G'day, I'm Dennis Savic. I'm a mechanical engineer based in Perth, Western Australia, and for most of my adult life I've been building things. Physical things, digital things, companies. This page exists because the thing I build most often now is AI systems for ordinary businesses, and I've learnt a lot that I think is worth sharing for free.
The short version of my story
I trained as a mechanical engineer, which means I was taught to think in systems. Inputs, outputs, tolerances, failure modes. That way of thinking has shaped everything since.
The reason I trained at all is that I had wanted to build an automotive business since I was fourteen. Everything that followed was in service of that dream: mechanical engineering to understand the machines, teaching myself electrical because the future of vehicles clearly ran on batteries, moving to Melbourne to do product engineering at Ford, an MBA in corporate finance to understand the money, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors program to understand the boardroom. None of it was random. It was all preparation.
The venture most people know me for is Savic Motorcycles, Australia's first high performance electric motorcycle company, and the childhood dream made real. I spent the better part of a decade building it. Designing and manufacturing a road legal electric motorcycle from scratch, in Australia, teaches you things no course ever will. I learnt product development the hard way, supply chains the hard way, and capital the hard way, raising money through venture rounds and a crowdfunding campaign, building a brand, protecting IP, and planning international expansion. Some of it worked brilliantly. Some of it did not. All of it was an education, across more disciplines than I can list.
By the end of that decade I knew two things. First, if I ever built another business it would be in software, because that was where I had the most left to learn. Second, the engineering problems were rarely the hardest ones. The business problems were. Then something I had not planned happened: colleagues who ran their own businesses started asking me to help optimise their operations and put AI to work inside them. That is where D3ploy was born.
Where I am now
These days I run a small portfolio of ventures, and my main focus is D3ploy, where we build and manage AI workforces for small and medium businesses. I also sit in advisory roles across a healthcare group, which keeps me close to the realities of running clinics, admin teams, and compliance heavy operations. In other words, I don't just talk about AI. I deploy it into real businesses, with real staff, real customers, and real consequences when it breaks.
That last part matters. There is a flood of AI content online written by people who have never had to make this stuff survive contact with an actual business. A lot of it is hype. Some of it is fear. Very little of it is practical.
What this page is for
This resources section is my attempt to fix that, at least for the people who find it. My goal is simple: help you use AI more, and use it better, whether you run a business, work in one, or are just curious.
What you can expect here:
- Plain language explanations of what AI actually is and how it works
- The exact process I use to work out where AI belongs in a business, and where it doesn't
- Honest opinions on tools, models, and methods, based on daily hands on use
- Screenshots and short videos so you can follow along, not just read theory
What you won't get here is a sales pitch. I'll mention D3ploy and our client work from time to time, because real examples are the best teacher, but everything on this page stands on its own. If you never spend a dollar with me and simply get better at using AI, this page has done its job.
Start with the next article if you want to know what D3ploy actually does, or jump straight to Should I Use AI if you want the practical stuff.
Dennis Savic