NZ AI Adoption in 2026: Where New Zealand Really Stands
An honest look at where New Zealand sits on AI adoption in 2026 — the headline numbers, the gap between awareness and integration, where NZ is ahead, and where it’s behind.
AI Tools for NZ Lawyers in 2026: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Where to Start
NZ lawyers are cautiously experimenting with AI. The firms moving fastest aren’t using better tools — they’re using the same tools more deliberately. Here’s where AI delivers in legal practice and how to start.
How to Run an AI Pilot in Your NZ Team: A Practical Guide
Most AI pilots in NZ organisations fail the same way: no structure, no defined use cases, no measurement. Here’s a practical 6-week framework that actually produces results.
Why Most AI Investments Underperform — and What Changes the Outcome
The organisations getting the best returns from AI aren’t the ones with the best tools. They’re the ones who got adoption right. Here’s what separates the investments that compound from the ones that stall.
Agent Camp 2026: What AI Agents Mean for New Zealand Businesses
AI agents are the next step beyond AI assistants — tools that take multi-step actions autonomously. Here’s what Agent Camp 2026 covered and what it means for NZ organisations.
Context Engineering: The AI Skill That Separates Good Operators From Great Ones
Most AI training focuses on prompting. But the professionals getting consistently excellent results are doing something different — they’re engineering context. Here’s what that means and how to start.
5 Lessons from ‘Lead like a Human in the Age of AI’
⚖️ “Use AI for the work that drains you, not the work that defines you.” Hello Reader, Last week I was invited by Rita Cincotta onto the Deliberate Leader Podcast. If you don’t know Rita, she is a is a leadership coach and who helps leaders grow through strengths-based practice, reflection, and deliberate action. She’s also a trusted colleague and an old friend. We were able to quickly get into deep conversation about the overlap of our two worlds. Here are 5 takeaways we uncovered during our…
The OpenClaw moment 🦞
AI is having a moment right now, and it’s because of OpenClaw, an AI Agent that controls its own computer.
This open-source AI agent can
The Evaluation Loop: How AI Improves Its Own Output
⚖️ “With a leveraged worker, judgment is far more important than how much time they put in or how hard they work.” – Naval Hello Reader, AI is better at evaluating content than generating content.This makes sense, when you stop to think about it. For a large language model to interpret your instructions, and create output, all in the same step, it dilutes the same token budget over two requests.But if you have ask AI to evaluate its own outputs, it can focus all its attention on identifying…
Coaching LLMs: Get AI to Work Smarter for You
🌱 “A coach is just a placebo – it’s a commitment to make yourself a better person.” Barrett Brooks Hello Reader, Most people treat AI like a search engine. They ask simple questions and accept whatever it replies. But if you want truly great results, you need to stop being a consumer of AI and start being a coach to AI. In my next interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to train AI to think better, iterate on its responses, and refine its output—just like a great coach helps an athlete or…
