Kaiārahi Playbook · a supported programme
More than a course — a guided journey for a cohort.
A supported programme that lifts your people's confidence with AI and then teaches them agentic training — how to build AI workflows with checks, stops and human approval, shaped to what their roles actually need. Bicultural, dignity-first, and measured by outcomes, not attendance.
What it is
A clear record of what each person has learned, measured outcomes, and support all the way through — for a whole cohort, not just the technical few.
We take people who feel shut out of AI and bring them to real capability and standing — for everyone on the team, not just the technical few.
Teams learn to build AI workflows for their mahi — with checks, stops and human approval built in — turning new confidence into real, useful tools.
Before/after measures, completion, and the things people build — assembled into honest evidence, with a record of what each person has learned at the end.
The productivity leap
The Playbook moves a person from thinking about AI to actioning it — and then to agentic use: building AI workflows that carry the routine steps, with checks, stops and human approval. What that's worth is measured per cohort, before and after — not promised up front.
on routine work, every week — measured before/after per cohort, never promised up front.
on drafting, research and reporting — once people learn to direct AI with real judgement.
the workflows they build carry routine steps and stop for a person's decision at the checkpoints.
How the journey runs
A cohort moves together — each stage building on the last, with support and cultural grounding throughout.
We meet your people where they are — the eager and the unsure — and set a shared kaupapa for the journey.
Everyone learns to direct AI with real judgement — briefing, checking, shaping — in plain language.
Teams build the AI agents their roles actually need, turning new confidence into tools that lift productivity.
Before/after measures and the things people made, assembled into honest evidence — with a record of what each person has learned.
Where agentic use goes
Agentic training doesn't stop at prompting. People learn to stand real work up in Co-work and Hermes — the two places a Kaiārahi-trained team puts AI to work.
A guided workspace people and AI share — briefs, drafts and decisions side by side. Where a newly-capable person gets real work out the door, fast.
A private workspace where the workflows they build watch for the trigger, carry the routine steps, and stop for a person's decision at the checkpoints — set up on a footing your organisation controls, scoped with you.
Who it's for
Government agencies — capability uplift that lifts the individual and the nation together: productivity for all of Aotearoa.
Iwi and community organisations — bicultural by design, built for the hapori, and careful with Māori data: handled openly, reviewed properly, never sold.
Businesses & their teams — practical AI capability and agents that earn their keep.
Costing out a public-sector cohort? The For government page sets out the funding and procurement lanes we can help you use.
Why Kaiārahi
Built for capable adults; no one is talked down to, and no one's made to feel behind.
A New Zealand company that genuinely knows both worlds, European and Māori, and builds that into how the programme runs.
Before/after evidence you can stand behind, not attendance sheets.
Help the person at the kitchen table, and you help the whole country grow.
No price tag — a conversation
Every organisation is different, so the Playbook is shaped to fit — cohort size, outcomes, and the agents that matter to your work. Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll come back with a plan.
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