Independent advisory · Townsville, North Queensland
Keeping watch where AI meets heavy industry
Vigilans helps ports, mines and utilities adopt AI and converge IT with OT — safely, securely, and with the compliance evidence to prove it. Engineering-grade assessment from someone who has run the plant, not just audited it.
vigilāns — Latin. watchful; keeping awake.
Fixed-scope. Fixed-fee. Signed off.
Productised assessments with a defined scope, a defined deliverable, and a price agreed before work starts — not open-ended consulting hours. Every engagement ends with a report a board can read and an engineer can action.
OT / AI Readiness Assessment
Before the model comes the plumbing. We assess your data architecture, historian quality, IT/OT segregation and network zoning, then prioritise AI use cases by value and risk — so your first AI project isn't your last.
SOCI CIRMP Gap Assessment
An independent review of your Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program against current SOCI obligations — cyber, personnel, supply chain and physical hazards — with board-ready findings and a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Fractional OT Security & AI Governance
Standing senior expertise without the full-time hire. A retainer of two to four days a month covering OT security management, AI governance, and the annual compliance cadence your obligations demand.
ISO/IEC 42001 Implementation
Stand up an AI management system that aligns with the ISO programs you already run. From scoping and risk assessment through to certification-ready documentation and audit support.
AI-in-OT Safety Assessment
When AI touches plant — predictive maintenance, alarm analytics, operator copilots — someone must answer what happens when the model is wrong. Independent assessment grounded in certified functional safety practice.
Vendor & Model Evaluation
Independent evaluation of industrial AI and predictive maintenance vendor claims, validated against your actual failure modes and maintenance strategy. We sell judgement, not software — and never resell either.
AI can draft the report. It can't carry the accountability.
Cyber consultants who have never touched a PLC. Control engineers who have never written a governance framework. Vendors marking their own homework. The gap in industrial AI isn't technology — it's a qualified, independent human willing to put their name on the assessment.
Accountable
Every assessment is performed and signed by a certified engineer who carries professional accountability for the findings — not generated, templated, or delegated to a junior.
OT-literate
Built on control systems engineering and operational leadership inside ports and heavy industry — we understand why you can't just point a cloud model at a smelter.
Regional
Based in Townsville, on site across North Queensland without the southern-capital travel premium — and available when the plant needs us, not when the flight schedule allows.
From first call to board-ready report
Scoping call
Thirty minutes, no cost, no obligation. We establish what you're trying to achieve and whether an assessment is actually the right tool.
Fixed-price proposal
Scope, deliverables, timeline and a single fixed fee — agreed in writing before any work begins. No hourly meters running.
Assessment
On-site and remote work as the scope demands: interviews, system review, evidence gathering. Minimal disruption to operations.
Report & roadmap
Findings a board can read and an engineer can action, with a prioritised roadmap — plus a walkthrough session to land it.
Fixed-fee by design: you know the cost before we start, and we carry the efficiency risk — not you.
Start with a scoping call
Tell us what you're planning — an AI deployment, a SOCI deadline, a convergence program that's getting away from you — and we'll tell you honestly whether and how we can help. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.