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Harkness AI
Sets up AI assistants and trains staff for small NZ businesses, with embedded engineers for builds
Harkness AI sets up assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT inside small and mid-sized businesses, trains their staff and builds custom tools and workflow automations. It also offers strategy consulting and places embedded AI engineers in client teams for one to three days a week after a scoping period. Named clients include Maugers Contracting, Shakti Mat and Little Taonga.
- Type of firm
- AI consultancy
- Known for
- Practical AI adoption for small businesses
- Based in
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Founded
- 2025
- Origin
- Started as an AI or data firm
- Ownership
- Founder-owned
- Status
- Active
- Generalist or specialist
- Generalist
- Built on
- OpenAI
- Own product
- No
- Delivery model
- Embedded team, Build and hand over, Advice and strategy, Training
- Founders
- Blake Harkness
- Website
- harknessai.nz
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