Claude Code • Engineering Teams
Claude Code consulting for engineering teams
Automata AI rolls out Anthropic's Claude Code across Australian dev teams: setup, conventions, MCP integrations, CI/CD hooks, and training. From scattered licences to a standardised, governed capability in 14 days.
The problem
Licences are easy. Adoption is the hard part.
Most engineering teams that try Claude Code see the same pattern: two or three engineers get remarkable results, the rest bounce off it, and leadership cannot tell whether the spend is paying off. The tool is not the bottleneck. The missing pieces are shared conventions, integration with your real systems, and security boundaries your CTO can sign off on.
That is the gap we close. Automata AI is part of Sydney's specialist Claude consultancy, and Claude Code rollouts for teams of 5 to 50 engineers are the work we do most. We use Claude Code daily on our own production systems, so the conventions we hand you are ones we run ourselves.
What a rollout covers
Six deliverables, one working capability
Setup and configuration
Day one, done right
Claude Code installed and configured across your team with the right plan, permissions, and model settings. We handle licensing decisions, workspace structure, and the security review your IT team will ask for.
CLAUDE.md conventions and standards
Your codebase, encoded
Well-written CLAUDE.md files are the difference between an assistant that guesses and one that knows your stack. We write the conventions, project context, and guardrails so every engineer gets consistent, high-quality output.
MCP and tooling integration
Connected to your real systems
Custom Model Context Protocol servers connecting Claude Code to your databases, internal APIs, ticketing, and documentation. Your engineers stop copy-pasting context and start working against live systems.
CI/CD and review workflow hooks
AI in the pipeline, not beside it
Code review automation, test generation, and pre-merge checks wired into your Git workflow. We design where AI fits in your pipeline and where human review stays mandatory.
Team training and adoption
Engineers who actually use it
Hands-on sessions on your real codebase, not toy examples. Prompting patterns, agentic workflows, and the habits that separate teams getting 3x gains from teams that gave up after a week.
Security guardrails and governance
Safe enough for regulated teams
Access controls, audit logging, secret-handling rules, and a written AI coding policy. Built for Australian compliance expectations including APRA and Privacy Act considerations.
Who it's for
Built for mid-market Australian engineering teams
Our sweet spot is teams of 5 to 50 engineers inside Australian businesses of 50 to 2,000 staff: software companies, financial services, professional services firms with internal dev teams, and anyone whose engineers are already experimenting with AI tools without a shared standard.
If your team also needs the wider organisation on Claude, we pair the rollout with Claude training for non-technical teams and Claude Cowork implementation so engineering gains do not stay siloed in engineering.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does a Claude Code consultant actually do?
A Claude Code consultant gets an engineering team from individual experimentation to a standardised, governed rollout. At Automata AI that covers setup and configuration, CLAUDE.md conventions, MCP integrations with your internal systems, CI/CD hooks, security guardrails, and hands-on training on your real codebase.
How much does a Claude Code rollout cost in Australia?
Our fixed-price Claude Code rollout package runs over roughly two weeks and typically starts from around $10,000 AUD depending on team size and integration depth. Larger engagements with custom MCP servers and CI/CD automation are scoped individually, with outcome-based pricing available.
How is this different from just giving engineers Claude Code licences?
Licences alone produce uneven results: a few enthusiasts get value while most of the team plateaus. A structured rollout standardises conventions, connects Claude Code to your actual systems through MCP, sets security boundaries, and trains the whole team on proven workflows. That is what moves the velocity needle across a team rather than for individuals.
Is Claude Code safe to use on a proprietary codebase?
On Claude Team, Enterprise, and API plans, Anthropic does not train models on your data. We add repository-level guardrails, secret-handling rules, and audit logging on top, and we document the setup so your security team can review it. For regulated industries we design the rollout around APRA, ASIC, and Privacy Act expectations.
How does Claude Code compare with GitHub Copilot or Cursor?
Copilot and Cursor are strong autocomplete and editor tools. Claude Code is an agentic tool: it plans multi-step changes, runs tests, fixes failures, and works across an entire codebase from the terminal or IDE. Many teams run both. Where teams want AI to take on whole tasks rather than suggest lines, Claude Code is currently the strongest option, and it is where we specialise.
How long until our team sees results?
Most teams see measurable gains inside the first two weeks, which is the length of our standard rollout. We set a baseline during setup, then measure cycle time, review turnaround, and shipped output over the following month so the gains are evidenced rather than anecdotal.
Ready?
Give your engineers a 14-day head start
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll look at your stack, your team size, and where Claude Code lands the fastest measurable win.