For the Public Good
AI that works for
New Zealand
We're a Wellington-based team helping public-sector and community organisations find and implement AI that actually works, starting where the returns are clearest, building tools your team can run, and replicating what works across every organisation with the same problem.
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Outcomes first
Before we build anything, Clarity maps where AI genuinely helps your people: scoring the opportunities by impact and feasibility, and ranking what to do first.
Working tools, not slideshows
Once Clarity ranks the opportunities, we can help you build the best ones into your day-to-day operations, on the tools you already have.
A team inside your team
We work alongside your people, not as consultants who hand over a report. We transfer the capability to run and extend what we build.
One loop. Deeper every pass.
Clarity, our AI management platform, runs the loop alongside your organisation: finding the highest-value AI opportunities, building the tools, and proving the outcomes.
Discovery
Clarity reads the public record and the documents you share, mapping how the work really runs: what's repetitive, what's costly, where the returns are.
Opportunities
Clarity drafts a plain-language case for every opportunity: what it would do, what it would take, and what it would return. You refine it until it's right.
Implementation
Commission the build. Clarity gives every committed project a named owner, a team and a connected folder, and we transfer the capability as we go.
Evaluation
Clarity tracks each project against the measures its owner agreed, automatically. Real results, not a forecast we forget once the engagement ends.
Who we work with
Ministries and central agencies: policy, regulatory and service-delivery teams. Security-conscious, but ready for something that actually works.
Clarity · AI Opportunity Platform
Where you start. Clarity reads your public record and the documents you share, ranks your highest-value AI opportunities, then tracks each one through to a measured result.
Ministerial & OIA drafting
Draft OIA responses and ministerial correspondence from your own documents, flag the gaps, and track every statutory deadline.
Case notes & records assist
Give caseworkers their week back: draft case notes and assemble records, privacy-safe, with every judgement staying human.
Briefings & Cabinet papers
Auto-draft ministerial briefings, Cabinet papers and committee reports from source documents. Your team reviews and signs off.
Consultation & submission analysis
Read and analyse thousands of public submissions, grouped by theme, with every claim traced back to its source.
Monitoring & statutory reporting
Compile recurring monitoring and statutory reports from source data automatically. Cuts a multi-FTE task down to hours.
Councils and local authorities delivering front-line services to communities. Same constraints as central government, same appetite for tools that actually work.
Clarity · AI Opportunity Platform
Where you start. Clarity maps how your council's work actually runs, ranks the highest-value AI opportunities, then tracks each one through to a measured result.
LGOIMA response drafting
Draft LGOIMA responses from your council's own documents, flag gaps, and track deadlines. Replicable to every council.
Consents & LIM assembly
Pre-check completeness and assemble LIMs and consent files from council records. Faster turnaround, and the officer still decides.
Service requests & triage
Classify and route incoming requests, complaints and cases automatically. Free your frontline for the work that needs a human.
Statutory reporting & compliance
Assemble the recurring statutory and compliance reporting small councils carry with no slack in the roster.
Contact centre & enquiry assist
Handle routine calls and requests automatically, and give your team the context to resolve the rest faster.
NGOs, community organisations, iwi and social-service providers. High-value work, but there is always too much to do. AI can triple your team's impact.
Clarity · AI Opportunity Platform
Where you start, with a lighter on-ramp for smaller organisations: Clarity builds the picture and ranks the opportunities, and we add workshops and a plain-language roadmap.
Grant & funder reporting
Draft grant applications and funder reports from your own programme data. Less time on paperwork, more on the work that matters.
Impact & partner reporting
Generate funder, board and partner reports automatically from what your programmes already record, without adding admin hours.
Enquiry triage & navigation
Classify incoming enquiries and point people to the right help first time, so your team spends its hours on the hard ones.
Volunteer rostering & allocation
Automate rostering, onboarding and allocation across sites. More capacity for the work your volunteers came to do.
Knowledge & answer assist
Keep the answers your team relies on current, grounded in your own sources, so advice stays consistent as the rules change.
The team
Three founders who've led national policy, built and sold products, and run government from the inside, so we can build it and get it adopted.
Ben Gleisner
Economist and social entrepreneur. Spent six years as a senior economist at NZ Treasury, where he led the team that built the Living Standards Framework, the foundation of NZ's Wellbeing Budget. Founder and CEO of Cogo, a world leader in AI adoption.
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Shane Bartle
Senior technology builder with deep public-sector experience. Former Principal Consultant and NZ Innovation Centre Manager at Microsoft. Founder and Chief Product Officer of Storbie. Deep expertise in the Microsoft platforms public-sector teams already run on: Teams, Office 365 and SharePoint.
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Justin Lester
Former Mayor of Wellington (2016–2019), following six years on Wellington City Council. Since leaving office, has worked in data and AI innovation as Government Director at Dot Loves Data. Brings deep relationships across local government and a track record of driving public-sector decisions with data.
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We're talking to public-sector leaders about what's working with AI and what isn't. A conversation costs nothing and could show you the opportunity.
contact@agency-ai.nz