AI knowledge base in Timaru.
AI knowledge base designed around the way a Timaru team actually runs.
Timaru processes dairy, meat, vegetables and beer for export through PrimePort. We automate the shift rosters, supplier paperwork and reporting those plants run on.
Made for New Zealand paperwork.
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
- 11 public holidays, plus yours
- Holidays Act until August 2028
Definitely not a typical AI agency.
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
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.
Small team.
Real systems.
Zero fluff.
What you get
What changes for Timaru 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 annual contracts
- No AI theatre
From one-person trades to national organisations, we find the hours :)
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.
Timaru, up close.
Food and fibre drive South Canterbury, and PrimePort handled $1.1 billion of exports in 2021, 99 per cent of them food and fibre products.
Fonterra's Clandeboye dairy factory and McCain's food processing plant are both in the district. Dominion Day (South Canterbury Anniversary) falls on the fourth Monday in September.
Good questions, answered
How fast could we have AI knowledge base 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 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 knowledge base specifically, we typically run that work on Claude, Pinecone, Vercel AI SDK, Postgres, MCP and assume messy starting conditions from day 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.
Is our data kept in New Zealand?
Kiwi Dynamics hosts its own infrastructure in New Zealand, under New Zealand governance. If personal information ever has to go offshore, privacy principle 12 requires comparable protection.
Can the AI run on New Zealand-hosted cloud?
Yes, the options now exist. Microsoft opened a New Zealand cloud region in December 2024 and AWS followed in September 2025, both with local data residency.
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