About
A small country. One industry at a time.
New Zealand has around 612,000 businesses and roughly 81,000 of them are in building and construction — the largest industry count in the country. That is why we are not making a generic NZ AI site. We are making the vertical one, starting where the governance gap has a name on it.
What this site is not
- ✕ Not an AI vendor — we do not sell licences
- ✕ Not a news aggregator — we do not republish press releases
- ✕ Not legal advice — our lawyer reads what matters
- ✕ Not a generic policy template. Yours will be one page
The thesis, in one paragraph
87% of New Zealand organisations say they use AI and 12% say they have scaled it. In construction that gap is not caused by a missing tool. It is caused by three things nobody sells together: no list of what may leave the building, no owner of the accounts, and no number that proves what it returned. So we built the three: a scored readiness report, a one-page policy with a PP12 decision path, and a tool ledger priced in New Zealand dollars.
Why construction first
| Test | Result |
|---|---|
| Is the demand documented? | Yes. NZ research records estimators and project managers putting client scopes, priced quotes and variation discussions into public AI tools. |
| Is it a big enough market? | Yes. Around 81,000 firms; 1% of that is 810 paying businesses. |
| Is the pressure countable? | Yes. NZD 74.00 output per hour, against a national small-firm average of NZD 76.30, with 59% of decision-makers worried about closing within 12 months. |
| Is there a law to hang it on? | Privacy Act 2020, cross-border disclosure. Not always enforceable against a builder — but it forces the only useful question: which country. |
| Is the landing space empty? | Mostly. Generic NZ AI readiness scoring exists. Industry-specific, dated, downloadable does not. |
Why not agriculture first
Agriculture has the bigger prize — food and primary exports are forecast at NZD 64.3bn — but it is a hardware and capital business. Virtual fencing, cameras and sensors are products built by companies that raised the money to build them. A content and governance site cannot reach that layer. So agriculture is second, and it gets the same three products once we have 100 real scores from buildings.
What we will not do
- We will not publish a company case study about a business that did not ask to be named.
- We will not publish a percentage improvement without showing how it was measured.
- We will not auto-publish anything a model produced. Machine drafts go in a pull request; a human decides.
- We will not sell your score, and we will not feed it to a model.
Who is behind it
Built and maintained in Aotearoa New Zealand. Everything here is editable and dated: each change carries a date, a source, and a reason, and the pricing ledger moves through a review step rather than a closed document. No vendor, no investor, no agency — the site pays for itself or it does not ship.
If you find a wrong number, you do not need an account to fix it. Tell us what you checked and we will correct it, and note the correction in the next issue.