner and the next move.

See the Decision Session
Two to three weeks, one team

AI Workflow Proof

Can one real job work differently? We find the workflow worth proving, build it on your own tools with clear human review, test it on live work and measure the before and after. One workflow in weekly use, and the evidence to go with it.

See the Workflow Proof
Four to six weeks

AI Foundations Sprint

The first real result. Safe working rules, one shared setup, a trained team and one workflow proven and measured on your own work. Fixed fee, agreed before we begin.

See the AI Foundations Sprint

After the Sprint: next workflows, purpose-built agents and advisory, scoped one at a time, fixed before they start, and each one earned by evidence. See what comes after the Sprint.

About

Advice in your best interest, including "not yet"

Jennie Wagner, founder of Cadencia

Jennie Wagner spent more than fifteen years working platform side with Australian agencies and businesses, in senior digital advertising sales at LinkedIn ANZ and Yahoo. Cadencia brings that commercial and adoption perspective into the practical work of helping media businesses make AI stick.

The best thinking in a media business usually sits in a few people's heads, and it walks out the door when they do. The first step we build turns that into something the whole team can use, and keeps it yours.

The promise is simple. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, that is the answer you will get.

Questions we get asked

Before you book a call

Tap any question for the answer

Who is this actually for?

Australian media businesses: independent agencies, publishers, platforms and the providers that serve them, led by a founder, MD or general manager who can make a decision without a committee. The work is repeatable, deadline driven and full of client information that needs care, which is exactly where the Sprint earns its keep.

If your business sits outside media, ask. If it is not a fit, we will tell you.

Which AI tools do you set up?

Whichever ones fit your business, your existing licences and your client obligations. We are not a reseller and no vendor pays us. Most teams end up using something they already pay for and had not set up properly.

What about client data?

It is the first thing we deal with, not the last. The position statement and the rules card exist so your team knows what can go into a tool and what cannot, before anybody is trained on anything.

If your client contracts have AI clauses, bring them. They shape the rules.

How much of our time does it take?

Roughly half a day a week from a small internal group, plus one half day session with the wider team. If your business cannot give it that in the next couple of months, we will say so rather than start something that will stall.

What does it cost?

A fixed fee, agreed before we start and paid in stages. No hourly billing, no open-ended engagements, no surprise line items.

The scope decides the number, so we quote after a short conversation rather than putting a price on this page.

Do we end up dependent on you?

No. We advise and set up, we never operate. Everything is written down and handed over. If a consultant is still in your critical path a year from now, something has gone wrong.

What if we are not ready?

Then we will tell you, and point you at the smaller first move that makes sense. The free AI Readiness Check is a reasonable place to start, and it costs you ten minutes.

Is this just AI training?

No. Training is one half day inside a longer piece of work. The parts that make it stick are the rules your leadership signs, the shared setup, the one workflow proven on real jobs, and the plan for the month after we leave.

Businesses that have only bought training are usually the ones calling us.

Free, before any commitment

Not ready to talk yet?

Ten minutes, thirty six questions. You get a scorecard and a recommended first step, whether or not you ever work with us.

Get your free AI Readiness Check
Next step

Ready for a first step you can actually finish?

Book a twenty minute AI adoption fit call. Tell us where AI is at in your business today and we will give you an honest read on your first step, including whether that first step is us.

Book a 20 minute fit call jennie@cadencia.com.au