About Us — Real Minds AI | AI Consulting Melbourne

Two founders who’ve done the work.

Something new is arriving. Not a tool — a new kind of intelligence. Nothing like this has touched most of us since the horse gave way to the engine.

We don’t pretend to have it figured out. Real Minds AI exists to explore this shift in public — to take everything we know from decades of building systems, writing code, teaching rooms full of people, leading teams, crunching data, and transforming organisations, and discover what happens when that experience meets this new intelligence.

Dennis is the evangelist. He can’t stop showing people what’s possible — researchers, tradies, his retired friends. Tracy is the leveller. She sees what AI unlocks for people who’ve never had access to enterprise-grade capability before.

What drives us is the human in the loop. Curiosity over fear. Access to knowledge for everyone, not just the privileged few. And the belief that when you free people from the manual grind, they get to focus on what actually matters — their mission, their craft, their purpose.

We’re working this out in real time, with real clients, in real industries. That’s the point.

Tracy Anthony — Co-founder & CEO, Real Minds AI

Tracy Anthony — The Architect

Co-Founder & CEO — Solutions Architecture, Business Analysis & AI

Tracy started as an admin assistant and worked her way through every level of an organisation. Technical writer. Business analyst. Solutions architect. Agile lead. Product owner. Service delivery lead. CEO of Australia’s first community-owned wind farm. Now, AI founder.

In 35 years she’s presented in boardrooms, built and operated businesses, implemented industry-scale systems, established methodologies, delivered massive system implementations, and led teams of business analysts, project managers, and technologists. She’s deregulated energy markets at AGL, deployed enterprise HRIS for 5,500 employees at Origin, and delivered a 90-day AI transformation with 90% ROI at go-live.

She could always see the solution — the data flows, the compliance gaps, the integration points everyone else missed. The spaces between systems, where organisations actually break down. What she couldn’t do was build fast enough. AI closed that gap.

• 35 years across 8+ organisations and 7 industries • Admin assistant → CEO → AI founder • $20M capital project delivered (AGL) • 3 enterprise HRIS/payroll implementations • 5,500 employees, 40,000+ records, <2% payroll error • CEO, Australia’s first community-owned wind farm • AgilePM Practitioner | PSM I | Cert IV PM • Responsible AI certified (IAT + BABL AI)

“For a business this size, this is exactly how a transformation should be done. A textbook example of getting it right.”

Peter Lochert, Strategic Advisor

Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn →

Dr Dennis Wollersheim — Co-founder & CTO, Real Minds AI

Dr Dennis Wollersheim — The Catalyst

Co-Founder & CTO — Data, Analytics & Intelligence

Dennis is a data scientist, researcher, and relentless experimenter who thinks about intelligence at a fundamental level. He has a PhD in Computer Science and 53 peer-reviewed publications. He was the Principal Analyst for Victoria’s COVID-19 data response. He teaches at RMIT. He shows AI to everyone — researchers, builders, his retired friends — because he genuinely cannot help himself.

But the degree that shaped how he works isn’t the PhD — it’s the Bachelor of Social Work. He listens differently from most technologists. He believes the best client relationships start with listening so well that people trust you completely. His teaching philosophy: don’t tell people what AI can do — show them what they can do with it.

Where Tracy builds cities, Dennis names what kind of city it should be. His gift is making the complex feel accessible — the PhD worn like a t-shirt, not a suit.

• PhD Computer Science (La Trobe University) • 53 peer-reviewed publications • Principal Analyst, Victoria’s COVID-19 data response • $3M++ research grant funding • BSW Social Work — the foundation, not the footnote • Teaches AI at RMIT University

“Tracy and Dennis provide not only an expert level of expertise in AI solutions, but take the time to understand and personalise their approach. Has been a wonderful experience learning from this team.”

Erin Ritchie · Google Review

Connect with Dennis on LinkedIn →

The Partnership

Tracy builds the skeleton. Dennis fills it with meaning.

Tracy brings the structural intelligence — she sees organisations as systems of flows, constraints, governance, and architecture. Dennis brings the conceptual intelligence — he thinks in metaphors, expands the intellectual territory of every conversation, and makes the complex feel like something you already understood.

Neither dominates. The power shifts based on what the situation needs. Tracy leads on delivery, structure, and client relationships. Dennis leads on ideas, experimentation, and technical depth. They sharpen each other constantly — Tracy’s drive to keep up with Dennis’s experiments pushed her to learn entirely new tools. Dennis watching Tracy with clients taught him what “landing it” actually looks like.

Most AI consultancies are either technical (we’ll build your model) or strategic (here’s a roadmap). RMAI is both — because the founders are both, in complementary ways. And they both believe, genuinely, that the most important thing isn’t what they can do with AI — it’s what you can do with AI once someone shows you how.

Disability & Community Education Government Not-for-Profit
4.9★ from 23 Google Reviews | Responsible AI Certified (IAT) | Melbourne-based, nationally delivered

What We Believe

AI levels the playing field.

We build for organisations who’ve never had the resources of big enterprise. AI changes that equation.

Build, don’t theorise.

We build the thing, in front of you, with you. No roadmaps that sit in drawers.

No lock-in.

We’re here to make you capable, not dependent. When we leave, the gains stick.

Responsible AI

IAT Certified

Tracy holds the Responsible AI certification from the Institute of Applied Technology and BABL AI. We don’t just talk about ethics — we’re credentialed.

Your data stays yours

We work with your compliance team, not around them. Australian Privacy Principles guide everything we do. Your data never trains third-party models without explicit consent.

Human-centred AI

If you use 0% of AI, you’re missing out. If you use 100%, you end up with slop. We find the right balance — AI that augments your people, not replaces them.

Want to work with us?

hello@realmindsai.au  ·  Tracy: 0480 032 916  ·  Dennis: 0412 337 356
Ask us anything
Ask us anything