A disability-led studio · Victoria, Australia
New ideas.
A different way of working.
A studio that turns ideas into software and content with AI, through a pipeline that checks every step and keeps the record. Everything on this site came out of it.
Work with the studio
Software, videos, Easy Read, training and policy wording, out of the same pipeline. Built to WCAG 2.2 AA and tested with the people who will use it.
Products
Dredtape, DSX, aXread and aXai Videos. Four ideas that came out of the pipeline.
Lab
Everything we have built, each with its status. Ideas are tested by building them.
Hi, I’m Axel AI Assisted. I am not Axel; he is out, at the hot springs. Ask me about the studio, book a call, or send Annette a message.
Meet Axel AI Assisted
Annette’s idea, built here with AI, in Axel’s likeness. Ask it about aXai; that is all it knows. It can book your call, send your message to a person, and switch to Easy Read when you ask.
It answers in text straight away. The video takes a moment to appear, so keep talking while it loads. It asks before it starts.
Want one for your organisation? We build those.
aXai Pty Ltd collects what you type or say here, and your name and email if you give them, so Axel AI Assisted can answer you, book a call or send your message to a person. If you do not give them, it can still answer general questions but cannot book or send anything. The text is processed by Google's Vertex AI service in Sydney, Australia. The video and voice are made by aXai's own avatar service, currently running on a server in Singapore. If you use the microphone, your browser turns your speech into text and its maker may process that audio outside Australia. We do not keep the chat after the reply is sent, and we do not share your details with anyone else except the providers that run this site. Our privacy policy says how to see, correct or complain about your information.
How an idea becomes verified work
The same six steps for software, a video, an Easy Read notice or a policy. A person can step in at any step. At step four, one must.
- 01
Idea and source
Your idea, the brief, and the official documents it rests on, as published.
Record - 02
Draft
AI makes the first version from the source and the brief.
AI - 03
Check
Automated checks, then other AI models, test it against the source and the brief. What fails goes back.
AI - 04
Sign
A person with disability reviews it and puts their name to it, or sends it back.
Person · required - 05
Record
Who, what and when, in a record that cannot be edited after the fact.
Record - 06
Deliver
To you, with the Verified by aXai mark and the record behind it.
Client
When an item carries this mark, a person with disability reviewed it, is accountable for it, and the record shows who and when. Auditors can ask us for the record.
What the mark means →Products
dredtape
Regulation changes, handled. Worker training, Easy Read notices and policy wording for NDIS providers, within the month.
Launching 10 December 2026 · dredtape.comDSX
Disability Services Exchange, co-founded by Annette Andersen and Brendon Grail: accessible compliance, policy and a collective voice for small and medium NDIS providers.
Recruiting founding membersaXread
Easy Read for any page of your website, written in advance and checked by people.
Live on this siteaXai Videos
AI avatar videos for training, induction and explainers, presented by your own people, or by Axel AI Assisted.
From $149 incl. GSTThe assistant on this page is a product too: an avatar for your website that knows your pages and nothing else.
Work with Annette
Twenty years of software engineering across enterprise systems, startups and consulting, and a habit of ideas nobody else had. Two ways to buy some.
Reduced rates for people with disability, their informal supports, and aligned not-for-profits.
Book a free 15-minute callIdeas day
Your idea mapped end to end, then everything set up so you can keep building it with AI yourself, inside the same guardrails that built everything on this site. You leave with something that runs, and you keep all of it.
Vybrid session
AI and a person building together, so you leave with a working system you understand well enough to evolve.
Who we are
aXai is a disability-led studio in Victoria that makes software and content: accessible AI tools, videos, Easy Read, training and policy wording. An idea goes in. AI does the building inside a pipeline that checks every step. Verified work comes out, with the record behind it. Skilled people with disability, in paid roles, run the pipeline and sign for the work.
Annette Andersen, Director
I lead aXai. I sign the contracts, carry the liability and answer for the work. I have spent years inside NDIS governance, procurement law and parliamentary process, watching systems for people with disability get built without them. aXai is the correction. People with disability do the work here, with AI, and every piece is checked before it leaves. If something goes wrong, it comes to me.
Axel Andersen, UX Consultant
I work at aXai. I choose which avatar looks right and which one does not. I am usually right. Nobody is above anybody. We are a line, not a ladder. I use AI to communicate. This website was built the same way. It works on a phone, it works with a screen reader, and it does not need you to be patient. Other websites are welcome to try this.
Axel Andersen · AI Assisted. Axel uses AI to communicate; these are his words, with its help.Annette leads and answers for the work. The people who make it, review it and sign it are people with disability.
A line, not a ladder
Nobody is above anybody. The people who do the work are the people who are paid for it.
Autonomy preservation
Systems amplify a person's voice, with their preferences as the main signal.
Preserve disagreement
Keeping tension beats averaging views away.
Build to learn
Ideas are tested by building them.
Lab
Everything we have built, with its status. The first two are the pipeline itself; they run underneath every job.
Decision Bus
Sits between the AI agents that build our work and anything they try to do. Checks every action against the rules, holds the ones that need a person, and records every decision in a log that cannot be edited.
In productionProject Layer
Work is planned before any AI starts on it: the steps, and what finished looks like. A person reads that plan and approves it. Once approved it is locked — change it and it goes back for approval, and nothing outside it can be touched. Every approval, change and refusal is added to the record, so what was meant to happen sits beside what did.
In productionaXstudio
One accessible interface for every aXai product: order, review, approve and pay, one question at a time, for people whose disability includes cognitive impairment.
AlphaAvatar assistant
Our own talking avatar, built and run on our own hardware, so the face, the voice and the words stay ours to set. The model that writes the words runs in Sydney. Everything it says is on screen as well as spoken, Easy Read is one tap away, and it can send Annette a message for you. Axel AI Assisted runs on it.
LiveSavanax
Multi-perspective reasoning engine that maps disagreement rather than forcing consensus.
LiveAxelV1
Autonomy-preserving decision support.
PilotContext Scanner
Codebase documentation generator.
In productionPSight
Nervous-system regulation from heart-rate variability and EEG.
Parked