Most Australian AI agencies quote mid-market engagements — commonly in the tens of thousands of dollars, built for companies with an operations team to receive them. If you are a tradie, a small firm or a sole operator, that market was not built for you. Ours was.
We work remotely from Auckland and Nouméa — same working day as the east coast, two hours ahead. We will not sit in your Sydney office, and an agency that does has a genuine advantage for a large, complex rollout. What remote delivery changes is the cost base: no city office is priced into your invoice, which is why a single automated workflow lands in the low four figures rather than the tens of thousands typical of the Australian mid-market.
For a small business automating quoting, enquiries or invoice chasing, that difference is the difference between viable and not.
Australia enforces its electronic messaging and privacy rules more actively than most jurisdictions — the regulator has fined household names, and the Privacy Act's purpose-limitation rules constrain how prospect data may be collected and used. Everything we build for Australian clients treats the Spam Act 2003 and the Australian Privacy Principles as design constraints, not fine print. That is also written into the licence of anything we sell: the buyer's legal obligations are stated plainly rather than hidden.
Yes — from Auckland and Nouméa, which share the Australian east coast working day (two hours ahead of AEST). Audits, builds and support all run remotely. For large rollouts needing on-site presence, a local agency is genuinely the better choice and we say so.
Australian mid-market engagements commonly run from the low tens of thousands of dollars upward. Our model targets small businesses: a single automated workflow in the low four figures, a free audit first, and software you can buy outright from US$299.99 if what you need is outbound prospecting you run yourself.
The machine enforces the technical requirements — sender identification, a functional unsubscribe, permanent opt-outs, no harvested lists — and its licence states plainly that legal responsibility for a campaign rests with the sender, as the Act provides. Our guide to the Spam Act 2003 and the Privacy Act covers what that means in practice.
For systems we build to run on your own hardware or your own Australian-region cloud, yes by construction — nothing leaves infrastructure you control. For workflows using overseas AI providers, no, and we will tell you exactly which data crosses where before anything is built, so the decision is yours and informed.
Kanaky Tech is an AI automation agency working across New Zealand and the Pacific. Start with a free AI opportunity audit: we map how your business actually runs, rank what is worth automating, and give you a clear scope before anything is built — no obligation.