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Est. 2017 · Aotearoa

Everyone has AI.
The difference is you.

Some organisations are leaping ahead with AI enhancing their people & processes. Others are stuck, wondering where to start. We help with practical advice, training, tools and custom solutions built for people ready to work smarter, move faster and grow.

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The gap

Your team already has AI.
Results are another story.

Copilot is switched on. ChatGPT and Claude are ready to answer. A few people are doing genuinely impressive things, most aren't, and the gap widens every week.

Scattered experiments.

Everyone prompts their own way, so quality depends on who happens to be at the keyboard. Your team's best thinking stays trapped in individual chat histories.

Pilots without owners.

The demo impresses, then drifts. No named owner, no baseline, no target, so nothing moves on the P&L. That's AI theatre & potential left on the table.

Risk nobody governs.

Company data in personal accounts. No guardrails on what AI drafts, checks or decides. The exposure grows quietly while the policy sits in a drawer.

Those who implement AI in a measured and managed way will outperform those who don't.

The difference is in your people, and the questions you ask along the way.

The NZ AI Benchmark

What stage is your business at? What's your next step?

Forty questions about a normal Tuesday in your organisation. Twenty minutes. Your stage on the AI Playbook's five, the trap at that stage, and the one move that takes you one stage up. Free, and no account needed to start.

  • Against best practice, now. Every dimension shows the stage you are at and what good looks like one stage up.
  • Against other New Zealand organisations, as the cohort grows. Peer comparison opens once 20 organisations in your industry, size band or region have taken it.
  • Honest by design. Not sure is a valid answer. It counts as a visibility gap, never as a low score.
40 questions 8 dimensions 5 stages 20 minutes
How the benchmark works →

Four quick answers to start.

These make the benchmark possible. No name or contact details are collected here.

Takes you straight to question one on the client platform.

How we work

A clear pathway, not another pilot.

Start where it suits you. Each step stands alone, and each one sets up the next.

1

Executive AI Briefing.

3 hours · leadership team, max 15

Three hours with your leadership team to align on where AI creates the most value in your business. You leave with a high-level roadmap, our recommendations, and guardrails for safe, responsible use, so you move a metric, not a use case.

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2

AI Lunch & Learn.

1 hour · your whole team

A fast, practical session on what AI is, what it isn't, and how Kiwi businesses are using it right now. Live tool demos, real use cases and open Q&A. The quickest way to get everyone past the fear, over the hype & on the same page.

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3

Use Cases and Roadmap.

moving metrics

Your whole team submits use cases through your AI New Zealand client portal, where we review and prioritise them into a detailed, comprehensive Roadmap. Our readiness assessment and recommendations show your leadership why, where and how to invest in AI for measurable business impact.

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4

AI Operating System.

Built in weeks · improves every month

Your methodology, templates and past work encoded once and shared by everyone, connected to Microsoft 365 and the tools your team already uses. Governed properly: AI drafts, humans approve. This is the stage where the value compounds.

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5

AI Academy training.

Ongoing · every role

Weekly AI Toolkit webinars, the Microsoft Copilot, Claude at Work and AI Leaders certificate courses, and a growing library of resources and templates. Practical skills for the people who do the work, not just the keen early adopters. Capability across the whole team is what separates results from theatre.

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What is an AI OS?

Built for how your business actually works.

Five integrated layers that turn AI from a personal productivity tool into a company-wide operating capability. The order matters. Governance sits at the top and Skills at the bottom, because the thing most organisations buy first is the thing that should be built last.

Layer 1

Governance layer.

The policies and guidelines that set the guardrails for judgement and decisions. What your people are trusted to decide with AI, what has to come back to a human, and where the lines sit. AI drafts. Humans approve.

Layer 2

Processes layer.

Your standard operating procedures, owned and documented. Baseline metrics captured before anything changes, so every updated workflow shows measurable impact rather than a feeling that things are faster.

Layer 3

Knowledge layer.

Your methodology, brand voice, templates and past work encoded and reusable. Consistent quality across every team member, every time.

Layer 4

Integrations layer.

Connections to the sources of information your people need to complete a task. Microsoft 365, CRM, Teams, SharePoint and the tools your team already use every day.

Layer 5

Skills layer.

AI workflows configured for your most common output types: proposals, reports, meeting minutes, client communications, advisory documents.

The shift

Everyone is buying the skills layer. The future thinkers are investing in the integrations layer.

The AI OS is operational infrastructure. Designed to integrate data, process and people in one platform that can scale and flex with your business.

Your firm's thinking, standards and past work become systemised and reusable, so the whole team produces high-quality work faster and more consistently.

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Proof

You're in great company.

Some of the organisations we're proud to work with, from national institutions to fast-moving mid-sized firms.

Rabobank
Samsung
Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Department of Conservation
Bayleys
House Of Travel
WellingtonNZ
TEC
NZFC
PMG
Antipodes
Business Mentors
LawPlus
Hospice
Just Cabins
Motive
Gillies Group
Research Review
APD
AoFrio
GWE
Aspire Property Management Your Way Kia Roha Hunter Civil
"Your AI Lunch n Learn has sparked a long list of potential use cases for AI in our company."
George B. Construction company
"The Exec AI Briefing was a brilliant way to kick off our AI journey. Our AI Roadmap is super exciting."
Damian T. Professional services company
"In just half an hour a week you've boosted my AI confidence 10 fold!"
Lisa S. AI Toolkit Webinars member

AI Academy · Self-paced Certificate Courses

Three courses. Two teach the tools.
One teaches you to lead.

Copilot or Claude, whichever your organisation actually runs on, and AI Leaders for the person responsible for all of it. All three are self-paced, built on New Zealand workplace scenarios, and end in a certificate from AI New Zealand. Start any time, finish with something you can use on Monday.

AI Leaders

From Enthusiasm to Evidence.
The AI Leaders course.

You've been made responsible for AI. You finish this vendor-neutral course able to walk into your executive team with a mandate, a register, a costed plan and a risk position, and defend every one of them.

37 lessons 7 practical tasks Human-marked assessment

What you'll be able to do.

Six things you can't do today.

  • Get your AI mandate in writing
  • Know which AI tools staff use
  • Set rules for data and sign-off
  • Pick the AI ideas worth doing
  • Cost AI projects, prove the return
  • Defend AI decisions to the board

Before you start: if you've used ChatGPT or Copilot, that's the whole prerequisite. No paid AI subscription, no code and no software to buy.

$495 pp + GST

$295 pp + GST for groups of 5 or more

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Claude at Work

From Prompts to Projects. The Claude at Work course.

A self-paced course that leaps you past ad hoc chats to delegating real work. You finish with a Project that knows your organisation, real outputs from your own work, and a certificate that proves capability, not attendance.

15 core lessons 9 checkpoints Certificate of achievement

What you'll build.

Six things that exist when you finish.

  • A Project that knows your company
  • Documents that come out on brand
  • One workflow properly redesigned
  • A reusable Skill that runs it
  • A scheduled task that runs early
  • A clear head on what never to delegate

Before you start: you'll need a paid Claude plan with Cowork access, and one folder of real work. The free plan won't get you through Section 3.

$235 pp + GST

$199 pp + GST for groups of 10 or more

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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot Certificate Course.

For organisations serious about embedding Copilot into how they actually work. Not another generic tool walkthrough: a modular, scenario-based course built from a year of Copilot workshops run with New Zealand businesses.

46 lessons 3 modules Certificate of achievement

What you'll master.

From first prompt to custom agents.

  • Generative AI foundations and safety
  • Prompting with purpose
  • Documents, communication and data
  • Deep research for real business use
  • Building custom agents

Before you start: you'll need a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence. The free version won't give you the integrations this course relies on.

$235 pp + GST

$199 pp + GST for groups of 10 or more

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Training a whole team? Talk to us about group bookings.

Certificates issued by AI New Zealand. The AI Leaders Certificate is awarded on a human-marked board paper. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Microsoft, Anthropic or any other AI vendor.

AI Academy

Upcoming webinars.

Live, practical sessions every week in the AI Academy. Learn the tools, see them in action and ask your questions. AI Toolkit webinars are for Premium Members.

The AI Toolkit: Build Workflow Two, The Project Activity Tracker

FRI 25 Sep · 11:00am NZT · 45 min

Build Workflow Two: The Project Activity Tracker

AI Toolkit webinar · Justin Flitter

90 registered

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The AI Toolkit: Build Workflow Three, Together

FRI 9 Oct · 11:00am NZT · 45 min

Build Workflow Three, Together

AI Toolkit webinar · Justin Flitter

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The AI Toolkit: Deploy All Three, For Real

FRI 16 Oct · 11:00am NZT · 45 min

Deploy All Three, For Real

AI Toolkit webinar · Justin Flitter

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Insights

Our latest articles. More in the Academy.

Research, insights and best practice for companies making the move.

AI Operating System

Everyone is buying the skills layer. Almost nobody is buying the integration layer.

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2026 AI Roadshow Notes

AI is no longer just about content generation. It is becoming operational infrastructure.

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Insights

What comes after LLMs now has a New Zealand face on it.

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Justin Flitter, founder of AI New Zealand

Who's behind AI New Zealand

Champions of AI for business since 2017.

Justin Flitter founded AI New Zealand in 2017 to help business leaders discover why, where and how to leverage Artificial Intelligence. Since then the team has helped thousands of Kiwi organisations with practical advice and training, from leadership tables to workshop floors across the country.

"Adoption automates today's work. Value lives in redesigning it."

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Our impact

9 years and counting.

We started ahead of the curve. Now we help organisations across Aotearoa leverage this rapidly changing technology to work smarter, move faster and grow.

Advice at the leadership table. Training for the people doing the work. And implementation that embeds AI into everyday workflows.

We're proud to work with teams of five to workforces of 500 plus in forward-thinking organisations across Aotearoa. Including professional services, construction, manufacturing, engineering, not-for-profit and government organisations.

Client verified metrics

484
Client engagements
495
Use cases evaluated
48,383
Annual hours saved
$6.84M
Annual costs saved

Updated September 2026 · verified from the AI New Zealand client platform. Hours and cost saved are counted from live use cases only.