We've worked with enough operators in Oamaru to know that the brief that arrives in our inbox is rarely the brief that ends up shipped. The first thing we do on any AI knowledge base project is sit with your team for a day before we propose anything.
Otago · Applied AI
For Oamaru operators who want a working pilot in weeks, not a year-long programme.
What AI knowledge base actually does
Your team's tribal knowledge, finally searchable. Upload your SOPs, training videos, past emails, and Slack threads – your team asks questions and gets answers with citations.
- 01 Ingests PDFs, Word docs, videos, Slack, Notion, Drive
- 02 Answers with citations back to source documents
- 03 Permission-aware – staff only see what they should
- 04 Detects stale docs and prompts owners to update
Built on: Claude Pinecone Vercel AI SDK Postgres MCP
Without Kiwi Dynamics
With Kiwi Dynamics
Otago
What's different about doing this work in Oamaru.
- North Otago blends historic tourism with strong primary industry – AI here is about doing more with the team you can keep.
- Dairy, horticulture, heritage tourism, and a steady local trades sector. AI tools land well when they're practical and quiet.
We work with teams across Oamaru: Oamaru CBD · Weston · Waitaki · Kurow · Hampden.
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How we build AI knowledge base for a Oamaru team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Oamaru business, so value lands before the build is finished. Internal AI knowledge base.
Talk to usThe outcome for Oamaru teams
New staff get to productive 3x faster – less senior-team interruption. For Oamaru 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
When does AI knowledge base actually pay back?
Inside the first quarter, in our experience. We pick the first slice specifically because it's the highest-leverage workflow for a Oamaru – so the savings start landing before the rest of the build is finished.
How do you price AI knowledge base engagements?
Fixed-scope pilots first, then either project pricing or a small monthly retainer for the ongoing work. No long lock-ins, no 18-month black-box deals. Most Oamaru businesses are surprised how small the first cheque is.
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. New staff get to productive 3x faster – less senior-team interruption.
Will this run on our own infrastructure?
Yes, where it makes sense. AI knowledge base can sit entirely in your cloud account, with model calls routed through endpoints you control. We default to Claude, Pinecone, Vercel AI SDK, Postgres, MCP but the architecture supports your existing platform choices.
The honest version of a sales call.
No deck. No discovery doc. Just whether this is worth building and what it would cost.
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Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it — no obligation.