AI Lab · Auckland · Claude Partner Network
We build your
AI Skill Library,
then put it to work.
A Forward Deployed Engineer for Auckland, NZ.
Claude-native. Governed. No lock-in.
What we believe
Stop chasing the next tool.
Commit to one, and actually use it.
The hardest part of AI is not the technology. It is the overwhelm: a new model every week, a new tool every month, and the quiet worry that you are already behind. Most companies never get past talking about it.
So we make the call for you. We commit to Claude, for its safety, its governance, and its mindful approach to AI, and we build your setup to last. You stop chasing. You start using.
Here is what makes that safe: your AI Skill Library is plain markdown. SKILL.md files, written in words anyone can read. It outlives any single model, and it is yours to take anywhere. Unlike Oracle or the traditional software vendors, there is no lock-in.
We choose one tool so you stop chasing the next one. Your skills stay portable markdown, so you are never trapped.
This is human-led skill-building and governance, set up by people who have done it inside Adidas, P&G and Google. It is not a $399 bot.
What we build
Your best people have a method.
We make it reusable.
Your edge is how your best people work: the judgement, the checklists, the way they handle the tricky cases. Most of it lives in their heads, and it walks out the door when they do.
A skill captures that. It is a reusable way of working, written down: the instructions, the examples, the checklists, the judgement calls, in plain markdown an AI agent can follow. Your AI Skill Library is all of those skills together. The library is the asset. The agents are just what run it.
Personal
Your own way of working, captured first. The fastest way to feel the difference, and the proof your team needs to believe.
Team
Your team's shared method, written down once. Now the whole team works like your best person on their best day.
Company
Your company's operating knowledge, captured once and run everywhere. The asset that compounds while you sleep.
One library, scaling from a single person to the whole company.
How we put it to work
A Forward Deployed Engineer, embedded in your business.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is how the best AI companies ship: an engineer embeds with your team, learns how you really work, and builds alongside you. That is what we do. We embed, build your AI Skill Library, and run it. In plain terms, an AI transformation partner who stays until it works.
Embed
We sit with your team and learn how the work actually gets done, not how the org chart says it does.
Build
We capture that as your AI Skill Library: skills in plain markdown, owned by you, portable forever.
Run
Setup, training, and an ongoing managed-agents retainer, so the library is used every day, not shelved.
The library, put to work
The Personal Assistant
Your personal skills, put to work. Run your day through WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Gmail, iMessage, or whatever you already use. It is the simplest way to feel what a Skill Library does, and the same system Danny runs his own business on.
Governance
Deploy AI the way a startup does, with the data controls your board needs.
Governance is the product, not the obstacle. Moving fast and being careful are not opposites when the work is built right from the start.
Data residency & the Privacy Act 2020
Built to respect where your data lives and the obligations the NZ Privacy Act 2020 puts on you.
Permissions that inherit
An agent only ever sees what the person running it is allowed to see. No back doors around your access rules.
Auditable by design
Every skill is readable markdown. You can see exactly what an agent will do before it does it.
Human in the loop
The agent drafts and proposes. Your people stay in control of what actually ships.
Early days. First results.
Field notes
Built, not theorised.
Who's behind this
Danny Holtschke
Founder
Co-founded a startup (sold it), built a $1M training business with Google’s Design Sprint creator, coached transformations for Porsche, Adidas, and Lufthansa. Now building systems that let service businesses punch above their weight.
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Jessie Kim Holtschke
Creative Design Director
Artist, Manawa Tribe builder, and the creative eye behind everything visual at Mohios. Jessie shapes the look, the feel, and the emotional texture of the brands we build.
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Interested?
Let's have a coffee.
No pitch. No 47-slide deck. Just a conversation about how your business runs and whether I can help.