Now supporting the MBIE AI Advisory Pilot to help NZ businesses adopt AI responsibly.
Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Utilising AI to enable future-fit businesses.

We help organisations across Aotearoa and Australia harness AI as a genuine enabler, so your people, processes and operations are optimised, empowered and ready for what's next.

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Industries we work across

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Our accolades in the world of AI

MBIE

AI pilot delivery partner

The AI Assembly

Proud principal sponsor

AI Forum New Zealand

Active member

Karrina Mountfort presenting at the New Zealand IT & AI Job Forum, University of Auckland

What we do

Learn, plan, build, maintain: one clear path to AI that works.

100+

Workshops delivered across NZ & Australia

Hands-on

Led personally by Karrina, not outsourced

Vendor-neutral

Paid for honest advice, never to sell tools

Learn — Webbased AI01

Learn

Build the understanding first.

Workshops and briefings that build genuine AI capability across your people, before any tools are bought.

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Plan — Webbased AI02

Plan

A roadmap around your workflows.

We map where you are, prioritise the real opportunities, and build a board-ready AI roadmap.

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Build — Webbased AI03

Build

Build it out across the org.

We implement and embed the right tools into your workflows, people and operations, with adoption built in.

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Maintain — Webbased AI04

Maintain

Keep the flame lit.

Ongoing optimisation, governance and support so your AI stays effective and keeps improving.

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Trusted by teams across Aotearoa & Australia

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How we work

People first. Workflows before tools.

Every engagement starts with your people, because AI should accelerate good workflows, not entrench bad ones.

We start with your team, building the AI capability and confidence to make smart decisions about where to apply it. Understanding comes before strategy. Strategy comes before spend.

  • Executive briefings and workshops
  • Team-wide AI capability programme
  • Shared language across the organisation

We map your existing workflows end to end, identifying where they are working, where they are breaking, and where they no longer fit the business you are becoming.

  • Workflow and capability audit
  • Friction and opportunity identification
  • AI readiness baseline

Before any technology gets added, we ensure your workflows are sound and standardised. AI should accelerate good workflows, not entrench broken ones.

  • Workflow redesign and standardisation
  • Governance and policy frameworks
  • ROI-first prioritisation roadmap

With strong workflows in place, we identify which AI capabilities genuinely add value, and apply only those. No vendor lock-in. No shiny-object distractions.

  • Tool selection and configuration
  • System integration and automation
  • Pilot deployment and iteration

We shift your team into AI-assisted ways of working, lifting capacity without lifting headcount in lockstep. We stay until it is yours to own.

  • Change management and adoption
  • Ongoing optimisation cycles
  • Quarterly reviews and compliance monitoring

Who we work with

Sectors right across
New Zealand and Australia.

AI creates value differently in every industry. We bring sector-specific experience so you are not starting from first principles, we already understand your workflows, constraints, and competitors.

Healthcare

Clinical ops, admin automation, patient communication

Construction

Estimating, project management, site reporting

Manufacturing

Production planning, quality control, supply chain

Engineering

Design workflows, documentation, project delivery

Education

Student support, assessment, institutional admin

Hospitality

Reservations, guest experience, procurement

Professional Services

Knowledge management, client work, proposal generation

Retail & Wholesale

Demand forecasting, inventory, customer service

Government

Service delivery, document processing, consultation

Financial Services

Compliance, reporting, customer advice support

Not-for-Profit

Impact reporting, grant management, stakeholder comms

Technology

Product development, support, internal ops

Marketing

Content, campaigns, research and reporting

E-commerce

Merchandising, customer service, demand forecasting

Property

Listings, transactions, tenant and asset management

Agriculture

Farm operations, agritech, compliance and reporting

Startups

Lean teams moving fast, AI built in from day one

Transport & Logistics

Fleet, freight, routing and supply chain

Legal

Contract review, research, matter management

Insurance

Claims, underwriting, customer service

What we connect to & build

Vendor-neutral by design — we integrate the tools you already use and build what sits between them.

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The return

Real results. Measurable outcomes.

60–90min
saved per person, per task through AI-enabled workflows
$14–22k
annual productivity value per person, based on ANZ salary benchmarks
Weeks
typical payback period from first deployment, not months, not years
99%
of workshop participants rate the training as immediately applicable
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Karrina Mountfort speaking at the PNZ Business Symposium 2025

In their words

“Our strength is years of experience, identifying the real problem, delivering a solution that fits, and enabling the team to own it.”

Karrina Mountfort

Founder & CEO, Webbased AI

What we prevent

AI FOMO

Chasing tools because competitors are. Buying software before defining the problem. We slow this down and save the spend that would have been wasted.

Skipping your people

Rolling out AI without taking your team with you. Adoption fails not because the technology is wrong, but because the change process was absent.

Loose governance

Using AI without policies or guardrails. One incident can undo months of goodwill. We build governance frameworks before they are needed.

Begin your AI journey

Work with people who have done this before.

A thirty-minute discovery conversation. No pitch deck. No commitment. Just a clear picture of where AI can take your organisation.

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