Māori owned businesses
A commercial business with the same admin load as any other, plus supplier diversity reporting and the expectation that you will do it properly.
Where the time goes
- Quoting, invoicing and chasing, the same drag every small business carries.
- Tender and procurement responses that ask the same questions in different words every time.
- Supplier diversity and impact reporting for the buyers who asked for it.
- Growth outrunning the back office.
What we build
- Quote to invoice tightened so finished work stops sitting unbilled.
- Tender response drafting from your own past submissions and capability statements.
- Reporting assembled once and reused across the buyers who ask for it.
Tell us what your week actually looks like
We would rather see the real workload than guess at it. The first conversation costs nothing.
Start a conversationOther organisations we work with
- Iwi organisations and rūnanga
- Post-settlement governance entities
- Māori land trusts and incorporations
- Māori health and social service providers
- Kōhanga reo, kura kaupapa and wharekura
- Māori agribusiness, forestry and fisheries
- Māori tourism operators
- Māori housing providers
This is a plain description of what these frameworks ask for and how we build to them. It is not legal advice, and it is not a claim of endorsement, accreditation or partnership. Where a framework governs your organisation, take your own advice on it.
Inference that answers to tikanga, not just to a benchmark.
We build and run inference against the six principles of Māori data sovereignty set out by Te Mana Raraunga. For an organisation holding data about its own people, that is not a line at the bottom of a page. It decides where the model runs, what it is allowed to see, and who can switch it off.
Māori data stays Māori owned. Running a model over it does not transfer it, licence it, or turn it into training data.
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Rangatiratanga
Authority
You decide what the model may see and what it may do with it. Access is yours to grant and yours to withdraw, and a withdrawal takes effect at the next inference, not at the next contract review.
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Whakapapa
Relationships
Every output can be traced back to the documents, the records and the rules that produced it. Nothing arrives without a provenance you can follow.
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Whanaungatanga
Obligations
Data gathered for one purpose is not quietly turned to another. A new use is a new conversation with you, not a schema change on our side.
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Kotahitanga
Collective benefit
The gain comes back to the people the data came from, as hours returned to their staff and services that work better for their whānau.
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Manaakitanga
Reciprocity
We leave you able to run it without us. Documentation, handover and the right to take the system elsewhere are part of the build, never an exit fee.
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Kaitiakitanga
Guardianship
We hold your data in trust and never take ownership of it. It does not train our models or anyone else’s, it is returned or destroyed on request, and inference runs somewhere you can point at, on-shore or inside your own tenancy.
The six principles are those of Te Mana Raraunga, the Māori Data Sovereignty Network. The commitments beside them are ours.
Built on three things we don’t bend on.
Honesty
We tell you what AI can and cannot do, then we ship the part that pays for itself.
Speed
Find the one workflow costing the most, ship it to production, prove the return.
Care
Success is hours given back to people and dollars saved. Never the size of the invoice.