Voidforge

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What our clients are saying about Voidforge

“Drian's team is a dream to work with. Despite an impossibly tight deadline, they delivered the project seamlessly with time to spare, injecting expert knowledge throughout and offering thoughtful suggestions that made our lives easier. Easy to communicate with, reliable, on budget, and always on schedule. Highly recommended.”
// Ellie Brade -The Cleanery
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Who we've worked with

Startups on their first build and companies with a lot to lose. The same standard for both.

Plate A · Clientsfig. 04 · 12 marks
  • Hilton Haulage logo
  • ThreeSides logo
  • Lume Music logo
  • Tinder logo
  • WildArk logo
  • Stuff logo
  • Glorious Digital logo
  • Crown logo
  • The Cleanery logo
  • NUENZ logo
  • GenSigma logo
  • Enatel logo
Sign-off · Client feedback4 of 12
Drian was our technical lead and first engineering hire at Lume. He brought the first iteration of our products together with incredible dedication and a quite visionary approach. Over the course of a year he built three separate products, created or oversaw our iOS and Android apps to an acclaimed public debut, along with constructing our site and store. Throughout this time the company was in fluid motion, which often meant plans changing with little notice. He bore it all with good grace and humour, and it's fair to say that Lume would not be anything like the company it is without his efforts.
Signed

Duncan Grieve

Lume Music

Lume Music logo
Drian's team is a dream to work with. Despite an impossibly tight deadline, they delivered the project seamlessly with time to spare, injecting expert knowledge throughout and offering thoughtful suggestions that made our lives easier. Easy to communicate with, reliable, on budget, and always on schedule. Highly recommended.
Signed

Ellie Brade

The Cleanery

The Cleanery logo
Voidforge understood our brief and delivered well above our expectations, providing us with solutions to not only improve our brief but suggestions to future proof the recruitment platform, allowing us to edit and amend changes independently.
Signed

Kylie Brandt

Hilton Haulage

Hilton Haulage logo
The development planning was thorough and the level of innovation remarkably high. Voidforge brought our technology solutions to the commercial start-line with confidence. The team is resourceful, deeply technical, and has a rare ability to explain complex ideas in a way that non-technical colleagues and clients can actually understand.
Signed

Richard Little

ThreeSides Limited

ThreeSides logo

// CORE DIAGNOSTIC · FIG. 03

You probably don't need more AI tools.

“Most businesses are starting with the technology. Voidforge starts with the work.”
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You need to know:VF · 03
  1. [01]Where your team is losing timeAUDIT_TIME
  2. [02]What processes are worth automatingROI_ANALYSIS
  3. [03]Where AI genuinely adds valueHIGH_LEVERAGE
  4. [04]What is too risky or complex to automateRISK_BOUNDARY
  5. [05]What will create the fastest commercial returnSPEED_TO_VALUE

// PROCESS CADENCE · 4-STAGE CADENCE

We find the opportunity, prove it and give you a path forward.

  1. STAGE 01 //RECON

    Understand the work

    We look at the tasks, systems and processes consuming disproportionate time or cost across your actual operational day.

    TIMELINE: WEEK 1SURFACE RECON
  2. STAGE 02 //MATRIX

    Identify the best opportunities

    Each opportunity is assessed against commercial impact, complexity, risk and technical feasibility. No pet projects.

    SCORING: 4-AXISPRIORITISATION
  3. STAGE 03 //WORKING MVP

    Build something

    At least one worthwhile automation moves from idea to working solution during the engagement. Zero slides-only promises.

    DELIVERY: LIVE CODEFUNCTIONAL DEMO
  4. STAGE 04 //DISPATCH

    Map what comes next

    You leave knowing which opportunities are worth pursuing and what real-world implementation should look like.

    HANDOFF: COMPLETEROADMAP READY

// DELIVERABLES · SCOPE

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Deliverables:VF · 04
  1. [01]AI and automation opportunity mapARTIFACT #01
  2. [02]Prioritised recommendationsARTIFACT #02
  3. [03]Commercial impact assessmentARTIFACT #03
  4. [04]Risk and feasibility assessmentARTIFACT #04
  5. [05]Implementation roadmapARTIFACT #05
  6. [06]At least one working automationARTIFACT #06
  7. [07]Recommendation for any larger buildARTIFACT #07

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SHEET AI-01AI READINESS FOR NZ Business

AI Readiness & Automation Assessment

// YOU’LL LEAVE WITH:

  • Prioritised AI & automation opportunities quantified by commercial ROI.

  • A practical, zero-fluff implementation roadmap with precise architecture.

  • At least one working automation built, verified, and shipped during the assessment.

  • Clear definitive recommendations on what to build next, and what to leave alone.

ENGINEERING GUARANTEE

If we can't find something worth automating, you don't pay.

GUARANTEE // TESTED ON DAY FIVE

If we can't find something worth automating, you don't pay.

WE AGREE HOW WE'LL MEASURE IT AT KICKOFF. IF NOTHING CLEARS THE BAR BY DAY FIVE, WE STOP AND YOU DON'T PAY.

// FIT CRITERIA · SPEC FILTER

This works best if...

Strict technical qualifiers. We ensure our sprint hours yield measurable economic return.

THIS WORKS BEST IF...

MATCH
  • Your team still spends meaningful time on repetitive work
  • Information is copied between systems manually
  • Reporting or administration takes too long
  • Customers or staff are waiting on slow processes
  • You've experimented with AI but haven't embedded it into operations
  • You want a practical business case rather than AI experimentation

PROBABLY NOT A FIT IF...

DISQUALIFIER
  • You're just looking for a ChatGPT training session
  • You want an off-the-shelf generic AI tool recommendation without integration
  • There isn't a genuine operational problem or workflow bottleneck to solve

// STRICT PREREQUISITE: MUST HAVE ACCESSIBLE DATA SOURCES AND SYSTEM ACCESS.

CO-FUNDING SPEC //NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT INCENTIVE

Eligible businesses may be able to reduce the cost through the AI Advisory Pilot.

The government’s AI Advisory Pilot co-funds up to half of eligible AI advice and implementation costs for some New Zealand businesses. Your Regional Business Partner advisor can tell you whether yours qualifies.

Check with your advisor, then talk to us

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Drian Naude, founder and CTO of Voidforge
Drian · founder and CTO

Who you work with.

Drian, founder and CTO, leads every build. Vicky runs the business and keeps everything moving. When a build needs more, we bring in specialists we have shipped with for years. Whoever is on it, you get the same two things: senior people writing the code, and a straight answer when you ask a question.

Experience
About 20 years, across energy, finance, SaaS and consumer
Ventures
Co-founder and fractional CTO, four times
Worked with
Partly, Lume, Glorious, Flicket
PetridishPetridishWhere you will find us. 8 Stafford Street, Dunedin

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