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Pro cycling team time trial

Creative Vision.Leading the AI era.

Since 2003 we’ve shaped stories for the world’s biggest broadcasters and brands. Now we design the AI systems that help businesses think, create and grow, and we bring their people with us.

Empire Concepts Melbourne · Est. 2003 Story × AI
●  Who we are

It started with one man and a camera inside pro cycling. Backstage Pass gave fans a seat on the team bus, and audiences around the world came along for the ride. That same storytelling craft now drives the AI we build, so businesses can tell it, sell it and scale it.

Made for and with
SBSNineParamount+FoxtelPrime VideoITVDM PodcastsRonde MediaBox to Box FilmsScott SportsNSN Cycling TeamCricket AustraliaA-LeaguesRexonaMummu Cycling TravelOath GinCENA
Network 10SevenFox SportsKayoNBCHerald SunJAM TVMadmanGreenEDGE CyclingProVelo Super LeagueSantos Tour Down UnderFootball AustraliaWestern UnitedJaycoCrownGruppetto FundFiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute
01  AI ecosystems

Your business, rebuilt for the AI era.

We map how your business really works, then build the AI around it and train your people to run it. You stay in charge. The busywork goes.

●  Proof, not promises

We build with AI every day, for ourselves first. Then we build it for you.

20Mviews for The Detour at the 2026 Tour de France, planned with our own AI strategy tool.
Frank Plans ↗Our AI-built strategy business. Live and taking clients. Stage Winner ↗Our AI-built daily cycling game. Live and growing.
An AI assistant on a tablet
A

Assistants that know your business

Trained on your knowledge, your tone and your clients, so answers come fast and sound like you.

A creator in a dark edit suite surrounded by screens
B

Content engines

Video, words and campaigns produced at a pace and quality a normal team can’t match.

Streams of light flowing through a network of nodes
C

Workflows that run themselves

The repetitive jobs automated, end to end, with people checking what matters.

A team gathered around a screen in a workshop
D

Teams that lead with it

Hands on training so your people own the tools, not the other way round.

“Knowledge is power.”
Francis Bacon

And we keep getting sharper. Dan is one of just 700 people selected from 50,000 applicants for MasterClass Executive with Chicago Booth, learning AI and leadership from the people shaping both. Everything he learns goes straight into what we build for you.

700placesfrom 50,000 applicants
93countriesin the cohort
  • Paul KrugmanNobel Prize in Economics
  • Indra NooyiFormer CEO, PepsiCo
  • Ray DalioFounder, Bridgewater
  • Mati StaniszewskiCo-founder, ElevenLabs
  • Grant LeeCEO, Gamma
  • Mark CubanEntrepreneur and investor
  • Chicago BoothAI and strategy faculty
  • Gary VaynerchukChairman, VaynerX
See the full program →
01Listen02Design03Build04TrainStart the conversation →
Dan Jones beside the Orica GreenEDGE team carFounder · Director
04  The mind behind it

Dan
Jones.

A one man band who learned the craft the hard way. Dan filmed, cut and told Backstage Pass himself, and the riders let him in closer than most cameras ever get. Now he builds the systems that help others tell their stories. He reads every email himself.

●  Now trainingMasterClass Executive × Chicago Booth ↗

One of 700 selected from 50,000 applicants, in a cohort spanning 93 countries.

Email Dan →dan@empireconcepts.com.au
Tadej Pogačar interviewed for SBS
Pogačar · SBS
Dan at the Tour de France
Tour de France
Dan on the MCG with cricket commentators
The MCG
Dan and the RIVALS crew
RIVALS

Got an idea?
Email Dan.

A story to tell, a business to bring into the AI era, a problem worth solving. The first conversation is on us.

Email Dan →dan@empireconcepts.com.au