Read the pile
Invoices, job sheets, emails, PDFs, photos of paper. AI can pull out the dates, names, amounts and part numbers so nobody is typing them in by hand. It can also flag the ones with a missing field before the job is halfway done.
Advisoft · Christchurch
We help businesses use AI.
Most people have only seen ChatGPT, so they think AI means typing questions into a box. It isn’t. Used properly it can read the paperwork, draft the quote, find last year’s job, and stop someone typing the same thing into three systems. We start with one of those jobs. Not a strategy document.
NZ company
Christchurch, since 2014
Software first
Medical, automotive, aviation, battery systems
One job at a time
Try it. Keep it or drop it.
What AI can actually do in a business
These are the jobs it is good at today, in an ordinary NZ office or workshop. Including the two people ask about most: a chatbot that can actually help, and a booking system that doesn’t need someone on the phone.
Write the first version
Quotes, customer replies, reports, handover notes. Same shape every week, still starts from a blank page. AI leaves a draft sitting there. A person still checks it. They just don’t start from nothing.
Find what you already know
The answer is in last year’s jobs, a shared drive, or one person’s head. AI can search that in ordinary language and give you the story of a job before you ring the customer.
Stop the double-entry
Work leaves a spreadsheet and someone types it into the “real” system. AI can sit in that gap. Not as a new platform you have to live in. Just as the thing that moves the facts.
Chatbots that do a job
Not a bubble in the corner that says “I can help!” and then can’t. A bot on the site, in WhatsApp, or on the phone that answers the usual questions from how you actually work. When it doesn’t know, it hands off to a person.
Automated booking
People want a time. Someone in the office is currently playing calendar tennis. We set up booking that takes the request, checks what’s free, confirms it, and puts it where your staff already look.
What this looks like when it works
A workshop was typing every supplier invoice into a spreadsheet, then again into the job system. Same fields, every morning. We put AI on the PDF pile. It reads the invoice, fills the row, flags the weird ones. A person still glances at it. The typing stopped.
That is a first job. Boring on purpose. If that kind of work exists in your week, we can probably do something with it.
Start with one job
You don’t have to know what to buy. We look at how the week runs, pick one slow thing, put AI on it, and tell you whether to keep it. Fixed price once we both know what “done” looks like. Quote first. No surprise retainers.
1
A conversation
What takes too long, what goes wrong, what only one person knows how to do.
2
A short trial
Days or a few weeks, on real work. Staff should be able to use it without a course.
3
Then you decide
Keep it, change it, or drop it. No lock-in to a product you didn’t ask for.
What we will do
- Sit with the actual work, not a workshop on a whiteboard
- Put AI on one job your people already do
- Leave you able to run it
What we won’t do
- A 40-page AI strategy
- A toy chatbot that can’t answer anything or take a booking
- Replace your accountant, lawyer, or the person who knows the customers
Why Advisoft
Christchurch software company, NZ owned. For years that meant building systems in medical, automotive, aviation and battery charging, places where a wrong result is expensive. That’s the useful bit now. AI is good. It is also sloppy. Someone has to know when the answer is rubbish.
The actual tools: C, C++, Go, Python. Embedded Linux. CMake and other build systems. CI/CD. Scripting. That’s the day job behind the AI work, so we can tell when generated code or a “smart” workflow is wrong.
Languages
C
C++
Go
Python
Systems
Embedded Linux
CMake
Build systems
Scripting
Delivery
CI/CD
Embedded
Desktop
Tell us the slow job.
Pick the closest match. A sentence is enough. We’ll say if AI is even the right tool.