Kerikeri 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.
Northland · Applied AI
AI HR assistant that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from Northland.
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
Northland
What we keep seeing in Kerikeri.
- Kerikeri is horticulture, tourism, and a fast-growing lifestyle community – AI here is about connecting orchard, paddock, and storefront.
- Kiwifruit, citrus, and a steady hospitality scene serving the Bay of Islands. AI tools that work in low-signal areas land best.
We work with teams across Kerikeri: Kerikeri central · Waipapa · Kaitāia · Russell · Paihia · Mangonui.
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How we build AI HR assistant for a Kerikeri team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Kerikeri business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI HR and people ops.
Talk to usThe outcome for Kerikeri teams
HR enquiries drop 65% in the first month – leaders get their week back. For Kerikeri teams, that almost always shows up as fewer interruptions and a calmer week, not a dashboard chart.
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 Kerikeri 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.
Anyone else in this space using AI HR assistant?
Plenty. HR enquiries drop 65% in the first month – leaders get their week back. The interesting question is rarely "does it work" – it's "is your team ready to use the output." That's what we'd scope on the call.
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 Kerikeri team can actually run after we hand the build over, not what looks good on a vendor sticker.
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