AI-Assisted Data Engineering

An enterprise data technology team responsible for building and maintaining production data pipelines faced growing demand without a matching increase in capacity.

The challenge

Pipeline build and debug absorbed most engineering capacity, with defects surfacing late in test rather than during build.

60%

Faster Build & Debug

Outcomes Delivered

Faster delivery, with build and debug effort cut by around 60% and defects caught during development rather than in test.

Zero

Extra Headcount

AI Scope Development Agent

A major Australian critical infrastructure organisation faced a recurring problem: translating a 200-page cyber security business case into a well-defined, auditable project scope for a Privileged Access Management (PAM) implementation.

The challenge

Located along strike from the historic Warrego Mine, which produced high-grade copper-gold mineralisation (~6.75Mt @ ~6.6 g/t Au and ~1.9% Cu).

100%

To Draft Scope

Outcomes Delivered

Governance-ready PAM project scope document delivered in under 4 hours, versus 3–5 days manually.

Zero

Extra Headcount

StepChange AI Roadmap: Last 12 Months

Over the last 12 months StepChange has built its AI capability in-house, deliberately and in the open. The roadmap runs across four phases: a human-first strategy and honest capability assessment first, method development, live client demonstrations, a certified training program and completed case studies.

Foundation & Preparation Months 1 – 3

AI strategy defined — human-first principles, with confidence, independence and impact as the tests.

100%

Methods Developed

Method Development Months 4–7

100+ methods developed across 40 business functions and documented in the internal library.

40

Business Functions