/ AI & automation
AI & automation for NZ businesses
Most of the AI wins in a small business are boring. Bookings that confirm themselves. Invoices that chase themselves. Reports that appear on Monday morning without anyone touching a spreadsheet. That is the work.
We automate the admin that eats your week and wire the results into the systems you already run. Not new software for its own sake. Not a chatbot bolted onto your website. The discipline is mapping the actual workflow first, then deciding where intelligence compounds and where it just adds noise.
We are honest about where AI is not the answer. Some problems want a better process, not a more complicated one. Every engagement starts by mapping the business, not by picking a tool.
/ What's included
Process automation
Bookings, invoicing, follow-ups, and reporting automated end to end. The repetitive, judgment-free work that nobody should be doing by hand.
Systems integration
Custom integrations between the tools you already pay for. Most of the win is wiring what you have, not adding more platforms.
Agentic workflows
Systems that watch what happens and improve over time, not static scripts that decay quietly. The domain knowledge gets hard-coded so it stays when the engagement ends.
Measurement
Every automation tied to hours saved or revenue earned, agreed up front. You know what it is worth before we build it.
/ Engagements & pricing
Discovery
Under $4,000 NZD fixed
Small, tightly scoped. Produces a prioritised map of where automation pays in your business and what it would cost to build it. A decision document, not a presentation.
Automation sprint
$5,000 to $25,000 NZD
One bounded problem, fixed price, working software at the end. Scope is locked before the build starts so there are no surprises on the invoice.
Baseline retainer
$4,000 to $8,000 NZD / month
A steady cadence through the backlog, re-prioritised against results each month. Suited to businesses with a long list of manual processes that want to work through them systematically.
/ Proof
Frequently asked questions
- What does AI and automation consulting cost in New Zealand?
- Discovery engagements are fixed under $4,000 NZD. A bounded automation sprint runs $5,000 to $25,000 NZD depending on complexity. Monthly retainers sit between $4,000 and $8,000 NZD. Every engagement starts with a scoped proposal so you know the cost before any work begins.
- What should we automate first?
- The boring, frequent, judgment-free workflows. Admin before customer-facing. Bookings, invoicing, and internal reporting before anything the customer touches. The highest-return automations are almost always the ones nobody wants to do, not the flashy ones.
- Do we need to buy new software?
- Usually not. Most of the win comes from wiring together tools you already pay for. If new software is genuinely the right answer, that gets called out in discovery before any build spend is committed.
- How do you measure whether the automation worked?
- Hours back and revenue attributed, agreed before the build starts. Not vanity metrics. If we cannot define what success looks like in concrete terms, that is a signal the scope needs more work before it becomes a project.
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