AI is already in your business
Staff are pasting customer emails into free tools, someone has a Copilot licence nobody set up, and a supplier has “added AI” to a product you already pay for.
AI consulting · architecture · implementation · New Zealand
Somebody in your business used AI today. Nobody designed how.
Be AI helps New Zealand businesses understand, design and deploy artificial intelligence, from your first AI strategy to production-ready systems that work inside the tools your people already use.
- Vendor-independent
- Aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF
- Part of the Be Digital family
- New Zealand based
The problem
Everyone is talking about AI. Few businesses know what to actually do with it.
How we work
Six stages, one accountable team, and the loop that keeps you improving.
The Be AI 6D Framework takes a business from its first AI question to an AI-powered operation, and then keeps going.
AI Fundamentals
Your leadership team does not need to become AI engineers. It needs to stop guessing.
A half-day Executive AI Workshop that explains what AI actually is, what it can and cannot do for a business like yours, and what the first sensible step looks like, without the hype and without a sales pitch for a tool.
- Generative AI, language models, agents and automation explained in business terms
- Where the risk really sits: data, security, ownership of output
- How to read an AI proposal from a supplier
- Leaves you with a one-page view of where to start
Executive AI WorkshopHalf a day · up to 12 people
- 01What AI actually isThe technology
- 02Agents, automation and knowledgeHow it does work
- 03Security, governance and riskWhat can go wrong
- 04ROI, cost and build versus buyWhat it is worth
- 05A live pass over your processesYour business
- 06A one-page starting pointWhat you leave with
Leaves you withA one-page view of where to start
AI Opportunity Score · free · five minutes
Find out how AI-ready your business is before you buy another tool.
Twelve questions. Your score, your readiness level and your three biggest opportunities, shown straight away. No email needed to see the result.
Question 1 of 12How many people work in your business?
Pick one and you are already a twelfth of the way through.
AI Strategy
The most expensive AI decision is the one nobody made on purpose.
We work with your leadership team to answer five questions: Where should we use AI? Where shouldn’t we? What will pay back first? What do we build versus buy? What does our business look like in three years if this works?
AI Architecture
Most AI agencies will build you a chatbot. We design the intelligence layer of your business.
AI only works when people, data, models, agents, applications, automation and security are designed to work together. That design is the difference between a demo and a system your business runs on.
- Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, open source; chosen per task, never per loyalty
- Agents: assistants, customer service, sales, research, workflow, multi-agent
- Knowledge: documents, SharePoint, databases, CRM, ERP, websites, RAG
- Integration: Microsoft 365, CRM, ERP, accounting, email, telephony, APIs
- Security: identity, access, data protection, model and prompt security, audit, monitoring
We don’t believe in one AI platform. We design the right AI ecosystem for your business.
OpenAIMicrosoftAzureAnthropicGoogleAWSNVIDIAOpen source
AI Solutions
From strategy to production.
Eight solution families, every one built from an architecture and integrated into the systems you already run.
AI Governance
Five questions your business will be asked this year. We answer them in writing.
AI policy, acceptable use, risk and vendor assessment, human oversight and incident handling, aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, written for your business, and delivered with Be Secure where controls need testing.
- 01Can our staff put confidential information into ChatGPT?
- 02Which AI tools are approved, and who decided?
- 03Where is our data going, and who can see it?
- 04Who owns what the AI produces?
- 05What stops an AI agent doing something we did not intend?
Industries
Where AI is already paying for itself in New Zealand businesses like yours.
How an engagement runs · illustrative example
A 60-person professional services firm, from first workshop to a running agent in fourteen weeks.
- Week 1Executive AI WorkshopThe partners agree on three problems worth solving and two they will not touch.
- Weeks 2–3AI Readiness AssessmentThe data is better than they feared; the permissions are worse.
- Weeks 4–6StrategyAn opportunity map of eleven use cases, prioritised to one: intake and engagement letters.
- Weeks 7–8ArchitectureMicrosoft 365 as the platform, a knowledge base from their precedent library, human approval before anything leaves the firm.
- Weeks 9–14Build, pilot, govern, monitorPilot with two teams, governance policy signed off, monitoring on. The second use case starts from the same architecture.
An illustrative example of how the six stages run, not a client case. Timings only; no client name and no invented figures.
The Be Digital family
One agreement. Every specialist your AI programme will need.
Be AI designs the intelligence layer. Be Cloud runs the platform. Be Secure tests what we build. Be Watch handles the physical world. Bea answers your phone. You sign once, with Be Digital Limited, and we bring the right team.
Insights
Answers to the questions people type before they know they need a consultant.
Questions
What people ask us first
Where do we start if we have done nothing with AI yet?
Take the free AI Opportunity Score, then book an Executive AI Workshop. Half a day gets your leadership team to a shared understanding and a one-page view of where to start. Nothing is bought before that.
Are you tied to a particular AI vendor?
No. We design with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and open-source models and choose per task. Where Azure and Microsoft 365 are the right platform, Be Cloud provisions and runs them; where they are not, we say so.
What does it cost?
Discovery and Strategy are fixed fee. Builds are quoted per solution from the design. Managed is monthly. The packages page shows the model for each, and your proposal has the exact number.
Can you help with the tools our staff are already using?
That is usually the first job: find out what is in use, write the acceptable-use policy, approve the tools worth keeping, and check who can see what before Copilot or any agent is switched on.
Is Be AI part of Be Digital?
Yes. Be AI is the AI consulting, architecture and transformation practice of Be Digital Limited, alongside Be Cloud, Be Secure, Be Connect, Be Watch and Bea. You sign one agreement and we bring the right team.
Ready to make AI work for your business, not just appear in it?
Start with a conversation. Thirty minutes with an AI architect, no slides, and a written note afterwards on what we would do first and why.