New Zealand · Construction & engineering

Your crew is already using AI. Nobody is running it.

87% of New Zealand organisations use AI. 12% have actually scaled it. In building and engineering that gap is not a technology problem — it is a governance, record-keeping and ROI problem. We close it, one industry at a time.

87% → 12%organisations using AI vs scaling it
81%of staff bring their own AI tools
13%of NZ SMEs have an AI policy

Where the time actually goes

  • 1 Rewriting the same client email for the tenth time this week
  • 2 Re-typing a scope of works from a drawing set by hand
  • 3 Chasing variation discussion that only exists in a recording
  • 4 Building a tender pack the night before it is due
  • 5 Finding out somebody pasted a client price into a free tool

The gap

Adoption is not the problem. Landing it is.

Every one of these numbers is published, and every one of them comes from a New Zealand source. We are not inventing a trend — we are reading the same reports your bank and your insurer have already read.

87% → 12%use AI vs scale it (embedAI, 2026)

Five sixths of firms stop at the experiment. The value is in the other 12% — the ones where AI sits inside a process with an owner.

81% / 13%staff BYOAI vs firms with a policy

Your people have already voted with their login details. The only question left is whether you set the boundary or find it after a leak.

NZD 400kaverage FY25 earnings gap, AI vs non-AI SME

Deloitte Access Economics for 2degrees. It averages across every industry — use it to start the conversation, never to close a deal.

What we build

Three layers. One vertical to start.

Tool layer

AI readiness score → dated report

Twelve questions covering what may go into a tool, where the data sits, who owns the accounts and whether anyone measures the return. You get a scored report with a reference number, not a certificate.

Run the score →

Document layer

Industry AI policy + PP12 path

One page people sign, plus the decision path for Privacy Act 2020 Principle 12: can this document leave the building, which country does it land in, do you need a DPA.

Get the policy pack →

Content layer

Tool ledger with real NZD costs

15 tools priced in New Zealand dollars, with the data region and the PP12 risk of each one — updated, dated and versioned in public.

Open the ledger →

The record

Numbers we can show you the source of.

87% → 12% 87% of NZ organisations use AI. 12% have scaled it.
81% BYOAI · 13% policy 81% of staff bring their own AI tools to work; 13% of NZ SMEs have an AI policy.
≈ NZD 400k SMEs using AI earned roughly NZD 400,000 more on average than those that did not.
NZD 74.00 / hr Building small firms produce NZD 74.00 per hour, against a national small-business average of NZD 76.30.
Every figure on this site carries a source and a date. When something is an estimate — including the hourly recovery figure in a score report — it is marked as one. See methodology and sources.

Start with 40 minutes

Find out where your firm actually stands.

The score takes about twelve minutes. You will leave with a band, five dimension scores, the three things to fix first, and a dated report you can keep.