Apple makes beautiful products. Linux is powerful. Microsoft sucks.
Dobson Development is an AI automation and business strategy agency for businesses that want better. We specialise in NOT Microsoft.
Your technology is the thing your team touches eight hours a day.
The best people want to work on good machines. Clients notice what you open in a meeting. A business that runs on beautiful hardware, fast software and AI that earns its keep carries itself differently.
You choose your office, your car and your coffee with care. We bring the same care to everything with a power button.
The setup
What a business looks like once we've finished with it.
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On the desk
Mac
Aluminium, glass and a screen you'll catch yourself admiring. The laptop people ask for by name.
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Under the hood
Linux
The operating system the internet runs on. Fast, lean and entirely yours.
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For the thinking
Claude
AI that writes, reasons and builds. With ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and open models on the bench wherever they're the better fit.
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For the busywork
n8n
Every repetitive job in the business, automated in a tool you own and can take anywhere.
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Keeping watch
Jamf and CrowdStrike
Every machine set up, patched and protected from one place. You'll forget it's there.
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In the corner
A server of your own
Built by hand in Queensland. Open models like DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and Hermes, running in your building, answering only to you.
Latest writing,
Get Australia off Microsoft
CrowdStrike pulled the trigger. Windows was the gun.
This morning's outage was Friday the 13th doing what Microsoft does every few months. The case for getting the whole country off it.
It has been 0 days since Microsoft's last major outage.
If you needed one more reason. Last incident: Friday 13 November 2026.
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