Where to start
Where should a small business start with AI?
One process, measured in hours, before any tool.
AI for small business.
Privacy
Is it safe to put your business data into AI tools?
Four questions to ask before anyone pastes client details into a chatbot.
Trust
Can you trust what AI gets wrong?
Where AI is reliable, where it isn’t, and how to keep a person in charge.
Funding
The AI Advisory Pilot: co-funded AI help for small businesses
Who can apply, what it pays for, and how to prepare.
Owning your software.
Owned or rented
Custom software or another subscription: what should your business own?
Count what you rent today, see where subscriptions are the right call, and where owning a system is better.
Automation without the hype.
Where to start
What should a small business automate first?
Map a week of work, score the repeated steps, and keep people where judgement matters.
Your data.
Data sovereignty
Where does your data live? Questions to ask any software supplier
Storage, access, exports, AI training and Māori data: what to ask before you sign up.
Systems by industry.
Seasonal work
Running a seasonal workforce: from spreadsheets to one system
What breaks each season, and how one system can carry workers and employers through it.
Planning a system.
Dashboard requirements
What should a custom dashboard actually help our team do?
Work backwards from decisions and actions to information, freshness, access and a useful first scope.
Connecting existing software
Can we connect our existing systems instead of replacing everything?
Assess what you can keep, where a connection could help, and when replacing a tool makes more sense.
See the systems behind the questions.
Invoices, FitFam, Hero and SeasonReady each started as a problem. Their pages show the system behind what people use.