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Auckland · Private AI for NZ business

AI that works for your business.
In your building.

We set up private AI on a computer you own, and teach it how your business runs: your prices, your paperwork, your way of doing things. It answers enquiries, drafts quotes and reports, and finds anything in your files in seconds. Your information stays with you, and there's no bill every time someone asks it a question.

A fixed price for each stage, agreed before we start. Stop at any stage and keep what's been built.

$0
Per-question fees. Once it's set up, use it as much as you like
Yours
Runs on your machine, not someone else's cloud
24/7
Works after hours, and we're told if anything stops
Auckland
Based here. We come to you when it matters
In practice

What this looks like in a real business

Worked examples of the jobs we set up. Yours gets built around how your business actually runs.

Venue
A venue or hospitality business
A function enquiry lands at 9pm on Saturday. By Monday morning it's been answered with the right package and available dates, logged in your booking system, and the big ones are flagged for a call. Nothing sits waiting in an inbox. Before: Monday morning spent clearing emails. After: ten minutes checking what went out.
Trades
A builder or trade business
Your estimator asks, "What did we charge for the last three bathroom jobs in Ponsonby, and where did we go over?" and gets the answer from your own job files in seconds. When a government tender drops, it reads the whole document overnight and gives you one page: what they want, the deadline, the deal-breakers, and whether it's worth your time.
Advisors
An accountant or professional services firm
Overnight, bank lines are matched against invoices, and the handful that don't add up are waiting on a short list in the morning. Client files stay on your machine. That matters when you're holding other people's financial records.
Anyone
Any business with "the person who knows"
Every business has someone who knows where everything is. We put that knowledge where the whole team can ask it: "How do we set up a new client?" "Which supplier do we use for glass?" It answers from your own documents, and it doesn't go quiet when they're on holiday.

We run this setup on our own business every day. You get what we already use.

  • GLM
  • nomic
  • Open WebUI
  • Hermes
  • DeepSeek
  • Kimi
  • OpenAI
  • OpenClaw
  • Goose
  • Whisper
  • Tavily
Sound familiar?

The four things every business asks us

Straight answers, not a technology pitch.

Q1
"I want to use AI but I don't know where to start."
You don't start with AI. You start with where your hours go. That's a 30-minute conversation about your week, not a technology pitch — and it's free. We'll tell you honestly if AI isn't the answer yet.
Q2
"I use Claude/ChatGPT as a chatbot, but I've no idea how to make it a tool for my business."
That's the gap almost every business is stuck in: talking to AI instead of AI doing work. We connect it to the actual work — enquiries answered, bookings routed, reports drafted — so it works while nobody's watching a chat window.
Q3
"We hold sensitive data. How do we know AI won't compromise it?"
Because it stays in your building. The models run on your own hardware — your customer data doesn't travel to anyone's cloud, including ours. We'll walk your IT person or advisor through the exact network path before anything is deployed.
Q4
"We don't want AI to become another agency-style cost that never ends."
Neither do we. That's the whole reason we built it this way. Fixed price per stage, quoted before we start. Stop at any stage and keep everything built. And because it runs locally, there's no per-use meter — heavy use costs you nothing extra.
The questions worth asking

What most people don't think to ask AI

What does your business know that isn't written down?

We capture it, privately, so the business doesn't depend on one person's head.

Business Memory

What would you do if AI cost nothing per question?

You'd use it on everything, all day. With your own machine, you can.

Always-on Reader

Which model is right for your job this month?

New AI comes out every month. We test it on your actual work and tell you when something's worth switching to.

Model Fit Report

Where does your data legally have to live?

We'll show you where your information goes today, and what stays in your building once we're done.

Data Residency Check

We run every one of these on LIVECLAW first. You get what we already use.

Client work

Work that's live now

Every engagement starts where the client needs it most. For Parked Up that was a website and booking automation. Shared Breath and Music Over Matter are our own music projects, built on the same setup, so we use what we sell.

parkedup.co.nz
Live Parked Up — Event Venue, Victoria Park
Historic 1905 villa venue in Auckland's CBD. Full staged delivery: rescue form → complete site → booking-system integration.
AI applied: enquiries route straight into the venue's management dashboard, monitored weekly so none are silently lost.
Visit site
sharedbreath.nz
Live Shared Breath — Music Collective, Muriwai
Auckland songwriters recording from the west coast; debut EP "Sunset Muriwai". Minimalist, typography-led site.
AI applied: concept to deployed site in days through our AI build pipeline, at a budget a collective can afford.
Visit site
musicovermatter.co.nz
Live Music Over Matter — Independent Record Label
Our own Tāmaki Makaurau label, behind Shared Breath: releases, roster and philosophy.
AI applied: two related brands built and maintained through one AI pipeline — updated by automation, not agency retainers.
Visit site
What we deploy

AI that lives in your business, not in someone else's cloud

Every setup runs on the same system we run our own business on, sized to your hardware and configured to the way your operation actually runs.

One machine or three. Sized to your business, fixed price, and yours to keep.

Get your hours back
Get back hours every week — handled by AI that runs on your own hardware, so heavy use costs you nothing.
  • Local AI deployment — private models on your own hardware, loaded with your documents, prices and processes.
  • Business automation & agents — enquiry routing, reporting, reconciliation, running autonomous and monitored, 24/7.
Tighter process, faster response
Fewer handoffs, faster follow-ups, fewer mistakes.
  • Websites & booking automation — a site that wins enquiries, dual-path delivery so nothing gets lost, weekly monitoring so we notice problems before you do.
A team doing the work that matters
Your people stop doing the repetitive stuff. That runs quietly in the background, on your hardware, and your team still decides what goes out.
  • Tools that save time and money — an inbox reader that never misses a lead, a business memory your team can ask, overnight document audits. Built on your hardware, running every day.
We keep up with AI so you don't have to. The full list of what we run and test is below, for your IT person.
Our own systems run live projects in Auckland every day.
De-risked by design

Three ways this is built to protect you, not us

Proven before purchase
We build and test your system on our own cluster first — you watch it working on samples of your real workflow before you commit to any hardware. Hardware is the last step, not the first.
Built for handover
Every system is documented and owned by you from day one. Take the reins whenever you're ready — next year or never. We design ourselves to be optional, not indispensable.
We keep up with AI so you don't have to
We pay for the best AI tools and try every new one as it comes out, then use the best of them to design your system. Once it's built, it runs on AI inside your building.
We only ever use online AI to help design your system. Your customers' information is only handled by the AI on your own machine.

Once it's running, using it costs you nothing.

How it works

A free conversation. A fixed-price plan you keep.

01
The Conversation
30 minutes on where your hours go. No pitch, no jargon. Honest answer if AI isn't the fit yet. Where are you losing time? Which enquiries never come back?
Client risk: Free — the only free stage
02
The plan (paid, fixed price)
We measure where your time goes today (hours, response times, where mistakes happen), work out what's worth handing to AI, and give you a staged plan with a fixed price for each stage. The plan's yours. Take it to anyone.
Client risk: One known fee; you walk away owning the plan
03
The Proof Build
We build and test your system on our own machines, using samples of your real work. You see it working before you buy any hardware.
Client risk: No hardware spend until you've watched it work
04
The Gate → Deploy
Your sign-off, then hardware + migration to your building. Every later stage has its own gate. Built for handover from day one — documented, owned by you.
Client risk: Stop at any gate; keep everything built
05
Measure & Improve
We re-measure against your starting numbers 30 days in: the number, not a vibe. Every week we check that every enquiry that came in was dealt with, and we're told the moment the numbers don't match.
Client risk: No per-use meter, ever. Monitoring, if wanted, is a fixed line item you see coming

A free conversation. A fixed-price plan you keep. Proof on our hardware before you buy yours. Your sign-off at every stage. Then your own numbers tell you it worked.

Why work with us

The case for doing it this way

Your data stays yours
Your AI runs on your own hardware, in your building. Your strategy, clients, pricing and IP never leave the room, are never logged by a cloud provider, and never train someone else's model.
Zero-cost intelligence
Cloud AI charges you every time you think. Local AI has one set-up cost, then there's no charge per question. Ask it a thousand questions a day and the power bill barely notices. Fixed stage prices, agreed before we start.
Tailored, not generic
Not a chatbot with your logo on it. Models sized to your hardware, memory loaded with your documents and processes, automations built around the way your operation actually runs.
It runs itself — and we watch it
These aren't tools you have to remember to open. Systems run on schedule, deliver results, and alert us when something needs attention. The return is time.
The operators

Built by people running it live today

The infrastructure behind LIVECLAW is handling real projects right now — client websites, booking automation, music intelligence, venue operations. This is not a proof of concept.

Luke Thompson
Founder · Tāmaki Makaurau
Streaming live media since 1998, through every era of the internet since. Grew Sky TV's Fan Pass from 11,000 to more than 80,000 subscribers in 11 months, with an all-digital campaign that had to reach everyone except Sky's own customers. Founded Sideline.Live, which streamed 5,000+ live sport events to more than 500,000 views with a 100% uptime record, and LIVE, an enterprise streaming platform whose clients include Les Mills. Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, University of Auckland. Now doing the same with AI for NZ businesses: early, carefully, and where it pays.
Pete Ohlson
Deployment · Client Delivery
Hands-on deployment specialist. Pete arrives on-site, installs, configures, walks your team through it, and makes sure everything is running before he leaves. Practical, direct, and accountable — the operator you want on the ground when it matters.
The stack

What we run, test and build with

We test the frontier, US and Chinese labs, open and closed, and run what earns its place. Not sure which model is right for your business? That's the job. We'll research it for you.

See the full stack

Running locally

  • Qwen 2.5 32B
  • Qwen 2.5 14B
  • Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B
  • Qwen3 32B
  • Qwen3 30B
  • GLM 4.7 Flash
  • Gemma 4 26B
  • Llama 3.2
  • nomic-embed

Systems we run

  • Ollama
  • Open WebUI
  • Qdrant
  • n8n
  • Hermes
  • Grok assistant
  • Cloudflare
  • Tailscale

Testing and evaluating

Open-weight

  • DeepSeek
  • Kimi K3
  • GLM (latest)
  • Nemotron 3

Frontier

  • Claude
  • GPT-6 Sol
  • GPT-6 Astra
  • Grok

Built with

  • OpenClaw
  • Goose
  • Whisper
  • ElevenLabs
  • Tavily
  • OpenRouter
  • Hugging Face
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code

Updated September 2026. Your data stays on local models unless you choose otherwise.

Let's have a conversation.

If we can add value to your business, we'll show you how — with your numbers. If we can't, we'll tell you that too.

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