Joel Brilliant · Brisbane, Australia
AI Solutions Engineer.
I help customers work out where AI fits, build tools around their workflows and help their teams use them. My work spans enterprise implementation, agent workflows and technical training.
What I've built
Built by getting stuck in.
I use agents to build tools around customer problems and my own work, from implementation dashboards to systems for managing context across harnesses.
What's real, what's illustrative
I don't write the code my agents ship. My bit is the idea, the product judgement, directing the work and checking the result. The products below are live or labelled with their actual status. Screenshots and worked examples marked synthetic keep private inbox, client and workplace data private. Time-saved numbers are estimates, not promises.
A plain-language guide to getting AI into the work you already do, with the safety, cost and checking steps left in.
Read it
An interview prep coach. Paste a real job ad and it tailors your CV, then runs you through practice answers with honest, scored feedback.
preppy.itsbrill.ai
A training platform that teaches recruiters and hiring managers to read interview answers for evidence, not gut feel.
Built for Sapia.ai
A dashboard for managing customer implementations, with project context and day-to-day work handled in plain language.
Private tool · concept shownTools and workflows built around the day-to-day work of an electrical contracting business.
Client work
A sports intelligence engine that reads games before kickoff and grades its own calls.
brill.bet
An agent work environment for running sessions across harnesses and keeping the work history in one place.
agents.itsbrill.aiA memory layer that lets my agents carry useful context between the tools I use.
Private infrastructureYou'll find more of it open source on GitHub.
Free guides
Start with the tool you've got.
If work has handed you Copilot, start with Make Copilot Yours. If you're choosing your own setup, start with How I actually use AI. Both are practical and honest about the bits that still need a human.
For people whose workplace pointed them at Copilot with almost no education. Work out what your account can do, build a portable working profile and turn one useful job into a repeatable one.
Read the Copilot guideA broader guide to prompting, context, safety, connectors, skills and the operating loop. Start here if you're building your own setup.
Read the broader guideHonest cost note
The guides are free. Some connected features sit behind a paid plan, a Microsoft 365 licence or an IT setting. I call those out when they matter instead of pretending every button exists for everyone.
Work with me
Want it set up around your work?
Bring the messy job. We'll pull it apart, work out where AI helps, and set it up around your inbox, calendar, documents or Copilot. You leave with a working setup and the notes to keep it running.
AI setup, one-on-one
We get on a call and build the first useful workflow together, with the safety and checking steps included.
About
A bit more about me.
I'm Joel, based in Brisbane. I've been a solutions engineer for the last 3+ years, leading customer implementations and building custom tools.
I've also co-founded and sold a coffee business, worked in partnerships and integrations, and built tools to manage my own work with AI. I learn by building, testing and figuring out what needs to change.
I'm a power user of AI agents and harnesses, and do a lot of vibe coding.
I'm also an inference nerd, which comes from my gaming roots and building PCs from scratch since I was 10. I like understanding how models run and what the hardware is doing.
Outside of that, I'm an EDM fan, a CrossFit regular, a family bloke and a dog person.