Timaru businesses don't need another generic AI pitch. AI chatbots only earns its keep when it's built around the workflow you actually run on a wet Tuesday, and that's how we scope every engagement we take on in Canterbury.
Canterbury · Applied AI
AI chatbots that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from Canterbury.
What AI chatbots actually does
Trained on your business, not Wikipedia. AI assistants that answer pricing, hours, availability, bookings – and escalate cleanly when the customer needs a human.
- 01 Trained on your documents, FAQs, and past tickets
- 02 Books appointments, takes deposits, qualifies leads
- 03 Live hand-off to a human when needed
- 04 Daily quality reports so you stay in control
Built on: Claude OpenAI Custom RAG pipelines
Without Kiwi Dynamics
With Kiwi Dynamics
Canterbury
The pattern across Timaru engagements we've shipped.
- South Canterbury runs on port logistics, food processing, and dairy – AI here is about coordinating shifts and shipments with fewer phone calls.
- Port of Timaru, food processors, dairy, and a wide trades sector. AI tools that integrate with existing ERP and POS land best.
We work with teams across Timaru: Timaru CBD · Marchwiel · Highfield · Geraldine · Temuka · Pleasant Point.
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How we build AI chatbots for a Timaru team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Timaru business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI customer support.
Talk to usThe outcome for Timaru teams
The shape of the result for Timaru teams: Handles 60-70% of routine enquiries without human input. Built on Claude, hardened with the rest of the stack as it scales.
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 fast could we have AI chatbots in production?
Eight to ten weeks for most Timaru 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 Timaru 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. Handles 60-70% of routine enquiries without human input.
What if our Timaru 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 chatbots specifically, we typically run that work on Claude, OpenAI, Custom RAG pipelines and assume messy starting conditions from day one.
Twenty minutes, your call.
You describe what's broken. We'll tell you what we'd actually do about it.
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Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it — no obligation.