SpaceXAI picks Fabric Group as first Australia partner
Mon, 7th Sep 2026 (Today)
SpaceXAI has selected Fabric Group as one of its first strategic partners in Asia-Pacific, making Fabric its first appointed partner in Australia.
The multi-year agreement centres on AI-assisted software development for large organisations. Fabric will support deployments in the Australian market and train and certify its engineering workforce on the platform.
The partnership gives the Melbourne-based consultancy an early role in a regional channel programme launching outside the US, as SpaceXAI shifts from adoption by individual developers to more direct sales into enterprise software teams.
Simon Green, President APJ at SpaceXAI, said Australia was a natural early market for that push because of its strong record in enterprise technology adoption across the region.
"Australia has consistently demonstrated that it is one of APJ's most progressive and mature enterprise technology regions.
While SpaceXAI has already seen remarkable organic adoption from individual developers here, we are now entering the next phase of our growth by helping enterprise organisations fundamentally rethink how they build software.
AI is reshaping the entire software development lifecycle, allowing engineering teams to spend less time on repetitive implementation and more time solving complex business problems, designing better customer experiences and accelerating innovation.
For one of our first regional partners, we wanted an organisation that shared our vision for transforming software engineering, and Fabric's combination of deep technical capability and strategic consulting expertise made it a great choice," Green said.
Enterprise shift
The announcement comes as AI coding tools move beyond code completion into broader software engineering tasks such as bug identification, system explanation, documentation and application development. That shift has prompted consultancies and software suppliers to position themselves around new ways of building and maintaining business systems.
Analysts and technology suppliers increasingly argue that AI-assisted development will become a standard model for engineering teams, particularly in large organisations managing complex application estates and facing pressure to deliver projects more quickly.
In Australia, the commercial focus extends beyond the domestic technology sector. Banks, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare providers and government agencies all rely heavily on internal software teams or external engineering partners, making development productivity a board-level issue across many industries.
Laurent Behan, Chief Executive Officer at Fabric Group, said the agreement aligned with the consultancy's longstanding approach of using technologies according to each client's business needs.
"Since the day Fabric was founded, we've remained technology-neutral. Our role has been to help organisations solve meaningful business problems by selecting the right technologies for the right outcomes.
SpaceXAI is moving at extraordinary speed, continuously innovating and challenging established thinking around software engineering, and that is exactly how Fabric operates. Both companies are built to deliver outcomes fast, not to get stuck in drawn-out transformation programmes," Behan said.
Behan said customer demand was changing at the top of organisations, with technology leaders and chief executives seeking faster experimentation rather than long programmes before returns are visible.
"CIO and CEO sentiment is shifting. Instead of large, multi-year programmes of work, they want to experiment now, and what used to be a parachute project becomes a strategic one because we finally have the tools to deliver value far faster than before," he said.
He added that AI was moving beyond a cost and productivity discussion into a broader strategic one.
"Executives are increasingly recognising that AI is no longer simply an efficiency tool. It has become a strategic capability that allows organisations to innovate faster, reduce delivery timelines and respond more quickly to changing customer expectations," Behan said.
Australia focus
Fabric will train and certify its entire engineering workforce under the arrangement. The company describes itself as a technology consultancy with more than 150 consultants, and the move suggests it expects sustained client demand for software projects shaped around AI coding tools.
The agreement also points to Australia's role as an early test market for enterprise AI adoption across Asia Pacific and Japan. Vendors have often treated Australia as a proving ground for cloud and software products because of its mature corporate technology base and relatively concentrated enterprise market.
Green said the breadth of software use across the economy underpinned the opportunity.
"We see enormous opportunity across Australia because virtually every enterprise organisation today builds software in some form.
Whether they're banks, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare providers or government agencies, software has become central to how organisations operate and compete.
Our objective is to help Australian organisations completely rethink what's possible when AI becomes an integrated member of every engineering team. This isn't simply about writing code faster; it's about enabling organisations to innovate faster, respond faster and ultimately deliver better products and services to their customers.
Australia is leading the region in embracing this new era of AI-assisted software development, and we're excited to partner with Fabric to help shape what comes next," Green said.
Behan framed the wider change in software development in consumer terms: "This is code's YouTube moment."