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DPEXConsulting · Daniel Xuereb · Sydney

Paid on what lands.

I'm Daniel. Ten years of senior delivery since Westpac in 2016, hands-on with AI since 2023. Fixed prices for defined outputs. A share of the measured value for bigger programs. Equity for startups I believe in. Never a day rate.

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Live now · Self-service

Buy an output, skip the meeting.

Four tools, each a defined output at a fixed price, delivered in minutes. Start with the free two-minute Mini-Score; it is the cheapest way to find out if I know what I am talking about.

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Audit

Free to startLive

AI Readiness Audit

A scored, plain-English audit of how ready your business is to adopt AI.

Free or $195 AUD2 minutes free · 20 minutes full
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Diligence

Live

AI Vendor Diligence

Send in a vendor pitch. Get a structured go, maybe, or stop in a minute.

$95 AUD per pitchAbout 1 minute
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Generator

Free to startLive

AI Use Policy Generator

Generate your one-page staff AI policy from a five-minute intake.

Free · PDF $19 AUD5 minutes
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Diagnostic

Live

Stuck Program Diagnostic

For program managers. A scored read on whether a program needs a re-baseline.

$295 AUD25 minutes
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Beyond the tools

Need more than a tool? Three deal shapes. No day rates.

When the problem is bigger than a report, this is how I engage. The structure is public. The exact numbers are set per deal, after the fit check, and you will know them before you commit to anything.

Model 01

Fixed price per output

You buy a defined output. The price is on the table first.

The entry door. A defined output, a fixed price, and a date, quoted inside 48 hours of your brief. The four tools on this site run on exactly this model, starting free.

  • Defined output agreed in writing before work starts
  • Price fixed up front, no overruns billed
  • From $95 for the tools to fixed-fee builds and briefs

Best for: First engagements, bounded problems, MVP builds.

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Model 02

The core offer

Base plus value share

A modest base keeps me in the room. The real fee is a slice of what lands.

For programs where the prize is measurable: hours recovered, cost out, revenue up. We set the baseline together in week one, the measurement method is yours to audit, and my percentage is agreed before anything starts. If the value does not land, the share does not either.

  • Modest monthly base, far below a day-rate equivalent
  • Agreed percentage of measured value against a co-signed baseline
  • Exact numbers set per deal, told to you before you commit

Best for: Companies with a problem worth $250k+ a year.

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Model 03

Equity for startups

Reduced cash for a stake. I build like a co-founder because the upside says I am one.

For early-stage founders with something real. I take a reduced cash fee, or none, in exchange for equity. That changes how I show up: not a contractor watching the clock, a stakeholder watching the product. I take a small number of these at any time and choose them carefully.

  • Reduced or zero cash fee against an equity stake
  • Stake sized per deal, agreed before the first commit
  • Limited slots, currently by application through the fit check

Best for: Pre-seed and seed founders who want a builder with skin in the game.

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Passage™ · The M&A integration method

Buying or merging a business? Passage is how I run the integration.

My method for the digital, change and people side of a deal. Four stages from the pre-deal read to proven value: Sound, Pilot, Transit, Harbour. Fixed-price reads, value-share delivery. Built because 70 percent of acquisitions fail in the execution, not the deal terms.

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Daniel Xuereb

Sydney · Open for engagements

A note from Daniel

What this site is, and what it is not.

I'm Daniel Xuereb. Sydney. I started my senior delivery career at Westpac in 2016, and from there ran programs across financial services, utilities, energy, industrials, and startups, and got properly hands-on with AI in 2023. Since then I have shipped small AI tools myself, run program work as a senior operator, and watched a lot of vendor pitches fall apart in five minutes.

This site exists because I do not want to sell you a discovery call to find out what I cost. There are three ways to engage me and all three are on this page: fixed price for a defined output, a base plus a share of the value we create together, or equity if you are a startup I believe in. What you will never get is a day rate, because a day rate pays me for time whether or not anything lands.

If we are a fit, the work starts. If we are not, I will tell you that too, and I will tell you what I would actually do in your shoes. The fit check below takes two minutes and is honest in both directions.

Daniel Xuereb

DPEXConsulting · Sydney

The story

Westpac to today, in four chapters.

I have been doing senior delivery work for a decade. Long enough to know what holds, short enough to remember what I had to learn. Here is the arc.

Daniel in a charcoal suit, seated against a green wall.
Chapter 01

2016

Started at Westpac.

Senior delivery on a big bank's biggest programs. Learned what good governance looks like, and what bad governance feels like to live inside. The shape of how I run program work today was set in those rooms.

Daniel standing alongside a colleague at a venue event.
Chapter 02

2018 to 2022

Financial services, utilities, energy, industrials.

Programs across industries that do not forgive sloppy delivery, plus startups on the side. SteerCos that meant something. Replans that triggered real re-baselines. The lesson that landed across all of them: frameworks do not run programs, decisions do, and decisions need an owner.

Daniel at a workbench-style table in a modern co-working space.
Chapter 03

2023

Hands-on with the model layer.

Got properly hands-on with AI: the SDKs, the agent patterns, the long-context tradeoffs, what actually ships and what is theatre. Started building small tools myself instead of writing decks about them.

Daniel in a working session with a colleague at a co-working space.
Chapter 04

2026

Now: DPEXConsulting.

Senior program work for corporates that need structure. Hands-on AI builds for founders. Four self-service tools already live on this site. Same operating model end-to-end: defined output, fixed price, date in writing.

How I work

Plain rules, said up front.

Paid on outcomes.

Three models, all on this page: fixed price per output, base plus a share of measured value, or equity for startups. What I never charge is a day rate, because a day rate pays me for time whether or not anything lands.

One thing at a time.

One value-share program at a time. One build at a time. The cost of working with me is access; the benefit is that nothing gets handed to a junior and nothing competes for my Tuesday.

I write, I build, I ship.

No account manager between us. I write the brief, do the work, and run the handover. The voice on the call is the voice on the document is the voice on the code.

What I will not do.

Day rates. Generic AI strategy decks. Pilots that exist to make someone look busy. Briefs without a defined output or a measurable prize. Work where my name does not go on what ships.

Who I work with

Two audiences, one standard.

Senior program work for organisations whose AI ambition has overrun their delivery muscle. I quote a defined output, a fixed price, and a date inside 48 hours.

Where it stalls

  1. 01Three years of AI pilots and nothing in production
  2. 02SteerCo as theatre, replans accepted without question
  3. 03Strategy and delivery on different floors of the same building
  4. 04Vendor accountability that nobody owns

Engagements

  • Program recovery brief

    Fixed fee · 2 weeks

    Two weeks embedded, eight-page recovery brief. Same shape as the Stuck Program Diagnostic on this site, bigger scope. For programs that have stalled and need to be told the truth before the next SteerCo.

  • AI workflow embed

    Fixed fee · 4-6 weeks

    One real workflow with AI inside it, embedded with your team. Quote-drafting, customer triage, internal research. Working software in users' hands, not a strategy deck.

  • Operating model design

    Fixed fee · 4-6 weeks

    Decision rights, SteerCo charter, RAID discipline, exec reporting. The governance that holds up when the program needs a brake.

  • Vendor diligence (with me in the room)

    Fixed fee · per vendor

    The self-service vendor diligence tool, but I attend the vendor meeting and run the questions. Useful when the price tag is six figures and the decision is yours to make.

  • M&A integration, run on Passage

    Read fixed fee · delivery value share

    My method for the digital, change and people side of a deal: Sound, Pilot, Transit, Harbour. A fixed-fee read before you sign or after you close, then the integration run as a managed portfolio with my fee tied to the synergies that land.

01

Read

Two weeks embedded. Honest read, not the SteerCo version.

02

Decide

Three credible options. One recommendation. Your call.

03

Ship

Defined output, fixed price, date in writing.

04

Hand over

Your team owns the result. No retainer tail.

Free checklist

Ten red flags in an AI vendor pitch.

The two-page checklist I use to read vendor pitches before a dollar moves. Each flag comes with the question that cuts through it. Print it, take it into the meeting. No follow-up sequence, just the PDF.

Free · Two minutes · Honest both ways

Find out if we should work together.

Six questions. You get a fit score, the engagement model I would propose, and an honest readout. If the answer is “not yet”, the page says so and points you at the free tools instead.

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Send the brief

Tell me what is stuck.

Write it the way you would tell a peer at a conference. Two paragraphs is plenty. I reply inside two business days with a defined output, a price, and a date. If we are not a fit, I will say so and tell you what I would do.

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