Partners
Partners
Partners
Independentby design.
We work with every frontier lab and model — open source and open weights. A deliberately independent advisory and services firm, with no exclusive partnerships and none of the incentives that pull a firm off your outcome.
No model vendor, hyperscaler or platform owns our recommendation. We pick what fits your use-case — then deliver it, your way.
The real value isn't the model or the platform.
It's defining your tooling, data pipelines and security so you can swap vendors easily. Models change every month. The leverage is an architecture that lets you move — not a contract that locks you in.
So we build for portability first. The frontier will keep shifting; what compounds is owning the layer underneath it. Get that right and every new model, every price drop, every better tool is an upgrade you simply adopt.
Every model. Every hyperscaler. Beholden to none.
We work across the whole stack and select on merit — frontier or open-weight, whichever cloud your team can actually run.
Anthropic
OpenAI
Google
Llama
Mistral
AWS
Azure
Google CloudWe believe the hyperscalers are being rapidly commoditised. So we optimise for your portability, not your lock-in — and select the best model, security posture and platform for your use-case, free of any exclusive-partnership incentive.
We select the best fit for your use-case.
Chosen on merit — never because of a partnership agreement or a referral fee.
The right intelligence
Frontier or open-weight, picked for the capability, cost and latency the job actually needs — not the one we're paid to recommend.
Your risk, your boundaries
A data and security posture shaped around your obligations and risk appetite, not a single vendor's roadmap.
Run it, or leave it
The cloud and tooling your team can operate — and migrate away from if they ever need to. Portability is the point.
Then we deliver — your way.
Once the architecture is right, we flex to how you want it built.
Custom AI agents
Our own agents do the heavy lifting on delivery — faster, cheaper, and built on what we've learned.
Staffed directly
We embed and build alongside your team, hands on the keyboard.
Delivery partners
We bring in vetted delivery partners where that's the right call for scale or specialism.
Enablement
We upskill your people to own and run it long after we've gone.
Beyond the work, we back the community.
Independence means we can give freely. We're part of the groups building New Zealand's AI capability — and the causes that build its people.
TheCoLab.ai
New Zealand's community-driven AI network — running the Claude Code Meetups and bringing Kiwi practitioners together to learn in the open.
thecolab.ai →The Well
Encouraging and refreshing businesspeople in their faith — breakfast gatherings where leaders share life at the intersection of work and belief.
the-well.org.nz →Upside
Someone in their corner — mentoring that helps young people build belief in themselves, in others, and in their future.
upside.org.nz →Let's build something you own.
Independent advice, the right tools for the job, and delivery that fits the way you work.
Book a meeting →Independentby design.
We work with every frontier lab and model — open source and open weights. A deliberately independent advisory and services firm, with no exclusive partnerships and none of the incentives that pull a firm off your outcome.
No model vendor, hyperscaler or platform owns our recommendation. We pick what fits your use-case — then deliver it, your way.
The real value isn't the model or the platform.
It's defining your tooling, data pipelines and security so you can swap vendors easily. Models change every month. The leverage is an architecture that lets you move — not a contract that locks you in.
So we build for portability first. The frontier will keep shifting; what compounds is owning the layer underneath it. Get that right and every new model, every price drop, every better tool is an upgrade you simply adopt.
Every model. Every hyperscaler. Beholden to none.
We work across the whole stack and select on merit — frontier or open-weight, whichever cloud your team can actually run.
AnthropicOpenAIGoogleLlamaMistralAWSAzureGoogle CloudWe believe the hyperscalers are being rapidly commoditised. So we optimise for your portability, not your lock-in — and select the best model, security posture and platform for your use-case, free of any exclusive-partnership incentive.
We select the best fit for your use-case.
Chosen on merit — never because of a partnership agreement or a referral fee.
The right intelligence
Frontier or open-weight, picked for the capability, cost and latency the job actually needs — not the one we're paid to recommend.
Your risk, your boundaries
A data and security posture shaped around your obligations and risk appetite, not a single vendor's roadmap.
Run it, or leave it
The cloud and tooling your team can operate — and migrate away from if they ever need to. Portability is the point.
Then we deliver — your way.
Once the architecture is right, we flex to how you want it built.
Custom AI agents
Our own agents do the heavy lifting on delivery — faster, cheaper, and built on what we've learned.
Staffed directly
We embed and build alongside your team, hands on the keyboard.
Delivery partners
We bring in vetted delivery partners where that's the right call for scale or specialism.
Enablement
We upskill your people to own and run it long after we've gone.
Beyond the work, we back the community.
Independence means we can give freely. We're part of the groups building New Zealand's AI capability — and the causes that build its people.
TheCoLab.ai
New Zealand's community-driven AI network — running the Claude Code Meetups and bringing Kiwi practitioners together to learn in the open.
thecolab.ai →The Well
Encouraging and refreshing businesspeople in their faith — breakfast gatherings where leaders share life at the intersection of work and belief.
the-well.org.nz →Upside
Someone in their corner — mentoring that helps young people build belief in themselves, in others, and in their future.
upside.org.nz →Let's build something you own.
Independent advice, the right tools for the job, and delivery that fits the way you work.
Book a meeting →
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Connect with our team to discuss your challenges and discover solutions designed to help your business move forward.
Ready to Move Your Business Forward?
Connect with our team to discuss your challenges and discover solutions designed to help your business move forward.
Ready to Move Your Business Forward?
Connect with our team to discuss your challenges and discover solutions designed to help your business move forward.