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Tauranga, New Zealand

Wish business ownership was easier?

We build Marketing and Operations Automations to simplify your business, freeing up founder time.

For owner-run businesses where everything still goes through one person.

  • Top notch service from Nugget ai would highly recommend
    Josh Dwight
  • My platform and app would not be what it is without Rich and Nic!! Thank you so much guys!!
    Emma Hanover
  • We’ve had an awesome experience working with Nugget AI. They’ve helped us rebuild our website, improve our advertising, and implement systems that have genuinely changed the way we operate and market our business. One of the biggest benefits has been the amount of time they’ve given me back in my day honestly, more than I thought was possible. They’ve taken the time to understand our business and come up with solutions that actually make a difference. The communication has been excellent throughout, and the whole process has been incredibly easy. I’d highly recommend Nugget AI to any business looking to improve their marketing, systems and overall efficiency. Great team to work with and a huge asset to our business.
    Grinding Dynamics
  • I’ve been working with the team at Nugget AI for the past six months to help bring my idea for FundHaus to life, and they’ve been incredible to work with. Without their team, FundHaus would have taken months to get off the ground — instead, we were able to move from an idea to something real in a matter of weeks. They’re always available when I need them, incredibly responsive, and genuinely happy to jump in and help solve problems as they come up. They’ve made the whole process of building a tech platform far less daunting than I expected. I’d absolutely recommend Nugget AI to anyone looking to build an app or website, bring a tech idea to life, or get support managing their social media. Great team, great service, and most importantly, they actually get things done.
    Emma Hanover
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What we do

We build and run the whole thing.

The marketing that brings work in. The systems that get it done. The AI that keeps both moving when nobody is watching. Three parts, one thing, one price.

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Marketing

The work coming in.

Ads, search, content, websites and the tracking that tells you which one produced the job.

See marketing ›
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Internal operations

The work getting done.

Quoting, scheduling, follow-up, invoicing and dashboards, connected so nothing waits on one person.

See internal operations ›
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Artificial intelligence

The layer underneath both.

Agents that answer, automations that move the information, and the alerts that tell you before something goes wrong. It runs across the other two, not beside them.

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Built and running

Seven businesses. Six industries. One system.

Live sites from the clients' own domains, including two e-commerce brands we're partners in. Every one of them is running the same system underneath.

fundhaus.co.nz

$2.4M introduced

From nothing to funded in three months.

Read the case study ›

Live sites, loaded from the client's own domain. Shopify stores shown as a capture of the live home page.

What we run on

  • Google Ads
  • Meta
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • LinkedIn
  • Merchant Center
  • Business Profile
  • Google Analytics
  • Klaviyo
  • Mailchimp
  • Shopify
  • HighLevel
  • HubSpot
  • Xero
  • Stripe
  • Supabase
  • Google Calendar
  • Gmail
  • WhatsApp

You already know the symptoms

Any two of these and you have the problem.

  • 01Quotes go out when you get to them, not when the customer asked.
  • 02Leads go cold because nobody followed up on Thursday.
  • 03You cannot take a week off without the work banking up behind you.
  • 04Growing means hiring, and hiring means more people asking you questions.
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The real problem

None of that is a business problem.

It is a bottleneck problem. And the bottleneck is one person's calendar.

What we actually do

We get what is in your head out of it, and into something that runs on its own.

01 First

We write your system down

How you price, who you chase, what makes a good job. Most owners have never seen it written down.

02 Then

We build it

Quoting, follow-up, scheduling, reporting. Around the tools you already use.

03 Ongoing

We run it

We operate it, monitor it, and keep improving it while you get on with the work.

The writing down comes first.

It is usually worth the engagement on its own.

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Running without you

Four quotes went out before 7am.

Nobody opened a laptop. The enquiries came in overnight. Two needed a decision and were waiting at the top of the list.

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Tuesday · 6:10am

The quoting did not wait for me.

Three enquiries priced and sent, one flagged because the site access was unclear. That one was waiting when I got back.

A man working on a laptop in a cafe.

Wednesday · 10:40am

Nobody was in an office.

The follow-up went out, the invoices reconciled, and the numbers were current before anyone opened a laptop.

The business did not stop because we did.

That is the entire point of building it this way.

What owners say

I’ve been working with the team at Nugget AI for the past six months to help bring my idea for FundHaus to life, and they’ve been incredible to work with. Without their team, FundHaus would have taken months to get off the ground — instead, we were able to move from an idea to something real in a matter of weeks. They’re always available when I need them, incredibly responsive, and genuinely happy to jump in and help solve problems as they come up. They’ve made the whole process of building a tech platform far less daunting than I expected. I’d absolutely recommend Nugget AI to anyone looking to build an app or website, bring a tech idea to life, or get support managing their social media. Great team, great service, and most importantly, they actually get things done.
Emma Hanover
  • Top notch service from Nugget ai would highly recommend
    Josh Dwight
  • My platform and app would not be what it is without Rich and Nic!! Thank you so much guys!!
    Emma Hanover
  • We’ve had an awesome experience working with Nugget AI. They’ve helped us rebuild our website, improve our advertising, and implement systems that have genuinely changed the way we operate and market our business. One of the biggest benefits has been the amount of time they’ve given me back in my day honestly, more than I thought was possible. They’ve taken the time to understand our business and come up with solutions that actually make a difference. The communication has been excellent throughout, and the whole process has been incredibly easy. I’d highly recommend Nugget AI to any business looking to improve their marketing, systems and overall efficiency. Great team to work with and a huge asset to our business.
    Grinding Dynamics

What you get

Everything. Not a list to choose from.

We tried selling pieces of this and it does not work. Run the ads without the follow-up and the leads die in an inbox. Build the system without the marketing and there is nothing coming into it. Do half of it and nobody can tell you which half failed.

Marketing

Ads, search, content, websites, and the tracking that tells you which one produced the job.

33 services

See marketing ›

Internal operations

Quoting, scheduling, follow-up, invoicing, dashboards and the database underneath them.

29 services

See internal operations ›

Artificial intelligence

Agents that answer, automations that move the information, and alerts before something goes wrong.

20 services

See artificial intelligence ›

From $3,000 a month, sized to the business.

We work on a retainer, not a fixed project price. A project gets finished and paid for whether it worked or not. A retainer means we are still here when it needs changing, and still on the hook when it does not.

Making your tools talk

Everything you already pay for, pointing at one place.

The tools are not the problem. The problem is that none of them talk to each other, so the same customer exists in nine places and nobody can say which ad produced the job.

Google Ads
Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
LinkedIn
Google Analytics

One place

Everything lands

Shopify
Stripe
Xero
Google Calendar
WhatsApp
Gmail

Entered once. Wherever it is needed.

With its origin still attached, all the way through to the invoice.

Who runs it

One of us builds the systems. The other spent fifteen years needing them.

Nic Haldezos in profile.

Nic Haldezos

Founder

NZ Army · CMO · Four continents

Founded Nugget Creative and the group it grew into. Has run marketing as a CMO across America, Europe, Asia and Australasia.

Rich Tangney in profile.

Rich Tangney

Founder

RNZN clearance diver · Five companies founded

Thirteen years a clearance diver in the Royal New Zealand Navy, then five companies of his own. Co-founded Edison and ran its marketing into Spark, AMP and Southern Cross.

What changes

Not how you work. When it happens, and whether it needs you.

TodayOnce it is running
Quotes go out when you get to themQuotes go out same day, every time
Follow-up depends on who remembersEvery lead gets chased, automatically
Your knowledge is in your headIt is written down and running
Reporting is a job you keep putting offThe numbers are there when you look
A week away means a week of catch-upThe work keeps moving
The business depends on youThe business is worth something without you

A business that can run for a month without its owner is a business somebody would buy.

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What it is for

The business kept running. He kept going.

Book a call

Show us what you already have.

One conversation. No deck, no pitch.

  • 01We find the bottleneck. In time, in lost jobs, or in your own week.
  • 02You get it in writing. What we would build, what it changes, what it costs.
  • 03You decide. If it is not worth it, you still keep your system written down.

Tauranga, New Zealand · Working across New Zealand
info@nuggetai.co.nz