AI systems for New Zealand trade businesses
Your gear on the hook, and the place still running.
Free · 15 min · no pitch deck
Why this one is different
Every good tradie you've ever hired started out useless. You showed them how you quote, how you talk to a customer, what good looks like on site. A year later they were worth every cent.
Then they left, and you started again.
AI is the same deal with one difference. You train it once. It doesn't get poached, doesn't call in sick, and doesn't take everything it learned down the road to a competitor.
The ladder
Everything about how you work goes in. Your pricing, your process, the way you talk to a customer. It isn't useful yet. Neither was your first apprentice.
The day-to-day, done properly. It sorts what comes in, tells you what actually matters, and takes on the stuff you've been doing at nine at night. You still check its work.
By now it's in everything. Quotes, scheduling, follow-ups, and all the stuff that falls between people. It chases what went quiet, keeps jobs moving, and flags what needs you before it turns into a problem. The business runs tighter and earns better than it did when you were holding all of it yourself.
Rung 01 is proven. Rung 02 is harder than it sounds. Rung 03 is where this goes — not a three-week guarantee.
The part everyone skips
People buy a tool, type a question into it, get something generic back, and decide AI doesn't work for their trade. They were right about the answer and wrong about the reason.
The first stretch is unglamorous. It's sitting down and getting your pricing, your process and the way you talk to a customer out of your head and into something that can use it. Skip that and you get a very confident stranger guessing.
Who you'd be working with
I'm Ivan. I build the systems myself.
I grew up around technology and computers, so this stuff is second nature — not something I crammed for a course last year. I also like getting outside, exploring, and playing sport. I'm not a full tech nerd.
I started a business because I wanted what I get out of it to match the work I put in. I'm in it for the challenge.
If I don't think this will move the needle for you, I'll say so on the call rather than sell you a project.
The goal isn't to add AI to your business. It's to stop your business waiting on you.
What happens in the 15 minutes
No deck and no pitch. It's a quick run of questions so I can understand a bit more about how your business runs and where you're trying to take it.
Then I'll tell you whether there's something here worth doing, and what I'd start with. If there isn't, I'll say that instead.