For New Zealand couriers and transport operators

AI for couriers and transport operators in New Zealand

Transport is a dispatch optimisation problem wrapped in a customer communication problem. Route planning done well saves fuel and hours every single day; done on instinct, it quietly costs both. And every customer who doesn't know where their delivery is picks up the phone, which costs you again.

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Sound familiar?

Runs planned by instinct, costing fuel and hours daily
Customers ringing because nothing told them where the freight is
Proof of delivery on paper or lost entirely
Invoicing that has to reconcile against every completed run

Why this is worth fixing

Behind that is the reconciliation: proof of delivery, fuel, RUC, driver hours, invoicing that has to match what actually moved. It's high-volume, low-judgement record-keeping — the ideal shape for automation.

What we'd build for couriers and transport operators

A starting blueprint for your transport operation, assembled from the workflows that fit this trade. It isn't a fixed package — we shape it around how you actually work — but this is the shape it usually takes.

Self-serve booking & reminders

Customers book themselves into real availability, and reminders cut the phone-tag completely.

Now: endless phone-tag to book
With AI: books fill themselves

Client document intake

Clients are guided to send exactly the right documents, and the AI extracts and organises the data.

Now: endless email back-and-forth
With AI: clean data, first time

Voice-to-task capture

Talk to your phone from the ute and jobs, materials and reminders file themselves in the right place.

Now: notes on scraps of paper
With AI: nothing falls through

Smart scheduling & dispatch

Jobs and crews auto-arranged by location, priority and availability — fewer gaps, less windscreen time.

Now: manual diary Tetris each morning
With AI: an optimised day in seconds

What that's worth

Modelled on a 6-person operation at NZ$75/hr — roughly typical for New Zealand couriers and transport operators.

admin recovered per week: 25 hrsadmin recovered per week
of time back per month: NZ$8,120of time back per month
modelled at NZ$75/hr: 6 peoplemodelled at NZ$75/hr

These are indicative figures, computed from typical hours for each workflow at the team size and charge-out rate shown — not a promise, and not measured from your business. Change the inputs on the blueprint builder to model your own numbers.

Proof, not a pitch deck

We didn't just write about this — we built it

Quarvois our own platform, running a real New Zealand business every day: quoting, scheduling, invoicing, bank reconciliation and a full set of accounts, with an AI manager called Torq sitting across the whole thing. It runs on our own GPU hardware in New Zealand — so the data never leaves the country, and there's no per-token bill to a US API.

That's the difference between a consultancy that talks about AI and one that ships it. Everything on this page is something we've actually had to make work in production.

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AI for couriers and transport operators — common questions

Can it plan the day's runs?

It sequences drops against time windows, vehicle capacity and driver hours, and replans when something changes mid-day. On a multi-vehicle operation the fuel and time difference between a good plan and a rough one compounds every single day.

How does it keep customers updated?

Automatically, at the points they'd otherwise ring you — dispatched, on the way, delivered, delayed. Proactive updates are the cheapest way to cut inbound calls, because almost every one of those calls is the same question.

Does it handle proof of delivery?

Captured on the phone at the door — signature or photo, timestamped and geotagged, attached to the consignment and available instantly if a delivery is disputed. It also feeds invoicing, so what you bill matches what actually moved.

Talk to an engineer, not a salesperson

Ring either of us directly. You'll speak to the person who'd actually build it — no gatekeeping, no discovery call before anyone technical shows up.

Andrew
Founder & engineer
Builds the AI systems — including Quarvo, running a real NZ business every day.
021 149 5933
Elliot
Engineer
Automation, integrations and getting it working inside your existing setup.
021 332 699

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