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.
Southland · Applied AI
AI HR assistant that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from Southland.
What AI HR assistant actually does
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.
- 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
Built on: Claude Employment Hero API BambooHR Vercel
Without Kiwi Dynamics
With Kiwi Dynamics
Southland
Our field notes from Invercargill builds.
- Southland businesses are stoic, practical, and patient – AI gets traction when it shows up working, not promised.
- Dairy, aquaculture, manufacturing, and a tight services market. AI in Southland needs to install once and run quietly for years.
We work with teams across Invercargill: CBD · Hawthorndale · Waikiwi · Bluff · Gore · Riverton.
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How we build AI HR assistant for a Invercargill team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Invercargill business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI HR and people ops.
Talk to usThe outcome for Invercargill teams
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.
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.
Questions
FAQ
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.
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Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it — no obligation.