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AI consulting, New Zealand

Consultants who build. Most AI consulting ends with a slide deck. Ours ends with a working system — because the people giving you the advice are the engineers who’d build it.

Independent consultancy advice: an honest read on where AI helps your business, what it costs, and what to skip — and if the answer is “you don’t need AI for this”, we’ll say so.

Sound familiar?

Where the conversation usually starts

The question is rarely “should we use AI?” It’s one of these.

“Everyone says we should be using AI. Nobody says where.”

A structured audit of your actual workflows — where AI pays for itself in your business, and where it's a distraction.

“We tried ChatGPT. It didn't stick.”

Tools don't change how work gets done — redesigned workflows do. We map the process first, then fit the AI to it.

“The board wants an AI strategy by next quarter.”

A written, costed, prioritised roadmap you can put in front of a board — realistic returns, not hype.

“Every vendor we talk to says yes to everything.”

We're independent — not reselling a platform, not clipping a licence ticket. If the best answer is off-the-shelf, that's our recommendation.

“We're worried about our data and the Privacy Act.”

Every recommendation comes with the governance answer attached — where data goes, Privacy Act 2020 implications, who's accountable.

“We don't know what any of this should cost.”

Fixed prices, quoted before work starts. You'll know what you're buying.

What the consulting covers

From first question to running system

/01AI Readiness Audit — a costed, prioritised roadmap
/02Workflow & process redesign around AI
/03Vendor-independent tool selection
/04Governance, privacy & responsible-AI compliance
/05Implementation — we build what we recommend
/06The honest “you don't need AI” call
Where to start

Fixed price, fixed scope, no hourly billing

No open-ended engagements. Every piece of consulting starts with a free 30-minute discovery call — and a price agreed before any work begins.

Delivered in under a week

AI Readiness Audit

A structured discovery session and a written report: where AI genuinely helps your business, realistic return on the investment, and a prioritised roadmap — yours to act on with us or anyone else.

Scoped per project, fixed price

Implementation

When the roadmap says build, the same team builds it — assistants, automation, and the connections between your systems — launched with the privacy and governance work already done.

For the systems themselves — AI agents that do work for you, assistants that answer from your own documents, AI wired into your existing tools — see AI development. For plain-English, use-case-first help, see AI for small business.

Proof

We advise from experience, not theory

We run our own advice. Ask Pinnacle answers health questions inside a large New Zealand health network — we spent weeks trying to trick it, 80-plus attack and safety scenarios, before launch. Morris, our own AI operations agent, helps run this studio every day.

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Questions

AI consulting, answered

The basics, answered

An AI consultant finds where AI genuinely helps your business, puts numbers and priorities on it, and — in our case — builds it. Strategy and delivery come from the same team, so the advice has to survive actually being built.

An AI consultant finds where AI genuinely helps your business, puts numbers and priorities on it, and — in our case — builds it. Strategy and delivery come from the same team, so the advice has to survive actually being built.

Fixed prices quoted up front, starting with the AI Readiness Audit. No hourly billing, no open-ended discovery phases. A free 30-minute discovery call is the fastest way to get a real number for your situation.

Fixed prices quoted up front, starting with the AI Readiness Audit. No hourly billing, no open-ended discovery phases. A free 30-minute discovery call is the fastest way to get a real number for your situation.

Yes — MBIE's AI Advisory Pilot co-funds up to 50% of AI advisory work, capped at $15,000 per business, through the Regional Business Partner Network (running to January 2027). The co-funded work has to be delivered by an MBIE-registered advisor, and eligibility and terms change — ask us and we'll point you at the current criteria and where we fit.

Yes — MBIE's AI Advisory Pilot co-funds up to 50% of AI advisory work, capped at $15,000 per business, through the Regional Business Partner Network (running to January 2027). The co-funded work has to be delivered by an MBIE-registered advisor, and eligibility and terms change — ask us and we'll point you at the current criteria and where we fit.

Independent. We don't resell licences or take vendor commissions — a recommendation is what we'd build with our own hands. If the best answer for you is an off-the-shelf tool, that's the recommendation you'll get.

Independent. We don't resell licences or take vendor commissions — a recommendation is what we'd build with our own hands. If the best answer for you is an off-the-shelf tool, that's the recommendation you'll get.

Both — that's the point of consultants who build. The roadmap is yours either way: act on it with us, with your own team, or with anyone else.

Both — that's the point of consultants who build. The roadmap is yours either way: act on it with us, with your own team, or with anyone else.

No; most of the businesses we advise are small and medium-sized ones. Start with the AI Readiness Audit — the first recommendation is usually the smallest thing that pays for itself, not a transformation programme.

No; most of the businesses we advise are small and medium-sized ones. Start with the AI Readiness Audit — the first recommendation is usually the smallest thing that pays for itself, not a transformation programme.

Every engagement writes down exactly where your data goes — including anywhere the AI sends it overseas — under the Privacy Act 2020, before anything goes live. Nothing leaves the country without being disclosed and signed off.

Every engagement writes down exactly where your data goes — including anywhere the AI sends it overseas — under the Privacy Act 2020, before anything goes live. Nothing leaves the country without being disclosed and signed off.

Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand — in your timezone, reachable in your working day, no offshore handoff.

Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand — in your timezone, reachable in your working day, no offshore handoff.

Start with a conversation

Free 30-minute discovery call

Wondering where AI fits your business? Book a free 30-minute discovery call. Describe how the work happens today and we’ll come back with where AI genuinely helps, what it would cost — and what to leave alone.

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