AI lead qualification for cafes and restaurants.
AI scores your leads, built around how a cafe or restaurant actually works.
Rosters that account for 11 public holidays, including Matariki, plus your anniversary day, without a spreadsheet.
What AI lead qualification actually does
Every form-fill, every missed call, every Instagram DM - scored, enriched, and routed within minutes. With the right workflow automated, nine hours of admin a week could drop to about one.*
*Illustrative example only, based on 9 hours a week of admin falling to about 1 hour a week. Actual results vary by workflow and business.
On the tools or running at scale, the admin still eats the week :)
Quotes with GST, consent paperwork, LBP records and health and safety logs: the admin every New Zealand trade business carries.
*Illustrative example based on nine hours a week of admin. Actual results vary by workflow and business.
Small team.
Real systems.
Zero fluff.
What AI lead qualification covers
We'd call the engagement a success when cafes and restaurants are using the system without thinking about us.
- Auto-enriches with NZBN, company size, and history
- Scores using your past won/lost deals as training data
- Hot leads get SMS-routed to the right rep instantly
- Cold leads enter nurture, not the bin
- No shelfware or licences you do not use
- No AI theatre
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.
Where most cafes and restaurants engagements actually deliver value.
Hospitality runs on thin margins where a missed booking, a bad review left unanswered, or a slow roster costs real money.
Reservations, reviews, and rostering are the recurring admin that pulls owners off the floor.
Questions cafes and restaurants ask
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.
How long does AI lead qualification take to ship for cafes and restaurants?
We aim for a working pilot inside 4-6 weeks - narrow scope, real cafes and restaurants data, measurable outcome. From there it's another 6-8 weeks of hardening before you'd consider it production. Full rollouts (multiple sites, multiple teams) typically land in 3-4 months.
Who owns the code and the model setup?
You do, on delivery. We deploy AI lead qualification into your own cloud account where possible, with the model setup, prompts, evals and integration code all checked into a repo you own. Claude sits in your account too - we don't operate it from ours.
Does it keep up with KiwiSaver changes?
It has to. The minimum employer contribution rose to 3.5 per cent on 1 April 2026 and rises to 4 per cent on 1 April 2028.
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.
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