Cromwell businesses don't need another generic AI pitch. AI data analytics only earns its keep when it's built around the workflow you actually run on a wet Tuesday, and that's how we scope every engagement we take on in Central Otago.
AI data analytics that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from Central Otago.
Our goal is to give Cromwell businesses a three-day weekend, so people can spend more time with their families and the people they love :)
What AI data analytics actually does
Stop digging through dashboards. Ask plain-English questions of your sales, jobs, and customer data - get charts, summaries, and the why behind the numbers in seconds.
- 01 Natural-language queries over your Xero, Shopify, CRM data
- 02 Weekly auto-summaries delivered to inbox or Slack
- 03 Anomaly detection - flags weird weeks before you notice
- 04 Forecasts that explain themselves, not black boxes
Built on: DuckDB Claude Metabase BigQuery Vercel AI SDK
What you actually get
Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. This is what is in the box.
- A working pilot, in productionNot a prototype on someone's laptop. The first slice of AI data analytics runs against real work within weeks.
- Your data stays yoursIt runs on your accounts and your tools. If we part ways you keep the system and everything in it.
- The workflow mapped before codeWe write down what good looks like for Cromwell businesses first, so nobody is guessing at handover.
- Support after it landsThe people who built it stay reachable when the business changes shape around it.
How AI data analytics compares
The two things most businesses do instead, and where each one runs out.
| Hiring for it | An off-the-shelf tool | Kiwi Dynamics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to how you work | Fits perfectly, costs a salary | You bend your process to suit the tool | Built around the workflow you already run |
| Time to something useful | Immediate, and permanent | Quick to switch on, slow to make fit | A working slice in weeks, then hardened |
| Who owns the data | You do | The vendor, on the vendor's terms | You do, in your own accounts |
| When it breaks | That person sorts it, if they are in | A support queue and a ticket number | The people who built it |
| What it costs | A salary, every year, forever | Per seat, forever, used or not | Scoped and quoted up front |
What Cromwell teams tell us when they get on a call.
- Central Otago is wine, horticulture, and a tourism corridor that connects Wānaka and Queenstown - AI here turns short seasons into solid years.
- Vineyards, cherry and stone-fruit orchards, and accommodation serving year-round tourist flows. AI tools that handle seasonal staffing earn keep fast.
We work with teams across Cromwell: Cromwell · Bannockburn · Alexandra · Clyde · Roxburgh.
Talk to us about this →How we build AI data analytics for a Cromwell team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Cromwell business, so value lands before the build is finished. Ask your data in English.
Talk to usHow the work runs
- Find the one workflowWe look for the job costing Cromwell businesses the most hours or the most leads, and deliberately ignore the rest for now.
- Ship a working sliceA narrow version goes into production in weeks, against real work, so the value shows up before the build is finished.
- Prove it, then widenWe measure it against what the work cost before. If it does not pay for itself, we say so rather than scaling it.
- Harden and hand overLogging, fallbacks and a real handover, so it keeps running when we are not in the room.
The outcome for Cromwell teams
The shape of the result for Cromwell teams: Owners check the business in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours. Built on DuckDB, hardened with the rest of the stack as it scales.
Not your typical AI agency.
Honest about what AI can and cannot do
Ships the one workflow that pays for itself
Hours given back, never the size of the invoice
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
FAQ
How fast could we have AI data analytics in production?
Eight to ten weeks for most Cromwell 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's the smallest engagement you'd take on?
A two-week paid discovery for Cromwell 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.
Can you walk us through a comparable build?
Yes - on the first call we'll pick the closest engagement we've shipped to what you're describing and walk through the outcome, the headcount and the time it took. Owners check the business in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
What if our Cromwell 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 AI data analytics specifically, we typically run that work on DuckDB, Claude, Metabase, BigQuery, Vercel AI SDK and assume messy starting conditions from day one.
One reply, one direction.
We don't run sequences or follow-up automation. One useful answer, one decision on your side.
Talk to us about this
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it - no obligation.