AI strategy, consulting, and digital resources for purpose-led organisations across the Pacific, Aotearoa, and beyond. We help you engage AI intentionally and on your own terms.
The organisations that will benefit most from AI are not the ones who move fastest. They are the ones who move most intentionally.
Founded in Aotearoa New Zealand. Serving organisations wherever they are, from iwi providers to global enterprises navigating AI ethics and indigenous data rights.
Most AI consultants sell transformation. We offer something more useful. A grounded, honest assessment of where your organisation actually stands with AI, and a plan that fits your reality and your values.
Every engagement starts with listening. We work with your context, your obligations, and your community. Not a generic framework imported from elsewhere. Pricing shown in NZD. International clients invoiced in preferred currency.
A clear-eyed assessment of where your organisation sits with AI. What tools make sense, what risks to manage, and a phased roadmap your team can actually execute.
For Māori, First Nations, and indigenous organisations navigating AI with cultural integrity and community trust intact. Values-driven, community-informed implementation design.
Half-day or full-day workshops for teams, boards, or leadership groups. Practical and demystified. Participants leave ready to engage AI on their own terms, not someone else's.
AI policy frameworks, data governance documents, board briefing papers, and strategic plans. Written at the level your organisation needs to move with confidence and accountability.
Practical guides, policy templates, and frameworks built from real experience. Downloadable globally. Priced in NZD and accessible for organisations anywhere in the world.
47-item diagnostic across 6 areas. Know exactly where you stand with AI in 30 minutes. Includes cultural considerations for Māori and indigenous organisations.
What Māori and indigenous organisations need to consider before adopting AI. Questions to ask, risks to understand, and values to keep central throughout the process.
5 done-for-you Word templates your team adapts in hours. AI Use Policy, Data Privacy, Acceptable Use, BYOD, and Social Media AI. NZ-context, globally adaptable.
Positioning, messaging, and offer design for purpose-led founders. Find your lane and articulate it with precision. Designed for Māori and indigenous entrepreneurs globally.
Tools, workflows, and prompt frameworks for lean consulting practices. AI doing half the work. Practical with no hype. Built for consultants in NZ, AU, and beyond.
Checklist plus HR Policy Pack together. The fastest way to get your organisation protected and positioned. Coming soon.
AI is not coming for your organisation. It is already here. The question is whether you engage it on your terms, with your values intact, or inherit someone else's version of it.
MāramaAI was founded in Aotearoa New Zealand with a simple belief: purpose-led organisations deserve AI strategy that is as principled as they are. Independent, grounded, and genuinely useful.
Tino rangatiratanga, manaakitanga, whanaungatanga. These are not decorative. They are the framework through which we evaluate every AI tool, recommendation, and engagement.
We are not paid to recommend any tool. Our only interest is what actually serves your organisation's long-term wellbeing and strategic goals.
A document, a decision, a roadmap, a team that knows what to do next. We do not bill for vague ongoing advisory without a clear output.
We bring a perspective from Aotearoa — one of the most forward-thinking environments for indigenous data sovereignty globally — to every international engagement.
30 minutes. Free. We listen to your situation, clarify the problem, and confirm whether we are the right fit. No pressure and no pitch. Remote or in-person across NZ and AU.
Fixed-scope sessions or a short retainer. You know exactly what you are getting and what it will cost before we begin. International clients invoiced in preferred currency.
Every engagement ends with something tangible. A strategy document, a policy, a decision, or a team that knows what to do next. Always in writing and always yours to keep.
Iwi providers, First Nations organisations, and indigenous communities navigating AI with data sovereignty and cultural integrity intact. Our deepest area of focus.
Purpose-driven businesses that want AI implementation without enterprise markup, jargon, or overwhelm. Practical guidance that respects your budget and your values.
Organisations with community mandates that need AI strategy grounded in their mission, not repurposed from the commercial or government sector.
MāramaAI works in partnership with Manawa Consultants — our specialist HR, employment, and people advisory firm. For organisations navigating both their AI adoption and their people challenges simultaneously, we coordinate both engagements seamlessly.
A dedicated space for iwi providers, Māori organisations, and indigenous communities who want AI strategy that puts tikanga, mana, and cultural integrity first — not last.
These are not adapted corporate services. They are designed from the ground up for Māori organisations — their governance structures, their community obligations, their cultural responsibilities, and their vision for the future.
We understand iwi governance, hapū decision-making, and the weight of being responsible for community data. That context shapes everything we do. Not as an add-on. As the foundation.
A thorough assessment of your organisation's AI readiness, grounded in Kaupapa Māori principles. What tools are appropriate, what risks exist for your community, and what a values-centred AI roadmap looks like for your specific context.
Workshops designed for Māori staff, governance boards, and leadership hui. Culturally safe, practically focused, and grounded in te ao Māori. Participants understand what AI is, what it is not, and how to engage with it without compromising what matters most.
AI use policies and board briefing papers written for Māori organisational contexts. Not adapted from generic templates. Written to reflect your tikanga, your obligations to community, and the regulatory environment your organisation operates in.
Advisory support for organisations thinking through whether and how to adopt AI. What questions to ask vendors, what risks to surface for your board, and how to ensure your community voice is part of the decision rather than absent from it.
Māori organisations have the right to make their own decisions about AI. Including the right to say no. Our role is to support informed, sovereign decision-making. Not to push adoption for its own sake.
Every engagement is conducted with care for the people involved. Staff, whānau, and community. AI implementation that harms relationships or erodes trust is not progress, regardless of the efficiency gains it promises.
We work in relationship, not transaction. Understanding your organisation's whakapapa — its history, its people, its aspirations — is essential to any AI strategy that actually serves you.
Data about Māori communities is taonga. The organisations that hold it are kaitiaki. We help you think through what that guardianship role means in the AI era, practically and clearly.
MāramaAI is Māori-founded and Māori-led. Our founder brings direct experience working within iwi provider organisations across HR operations, governance support, and Māori stakeholder engagement, alongside graduate-level study in AI and technological futures. This is not outsider analysis. It is insider knowledge applied to a new challenge.
We are honest about what we know and what we do not. We do not claim to be policy experts or legal advisors on data sovereignty frameworks. What we offer is practical, grounded support for Māori organisations trying to navigate AI thoughtfully. When specialist legal or policy expertise is needed, we will tell you and help you find it.
Our digital products are designed with Māori organisations in mind. The AI and Māori Organisations guide and the AI Readiness Checklist both include sections specifically for Māori and indigenous contexts.
Questions to ask, risks to understand, and values to keep central when your organisation is thinking about AI. Honest, practical, and grounded in real organisational experience.
47-item diagnostic with a dedicated section on considerations for Māori and indigenous organisations. Know where your organisation stands and what to do next in 30 minutes.
5 policy templates adaptable for Māori organisational contexts. Includes guidance on AI use involving community and whānau data.
Checklist plus HR Policy Pack. The fastest way to get your Māori organisation protected and positioned for AI adoption. Coming soon.
Individual sessions are priced to be genuinely accessible. You get the same expertise and the same quality of advice — at a rate that respects that you are investing your own money, not an organisation's budget.
We believe good advice should not be a privilege reserved for people with money. If you need support and the rates above are genuinely out of reach, get in touch anyway and let us have a kōrero. We will always do our best to find a way to help.
Free 15-min intro call available · no obligation · zoom or phone
Whānau sessions are discounted compared to standard organisational rates. Bring 2 to 8 people into a shared session and get more value out of a single conversation than multiple individual sessions could provide.
Whānau are the reason we do this work. If your whānau is navigating something difficult and the cost is a barrier, reach out anyway. We will have a kōrero and find a way forward together.
Free 15-min intro call · zoom or phone · up to 8 whānau members per session
Most small and medium organisations cannot afford a full-time HR manager or employment lawyer. We give you access to senior HR expertise on a fixed-scope, pay-as-you-need basis — so you get the right advice at the right time without the ongoing cost.
Our HR advisory is grounded in years of operational experience inside real organisations — including iwi providers where the people challenges are complex, culturally layered, and cannot be solved with generic templates.
Māori organisations where HR decisions carry cultural weight. We understand the complexity of employment in an iwi context — the obligations, the relationships, and the tikanga that shape every decision.
Small businesses that cannot afford a full-time HR manager but need more than a quick Google search when something goes wrong. Fixed-scope, practical, and priced for real budgets.
Purpose-led organisations with complex people dynamics, volunteer and staff mix, and limited HR resource. We help you build the foundations without the overhead of a consultancy engagement.
Our HR Policy Template Pack gives you five done-for-you Word templates your team can adapt in hours — without waiting for a consultation.
AI Use Policy, Data Privacy, Acceptable Use, BYOD, and Social Media AI. Five templates. NZ-context. Immediately usable.
30 min · free · zoom or phone · no obligation