For New Zealand retail businesses

AI for retail shops in New Zealand

Retail's two failure modes are both invisible until it's too late. Stock out of the thing that sells and you lose sales you'll never know about; over-order the thing that doesn't and your cash is sitting on a shelf. In between, the online enquiries pile up on three different channels while you're serving the counter.

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Sound familiar?

Best sellers out of stock, slow movers tying up cash
Enquiries arriving across Instagram, email and the website
Reporting that only happens when the accountant asks
Seasonal buying decisions made on memory

Why this is worth fixing

The information to fix this already exists in your sales data. What's missing is anyone with the time to look at it weekly and act. That's a standing job with clear rules — the definition of something to hand over.

What we'd build for retail businesses

A starting blueprint for your retail business, 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

Stock & reorder prompts

Track materials and stock automatically and get a drafted supplier order before you run out.

Now: surprise stock-outs
With AI: reorder before you run dry

What that's worth

Modelled on a 4-person operation at NZ$40/hr — roughly typical for New Zealand retail businesses.

admin recovered per week: 18 hrsadmin recovered per week
of time back per month: NZ$3,120of time back per month
modelled at NZ$40/hr: 4 peoplemodelled at NZ$40/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 retail businesses — common questions

Can it tell me what to reorder?

It watches sell-through against your lead times and prompts you before you run out — not after. It's a prompt, not an automatic purchase order: you still make the buying call, you just make it with a week's warning instead of a customer telling you.

Can it answer customer enquiries across channels?

Yes — the repetitive ones (stock, sizing, hours, delivery) get answered immediately across whichever channels you use, and anything that needs you gets escalated with the context attached. Fast answers convert; that's most of it.

What kind of reporting do we get?

A plain-English brief on what's actually happening — what's moving, what's stalled, what's changed since last week — instead of a dashboard you have to interpret. The goal is that you read three sentences and know where to look.

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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