Est. 2017 · Aotearoa
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
How we work
Start where it suits you. Each step stands alone, and each one sets up the next.
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.
Learn more →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.
Learn more →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.
Talk to us →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.
Get started →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.
Explore the Academy →What is an AI OS?
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.
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.
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.
Your methodology, brand voice, templates and past work encoded and reusable. Consistent quality across every team member, every time.
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.
AI workflows configured for your most common output types: proposals, reports, meeting minutes, client communications, advisory documents.
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.
Learn more about the AI OSProof
Some of the organisations we're proud to work with, from national institutions to fast-moving mid-sized firms.
Client case story
An AI assistant inside Aspire's own management portal, grounded in its SOPs, the Residential Tenancies Act and six insurance policies. It drafts across email and WhatsApp, and is designed so a property manager approves every message.
Read the case story~3,749
Hours a year released across four workflows (estimated)
$299,920
Indicative annual value of that time (estimated)
4
Workflows built into Aspire's own portal
8,000+
Drafts generated against real inbound email since August, reviewed ahead of rollout
Certify by AI New Zealand · Self-paced certificate courses
AI at Work Foundations for everyone before they are handed the tools, AI Leaders for the person responsible for all of it, and Claude or Copilot, whichever your organisation actually runs on. All four are self-paced, built on New Zealand workplace scenarios, and end in a certificate from AI New Zealand.
AI at Work Foundations Course
What you should know before working with AI.
The rules you work inside, what these tools are and where they fail, what they can already reach, and what stays your job. Written for New Zealand workplaces, and tool-neutral.
$95 pp + GST
One price for everyone, at any volume
AI Leaders Course
A self-paced certificate course for the person made responsible for AI across an organisation. Set the rules, bring your people with you, and finish with a ninety day plan you can defend in front of a board.
$495 pp + GST
$295 pp + GST for 5 or more
Claude at Work Course
Build an AI that knows your organisation, writes in your voice, follows your standards, and takes whole jobs off your desk while you keep the judgement.
$235 pp + GST
Lower rates for teams on a Business account
Microsoft Copilot Course
Become genuinely useful with Copilot: work safely inside your organisation's data, hand real jobs to Copilot in Word, Outlook, Forms, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams, and use Researcher, Analyst and custom agents.
$235 pp + GST
Lower rates for teams on a Business account
Training a whole team? Business, Corporate and Industry association accounts get their own course page, and lower rates from the first seat on AI Leaders, Claude at Work and Microsoft Copilot. Talk to us or set one up on Certify.
Certificates issued by AI New Zealand. AI Leaders is awarded on a human-marked final assessment; AI at Work Foundations, Claude at Work and Microsoft Copilot on completion. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Microsoft, Anthropic or any other AI vendor.
Insights
Research, insights and best practice for companies making the move.
AI Operating System
2026 AI Roadshow Notes
Who's behind AI New Zealand
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."
Our impact
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
Updated September 2026 · verified from the AI New Zealand client platform. Hours and cost saved are counted from live use cases only.