We've worked with enough operators in Waiheke Island 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 outbound sales project is sit with your team for a day before we propose anything.
Outbound that doesn't sleep, built for businesses operating in Waiheke Island.
Our goal is to give Waiheke Island businesses a three-day weekend, so people can spend more time with their families and the people they love :)
What AI outbound sales actually does
An AI sales agent that runs your outbound - researches prospects, personalises the pitch, sends the first 3 touches, and only hands a warm reply to a human. Hits the activity numbers no SDR can keep up with, without the spammy blast feel.
- 01 Lookalike prospect lists built from your best existing customers
- 02 Personalised first-touch emails and LinkedIn messages - not templated
- 03 Auto-followups across email + SMS until they reply or opt out
- 04 Warm replies routed straight to your CRM with full context
Built on: Claude + GPT-4 for messaging Apollo / Clay for enrichment HubSpot or your existing CRM Twilio for SMS, Gmail / Outlook for email
What you actually get
Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. This is what is in the box.
- A working pilot, in productionNot a prototype on someone's laptop. The first slice of AI outbound sales runs against real work within weeks.
- Your data stays yoursIt runs on your accounts and your tools. If we part ways you keep the system and everything in it.
- The workflow mapped before codeWe write down what good looks like for Waiheke Island businesses first, so nobody is guessing at handover.
- Support after it landsThe people who built it stay reachable when the business changes shape around it.
How AI outbound sales compares
The two things most businesses do instead, and where each one runs out.
| Hiring for it | An off-the-shelf tool | Kiwi Dynamics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to how you work | Fits perfectly, costs a salary | You bend your process to suit the tool | Built around the workflow you already run |
| Time to something useful | Immediate, and permanent | Quick to switch on, slow to make fit | A working slice in weeks, then hardened |
| Who owns the data | You do | The vendor, on the vendor's terms | You do, in your own accounts |
| When it breaks | That person sorts it, if they are in | A support queue and a ticket number | The people who built it |
| What it costs | A salary, every year, forever | Per seat, forever, used or not | Scoped and quoted up front |
What's different about doing this work in Waiheke Island.
- Waiheke is wine, hospitality, and high-touch tourism - AI here handles the spike when the ferry lands.
- Cellar doors, restaurants, accommodation, and the trades that maintain it all. AI tools that handle bookings and reviews quietly are gold.
We work with teams across Waiheke Island: Oneroa · Onetangi · Palm Beach · Surfdale · Ostend.
Talk to us about this →How we build AI outbound sales for a Waiheke Island team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Waiheke Island business, so value lands before the build is finished. Outbound that doesn't sleep.
Talk to usHow the work runs
- Find the one workflowWe look for the job costing Waiheke Island businesses the most hours or the most leads, and deliberately ignore the rest for now.
- Ship a working sliceA narrow version goes into production in weeks, against real work, so the value shows up before the build is finished.
- Prove it, then widenWe measure it against what the work cost before. If it does not pay for itself, we say so rather than scaling it.
- Harden and hand overLogging, fallbacks and a real handover, so it keeps running when we are not in the room.
The outcome for Waiheke Island teams
One NZ SaaS team replaced two outbound SDRs with an AI agent + one closer - 3× the meetings booked, same pipeline cost. For Waiheke Island 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.
FAQ
When does AI outbound sales 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 Waiheke Island - so the savings start landing before the rest of the build is finished.
How do you price AI outbound sales 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 Waiheke Island businesses are surprised how small the first cheque is.
Anyone else in this space using AI outbound sales?
Plenty. One NZ SaaS team replaced two outbound SDRs with an AI agent + one closer - 3× the meetings booked, same pipeline cost. 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.
Will this run on our own infrastructure?
Yes, where it makes sense. AI outbound sales can sit entirely in your cloud account, with model calls routed through endpoints you control. We default to Claude + GPT-4 for messaging, Apollo / Clay for enrichment, HubSpot or your existing CRM, Twilio for SMS, Gmail / Outlook for email but the architecture supports your existing platform choices.
Talk to us about this
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it - no obligation.