AI HR assistant in Invercargill.
AI HR assistant that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from Southland.
What this is
AI HR and people ops
An AI HR assistant trained on your policies, awards, and the Employment Relations Act. Answers staff questions, drafts contracts, screens applicants, and flags HR risk – without replacing your people lead.
HR enquiries drop 65% in the first month – leaders get their week back.
How it helps your Invercargill team
What you actually get.
- Answers leave, pay, and policy questions 24/7
- Drafts contracts, warnings, and PIPs from templates
- Screens CVs against role criteria with reasoning
- Flags ER risks before they become disputes
Invercargill sits in a regional context that genuinely changes the build. Connectivity assumptions, the rhythm of the working week, the proximity of your team to your customers – none of those are details our default AI HR assistant template would catch.
What changes for Invercargill teams after this lands: the work that used to need a person stays done, the work that needs a person gets done with their attention undivided. HR enquiries drop 65% in the first month – leaders get their week back.
Our field notes from Invercargill builds.
Dairy, aquaculture, manufacturing, and a tight services market. AI in Southland needs to install once and run quietly for years.
We work with teams in
What we build
AI HR assistant, tailored to Invercargill businesses.
- 01 Answers leave, pay, and policy questions 24/7
- 02 Drafts contracts, warnings, and PIPs from templates
- 03 Screens CVs against role criteria with reasoning
- 04 Flags ER risks before they become disputes
Common questions
Before you book the call.
How quickly can we see something running? +
Week three for a clickable internal demo against real data. Week six for a slice your team can actually use. We hold ourselves to those numbers because they're what stops a project drifting into "endless discovery".
What's the smallest engagement you'd take on? +
A two-week paid discovery for Invercargill 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. HR enquiries drop 65% in the first month – leaders get their week back.
What tools do you build AI HR assistant on? +
For AI HR assistant we usually reach for Claude, Employment Hero API, BambooHR, Vercel. We're tool-agnostic at heart – we pick what your Invercargill team can actually run after we hand the build over, not what looks good on a vendor sticker.