Practical guides, minus the hype
How-tos for NZ trades firms and product businesses, most starting with a setting in software you already pay for. Free to read, no sign-up. Want to see a flow running between your tools? Browse the examples.
Latest guides
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- How to tell if an AI consultant is selling you a slide deck Choosing an AI consultant · 12 min
- AI and the Privacy Act: what IPP3A means for your AI tools IPP3A and AI · 15 min
- AI usage policy for NZ businesses: what to put in it AI usage policy · 14 min
- AI for tradies: the first three jobs worth automating Trades · 14 min
- How to turn on automatic invoice reminders in Xero Xero · 13 min
- ChatGPT for NZ business: where to start Getting started · 14 min
Start here, and stay on the right side of the rules
ChatGPT for business: where to start
The plain-English beginner's guide: what AI is good at, what to keep it away from, and the first job to hand over this week.
· 14 min read
Read the guide →AI usage policy for NZ businesses: what to put in it
The ten sections an AI usage policy needs, based on the Privacy Commissioner and MBIE guidance, plus a one-page staff version.
· 14 min read
Read the guide →AI and the Privacy Act: what IPP3A means for your AI tools
The indirect collection rule that started on 1 May 2026, offshore AI tools under IPP12, and a six-question checklist for any tool.
· 15 min read
Read the guide →How to tell if an AI consultant is selling you a slide deck
Six warning signs, the question to ask for each, and a printable list. Ask us the same questions.
· 12 min read
Read the guide →For trades firms and product businesses
AI for tradies: the first three jobs worth automating
Where the hours hide on the tools, and which fixes pay off first, in plain English.
· 14 min read
Read the guide →Turn on automatic invoice reminders in Xero
The ten-minute setting that chases late payers for you, politely, in your business's name.
· 13 min read
Read the guide →On ServiceM8, Fergus or Simpro with Xero?
What we connect for trades firms on your job system: enquiries in, quotes followed up, invoices chased, and a Monday report.
See the software pages →On Cin7 or Unleashed with Xero?
For wholesalers and makers: trade accounts followed up, stock kept in step with Shopify, and supplier price lists imported without retyping.
See what we connect →Rather see it running in your business?
Ask for a demo video. We send a 90-second recording of a flow running between your tools, set up with your business name.
The demo is free. A Flow Sprint is $3,000 + GST, fixed.