Ask a room full of architects and engineers to fill in an AI readiness survey and most of them will walk past it. Put the same questions behind three retrofitted vintage phones and tell them to pick one up, and suddenly it's not a survey, it's a moment. That was the brief from Autodesk for their Design & Make Summit in Sydney in July: profile how AI-ready the room actually was, without making it feel like homework. We built an AI Readiness Hotline, three old phones wired to a

Most conversational AI avatars have a tell. The face is a little too smooth, the voice is a little too eager, and within about ten seconds you know you're talking to software. We built three of them for a client, an international medical devices company, for a congress stand in Auckland this November, and the one thing we were determined to avoid was that tell. The brief was patient history-taking practice for surgeons: three AI patients, built from real patient profiles, sat