Bring AI into how your projects actually run.
Practical AI for construction, civil and trade businesses — grounded in years on the tools, not tech hype.
Book your free AI needs assessment See what we doMost construction firms haven't started with AI. That's your opening.
Industry surveys show nearly half of construction businesses use no AI at all — and the ones that do mostly stop at emails. The gap isn't the technology; it's having someone who knows both the tools and the trade. Any business can put AI to work — not just the big players. We size every tool to the business in front of us.
Three ways we help you get more done.
Not just how to use AI tools — deciding what's genuinely worth doing, and doing it safely inside the systems you already have. Every engagement includes training as we go.
AI readiness & systems review
We look at how your business actually runs — your tools, workflows and the jobs that eat your evenings — and map realistic ways AI can save time or win more work.
- A written opportunity map, ranked by value and effort
- Go/no-go review support for tenders
- Clearer, stronger bid documentation
Quality & safety documentation
The paperwork that slows every project down — drafted faster and kept consistent, with AI handling the repetitive parts so you don't rebuild it from scratch each job.
- Inspection & test plans and quality templates
- Safety documents and checklists
- Tidy close-out packs, as reusable templates
Workflow & database tidy-up
The unglamorous back office — filing, registers, project data — turned into something tidy, searchable and repeatable.
- Document registers and project databases
- Repeatable business processes
- Filing systems that hold up as you grow
Start small. Pay for outcomes, not promises.
Every engagement starts with a free conversation. From there, fixed prices you can see before you email us — because that's how we'd want to be quoted too.
Free chat
20 minutes, online. We learn how your business runs and tell you honestly whether AI is worth your time right now.
Book a chatAI Business Kickstart
Launch pricing for now — it won't stay at this price.
Online session. Custom basic training pitched to your company and your current level of AI capability — and a custom-designed tool built for your business, to instantly improve productivity.
Book your KickstartAI Accelerate
The next level after your Kickstart: three additional custom tools built for your business, plus a half day of hands-on training for you and your team.
Ask about AccelerateOngoing support
A monthly office-hours call, our growing library of trade-specific tools and prompts, and email support when something isn't working. Cancel any time.
Ask about supportWe speak fluent construction — whatever your trade.
The admin that eats your evenings is different for a roofer than a gasfitter. So the tools should be too. Pick your trade to see the first three things we'd set up for you.
From a free first chat to tools running in your business.
Conversation
We learn about your business, how you work today and where AI could realistically help — then explain what we can provide.
Agree the scope
Together we agree exactly what to build — scope, priorities and outcomes — so it's clear before any work starts.
Build
We build AI tools around your workflows and do the technical work, so you can keep running the business.
Train & refine
We teach your team to use the tools and keep customising them as we learn what actually fits.
Training isn't a bolt-on. Whatever we build, we teach your team to use it and keep customising as we learn what fits — so the value stays in the business, not with us.
Old engineering, new tools.
A crannóg is a house built on timber piles driven into a loch bed — sound foundations, honest structure, built to last, on ground that had to be made where none existed before. As an Irish couple building a life and business in New Zealand, the name fit.
Most of the value isn't in headline projects — it's in the ordinary jobs, the admin and the paperwork, where a bit of AI help goes furthest and frees you up for the work only you can do.
Graham McWilliams & Niamh Fanning
Graham
15 years in construction: civil engineering and project management across New Zealand and the Pacific, from site engineer to construction manager. We speak fluent construction, not IT jargon.
Niamh
A research scientist's rigour — Trinity College Dublin, the Salk Institute, and a PhD from Edinburgh — testing every tool before it reaches a client and explaining it in plain terms.
Start with a free AI needs assessment.
We'll look at where AI could realistically save you time — no jargon, no obligation. Or jump straight to an AI Business Kickstart for $350 — online, custom training plus a custom-built tool — while introductory pricing lasts.
Book your free consultation Book a Kickstart — $350Or email graham@crannogai.co.nz · based in Christchurch, serving all of NZ