Custom AI and automation · Designed, built and run in New Zealand
I'm Skene Bennellick. Twelve years in AI and automation as an analyst, product manager and engineer inside some of New Zealand's largest organisations. I can work out what is worth building, set the roadmap, and build it. Now I'm bringing that to New Zealand's small and mid-sized businesses, so they get the same systems the big players have. Free discovery, a fixed price before anything is built, and I stay on to run it.
Capability index
Six kinds of work cover almost everything a New Zealand business asks me for. Every line below is something I have shipped and, in most cases, still run.
Not on the list? If you can describe it, I can almost certainly build it. The list is where most jobs land, not where they stop.
Not a fit: personal projects, courses, or learning to build AI yourself.
Quotes, jobs, scheduling, invoicing, reminders and bank reconciliation moving between Xero, simPRO, HubSpot, Shopify, Microsoft 365 and open banking without anyone retyping. Almost any system can be connected: through its API where there is one, and through UI automation where there isn't.
Air-conditioning company · Custom CRM, scheduling site and appOne assistant that knows your business: your documents, inbox, calendar, prices and history. Staff and customers ask it instead of each other. It drafts the reply, books the call, and hands over to a person when it should. Every action logged.
Music company · In-house AI operating layer, released weeklyReports, licences, agreements and invoices read on arrival, key fields extracted with a confidence score, anything doubtful flagged for a human, the rest filed and actioned.
Legal practice · Licence applications read and filed automatically · Case studyCustomer portals, staff workflow tools and full products with accounts, payments and security done properly. Built on AWS, owned by you.
Trading-card marketplace · Stripe checkout, accounts, partner feedFast sites built to be found by Google and by AI search, with booking, chat, forms and analytics wired in from day one, so the site produces enquiries rather than sitting there as a brochure.
This site · Booking, chatbot, newsletter and ads all run themselvesA few hours a week of senior technical leadership: roadmap, vendors, security, hiring and an honest read on where AI will and won't pay off. For businesses that need a CTO but not a full-time one.
Retainer · Scoped to your businessBuild record
A sample of what I have built and designed for New Zealand organisations in the last two years. Names are kept private; the reviews below are from some of these owners.
A web platform that generates client portfolio reviews with conditional commentary, portfolio analytics against model allocations, and file notes straight into the CRM. React front end, Azure back end, delivered in weekly releases.
A full-lifecycle application for compassionate consideration requests: students submit with evidence, evaluators assess, advisors coordinate, moderators review, administrators oversee. Role-based access throughout.
A company brain across email, calendar and documents for a music company, shipped in weekly releases with an in-app changelog.
Asbestos clearance report PDFs read by vision, billing fields extracted with per-field confidence, matched to the job and written to simPRO. Doubtful fields flagged, never guessed.
A scheduling site and app for the field team, a CRM behind it, and monthly billing packs that generate and send themselves.
Sentencing submissions and affidavits generated from the case file for review by the lawyer, cutting hours of drafting per matter.
Inbound court and licence documents read by OCR, checked, filed and monitored on a live dashboard for the same practice.
A staff portal for orders, job documents and status for a powder-coating manufacturer, an order-creation API for their systems, and a scheduler that re-plans the plant's workflow around what the manager needs that day.
Service agreements and SoWs generated from a template, sent for online signature, chased, countersigned and filed, with the signed copy back to both parties.
Agreements generated, sent, signed and filed automatically for a property developer, with a run sheet the office team owns.
Business analysis, full solution design and build for a university's visa automation programme, from discovery through to the build pack the developers work from.
A full product: Stripe checkout with signed webhooks, accounts, listings synced to a partner marketplace, WAF and a security audit before launch.
And many more. Ez-AI itself runs on the same automation: invoicing, payment reminders, open-banking reconciliation, ads monitoring, a daily newsletter, the chatbot and booking all run without me touching them.
Written up in full: legal practice, retail, FinTech and insurance case studies.
How a project runs
One person from the first call to the day it goes live, and after.
A free 30-minute call. You walk me through the process that is costing time and I tell you honestly whether automation will help. No pitch deck.
Scope, price and timeline in writing before anything is built. Most projects land between two and six weeks.
I build it and wire it into the systems you already run, testing against your real data as we go.
It goes live and I keep it running: monitoring, fixes and improvements, in your time zone.
On the record
Verified Google reviews from New Zealand business owners I have built for.
"I reached out to 8 to 10 companies and most were underwhelming. Then I found Skene. He works fast, his knowledge is next-level, and I've already recommended him to other business owners."
"Skene built AI-driven systems that turned a laborious, time-consuming process into something remarkably efficient. He doesn't just build software, he builds thinking machines."
"Skene built us a custom CRM and scheduling site and app using AI and API integration. His communication is excellent and his skillset very advanced, and I don't think we've even scratched the surface of what he can do."
"Skene is very efficient, a great communicator and came across as very knowledgeable and competent. We were very happy with the outcome of our first project and will use him again."
"10 stars. This company turns problems into solutions, ideas to reality and takes progress to the next level. Customer service is top notch too!"
"The team at EZ-AI are super easy to deal with, understood my business quick and produced a fantastic result!"
"I'm so pleased I spoke to Skene about our website. He just put it all together for us. Great to work with and very fast. I'd recommend him to anyone."
Rate card
Discovery is always free. After that, pick the way of working that fits. Every option comes with clear deliverables and no surprises on the invoice.
A scoped build with the price and timeline agreed before work starts. You know the number up front.
Senior technical leadership a few hours a week, on a retainer scoped to what your business actually needs.
For small jobs, fixes and advice where a project scope would be overkill.
Two or three sentences is plenty. I reply personally within two business days, and the first call is free either way.