Hair salons · Applied AI

The version of AI fraud detection that hair salons still use a year after launch.

There is a version of AI fraud detection that hair salons buy off a shelf and quietly stop using inside a month. Then there's the version that's wired into your real workflow, owned by a person on your team, and still in use a year later. We only build the second one.

What AI fraud detection actually does

Pattern-watching AI for refund abuse, chargebacks, fake reviews, employee fiddles, and odd supplier invoices. Flags weirdness early – before it's a real problem.

  • 01 Learns your normal patterns and flags outliers
  • 02 Daily anomaly report, not a constant alert flood
  • 03 Explainable scoring so you can act with confidence
  • 04 Integrates with Xero, Shopify, and POS systems

Built on: Claude DuckDB Postgres Vercel

The hair salons reality

What we keep hearing from NZ hair salons.

  • Salons run on a fully booked chair, and every gap in the calendar is revenue that doesn't come back.
  • Rebooking, no-show follow-ups, and client reminders are what keep a salon's calendar full without constant manual chasing.
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How we build AI fraud detection for hair salons.

We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for a hair salon business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI fraud + anomaly.

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The outcome for hair salons

If we build the right slice first, hair salons feel the difference inside the first month. Recovers 3-5x its cost in caught fraud within 6 months.

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

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*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.

How much is not automating costing you?

Nine hours a week of admin is 468 hours a year. With Kiwi Dynamics, that drops to about 52.

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*Based on 9 hours a week of admin at Kiwi Dynamics' typical 80% automation rate. Your number may vary, the calculator uses your own.

Questions

FAQ

What's a typical engagement length for hair salons?

Six to twelve weeks for the build, then a short managed-services month while the system goes from "shipped" to "owned by your team". After that you keep us on retainer if you want, or take it from there yourself.

Are there hidden costs we should plan for?

Three to know about: model/API spend (which we set up under your own account, not ours, so you see and control it), any new SaaS subscriptions we recommend, and your team's time during rollout. We surface all three in the quote so there are no surprises.

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. Recovers 3-5x its cost in caught fraud within 6 months.

Can you work with our existing systems?

Yes. The default AI fraud detection stack we reach for is Claude, DuckDB, Postgres, Vercel, but we'll bend it around whatever you already run – Xero, HubSpot, Shopify, Cin7, your own in-house apps. The discovery week maps every data source before any build starts.

Worth a conversation?

Even if you don't end up working with us, you'll leave the call knowing what's worth building.

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