AI HR assistant in Palmerston North.
Built and supported here - the way a Palmerston North business would actually use it.
Palmerston North moves freight for much of the country and hosts the Linton and Ohakea defence bases. We automate dispatch, bookings and reporting for the firms serving them.
What AI HR assistant actually does
An AI HR assistant trained on your policies, awards, and the Employment Relations Act. With the right workflow automated, nine hours of admin a week could drop to about one.*
*Illustrative example only, based on 9 hours a week of admin falling to about 1 hour a week. Actual results vary by workflow and business.
Definitely not a typical AI agency.
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
On the tools or running at scale, the admin still eats the week :)
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.
What Palmerston North runs on.
The Manawatū economy spans distribution and logistics, construction, manufacturing, agritech and research science, and Palmerston North is home to the Linton and Ohakea defence bases.
Te Utanganui, the central New Zealand distribution hub, connects road, rail, air and sea networks from Palmerston North. Wellington Anniversary Day falls on on or near 22 January.
One workflow.
In production.
In weeks.
What you get
The shape of the result for Palmerston North teams: HR enquiries drop 65% in the first month - leaders get their week back.
- 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
- No AI theatre
- No annual contracts
How Kiwi Dynamics works
We find the one workflow costing Palmerston North businesses the most hours, ship a working slice into production in weeks, prove it pays for itself, then harden it and hand it over.
Good questions, answered
Who owns the code and the model setup?
You do, on delivery. We deploy AI HR assistant into your own cloud account where possible, with the model setup, prompts, evals and integration code all checked into a repo you own. Claude sits in your account too - we don't operate it from ours.
How long does AI HR assistant take to ship for Palmerston North businesses?
We aim for a working pilot inside 4-6 weeks - narrow scope, real Palmerston North businesses data, measurable outcome. From there it's another 6-8 weeks of hardening before you'd consider it production. Full rollouts (multiple sites, multiple teams) typically land in 3-4 months.
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.
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.
How does this fit the Public Service AI Framework?
The framework, led by the Government Chief Digital Officer, asks for safe, transparent and accountable AI. Agencies that sign the Algorithm Charter also commit to transparency in how they use algorithms.
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