Semantic search (RAG) in Christchurch.
AI search over your data - wired into a Christchurch workflow, not bolted on the side.
On the tools or running at scale, the admin still eats the week :)
The questions a public sector buyer asks, answered up front: privacy impact, the NZISM, where the data lives and how an algorithm is held to account.
*Illustrative example based on nine hours a week of admin. Actual results vary by workflow and business.
Christchurch builds aerospace, healthtech and cleantech, and launches Antarctic science. Whatever your team makes, we automate the admin around it so specialists stay specialist.
What Christchurch runs on.
Christchurch's growth sectors are healthtech, aerospace and future transport, bioeconomy, cleantech and the Antarctic gateway, and Canterbury is New Zealand's largest agricultural region.
Christchurch is one of only five Antarctic gateway cities in the world. Christchurch Show Day (Canterbury Anniversary) falls on a Friday in November.
Built around how New Zealand works.
Ask questions across your manuals, contracts and records and get answers with the source attached, not a guess.
- An annual return every year
- GST at 15 per cent
- The Public Service AI Framework
Built differently, on purpose.
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
The shape of the result for Christchurch teams: Average search time drops from 6 minutes to 12 seconds. Built on Pinecone, hardened with the rest of the stack as it scales. Kiwi Dynamics
How much is the admin really costing you?
Nine hours a week of admin is 468 hours a year. That could drop to about 52.*
*Illustrative, based on 9 hours a week of admin at a typical 80% automation rate. The calculator uses your own numbers.
Questions Christchurch businesses ask
What's the smallest engagement you'd take on?
A two-week paid discovery for Christchurch businesses that aren't sure whether the build is worth doing at all. You get a one-page write-up of what we'd build, what we'd skip, and what it would cost. About 30% of those discoveries end with us recommending you don't proceed.
How fast could we have semantic search (RAG) in production?
Eight to ten weeks for most Christchurch businesses. Faster if your data is in good shape and slower if we're untangling a legacy integration first. We'll give you a realistic number on the scoping call rather than the optimistic one.
What if our Christchurch doesn't have any data ready?
Most don't. Getting the data into shape - ingestion, cleaning, the lightweight contracts you need before any model is useful - is part of the engagement. For semantic search (RAG) specifically, we typically run that work on Pinecone, Claude, Postgres pgvector, Vercel AI SDK and assume messy starting conditions from day one.
Can it remind us about the annual return?
Yes. Every company must file an annual return with the Companies Office each year, separate from its tax return.
Can the AI run on New Zealand-hosted cloud?
Yes, the options now exist. Microsoft opened a New Zealand cloud region in December 2024 and AWS followed in September 2025, both with local data residency.
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