AI knowledge base in Invercargill.
AI knowledge base designed around the way an Invercargill team actually runs.
From Tiwai Point to the dairy sheds, Southland businesses run lean crews. We automate rosters, reporting and invoicing so fewer hours go to the office.
Built around how New Zealand works.
Policies, job manuals and compliance records in one place staff can ask, including Records of Building Work for restricted work.
- Restricted work needs an LBP
- KiwiSaver now 3.5 per cent
- The Public Service AI Framework
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.
What Invercargill runs on.
Southland's economy rests on agriculture and processing, and the New Zealand Aluminium Smelter at Tiwai Point, across the harbour from Bluff, is the country's only aluminium smelter.
Tiwai Point has secured its energy supply to at least 2044. Most New Zealand dairy herds calve in spring, July to September.
An AI agency, minus the theatre.
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
Less admin.
More weekend.
No theatre.
What you get
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.
- Ingests PDFs, Word docs, videos, Slack, Notion, Drive
- Answers with citations back to source documents
- Permission-aware - staff only see what they should
- Detects stale docs and prompts owners to update
- No shelfware or licences you do not use
- No annual contracts
Small crew or big organisation, the busywork is the same :)
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.
Straight answers
What if our Invercargill 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 knowledge base specifically, we typically run that work on Claude, Pinecone, Vercel AI SDK, Postgres, MCP and assume messy starting conditions from day one.
How fast could we have AI knowledge base in production?
Eight to ten weeks for most Invercargill 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 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.
What happens when the Holidays Act is replaced?
The Employment Leave Act 2026 replaces it on 6 August 2028. Until then payroll follows the current Holidays Act, so leave calculations need to handle today's rules and the changeover.
Can you work to the NZISM?
The NZISM is the government's information security manual and is written for vendors serving agencies as well as the agencies themselves, so government-adjacent work should be built to it.
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