Independent AI advice from someone who runs his own businesses on it every day. A free call, then a clear plan: what to turn on, what it costs, and what to leave alone.
What to turn on in week one, ranked by payoff
Exactly what it runs on and what it costs a month
Nothing goes live without your sign-off
Not opinion. This is the New Zealand data, and it is why a clear plan beats a year of dabbling.
67% of larger NZ businesses now use AI, up from 48% a year earlier. The big end of town is not waiting to see how this plays out.
Datacom State of AI Index, 202468% of NZ small and medium businesses have no plans to even look at AI. Most of your competition has not started. That is the opening.
Spark NZ / NZIER, 2024Of the businesses that have not adopted AI, 43% say lack of expertise is the main barrier. It is not the tools holding people back. It is knowing what is worth doing.
Datacom State of AI Index, 2024Every business is different. The plan looks at all three, works out which pays you back fastest, and tells you what to leave alone.
Get found first, follow up every enquiry fast, and wake up the customers who quietly drifted away. Revenue comes first in every plan.
Most local businesses lose money before hello: enquiries that wait too long, reviews left unanswered, a customer database sitting idle. The plan starts here because this is where the money is.
Best for a builder leaking enquiries while up a ladder, an agent sitting on a database of past clients, a clinic that is hard to find.
Reply to a new enquiry within an hour and you are around seven times more likely to win it. Most businesses take far longer, or never reply at all.Source: Harvard Business Review
Book a free callThe books, the quotes, the follow-up, the paperwork. The plan names the tools that carry the repetitive load, and what they cost a month.
Every owner has a night-and-weekend job they never signed up for. The plan works out which parts of yours a tool can carry, and which parts genuinely need you.
Best for a trade doing quotes at 9pm, a practice drowning in follow-up, any owner doing the books on Sunday.
Book a free callConnect the systems you already use so you know which jobs and customers actually make money. Decisions from evidence, not gut feel.
Most businesses already own the answers. They are just scattered across the bank, the invoicing and the job system. The plan shows how to connect what you already pay for, so the numbers agree with the bank.
Best for an owner who suspects a job type loses money but cannot prove it, or whose reports never quite match the bank.
Book a free callNo packages, no software to sell you, no lock-in. Three steps, and you choose how far to take it.
Thirty minutes on your business. Where you are losing customers, what admin is eating your week, and whether AI is even worth it for you yet. If the answer is simple, I will just tell you.
Cost: free. Obligation: none.A written plan for your business: what to turn on, in what order, with named tools and real monthly costs, how to bring your staff along, and the guardrails. Yours to act on with or without me.
Fixed fee, quoted on the call before anything starts.An advisor in your corner while the plan goes in. Monthly advice as tools and staff change, or I sit on your side of the table and oversee the people doing the build. Nothing goes live without your sign-off.
How the plan stays working.I don't sell AI in theory.
I run my own businesses on it, every day, since 2022.
My retail business, doing around $1M a year, runs on AI systems I built and operate myself. Not a demo. My actual livelihood.
My AI tool for teachers is live with paying subscribers and growing. A real product real people pay for, every month.
Thirty minutes on your business. We find where AI would actually pay, and whether it is worth going further. No jargon, no obligation.
A written, fixed-fee plan: what to turn on, in what order, with named tools, real monthly costs and guardrails. Quick wins first, so you are acting in week one.
Run it yourself, keep me on call for advice, or have me oversee the people doing the build. Your choice, your pace, nothing without your sign-off.
Book a free call and we will go through your business together: where you are losing customers, what admin is eating your week, and whether AI is worth it for you yet. Straight answers, no jargon, no obligation.
30 minutes, online or by phone. Pick a time that suits you.
Book a free callPrefer email? stephen@provan.ai
Knowing what's worth doing, and what to leave alone, is the job. A free, no-pressure call to find out what that looks like in your business.
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