Harkness AI

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Christchurch, New Zealand

Harkness AI is a Christchurch-based AI consultancy and fractional AI engineering service working with small and medium businesses across New Zealand and Australia.

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About

Harkness AI provides hands-on AI training for teams, AI strategy consulting, custom AI development and automation, and ongoing fractional AI support. They have helped 25+ businesses and built 50+ automations, contributing to AI governance and industry standards. Clients include various small and medium businesses across New Zealand and Australia.

What they sell

Train
Structured AI training programmes.
Consult
AI strategy & roadmap.
Build
AI development & automation.
Support
Fractional AI engineer.

Focus

Approach

AI-native

Industries

Professional Services Finance Education

Services

Training & EnablementFractional AI LeadershipWorkflow Automation

Stack

claude openai custom

Evidence on file

Independently verified, never paid placement

Case studies

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Set Claude up and trained them to run it.

4 core workflows running day to day

Trap and Trigger

Ran a full-day AI 101 workshop for the whole team.

Whole team trained in practical AI foundations

Paagaa

Built a referral network platform for financial advisers.

3-week MVP full referral lifecycle tracking

Certifications & partner status

AI Forum New ZealandEngineering New Zealand

In their words

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Blake has a unique ability to identify core challenges and transform them into effective solutions.

Will Fleming

Campfire Studios

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Blake has become our go-to for everything AI in our business - from setting up Claude and training our team, to building integrations like our PayHero setup that we had struggled with ourselves.

Nick

Director, Trap and Trigger Ltd

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Who you’d work with

Blake Harkness
Fractional AI Engineer