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AI that serves your kaupapa.
More time for whānau, less on admin.

Funder reports generated from hauora and service data. Hui minutes structured before the day ends. Your data, your cloud, your sovereignty.
6 weeks
time to production
80%
time saved on reporting
99.5%
query accuracy
NZ-hosted
Māori data sovereignty
100% NZ Built, Māori & Pacific Owned
The challenge

Big kaupapa, small team. Admin takes time from whānau.

Iwi organisations, hauora Māori providers, and PSGEs manage significant assets and deliver health, social, and community services with lean teams. Every hour on reporting and admin is an hour not spent with whānau.

Reporting takes time away from whānau

Te Puni Kōkiri, Whānau Ora, MSD, ACC - every funder wants a different report in a different format. Your team spends days each month compiling data manually instead of working with the people you serve.
4+ funderseach requiring separate reporting formats
NZ Māori provider benchmark

Small team, massive mandate

Your organisation manages millions in assets and serves thousands of whānau with a team of 10-50 people. Every manual process takes capacity away from the mahi that matters. You can't hire your way to scale.
10-50typical staff serving thousands of whānau
PSGE and hauora provider data

Governance documentation is a constant task

Rūnanga hui minutes, trust board papers, AGM documentation, settlement deed compliance reporting. Governance demands grow but the team doing the work stays the same size.
12+governance meetings per year needing formal documentation
PSGE governance benchmark

Kaumātua knowledge is irreplaceable

When kaumātua and senior staff leave, their knowledge of tikanga, relationships, and organisational history goes with them. In small organisations, losing one person can mean losing decades of institutional knowledge.
65%of iwi providers say systems don't support whānau-centred models
Health Informatics NZ
The gap

Most AI wasn't built for organisations like yours.

Generic tools that don't understand whānau-centred service models. Chatbots trained on overseas data that know nothing about your rohe. Platforms that send your data offshore and call it “cloud.” You need something different.

The problem was never the technology.

It was finding a partner who understands data sovereignty, respects tikanga, and builds tools that serve your kaupapa - not theirs.

That's what we build.

What changes

From admin burden to time for whānau.

Paper-based whānau intake
Whānau needs captured in notebooks and spreadsheets
Structured intake
Structured intake with service matching and outcome tracking
Manual funder reporting
Funder reporting takes days of manual data compilation
Auto-generated
Automated reports from service data - Te Puni Kōkiri, Whānau Ora, MSD
Delayed hui minutes
Hui minutes written up days after the meeting
AI-structured
Structured minutes with action items and owners, generated in minutes
Spreadsheet asset tracking
Settlement asset risk tracked in spreadsheets
Portfolio visible
Portfolio risk visible across all entities, compliance monitored automatically
Knowledge leaves with kaumātua
Institutional knowledge leaves with kaumātua and senior staff
Platform captures
Platform captures organisational knowledge, accessible to every team member
Disconnected systems
Each system is disconnected from the others
One platform
One platform, shared intelligence, gets smarter over time
This is what AI looks like when it serves your kaupapa. Your team focuses on whānau, not systems.
Your platform

Technology that serves your kaupapa. Built around your organisation.

Your platform is tailored to your organisation - your services, your data, your sovereignty. NZ-hosted, Māori data governance aligned.
Intelligent Knowledge
Foundation
Your organisational knowledge, accessible to every team member.
AI Knowledge Base
Every team member gets instant, accurate answers
Policies, settlement deeds, operational procedures, funding guidelines, and tikanga references. All accessible in seconds. Your team stops searching shared drives and starts getting answers. 99.5% query accuracy in production.
Intelligent Chat
Whānau and staff queries answered with real understanding
Not a scripted bot. A contextual assistant that handles whānau queries, staff questions, and service enquiries with real understanding of your programmes and eligibility criteria. Escalates to humans when needed.
During discovery, we map your knowledge sources to build a foundation every other module learns from.
99.5%
query accuracy
Whānau & Reporting
Service coordination and funder reporting - the two biggest time sinks.
Whānau Service Coordination
Whānau connected to the right services faster
Captures whānau needs from hui, phone calls, and referrals. Matches to eligible programmes across hauora, housing, education, and employment. Tracks outcomes and follow-ups across the whānau journey.
Grant & Funding Reporting
Hours saved on Te Puni Kōkiri, Whānau Ora, and MSD reports
Pulls data from service records and generates funder reports in the required formats. Handles Whānau Ora outcomes reporting, Te Puni Kōkiri milestones, MSD contracts, and bespoke funding agreements.
These two modules give your team capacity back - less time compiling reports, more time with whānau.
80%
time saved on reporting
Governance & Assets
Rūnanga documentation and settlement asset oversight.
Governance & Rūnanga Intelligence
Governance documentation in minutes, not days
Structures rūnanga hui minutes with action items and owners. Summarises board papers for trust boards and PSGEs. Tracks decisions across meetings for accountability and compliance.
Asset & Risk Management
Portfolio risk visible, compliance maintained
Tracks risk across settlement assets, investment portfolios, and operational activities. Monitors compliance with settlement deed obligations and regulatory requirements. Produces structured risk reports for governance.
Governance becomes transparent and trackable. Asset risk is visible across all entities.
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Dashboard
+ Your modules...
Queries Today
86
Accuracy
99.5%
Time Saved
24h
Active Whānau
142
Recent Activity
Whānau Coordination Matched Tāmati whānau to housing programme
3m ago
Reporting Generated Te Puni Kōkiri Q1 report
8m ago
Knowledge Base Answered tikanga query on tangi protocols
14m ago
Governance Structured rūnanga hui minutes
22m ago
See it working

Submit a funding application. Watch it get assessed.

These are real AI modules, running live. Paste a document, click process, see the result. Now imagine it connected to your hauora data and your funder requirements.
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The Impact

Results that compound.

We partner with our clients to deliver results that matter.
0 weeks
avg. time to production
For initial AI release.
0%
extraction accuracy
On production deployments.
0+
AI modules in production
Purpose-built for enterprise operations.
0K+
files in largest RAG
Real knowledge base, real scale.
Packages

Choose how to start. Scale when you're ready.

Starter
Prove the value with one module
From $40K
setup
Then $4K
/mo
(from month 4)
6-8 weeks to production
Foundation (Knowledge Base + AI Chat)
Grant & Funding Reporting module
NZ-hosted, RIVER managed
One module, one outcome. Prove AI works for your team, then expand.
Start this package
Recommended
Growth
Your complete AI operations layer
From $80K
setup
Then $8K
/mo
(from month 4)
10-14 weeks to production
Foundation (Knowledge Base + AI Chat)
Grant Reporting, Hauora Service Coordination, and Governance
1 data integration
Cross-module intelligence sharing
Team onboarding and training
NZ-hosted, Māori data sovereignty aligned
Complete coverage across reporting, services, and governance. Connected and ready.
Start this package
Custom
Asset management, multi-entity, and beyond
Pricing scoped during discovery based on your requirements and integration complexity.
Settlement asset and investment tracking
Multi-entity configurations (iwi, hapū, trust)
Whānau Ora outcomes framework integration
Cultural data governance and sovereignty controls
Need asset management across multiple entities, Whānau Ora integration, or cultural data governance? We scope the platform around your organisational structure.
Talk to our team
For the cost of one senior hire, your entire team gets AI-powered tools. Every module you add compounds value.
Māori data sovereignty aligned. NZ-hosted infrastructure (your cloud - AWS or Azure - or RIVER-managed). You own your data and workflows, with code access available. Pricing based on platform complexity and team size, scoped during discovery.
Common questions

What you need to know. Before your first conversation.

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